December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: InfoWarCon V 1996: Call For Papers
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:10 AM 3/17/96 -0500, winn(a)Infowar.Com wrote: >PLEASE! >It sounds fascinating. Submit. I will NOT SUBMIT! NEVER! Oh, you meant my essay? Sorry! Here it is, parts 1-6. Parts 7-8, and 9-10 in the next message: Assassination Politics by Jim Bell, jimbell(a)pacifier.com Part 1 [rest deleted for CP]

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FYI - Article in Sun. 3/18 LI Newsday
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There's an article in Sunday's (March 18) Long Island Newsday called "When is online out of line" with the subtitle "Should we censor the internet?". Rob. --- Send a blank message with the subject "send pgp-key" (not in quotes) to <WlkngOwl(a)unix.asb.com> for a copy of my PGP key.

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Win95 Remailer
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I neglected to mention in my previous message that the source will also come with an executable. Dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMUukpsVrTvyYOzAZAQF7bQP+NtuSDNKUnNk3P7l11rnHCmouZrclhbT3 o2ayOhYiOnpAkV4UQJLm/SN4KT5OL9tZdy8uc5dI+jzywVkPUlP79HSbfj9SNvgF AcjaDWvwjB4b0+iNam+avl/uMSR4xGRmCKi42pJZIN0klEvAvT6OadBYsPFat19W 1RiwthHvN9Y= =yLK+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------- "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." P. J. O'Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> http://www.shellback.com/personal/merriman/index.htm

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Judge blocks French ISPs from connecting to revisionist sites
by Declan B. McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From the attached message by Valerie Sedallian, it looks like a French judge approved the injunction. This will allow the French Jewish Students Association to prevent a number of ISPs (including CompuServe and IBM Global Network) from allowing connections to any revisionist web sites. In France, revisionism is a criminal offense. Related messages are in these archived threads: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/fight-censorship/dl?num=1801 http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/fight-censorship/dl?thread=French+Jewi… tudents+sue+ISPs+for+revisionist+materials&after=1817 Instructions on how to subscribe to fight-censorship-announce for updates: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/top/ A web site with some info on Germany's failed net.blocking attempts: http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/andrew/ml3e/www/Not_By_Me_Not_My_Views/ France's failed book banning attempt is at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/le-secret/ Info on other international net-censorship attempts is at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/zambia/ -Declan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 20:29:05 +0100 From: Sedallian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Val=E9rie?= <sedallian(a)argia.fr> To: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)eff.org> Subject: French Jewish students sue ISPs for revisionist materials? Declan, Here is a note about the hearing that i have written for my newsletter and translated . english version has not reviewed yet so please excuse english mistakes.you can forward this message . FRANCE : 15 March 1996 A French Jewish Students Association ( Union des Etudiants Juifs de France - UEJF) has issued a writ against 9 French Internet Providers on the grounds that ISP allow their client to access to negationists services or messages infringing French criminal law. The plaintiff asked that the jugde gave the defendants an injonction under penalties to prevent their clients to connect to messages and services that patently infringe a french law that provides that revisionism is a criminal offense (loi Gayssot). The law provides that whose who will have contested publicly the existence of one or some crimes against humanity as they are defined under article 6 of statutes of the international military court attached to London agreement of 8 august 1945 and that have been committed either by an organisation declared criminal by application of article 9 of the said statute , or by a person recognised as guilty of such crimes by a french or international jurisdiction will be punished up to an emprisonnment of one year or/and a fine of 300 000FF Defendants have explained that they were providers of access, not of content, the the plaintiff 's demand would amount to make an a priori, systematic, in real time control on all serviecs and messages exchanged, which would be impossible to implement. They underlined the discriminatory character of the proceedings as not all French IP had been sued and the unspecified nature of the demand , messages and services considered unlawfull not being precised. International law issues and the fact that negationnists messages come from persons located in the USA where they are protected by the 1st amendment of the american constitution have also been discussed. Internet providers have reminded that they were neither administrators or managers of the Internet, which is a network build by users themselves. Sentenced is scheduled April 12th 1996.

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Censorship
by drose＠AZStarNet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FYI, just saw the following scheduled (at least here in Tucson) on PBS for Friday night, 3/23: _Firing Line_ debate Resolved: The Government Has the Right to Regulate the Internet "A current communications controversy fuels the proposed resolution in the latest installment of William F. Buckley Jr.'s recurring series, in which participants debate whether the Internet should be federally regulated. Among those arguing for it with Buckley are Arianna Huffington and Reid Hoffman; those against it include Susan Estrich and John Perry Barlow."

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RemailerBot available from homepage
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I've gotten RemailerBot up on my home page. Source, executable, and (very sparse) documentation available as a 20+K zip file. http://www.shellback.com/personal/merriman/index.htm Dave Merriman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMUvHksVrTvyYOzAZAQG5ywQAoYhjUDZ3Hexc8HoFW7C3zKkrFnXyx5nd iGAYQy9BcKh25fTz8pFmezEKPnAH2v58+OY/5I86F9ZgKDTpLiRXn/TrG97X3cGh DxVgrgar+yDsdhJ9RKlT6s7PmDf6H8f2nvblRBDqKbcc1Mj57l9RNNH3/fBjGlXg SPvIwfr/SaY= =+9G4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------- "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." P. J. O'Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> http://www.shellback.com/personal/merriman/index.htm

