December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

What are the Feds looking at now :)
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This message was observed to flow to firewalls mailing today... could this mean mean something is going on?? anon >Return-Path: firewalls-owner(a)GreatCircle.COM >Received: from miles.greatcircle.com by relay2.UU.NET with ESMTP > (peer crosschecked as: miles.greatcircle.com [198.102.244.34]) > id QQaodh13554; Fri, 3 May 1996 15:23:00 -0400 (EDT) >Received: (majordom@localhost) by miles.greatcircle.com (8.7.1-lists/Lists-960417-1) id LAA12439 for firewalls-outgoing; Fri, 3 May 1996 11:25:42 -0700 (PDT) >Received: from justice.usdoj.gov (justice.usdoj.gov [149.101.1.1]) by miles.greatcircle.com (8.7.4/Miles-951221-1) with SMTP id LAA12425 for <Firewalls(a)GreatCircle.COM>; Fri, 3 May 1996 11:25:37 -0700 (PDT) >Received: by justice.usdoj.gov id aa17656; 3 May 96 14:07 EDT >From: <casey(a)justice.usdoj.gov> >To: Firewalls(a)GreatCircle.COM >Subject: Firewalls-Digest V5 #289 >X-Mailer: SCO Portfolio 2.0 >Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 14:03:09 -0400 (EDT) >Message-ID: <9605031403.aa16958(a)justice.usdoj.gov> >Sender: firewalls-owner(a)GreatCircle.COM >Precedence: bulk > >I am looking for a list of all the Internet >Service Providers world-wide. Can anyone point me >in the right direction? > >Thanks in advance, > >Mary L. Casey, Program Analyst >Information Management & > Security Staff >Information Resources Management >Justice Management Division >U.S. Dept of Justice

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Re: proposed anti-pseudospoofing law in Georgia
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:00 PM 5/3/96, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote: >> "anti-psuedospoofing". > >pardon me, I thought that was the correct term. I saw someone >like Hal Finney or TCM (PM? EH?) use it here as I recall. >it's hard to remember. if there is a more correct term I will >be happy to use that in the future. Larry, as you certainly know, I am also known as "Nick Szabo" and "Robert Hettinga," Hal Finney is just another name for "Eric Hughes" and "Sandy Sandfort," and "Perry Metzger" actually a pseudonym shared by both me and John Gilmore. On occasion we meet to do a Vulcan mind-meld and adopt new identities. --Medusa

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Re: encrypted Unix backup software
by VaX#n8 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In message <199605030425.XAA05924(a)primus.paranoia.com>, Bill Stewart writes: >>Although I could probably hack up "catblock" to do the job, and use >>a line of the form >>dump -0uBf ... | symmetric_cipher | catblock blockfactor > /dev/tape >Yup [agrees on cmdline] >You don't need to write "catblock", though - there's the "dd" command >designed for just such applications... >Newer versions may handle multiple tapes a bit better. Hmm, I've got this a few times from people and I just wanted to clear up a few points. 1) BSD dd doesn't treat EOT specially: /* ... If a partial write, and it's a character device, just warn. If a tape device, quit. ... */ GNU dd (from what I remember) doesn't, either. 2) "dd" will only work safely across all tape types and all size pipes using the degenerate form "dd ibs=1 obs=(your_bf_here) conv=sync ...". I'll hack up catblock today. Who says we don't code :)

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Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
by jordan＠Thinkbank.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From sandfort(a)crl.com Fri May 3 21:52:50 1996 At 11:31 AM 5/3/96 -0700, brerrabbit(a)alpha.c2.org wrote: >Do tell. How would someone, just for instance, who is considering >leaving a "permanent" job for the higher compensation available to >contractors and consultants be able to structure a business in such a >way as to benefit from these techniques? 2) Take a vacation to a tax haven you like because of what you've read about it. I'm confused as to how "merely" putting your after-tax (you *will* declare this consulting revenue on your Schedule C, won't you?) bucks in an offshore account will "save" you money. This only "works" if you are able to use what you've taken away to advantage; you may generate a tax "savings" on those gains. Oh, and it also only works if you are willing to expose yourself to being arrested at some point for tax evasion. This is silly; there are legitimate reasons for structuring business efforts in other tax juristictions. Avoiding income tax on your primary source income isn't one of them. My answer to the original question: save your $1k you'd send to Sandy for the "advice" (plus travel associated with finding your 'haven') and open a SEP. /jordan

