December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: CyberCash just did it!
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"pclow(a)pc.jaring.my" "peng-chiew low" 27-MAY-1996 13:41:16.44 >Out of curiousity I visited their site and I read the part of the security >section which I've pasted below. Is it true? After all that I've read about >the export issue and here Cybercash tells me they have got permission to >export strong crypto? Please note that I am not someone who is familiar with >the strength of crypto algo and any response to this post would be most >helpful to a newbie in this business. Thanks. While I am also uncertain as to how strong the crypto they're using is, I would guess that this passes under the banking exemption... I would suspect that there is some lack of full anonymnity in the method, because otherwise the US government wouldn't have given export permission even with that exemption. -Allen

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Edited Edupage, 26 May 1996
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"educom(a)educom.unc.edu" 27-MAY-1996 14:46:47.89 From: Edupage Editors <educom(a)educom.unc.edu> >FLAT PC SCREENS HEAD FOR THE DESKTOP >Liquid crystal display screens currently cost about five times that of a >similarly-sized cathode ray tube screen, but that should be changing over >the next couple of years, say LCD makers. Next year, major LCD vendors >expect to halve the difference, bringing prices down to two-and-a-half times >that of CRTs. Analysts say when the difference comes down to that point, >the desktop replacement market could really take off. "CRT replacement is >inevitable, it's just that in the near term there are a lot of hurdles," >says an analyst at Stanford Resources. "The place where it makes the most >sense are with large-screen LCDs." NEC recently unveiled a 20-inch >high-resolution LCD screen with wide-angle viewing designed as a >"CRT-killer" according to a NEC engineer. (Investor's Business Daily 23 May >96 A8) IIRC, LCD screens are considerably harder to read off of by Tempest equipment than normal CRT screens. An encouraging change. >NORTHERN TELECOM PHONES GET JAVATIZED >Northern Telecom plans to incorporate Sun Microsystems' Java microprocessors >and software in a new class of inexpensive "smart" telephones designed to >double as Internet appliances. The move makes Northern Telecom the first >telephone manufacturer to license Java chips for its products. The chips >will be used in its wired PowerTouch phones and its wireless digital phones, >and customer trials should start next year. (Wall Street Journal 23 May 96 >B3) I would guess that these phones would still not be crypto-capable, but I'm not quite sure what they have in mind to use Java in them for. -Allen >*************************************************************** >Edupage ... is what you've just finished reading. To subscribe to Edupage: >send mail to: listproc(a)educom.unc.edu with the message: subscribe edupage >John McCain (if your name is John McCain; otherwise, substitute your own >name). ... To cancel, send a message to: listproc(a)educom.unc.edu with the >message: unsubscribe edupage. (If you have subscription problems, send >mail to educom(a)educom.unc.edu.)

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Re: holographic remailing & key escrow
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:20 PM 5/26/96 -0700, Wei Dai wrote: >This software already exists. Take a look at Disperse/Collect at >http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai. Disperse splits a file into n base64 >encoded pieces where any k of them can be used to reconstruct the >original. Collect will search through arbitrary collection of files (for >example the entire news spool) for these pieces and automatically >reconstruct everything that it finds. Could something akin to this be a practicle method or test for Blaze's "Key Escrow without Escrow Agents"? The main thing lacking is a secure method to get it out to the different escrow servers... (One could just encrypt each chunk of the message/key in a server's public key... Servers would read that newsgroup and pull down and escrow the chunks that they recognize.) _______________________ Regards, When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. -Marquis de la Grange Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E

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Re: CyberCash just did it!
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:08 AM 5/28/96 +0700, peng-chiew low wrote: According to below, it looks like the session keys are single-DES, and they are swapped using RSA... I'd think people would rather try cracking the DES without bothering with the RSA -- be it 768 or 1024... (If the session key is weak, it doesn't much matter what you send it in...) >http://www.cybercash.com/cybercash/wp/bankwp.html#security > > " CyberCash transactions are protected by a powerful and sophisticated > system of encryption, combining DES private-key and RSA public-key > encryption technologies. In fact, CyberCash's 768-bit RSA key encryption > capability is unique in that it is the most powerful encryption technology > currently licensed by the United States government for export. CyberCash > also has been approved by the government for 1024-bit RSA key encryption, > and will be providing that technology by the end of 1996. " _______________________ Regards, When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. -Marquis de la Grange Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E

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Noise, was The Anti-Briefing...
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:08 PM 5/27/96 -0400, L. Jean Camp wrote: > Five kids a day die from violence from the hands of their parents. Not so: I believe this figure is "parent or guardian". Nearly all kids are killed by stepfathers, and some by step mothers. Murders of children by their natural parents are extraordinarily rare. A stepfather or stepmother has even more incentive, and considerably more opportunity, to murder her spouses children than she has to murder her spouses lover. > The > infant mortality rate in DC is twice what it is in Havana. Nobody, least of all Castro, knows what the infant mortality rate in Cuba is, since in Cuba, truth is a crime. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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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none Attn Sameer: Are alias@alpha.c2.org and/or remail@c2.org down?
by nobody＠flame.alias.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

My 'nym which has worked just fine has suddenly stopped working this weekend. My reply block has not changed, and the only remailer in it is remail(a)c2.org. I have the reply block set up to send the encrypted reply to remail(a)c2.org where Newsgroups: and Subject: headers are pasted on with the "##" operator. The message is then sent on to the replay mail2news gateway for posting to alt.anonymous.messages. What's happened? Anyone know?