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Re: Backup of Encrypted Partition
by mch＠squirrel.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mar 17, 18:38, Sanwar Ali wrote: } Subject: Backup of Encrypted Partition } Hi } } Apologies if this is too much of a beginner's Q. } } Does anyone know how to backup a "SecureDrive" partition onto tape } quickly and easily. } } HPACK is really slow. } } PKZIP and then PGP is slow. } } RAWDISK, seems to be quite complex (perhaps I am just stupid!), and I } am terrified of making some sort of terrible mistake. } } I have about 100MB in the partition. I have a pretty out of date } computer which is a 386 33MHz running Windows. Ease of backup is one of the strengths of CFS which is a cryptographic filesystem for various flavours of UNIX and Linux. With CFS the encrypted files live in the ordinary UNIX filesystem (their names are also encrypted), so one can backup encrypted data without decrypting to make things intelligible and then encrypting to secure the tape. Backups take no more time than backups of ordinary unencrypted files and don't require any special tools (ufsdump, GNU tar, GNU cpio work fine). You backup files individually, which means you can also restore them individually, i.e. without restoring a whole partition. Of course, this doesn't solve your problem, because you are running Windows. But CFS might be incentive to also run a more feature-rich operating system on your PC. You don't need to give up DOS/Windows to also run Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Unixware, etc. -- Mark Henderson -- markh(a)wimsey.bc.ca, mch(a)squirrel.com, henderso(a)netcom.com ViaCrypt PGP Key Fingerprint: 21 F6 AF 2B 6A 8A 0B E1 A1 2A 2A 06 4A D5 92 46 unstrip for Solaris, Wimsey crypto archive, TECO, computer security links, change-sun-hostid, Sun NVRAM/hostid FAQ - http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel

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No Subject
by starcon＠centrum.is 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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M$ CryptoAPI Question
by bglassle＠kaiwan.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- With the current releases of the NT 4.0 betas, I would assume some of you have had the chance to look at the API more closely. I am getting ready to hack my first crypto enabled app and wondered if this was worth using or if Crypto C++ is the way to go. I would think that if their implementation is solid, and some of the *real* crypto gods write stronger CSP's than the M$ RSA Base CSP, this would be a good approach to get more enabled apps accepted for regular usage. Any thoughts? - --Bob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMUyb5e2vJ3dNshwFAQHN5wP7BN74aW2XhJnzfPnPyZUkg9N6asp+hCeN Mw6B6Q7iPd3le0nd8wDLJI6zj9lJ0oOP8ViwI0tDLYbG/H3dpQrA8cgUlOioVaAF L1ZruRvKn87gE0ZJHjIsnEeszxO+wAvnzPYPB2yTRM3LzQ1oIadjhj8FXnNxoVPN hZ+RJSF+qpI= =jEww -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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MIT PGP Distribution Site Upgraded
by jis＠mit.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups: sci.crypt, alt.security.pgp) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- New Software being used to distribute PGP via the World Wide Web from MIT. Since last night (Saturday) we have been running new Web Server software at http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html (the MIT PGP Homepage). This software is specially coded to deal with the complications of running an export controlled Web distribution site. The primary visible (to you) feature of this new software is that the bureaucracy necessary to get into the distribution site has been automated. When our old software believed your host was not in the U.S. or Canada because it was unable to "reverse resolve" your host's name you were out of luck. With this new software you will be given a chance to enter your e-mail address. We will then verify your e-mail address in real time and send you a special password which will allow you access to the distribution site, even if we couldn't let you in previously (this whole process happens automatically and doesn't wait for me to manually do anything!!!). IF YOU PREVIOUSLY SENT ME MAIL ASKING THAT I ADD YOUR SITE (particularly if I haven't responded, which is likely given the large number of requests I receive a day) YOU SHOULD TRY OUR WEB SITE NOW. Note: This software is still a little green and may be down from time to time while I install new versions (or if it crashes hard while I am sleeping or in meetings). There are known problems mostly dealing with older browsers which do "interesting" things. If you cannot get past the PGP access form page, keep trying (after a day or so). I will be monitoring the debugging logs and fixing things as I notice problems. AOL users cannot yet get through (I am working on this tonight, but I don't know if I'll figure out what is going on before I have to call it a night). Please do *not* send me e-mail yet reporting problems (the debugging logs will tell me a lot) unless you believe the problem you are seeing is particularly "interesting." Once the code is more stable I will send another message indicating that I think things are stable, *then* you can complain to me when things don't work because I will be removing the debugging code after it is stable. Also Note: We are only using this new software for PGP at the moment *NOT* PGPfone. However our plan is to convert the PGPfone distribution site to this new software as well. Btw. Phil informs me that the next PGPfone beta test, for both the Macintosh and (finally) Windows '95 should be ready any day. Some of you have heard this story before... but maybe this time... When this next release of PGPfone is made available, the new distribution system will be in effect. Technical details (for those who care, the rest of you can skip this): The new distribution system is a stand alone program which you talk to after "posting" the PGP access form. This program is a complete Web server in and of itself. It runs in one process, multiplexing up to 50 connections simultaneously (this makes it fast because it doesn't have to fork processes, something UNIX isn't particularly good about). It is written in C++ (compiled under G++) and is currently hosted on a SGI Indy workstations (175Mhz processor with 100 Megabytes of RAM), though it may move to a different server soon. And yes, I will be making it publicly available after I have it better debugged. -Jeff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMUyiJMUtR20Nv5BtAQGPrAQAq2z7Nz3/XlWqjcRwSq8aFRiiqLI04oEp w1T9OZk3Ie7cTgfebyA69yGLNXPo4oFfea9Y6fw56eOMP2F/+gaCEajXhCwrMIjQ zSp8jF0QzTihZv0QYod2t4wIlOw7jNiAUIRdIBELI2OS12J0TRwOxb4eogHvI6Jh Q08S107/X1c= =GaW0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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