December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: LYING FUCKS! / Behind the ELECTROMAGNETIC CURTAIN
by Syniker＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

alright... i finally figured a way around ctrl-alt-delete on my aol account here, so here is my first post... bear with an old fart, who is trying to learn encryption... and who when he does, will pass it along to whoever he can... yes -- we need to do ALL these things... but we need to do it ... ENCRYPTED... by as many as possible... as SOON as possible... the thing that is missing here -- to beat freeh and the other freaks... is that PGP -- or whatever -- must be POPULARIZED -- and by that, i mean -- the 'learning and doing' -- an encrypted email... must be made easy enough -- so that the average aol user... will -- FIRST -- think it's something they should have and use... and SECOND ... they'll have a way they can use it quickly and easily... figure it this way -- if you could get ALL nine million aol users.... to send an encrypted email -- on the SAME day .... to everyone in gov that says FUCK OFF -- NO WAY MY KEY.... what the fuck is the gov gonna do about it?????? as in the internet at large, and the WWW -- it is the sheer number of us 'users' ... that is scaring shit out of govs everywhere... but right now -- they have a big, big advantage..... they are using the time-honored principle of 'divide-and-conquer' ... to extreme advantage -- and it is one that we can take from them with a little thought, organization, and planning....... the fight against CDA was greatly helped with the co-operative 'black-out' pages.... and that's the general idea.... whoever can write an icon-based gui -- point and click -- that will encrypt and send an email.... and includes an user friendly system for email spam filters......... gee -- could make a small fortune... [they are using 'spam' as a backdoor to GAK] maybe it's already been done? -- I've got eudora lite w/pgp on board -- but no time to try it out yet..... anyways -- dammit -- the key to this fight is in NUMBERS ....... if I was even forty or so -- I'd try it myself.... it's REAL important....... ldm

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Please show me these encryption algorithms
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anybody know RC4,RC2,CDMF,MISTY,MULTI2 encryption algorithms? If you know these encryption algorithms, Please show me these encryption algorithms. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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EFF $10,000,0000 Challenge
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Electronic Forgery Foundation is proud to announce a major breakthrough in encryption technology -- Forged Encryption. We are offering a prize of $10,000,000.00 for anyone who can correctly decipher the following Forged Encryption message. -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 MessageID: od2CIT3fELE7K6bkIkKGJBj0MPUJ2TT8 hQCMA6ozRjzmqceZAQQAh02x0Dxer5vzZiSJ+v7bnMZQdgp425z5OH0NF/f/mXXc vInw+UsuTXqWNEV5rEQKYjU3qHoe6suCz5f9hEEnOIBacsD28pYU4ahkGOCTuTY6 N3xKrtDRqLPInB8PY7Kfd56jjQsVVRKmJBwXqHbPax4YyUB6ZbKKvSPiuUsAAQSl BAH3CFNKcmYjf+VtpjAVOpDNM/PMm1e6m33rZ01Sq6pXC0TTabCf7hkWscet0PCL VX0l1Zw5IKaFqo+pZ3EICRMF6HQrc30G7L9TFeKr//3YsO3/bC4VBgNQHA0qf2nD ldxAsTGPlRthBTxrzE0LjeOKi/pQOLXQMPQUwEIaL9rncjFgniplFoL6Nj0guJvW VvS+gxth8hpeWss7WlFFioV0vShsS/lahA+eg/9nVy8ken8pr4m484w2vwoiSdce CarVigVaRh6tCgh0jub7CHuDFg== =Q9+G -----END PGP MESSAGE----- The EFF doesn't have a copy of the correct answer locked away in a secret underground cave in Tibet, for verification, because the above Forged Encryption message is just a bunch of crap we typed in pretty much at random. Does the government want to keep your private key in escrow? Give them a copy of your EFF private key. Hell, give them _two_ copies, in case one is corrupted.{;>) Smile when you give them to the government agent. Ask him how his day has been. Offer him some coffe, and ask about his family. Tell him you will send him a Christmas card with another copy of your EFF private key, just in case the government misplaces the copies you gave them. Put your hand over your heart, salute the flag, and sing "God Bless America" as the government agent leaves. Then fart. Use the EFF Forged Encryption sofware regularly, to send messages with Subject:'s like "The Plot Against the PREZ," "Confirmation of the date of our armed assault," "The Nuke has arrived." Keep a copy of your EFF Forged Encryption secret key in a directory named "Off the Pigs." Most importantly, never reveal in your private email to others that you are a deaf, dumb and blind quadraplegic who has been homebound since birth. That way, the outrageous claims that government agents make against you in their secret deposition for a warrant to kick in your door and terrorize you will look all the more foolish during your trial. We at the Electronic Forgery Foundation realize that some of you wise guys are thinking that, for $10 million, it is well worth your while to write a program that will decipher the above message into something meaningful. Well, knock yourself out, dudes, but if you think that known forgers couldn't possibly be lying about the $10 million, then go directly to http://www.clueserver/fucking_idiot, do not pass GO and do not collect $200. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is copyrighted under the auspices of the Electronic Forgery Foundation. Any misquoting, misrepresentation, or other abuse of this message would be greatly appreciated. Hell, you can tell people you wrote it, if you want to. We don't really care. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Gao's Chaos Cryptosystem
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

