December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Comp Sec Calendar
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From URL: http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/events/eventcal.txt Last update: 07/24/95 COMPUTER SECURITY EVENTS CALENDAR This file contains a list of upcoming computer security events. The absence or inclusion of any particular event does not imply criticism or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology or the sysop. Because of the nature of this material and how it is obtained, it is impossible to include every event. If you know of computer security events that are not listed, please send the conference/course literature and requests to the following: Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse (Events Calendar) National Institute of Standards and Technology Room A-216, Bldg. 225 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 webmaster(a)csrc.ncsl.nist.gov [Snip sessions before 9/7] DATE: 09/07/95 TITLE: Information Warfare Conference (InfoWarCon) '95 LOCATION: Arlington, VA SPONSOR: National Computer Security Association (NCSA) CONTACT: National Computer Security Association ADDRESS: 10 S. Courthouse Ave. CITY_ST: Carlisle, PA 17013 PHONE: (717) 258-1816 DATE: 09/11/95 TITLE: ASIS 41st Annual Seminar & Exhibits LOCATION: New Orleans, LA SPONSOR: American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) CONTACT: Society for Industrial Security ADDRESS: 1655 North Fort Myer Dr., Suite 1200 CITY_ST: Arlington, VA 22209 PHONE: (703) 522-5800 DATE: 09/11/95 - 09/13/95 TITLE: Exploring the Hostile Cyberspace LOCATION: Cleveland, OH SPONSOR: NASA Lewis Research Center, et al. CONTACT: New Dimensions International ADDRESS: P. O. Box 897 CITY_ST: Cardiff, CA 92007 PHONE: (619) 436-5618 DATE: 09/12/95 TITLE: COSAC '95 LOCATION: Dublin, Ireland SPONSOR: Republic of Ireland AKA Associates CONTACT: AKA Associates ADDRESS: 7 Darragh Road CITY_ST: Crossgar, Co. Down, BT30 9NP E-MAIL: cosac95(a)ibm.net DATE: 09/14/95 TITLE: Network Security (LAN's Client/Server and the Internet) LOCATION: St. Louis, MO (other dates and locations available, call CSI) SPONSOR: CSI (Computer Security Institute) CONTACT: CSI ADDRESS: 600 Harrison Street CITY_ST: San Francisco, CA 94107 PHONE: (415) 905-2626 DATE: 09/17/95 TITLE: LISA 9th Systems Administration Conference LOCATION: Monterey California SPONSOR: USENIX, ACSTPA, SAGE CONTACT: USENIX Conference Office ADDRESS: 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613 CITY_ST: Lake Forest, CA 92630 PHONE: (714) 588-8649 DATE: 09/18/95 TITLE: 7th Commputer Security Incident Handling Workshop LOCATION: Karlsuhe, Germany SPONSOR: CONTACT: Rechenzentrum Uni Karlsruhe, Herr Fischer ADDRESS: Zirkel 2 CITY_ST: D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany PHONE: +49 721 376422 DATE: 9/20/95 TITLE: Acquisition Streamling and Information Warfare LOCATION: Koran Room, Ft. Myer Officers Club in Arlington, VA SPONSOR: CONTACT: ADDRESS: CITY_ST: Arlington, VA PRESENTER: Anthony Valletta, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, C3I - Acqui sitions PHONE: (202) 828-1920 for info or reservations DATE: 10/10/95 TITLE: 18th National Information Systems Security Conference LOCATION: Baltimore, MD SPONSOR: NSA/NCSC and NIST/CSL CONTACT: Tammie Grice ADDRESS: NIST, Room A807, Bldg 101 CITY_ST: Gaithersburg, MD 20899 PHONE: (301) 975-3883 DATE: 10/19-20/95 LOCATION: Bethesda, MD SPONSOR: ABA, NIST, USCIB, ... CONTACT: Worldwide Electronic Commerce Conference '95 ADDRESS: PO Box 743485 CITY_ST: Dallas, TX 75374 PHONE: 214.516.4900 EMAIL: wec(a)multicorp.com URL: http://www.multicorp.com/wec DATE: 10/24/95 TITLE: The Business Recover Managers Symposium LOCATION: San Diego, CA SPONSOR: MIS Training Institute CONTACT: ADDRESS: 498 Concord Street CITY_ST: Framingham, MA 01701-2357 PHONE: (508) 879-7999 DATE: 11/06/95 TITLE: CSI's 22nd Annual Computer Security Conference LOCATION: Washington, D.C. SPONSOR: Computer Security Institute CONTACT: Computer Security Institute ADDRESS: 600 Harrison St. CITY_ST: San Francisco, CA 94107 PHONE: (415) 905-2626 DATE: 12/11/95 TITLE: 11th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference LOCATION: New Orleans, LA SPONSOR: Applied Computer Security Associates CONTACT: Ann Marmor-Squires ADDRESS: TRW Systems Division CITY_ST: Fairfax, VA 22033 PHONE: (703) 803-5503 DATE: 05/15/97 TITLE: Security and Audit Oracle LOCATION: Washington, D.C. SPONSOR: MIS & Dept. of Justice CONTACT: Pat Ciuffreda ADDRESS: CTTS/IRM/JMD, Room 1211-ARB CITY_ST: Washington, DC 20530 PHONE: (202) 616-2018

