December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: HIP hip hooray
by Mark Grant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Zooko Journeyman (zooko(a)xs4all.nl) wrote: >HIP rocked. I'm still trying to adjust to the mundanity >of everyday life. I loved meeting some cpunks in Real >Life. Hey, Zooko! You were the only Cypherpunk who made the article in the 'Independent' (by that blonde reporter who was wandering around), though Lucky Green was mentioned by name. '"[hacking] can be a wonderful thing", explained Zooco, a member of the CypherPunks. "Pretty much every useful aspect of modern computing was devised by hackers -- like the Internet and email."' So did she spell your name wrong, or were you using a pseudonym ;-) ? Mark

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Dept. of Commerce Forum on CAs
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 12:17:40 -0700 Reply-To: Digital Signature discussion <DIGSIG(a)VM.TEMPLE.EDU> Sender: Digital Signature discussion <DIGSIG(a)VM.TEMPLE.EDU> From: "John D. Muller" <jmuller(a)BROBECK.COM> Subject: Dept. of Commerce Forum on CAs To: DIGSIG(a)VM.TEMPLE.EDU The Department of Commerce has started to build up a Web site with content from its request for comment and July 24 forum on public certification authorities. Public comments submitted electronically are now online at http://csrc.nist.gov/ecforum. John Muller jmuller(a)brobeck.com --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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Re: List of crypto-related courses
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: tnh(a)nepop.mediaone.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:35:22 -0400 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> From: "Timothy N. Hill" <tnh(a)acm.org> Subject: Re: List of crypto-related courses Cc: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, Avi Rubin <rubin(a)research.att.com> Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: "Timothy N. Hill" <tnh(a)acm.org> At 14:51 -0400 97-08-12, Robert Hettinga wrote: >--- begin forwarded text > > >From: Avi Rubin <rubin(a)research.att.com> >... > > http:/www.cs.ny.edu/~rubin/courses.html Make that <http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rubin/courses.html> ^ ^ - Tim Timothy N. Hill <tnh(a)acm.org> "Let me tell you something, son, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA Before you get much older. <http://tnh.ne.mediaone.net/> You cannot hit the ball, my friend, PGP 3FAA C8B3 D7BB 9C93 882E With the bat upon your shoulder." 4221 2F66 EFF4 00C6 CF92 - Bill "Lord" Byron, The Singing Umpire For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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The Card!!!!!
by mornings＠concentric.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Florida Drivers Permits and a Hello
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>What is the capacity of the mag strips. Do they carry much more than some >ID code for computer reference? It seems unlikely that there is enough >storage >for a thumbprint. Some vitals perhaps, but again it would most likely simply >be a speedier way of referencing the card holder's supposed True Name. (After >all they'd have to be checking driving record information as well.) Still >decrypting the cards would be amusing, just to aggravate those who become to >used to the convienience. 'Oh.. sorry Governor Wilson... my but you look >different up close'. They would not have to include an entire thumbprint. The actual code used to verify fingerprints is not very large. All that would be needed is enough information to ID into the "official" records and enough checksum type information to prevent alteration/counterfitting. Using magnetic media for this is a bit foolish as it can be changed/destroyed with the stroke of a magnet. I will not say by what means I would think should suit as a better encoding scheme because: 1) They are not using it and 2) I do not want to give them any ideas. | Visualize whirled keys! | alano(a)teleport.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmerman unites | Disclaimer: | |all mankind free in one-key-stenography-privacy!"| Ignore the man | | -- PGP 2.6.2 key available on request -- | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano | <fnord> |