GCC(Gao's Chaos Cryptosystem) GCC uses the newest chaos logic and is conventional cryptosystem stream cipher encryption. It is high speed and allows variable-length keys, making it very reliable and suitable for use in multimedia. http://www.iisi.co.jp/reserch/GCC-over.htm Chaos InforGuard GCC(Gao's Chaos Cryptosystem) security application. High speed,variable-length keys,high reliability,and user friendliness allow you to easily encrypt an entire harddisc.Can be used with Windows3.1 & Windows95. http://www.iisi.co.jp/vcs/software/infoguard-e1621.html Chaos-mail Internet Mailer Using Gao's Chaos Cryptosystem Chaos-mail is a cryptosystem mailer for use on Windows95,which using GCC and Chaos MAM, gives you the ability to encrypt/decrypt and verify mail. Chaos-mail is a cryptosystem mailer for user on Windows 95 which, using GCC and Chaos MAM, gives you the ability to encrypt, decrypt, and verify mail. Not only is it fast, reliable, and user-friendly, but it is also very suitable for multimedia because of its non-biased treatment of data. http://www.iisi.co.jp/vcs/software/chaosmail-e.htm ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Cyber Threat Fud
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

WaPo mocks today a prez panel's gurglng for a $1B "cyber security" cleaver to lop-hand the world's HRH Harry-Hackers: http://jya.com/pccipower.htm Read how 3xlegal-limit limo-liz-NSA hot-wires dire Di-car-alarms, pillar plow not, how to shuck for xtra bux spying foes inside your Net warfare.

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Money, Sex, Technology and Home Bus
by scannmann＠nevwest.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Usenet Propagation Sucks
by Mark Hedges 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mike Duvos <enoch(a)zipcon.net> wrote Fri 29 Aug 1997: >Theoretically, I was under the impression that Usenet consisted of a large >number of machines, which compared their news spools continuously, with >each giving the other all articles that were not on both machines. > >Practically, this seems to work a lot less well than the designers >envisioned. In practice, it's really tough to keep a good feed going. We happen to keep the alt.anon* stuff for a longer period of time. We've started keeping individual groups longer as requested by readers. This makes them happy, for the most part. It needs so much disk! We have two incoming server feeds and three outgoing and people still complain that their groups don't have enough messages for their liking. Plus the damn thing's history database has to be rebuilt twice a month, and at night lest the customers come for blood when they don't get their daily usenet, and it never seems to go right without someone (me namely) sleeping in the office keeping it company during the process. A server would need terabyte upon terabyte to store a good archive of Usenet for, say, the past year. I wonder if the designers could forsee Usenet's explosive popularity, or the taxing load the spammers place. Mark Hedges

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Stupid Senate Tricks, from The Netly News
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 07:50:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Stupid Senate Tricks, from The Netly News ********** http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1344,00.html The Netly News Network (http://netlynews.com/) September 5, 1997 Stupid Senate Tricks by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) What do you get when you mix discussions of high technology and the Internet with the weak minds of the aging techno-half-wits in the U.S. Congress? Answer: a screwball dialogue that veers haphazardly between the idiotic and inane. From the infamous father of the Communications Decency Act to the California senator who confuses computer mice with real rodents, Washington lawmakers rarely have a clue about the technology they try to regulate. Now that Congress is back in session, the lawmakers will once again be muddling through press conferences and briefings with the help of hovering aides. But sometimes they try to make a go of it on their own -- and then the results aren't pretty. [...] Both houses of Congress have their share of boobs. Rep. Sonny Bono (R-Calif.) -- once dubbed the dumbest member of Congress by Washingtonian magazine -- showed up at the National Press Club in July 1996 ostensibly to talk about copyright and the Net. Instead, he rambled incoherently about Cher ("I hope she doesn't put on any more tattoos") and sang "I've Got You, Babe" to the audience. Bono's public relations director once told the Los Angeles Times that when her boss was mayor of Palm Springs, she had to rewrite his agendas into script form: "For call to order, I wrote 'sit.' For salute the flag, I wrote 'stand up, face flag, mouth words.'" (Yet Bono was the only member of Congress with the balls to challenge FBI opposition to pro-privacy legislation at a hearing earlier this year. Go figure.) [...]

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standardizing encryption
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Do you think do to use standardizing encryption? I think It isn't too very good. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Key Recovery is Bad for US Security
by Bill Frantz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here is a copy of an email I sent to the senior senator from California this morning. Senator Feinstein: I am extremely disturbed to read your comments in favor of mandatory "key recovery". Besides being a disaster for American software companies, and a clear violation of the constitution's protections of freedom of speech, these systems are harmful to the security of the United States. All cryptographic systems are extremely difficult to get right. The SSL protocol developed by Netscape Inc., which doesn't provide for "key recovery", went through three versions before the major problems were removed. "Key recovery" systems are, as Professor Dorothy Denning testified, much more complex than similar systems which do not include that feature. In fact, the key recovery system built into Clipper, with the advice of the National Security Agency, had flaws as documented by Matt Blaze of AT&T Bell Laboratories. If the best cryptographic group in the world can't get it right, how can we expect these systems to be secure. What do we risk with insecure systems? We risk compromising the legitimate secrets of non-classified government agencies, including IRS records; United States companies, including delicate international negotiations; and individual Americans, including their medical records. Even worse, if some group should decide to launch an information war attack on the United States, these flaws may allow them to access sensitive systems in the finance, transportation, and energy sectors. One simple way this attack could occur is if the access codes are distributed using a flawed encryption system. I hope you will reconsider your stand on this issue. William S. Frantz 16345 Englewood Ave. Los Gatos, Ca 95032 Capability Security Architect - Electric Communities Bill Frantz Electric Communities Capability Security Guru 10101 De Anza Blvd. frantz(a)communities.com Cupertino, CA 95014 408/342-9576 http://www.communities.com

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