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by phoenix＠workload.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail, which is available at: ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/premail/premail-0.33.tar.gz For the PGP public keys of the remailers, as well as some help on how to use them, finger remailer.help.all(a)chaos.taylored.com This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)extropia.wimsey.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"portal"} = "<hfinney(a)shell.portal.com> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"alumni"} = "<hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"bsu-cs"} = "<nowhere(a)bsu-cs.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"c2"} = "<remail(a)c2.org> eric pgp hash reord"; $remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer(a)ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub reord"; $remailer{"hacktic"} = "<remailer(a)utopia.hacktic.nl> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"flame"} = "<remailer(a)flame.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash latent cut post ek reord"; $remailer{"rahul"} = "<homer(a)rahul.net> cpunk pgp hash filter"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord"; $remailer{"syrinx"} = "<syrinx(a)c2.org> cpunk pgp hash cut reord mix post"; $remailer{"ford"} = "<remailer(a)bi-node.zerberus.de> cpunk pgp hash ksub"; $remailer{"hroller"} = "<hroller(a)c2.org> cpunk pgp hash mix cut ek"; $remailer{"vishnu"} = "<mixmaster(a)vishnu.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord"; $remailer{"crown"} = "<mixmaster(a)kether.alias.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut mix ek reord"; $remailer{"robo"} = "<robo(a)c2.org> cpunk hash mix"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"spook"} = "<remailer(a)spook.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{"gondolin"} = "<mixmaster(a)gondolin.org> cpunk mix hash latent cut ek ksub reord"; $remailer{"rmadillo"} = "<remailer(a)armadillo.com> mix cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"ncognito"} = "<ncognito(a)gate.net> cpunk"; $remailer{"precip"} = "<mixmaster(a)mix.precipice.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. Use "premail -getkeys pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu" to get PGP keys for the remailers. Fingering this address works too. Note: penet is *down* for a few days. Check back here for updates. Last ping: Mon 11 Sep 95 4:00:27 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- alumni hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu *--****+**+* 9:23 99.99% hacktic remailer(a)utopia.hacktic.nl *****+****+* 12:51 99.99% hroller hroller(a)c2.org **********+* 7:48 99.99% syrinx syrinx(a)c2.org ------++-++* 1:16:52 99.99% c2 remail(a)c2.org +++++++++++* 39:22 99.99% flame remailer(a)flame.alias.net ++++++*-+*+* 1:20:26 99.99% spook remailer(a)spook.alias.net --.--+----- 3:55:18 99.99% bsu-cs nowhere(a)bsu-cs.bsu.edu ***-******+* 13:02 99.98% replay remailer(a)replay.com *****+****+* 15:04 99.93% ideath remailer(a)ideath.goldenbear.com ----.---+--- 3:51:00 99.83% ncognito ncognito(a)gate.net * ** ****++* 7:04 99.08% rmadillo remailer(a)armadillo.com ++ + *+++*++ 54:25 99.06% precip mixmaster(a)mix.precipice.com 52:55 99.07% ford remailer(a)bi-node.zerberus.de **********+* 5:54 98.82% crown mixmaster(a)kether.alias.net -- ---+--+-- 3:32:46 98.04% extropia remail(a)extropia.wimsey.com _---.- -..- 12:48:37 97.01% portal hfinney(a)shell.portal.com **** *+ *+* 5:57 96.81% vishnu mixmaster(a)vishnu.alias.net ---------+* 4:59:22 96.27% robo robo(a)c2.org **********+* 11:03 95.95% rahul homer(a)rahul.net +*+*******+* 6:52 99.99% gondolin mixmaster(a)gondolin.org -- . -+*--. 6:29:14 89.70% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com ---+---___. 15:25:37 87.63% For more info: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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by phoenix＠workload.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: question about reputation
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:32 PM 9/10/95 -0700, Wei Dai wrote: >For example, Alice starts a anonymous consulting service, and announces >that she will answer the first ten queries for free. Upon hearing this, >Mallet immediately starts another consulting service, and announces the >same offer. At this point Mallet can simply forward his customers' >queries to Alice and Alice's answers back to his customers. Thus, he gains >reputation at no cost. As a response to this example. I'd argue Mallet has less of a reputation because: (1) if this example applies to the first 10 questions from each person, Alice will answer many more questions that Mallet. (Mallet answers 10 and is done.) (2) if this example means the first 10 questions from anywhere Mallet than has to arrange to have his customer's 10 questions in the queue and ready to go before any other person can get in the queue, which is some work. In general, I'd think reputation is akin to brand name to a degree. Differentiation! So, if Alice notices people tracking her "reputation advertising" she can change it. Reputation might not be as static a concept as we think (as others have mentioned by bringing up arbitrage.) ------------------------- Regards, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu 0C 69 D4 E8 F2 70 24 33 B4 5E 5E EC 35 E6 FB 88