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Public Key for Nymrod
by John A. Perry 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Everyone, I forgot to publish the public key for nymrod(a)nym.jpunix.com the other day when I announced the re-birth of the Nymrod nym server. Here it is: - -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzGm8g4AAAEEALaIAOXXnpui2Tlf7801sYp968SviYV45qrVpn9dbCxYRlUO 1g/NFHjUDO09NVn3GoWHRKfD81U6mNf+2lSkCDRaiYWysJpjSIspRIX5uZ44vmBx ZcBQzO35jxamJCoxHmVYkDF7IdWutIlmAzjLMdkS3lKJUaEwDqJo4m8yfNopAAUR tDNUaGUgTnltcm9kIFBzZXVkb255bSBTZXJ2ZXIgPG55bXJvZEBueW0uanB1bml4 LmNvbT6JAJUDBRAxpwtzU5OkROGu2G8BAcycA/9rKX7giTJ0FCaBb0ihJxZsGgth FdjmNt6dVh0AJ26CK5EiqehMHXhINcugWmRQY5OcIfhIUI8/ZW/EJpiaky+NWY5b nHmcXlJj07tmAiAa6B8gs8aWH5XyJ9AlEXC5OdhfpTZKFL9fHNceZtJYwABZeD11 KDVrZqCW6lNcw7IqL7QyVGhlIE55bXJvZCBQc2V1ZG9ueW0gU2VydmVyIDxhbGlh c0BueW0uanB1bml4LmNvbT6JAJUDBRAxpwvUU5OkROGu2G8BAZCsA/9sQP71f5YC 4DonpGwKw8vcz4IQ/P8jZEFpbzkJoBIg+PTrTqQZxmzr0Gg4bZn3f+0BIsuqId/U H71thZH7MvxHBQqU+E4oCzy44cmujMQv+BnT44F91ztutPTyyf2KlXEFBBX6ofbf ffJsmWIVkjWMcdnZndHMHuo/8/FxByC+hw== =pbAO - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- I apologize for any inconvenience. John Perry - KG5RG - perry(a)alpha.jpunix.com - PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome! WWW - http://www.jpunix.com PGP 2.62 key for perry(a)jpunix.com is on the keyservers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMapEqFOTpEThrthvAQG1awP+N3N6aQc5M8TofwJLPJ8gzKl6y6B6Y/iS 6l+nq0nCE369eWTC2Fgp30ihlLY9FOcg+M1QtVv/SQiozd+vrDaPTXtIQh8OPmw6 RZemfAkNgetIimpA1gNyN8/gLXGhKBnkaFawuNw4FESEyjbQ/IZmV02W4qO4MC9J axN6nfcTFa8= =5g4m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Philosophy of information ow
by Chris Adams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 27 May 1996 11:25:28 pdt, m5(a)vail.tivoli.com wrote: >What if I just *see* your couch, and then back in my garage I use my >couch replicator to make a couch just like yours, complete with fuzzballs >and loose change between the cushions? Now I have your couch, in a sense. >Are you still upset? > >When I walked off with your blood chemistry data, did you lose the use >of it for your future purposes? I believe that you are free to keep information, use it, etc. but you MUST get permission before selling it. /* From Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> on a Warped PC running a proudly unregistered (for now) PMMAIL 1.5! The Enigman Group - We do Web Pages! */ This Message Was Sent With An UNREGISTERED Version Of PMMail. Please Encourage Its Author To Register Their Copy Of PMMail. For More Information About PMMail And SouthSide Software's Other Products, Contact http://www.southsoft.com.

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Re: Edited Edupage, 26 May 1996
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"grafolog(a)netcom.com" "jonathon" 27-MAY-1996 20:45:08.30 > Porting PGPhone to JAVA, perhaps? The difficulty is that I don't know if the Java in the phones can actually affect the phone transactions in voice, or just do modem connections using the phones, or just act to handle the phone numbers. -Allen

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Re: Quickremail v1.0b
by loki＠infonex.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 2:28 PM 5/27/96, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: >From: IN%"markm(a)voicenet.com" "Mark M." 27-MAY-1996 12:57:44.84 > >>On Sun, 26 May 1996, Lance Cottrell wrote: > >>> Which remailers does it install? > >>Mixmaster, and it gives a choice of either installing the Freedom remailer or >>the remailer code written by Matt Ghio. It also has support for reorder >>scripts, but I haven't debugged that part yet. > > What are the major differences between the various Mixmaster remailer >codes, especially in terms of the logistics of running a remailer? I'm >particularly interested in aspects related to A. running one by someone not >particularly familiar with UNIX (e.g., me) and B. a remailer accepting/sending >mail only from/to a limited list of addresses (e.g., only other remailers). > Thanks, > -Allen > >P.S. I'm planning on starting up a remailer, probably on Lance's machine (to >take advantage of his expertise) sometime this summer. I do want to get PGP for >the VAX before then, and the MIT site doesn't appear to have this code. I thing you misunderstood his answer, it installs Mixmaster and also installs either the Ghio or Freedom remailer. There are several flavors of remailer. The most common (but not most popular) are Cypherpunk and Mixmaster. At this time there is only one implementation of Mixmaster, mine. There are several version of the Cypherpunk remailer (A.K.A. Type 1) of which "Ghio" and "Freedom" are two. Mixmaster is known as a Type 2 remailer. Type 1 and type 2 are completely incompatible. -Lance ---------------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell loki(a)obscura.com PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. Mixmaster, the next generation remailer, is now available! http://www.obscura.com/~loki/Welcome.html or FTP to obscura.com "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche ----------------------------------------------------------

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