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"Virtuosity" -- A New Movie
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I make no apologies for this not being "on topic," where "on topic" is defined as "coding in C." If you don't like my comments to our community, you know how to filter out my messages. I saw "Virtuosity" today, not expecting much. It's been called "a stinker" by at least one reviewer. But I enjoyed it. It had fairly impressive effects and fairly accurate treatments of: -- "microlocators" (implantable localizers) (The technology of which, in the real world, Bob Fleming and Cherie Kushner described at the "Cypherpunks Santa Cruz" meeting/party at my place on Saturday. By the way, the meeting was well-attended, with 22 attendees, including Greg Broiles from Eugene, Oregon, Jeff Simmons from San Luis Obispo, and a bunch of folks from the Santa Cruz area and Bay Area.) -- nanotechnology...well done -- genetic algorithms and evolving programs...very, very well done! -- virtual reality...less well done, especially as it's been done before There were a few disconnects, such as that the time for the movie seemed only a few years in the future, and yet certain technologies were very far advanced. I was impressed, much more so than with "The Net" or other recent high-tech movies. (I can' t wait for "Pulp Science Fiction"!) For those who think this off-topic, "Man does not live by coding alone." --Tim ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Cypherpunks are a bunch of happy people
by nobody＠replay.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cypherpunks are a bunch of happy people basr Discussed were, amongst many other subjects, PGP encryption, building personal anonymous remailers, encryption of IP packets, and a kind of anonymous remailing system for IP packets (http, ftp, ...) using 'onion' servers. These guys promised us some nice stuff for our homes and schools in the near future like your own nice 'n' small anonymous remailer. If many people put these up and a system of anonymous remailers who give messages to each other before delivering it to the addressee is established, you can always say that *your* remailer was just one of the middlemen, receiving stuff from other anonymous remailers. Next, we are going to get cheap (under US $1.000) linux routerboxes that encrypt all traffic you send out to the network. Specially designed for the school and the home. This makes surfing in the childrens bedroom perfectly safe again! On the anonymous remailing of IP packets project the cypherpunks are workng together with the naval security of the USA. Why? These naval security people are working on the same thing, and they need other traffic using the same protocols to hide their own traffic in. Otherwise everyone can see they are transmitting from A to B. However, the cypherpunks had to explain the naval security first that if they want this technique more widespread, they have to make it available for cheaper machines and morre widely used operating systems... something they had not thought of themselves. You might think: "Is all this not illegal?" No it's not (yet, in most countries), and making up laws costs more time than writing good encryption software, so say the cypherpunks. That is... if they can find enough people to write the software. Yes, you guessed right, they are hiring! http://magazine.dds.nl

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Re: R.I.P. John Brunner
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:03 PM 8/28/95, Alan Bostick wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Science fiction writer John Brunner died last Friday, August 25, from >a massive stroke, while attending the World Science Fiction Convention >in Glasgow, Scotland. > >Among several other notable works, Brunner was the author of THE SHOCKWAVE >RIDER, a groundbreaking vision of the information age that inspired and >forsaw much that was pertinent to the Internet in general and the >Cypherpunks in particular. > >Let us pause a moment to note his passing and honor his life and >contributions. I am saddened to learn this. And, yes, this has a lot to do with Cypherpunks. I read "Stand on Zanzibar" with rapt attention in 1969 or so, and it had a big influence on me. Ditto for "The Shockwave Rider," one of the very first explications of how identities would be changed, how the State would insist on computerized identities. (Indeed, "1984" came first, and is an even more important work, by any standards, but Brunner still nailed the effects of computers in a way that Orwell could not possibly have.) Christ, what an imagination he had! --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Searchnet
by The Gate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Some time ago, I posted a reply to an allegation that the Spotlight was a Klan paper. Of course, it is more Liberty Lobby/CIA, with Bo Gritz on the Board. The point of this post is that those who want to know what is up with the Spotlight need to subscribe to Searchnet, which covers all the information of like sort. There was also a wonderful post recently hailing hackers as the ones who are most likely to prevent government sponsored crypto-terror censorship. Those who would like the post, speak up. Those who want to subscribe to Searchnet, likewise. Hope this does not get in the way of PGP implementation. Onwards, Lee ____________________________|||||||||||||||||||||______________________________ R. Leland Lehrman@The Gate, New Haven, CT. http://id.wing.net/~gate/gate.html God, Art, Technology and Ecology Research and Development >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Do you love the Mother?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Correction: List of crypto-related courses
by Avi Rubin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Oops, I got the URL a bit wrong in my last posting. Here it is again with the corrected URL. For the last year or so, I have built and maintained a list of graduate level courses on cryptography and security. The current list can be found at http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rubin/courses.html I would like to keep this list as current as possible, so if you have any additions/corrections, etc, please let me know. I am only interested in full-semester courses at universities. Thank you, Avi ********************************************************************* Aviel D. Rubin rubin(a)research.att.com Secure Systems Research Dept. Adjunct Professor at NYU AT&T Labs - Research 180 Park Avenue http://www.research.att.com/~rubin/ Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971 Voice: +1 973 360-8356 USA FAX: +1 973 360-8809 --> Check out http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr/websec/ for a new book on web security (The Web Security Sourcebook). *********************************************************************

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