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Clinton's Black Helicopters Over My House!
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ObConspiracy content: high. They are coming to take me away, take me away! Clinton's black helicopters are swooping low over my house. What should I do? Yes, this has nothing to do with coding in C, or even coding in Java, but it's too good a story not to share with you. My hilltop house, in the Santa Cruz mountains, lies directly between Monterey and San Jose. His Excellency is landing tonight in Monterey--probably has just done so, judging by the sudden increase in air traffic--to dedicate tomorrow a "defense conversion" of the former Fort Ord to "Cal State Monterey Bay," a new state college. (In California there are three tiers of colleges: the 9 campuses of the University of California system (Berkeley, UCLA, UCSC, UCSB, UCSD, etc.), the twenty-some "Cal State" schools, and some ungodly number of Community Colleges.) Anyway, lots of choppers flying directly over my house, at fairly low altitude. Maybe I could spell out a Cypherpunks message in white stones in my driveway, or maybe just a rose? He'll be choppering from Monterey to Alameda tommorrow, after lunch, so I need to think of something to prepare for him. I'm tempted to try to take a photo with my telescope, but the choppers flying with him might think I had a Redeye or Stinger or something from the weapon shops of Isher, and send me back at least a visit by the Praetorians, so I'll avoid "looking dangerous" in my back yard as the choppers pass overhead. (I find it hard to believe what the scribblers are saying, that this is the first visit by a sitting President to Monterey in 100 years. What with Carmel and Big Sur nearby, kind of hard to believe, eh?) --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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DC cypherpunk soccer team?
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If you live in Washington, play soccer, and are a libertarian (anarcho-capitalists are also welcome), email me. The fall league is starting in two weeks. The name of the team? "The Invisible Foot" -Declan

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Clipper: the definitive meme
by Jim Gillogly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

T-shirt!! T-shirt!! Jim Gillogly Trewesday, 20 Halimath S.R. 1995, 15:26 ------- Forwarded Message From: wtshaw(a)aol.com (WTShaw) Newsgroups: talk.politics.crypto Subject: Re: Impressions of the NIST meeting Date: 11 Sep 1995 04:50:27 -0400 In the world of Jet-Age crypto, the government offers up a biplane, and seek to reserve the second seat for themselves. ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Surveillance a Growing Problem
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(I've changed the thread name from "Fuhrman...." to the topic being discussed here.) At 10:56 PM 9/1/95, Buford Terrell wrote: >If you've ever watched Not_at_all_Funny Home Videos or any of the >American Urinal school of tabloid television, you soon start feeling >that the real threat to privacy is not the guvmint, but all of >the yoyos with their little cam corders running around pointing them >at people. > >Security cameras in ATMS and at airline ticket counters do more >to threaten you privacy than do FIBBIE wiretaps, and PGP won't >protect you from them. (and usually neither will the courts). I absolutely agree with this, though this doesn't mean I'll stop worrying about the government's plans for key escrow (GAK), about limits on key lengths, or about other efforts to thwart strong security. But clearly the "technologies of surveillance," ranging from massively-cross-correlated mailing lists to smaller and cheaper and more ubiquitous video cameras, are very nearly an equal threat. (Lots of issues, from the nearly universal requests for Social Security Numbers, to the growing powers of courts to compel the disclosure of private documents, to, well, you folks all know the trends.) Folks like us should not be lobbying for limitations on what other private individuals or companies are doing, but should concentrate first, on technological alternatives (encryption, unlinkable credentials, digital money, that sort of thing) and second, on educating others that security and privacy is best self-arranged and is rarely accomplished by government assuming the role of protector. --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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VER_tgo
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

9-11-95. W$Japer: "VeriFone Expected to Announce System For Purchasing Goods on the Internet." VeriFone, Inc., which manufactures terminals through which merchants scan consumers' credit cards for authorization, said it will provide merchants who wish to market goods on the global computer network with a complete set of tools to handle electronic cash, electronic checks and credit-card payments. The system consists of four different products: A consumer would use the software equivalent of a wallet, which could include different forms of payment, such as electronic checks, cash, or credit cards to purchase goods. The consumer would also use a smartcard inserted in a device connected to a PC to verify his identity. The card would also contain other cardholder information and eventually could include electronic cash. Philips and Oracle Plan Electronic Mail Without Use of PCs Philips Electronics NV and Oracle Corp. plan to offer electronic mail without personal computers, using Philips phones that have small display screens and keyboards. Gerrit Schipper, president of Philips Home Services, said the new e-mail service was designed to increase the services' value and appeal to the 70% of U.S. households that don't have PCs. 2 go: VER_tgo (5 kb)

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