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Re: Edited Edupage, 25 April 1996
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:55 PM 5/3/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: >From: IN%"educom(a)elanor.oit.unc.edu" 25-APR-1996 21:40:28.52 > >>FCC BOOSTS PROSPECT FOR SUPERNETS >>The Federal Communications Commission may reserve a band of radio >>frequencies to allow free and unlicensed transmissions at 25 megabit speeds >>of large volumes of data within a group of buildings. These so-called >>"supernet" wireless services, which would operate at no more than one watt >>of power in order to avoid interfering with neighboring supernets, could >>then be connected by high-speed phone lines to the Internet, thus largely >>bypassing local phone companies to get Net access. (New York Times 25 Apr >>96 C1) > > If these are not covered by the regulations against encryption in >the use of packet radio, this would seem to be an opening for such. Indeed, >encryption of radio messages would appear to be rather critical for security. FAIK, the prohibition on encryption applies only to hams transmitting on amateur radio frequencies. It wouldn't cover this kind of thing. I agree that encryption is going to be vital in this case, say 1024-bit RSA or better. Thus encrypted, it would be even better if the there was also a law which prohibited _the government_ from picking up these transmissions or attempting to decrypt them. Another useful purpose of such a "supernet" would be alternative telephone system competition. At this data rate, we're talking about the equivalent of 500+ simultaneous phone call capacity. That's enough to serve perhaps 5000 homes or more. >>HARDWARE SOLUTION TO E-COMMERCE SECURITY >>VLSI Technology and Tandem Computer's Atalla are developing chip-level >>security products to protect electronic transactions over the Internet and >>intranets. The products will incorporate DES, RSA and other encryption >>technology, and the companies hope their joint venture will establish a >>hardware-based security standard for electronic commerce. (Information Week >>15 Apr 96 p34) Remember, however, that VLSI technology is the company that built Clipper... Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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URLs for Capabilities
by norm＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am preparing a talk for this morning at CP in PaloAlto. Here are some relavant URLs. http://www.agorics.com/agorics http://www.agorics.com/agorics/allkey.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/

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RE: Why I dislike Java. (was Re: "Scruffies" vs. "Neats")
by Pete Loshin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

E. Allen Smith wrote: > From: IN%"perry(a)piermont.com" 3-MAY-1996 16:49:35.61 > > >The users can't afford not to have the numbers they are watching not > >in front of them, even for brief periods. Its a real problem. > > Hmm.... has anyone ever created a specialized computer (or computer > running a specialized program) that would put multiple screens on the same > screen, perhaps with some GUI manipulation capabilities? If they're trying to > read Netscape material while watching the other numbers, they're then in the > exact same situation from their viewpoint. Actually, this is the kind of application that seems ideal for X-Windows. There are a lot more, but it has never really caught on in the PC world, which is a shame since it makes much more sense than many of the solutions people have come up with over the years. -Pete Loshin

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PICS & CyberAngels
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In view of the discussion of the possibility of PICS being required by law, plus that about the CyberAngels, I thought people might find it interesting that the CyberAngels home page has on it as one of their "responsibilities" making sure that all pages with sexual content - that pornography fetish again - have PICS or other (such as Safesurf...) ratings that would permit censorship of them. If parents want to keep their children from seeing sexual material, that's the problem of the parents - it shouldn't be the problem of anyone else. If something I put out offends someone (e.g., some political speech I've made), that's the problem of the person it offends. Sexual material is no different. -Allen

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NOISE.SYS v0.5.5 (Beta)
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Latest NOISE.SYS (/dev/random for DOS) is available, with incomplete docs. Reply with a subject "send noise" (or you can wait a few days for it to appear on an ftp site). The file's about 80k, includes '386 assembler source. --- No-frills sig. Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.

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Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
by Jordan Hayes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From unicorn(a)schloss.li Fri May 3 23:23:21 1996 Accounting costs as a result of a deduction based, multi-tiered, progressive, and supplimented system of income taxation are silly. By the way, the IRS (in spite of it's shortcomings) is (by far) the most efficient tax collecting organization among the major economic powers. It costs roughly $0.50 per $100 collected. Canada is second at about $1, Germany (for instance) is at about $7, mostly because they don't have payroll deductions. /jordan

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