December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: spam is good for you
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Zooko Journeyman sez: [..] : In other news, I'm going to HIP : and I'm thinking I should have a t-shirt made to piss off the : self-righteous socialist anti-spam activists. My favorite : slogan so far is "I may disagree with every spam you send, but : I will defend to the death your right to spam it. --Voltaire". Hehe, bring me such a T-shirt *g* : I consider this to be a powerful meme to broadcast at those : low-tech lawmongers, but it isn't sufficiently.. um.. offensive. : Any suggestions from the peanut gallery? -- -aj-

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Re: Linux brutessl client
by patrick＠Verity.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I've been able to compile a working brutessl 1.02 cllient under linux > and gcc 2.7.0, but I get abysmal search speeds. > > My system is a pentium 60, which, according to the docs, ought to have > a speed of something over 14100 kps (that's what a 486dx2/66 with no > rotate left macro gets). > > brutessl -t reports that my system can do 11200 keys per second. <snicker> I only get 5900 keys/second on a SPARCstation 5:) Patrick _______________________________________________________________________ / These opinions are mine, and not Verity's (except by coincidence;). \ | (\ | | Patrick J. Horgan Verity Inc. \\ Have | | patrick(a)verity.com 1550 Plymouth Street \\ _ Sword | | Phone : (415)960-7600 Mountain View \\/ Will | | FAX : (415)960-7750 California 94303 _/\\ Travel | \___________________________________________________________\)__________/

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brutessl client
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, my 386SX-33 (w/FPU) is doing about 1000/sec, my Compaq Deskpro386/20e (w/fpu) is doing 1000/s, and my 486DX2-80 is doing 8100/s. The two 386 machines will be working on it full time, the 486 will be time-slicing with 'real work'. Now all I need is some keyspace :-) Dave Merriman This is a test (3 UUE lines) of the unconstitutional ITAR - 1/713th of the PGP executable. See below for getting YOUR chunk! ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [015/713] ------------------- M=$<(&L`#*IPP",(G6(,,S,`P](<2RWU96XCW86/JBYV8A\D8@X'HB_9H#&\X MX'PCUB.,13B"X8`R?^J-:UB.M_`U\>[#)BS&5$0C,Y#^1CS>1`\T1QTXX6!3 M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> My web page: http://www.geopages.com/CapitolHill/1148

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The End of the Ecash Trial?
by Nathan Loofbourrow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have yet to see a date, but Digicash states several times in their press releases that Cyberbucks are only a trial currency, and that at some point in the future the trial will come to an end. Will the bottom drop out of the c$ market at that point? Without Digicash to authenticate currency, it would appear to be impossible to trade c$ coins. If and when Digicash announces an end date for the trial, I would expect to see quite a spectacular crash in the "real cash for ecash" market. The only way to preserve the market would appear to be providing an ecash-for-ecash exchange with a new bank, presumably a licensee of the Digicash software. Such a bank could, out of little more than good will and a desire to kick-start a new e-currency, offer to exchange c$ for the new ecash. Or, perhaps we just shrug our shoulders, kiss our hardly-earned Cyberbuck goodbye, and mumble about how it was fun while it lasted. Either way, in order to preserve the new e-currency's value -- and correct my economics where flawed -- we need the assurance that the money supply will not experience unreasonable growth. The ecash trial has Digicash's promise of a c$1M cap; is this trust sufficient leverage for the user to leave any amount of value in the Cyberbuck, or its successor? nathan

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New Remailer Announcement
by Intolerant Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----x------------------x----x------x---------------------x-x----- ANNOUNCEMENT: The "Intolerant Remailer" is now fully operational! ----x------------------x----x------x---------------------x-x----- Remailer Policy --------------- Read the header, you lazy bastard. Remailer Help ------------- You won't need any. Read the fucking header, like I told you! Remailer Stats -------------- Why do you want to know? Are you a cop, or something? Remailer Abuse Policy --------------------- Fuck you! For Further Information: ----------------------- Don't bother asking. As a matter of fact, I've come to the decision that I don't want a bunch of assholes like you using my remailer. Get your own goddamn remailer! ----x------------------x----x------x---------------------x-x----------- "Intolerant Remailer" is a registered TradeMark of "Automated Anonymous Assholes, Inc.", for use only by the "Electronic Forgery Foundation." ----x------------------x----x------x---------------------x-x-----------

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PGPfone Release is coming soon! (fwd)
by gt7508b＠prism.gatech.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> As you may have seen, the news media has picked up on the upcoming > PGPfone release. This note is to let you know that we at MIT are working > with Phil Zimmermann and the PGPfone team to distribute PGPfone from > MIT. We expect to have a *BETA* test version (Macintosh Only) of PGPfone > available shortly. Is there a unix version planned??? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-= Tom Cross AKA The White Ninja / Decius 6i5 */^\* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=- TWN615(a)mindvox.phantom.com GT7508B(a)prism.gatech.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-= =- "Government is not a reason, not an eloquence; it is a force. Like fire, =- -=- it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -- George Washington -=-=

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Re: FCPUNX:'Telco Terrorism' -- Wired on Baby Bells v. the Net
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:18 PM 8/1/97 +1000, Apache wrote: > I note with great interest an independent provider in New Zealand which > has a better competitive market situation in this area than Australia > (and a lot of other things I might add) offers a user account with up to > 500kbs satellite feed for $79 (NZ) /mnth flat plus installation of $79 > plus you must by the satellite dish ($699). I would assume you can't > resell bandwidth on this set up so the two are not directly comparable. The (comparatively) free market telecom system in New Zealand is due to a LEFT WING, pro liberty, government, that adopted a strategy "let us privatize first and let the free market sort out the chaos later" The equivalent in America is almost unimaginable. Here in America left means statist, left means big brother is in charge. The same is true, or used to be true when I was there, in Australia, though not to the extreme that it is true in America. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Brute SSL Challenge
by aba＠dcs.exeter.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> gcc -O6 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -c search.c > gcc -O6 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -o brutessl \ > brutessl.c search.o You wouldn't happen to have gcc under DOS would you? Or anyone else with djgcc for DOS? What would be really nice would be a 32 bit DOS executable, which is very hard to obtain with any PC software, and compiling it 16 bit suffers a huge performance hit. In search of a 32 bit DOS binary, Adam

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Re: SSL CHALLENGE: Can't search with Win32 client!
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I've got some keyspace, from various projects and test projects on the > server, but no matter what key range I select, I can't get the Search > button to be active (not greyed out). > Anybody else getting this? > Joe I did. If you look at 'properties' you'll probably find the data needs updating. click up 'update' to do this. It now seems to be working form me. Now if only I could get the 'search status' window to tell me something... Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation trei(a)process.com

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WinNT or Linux for SSL challenge ?
by Daniel C. Cotey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have a pentium 90 that will be set up to dual boot WinNT 3.5 server and linux 1.2.8, is one of them significantly faster ? --- --- Daniel Cotey dccotey(a)serf.uccs.edu dccotey(a)ecepc44.uccs.edu

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