December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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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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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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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Programmable field gate array chips down in price
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What were the estimates people were giving for the cost of an array to crack current credit card over the Net encryption? -Allen > XILINX SLASHES PRICES OF FIELD GATE ARRAY CHIPS, UPS PERFORMANCE > __________________________________________________________________________ > Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net > Copyright &copy 1996 Bloomberg > SAN JOSE, Calif. (May 27, 1996 12:53 p.m. EDT) -- Xilinx Inc. said it > will slash the price of some of its programmable microchips by as much > as 53 percent over the next 12 months. > Xilinx said a new manufacturing process also will allow it to increase > performance of the chips, known as field programmable gate arrays, > which are found in a variety of complex electronic devices. > Xilinx said that by the end of the year, it expects to be selling its > XC5202 field programmable gate arrays for $5 apiece, down 44 percent > from an earlier projected price of $9. That price should decline to > $4.50 by mid-1997, Xilinx said. > The San Jose, California-based semiconductor maker said it also will > trim prices of more expensive gate arrays by as much as 53 percent, > bringing XC5210, for example, to $18 in mid-1997 from a current price > of $38. > The price cuts are for customers who purchase thousands of gate arrays > at a time. [...] > Xilinx pioneered the development of programmable chips, which are > found in complex devices such as networking and telecommunications > equipment utilizing Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology. Its > revenue increased 58 percent to $560.8 million in the fiscal year > ended March 31, in the face of steadily falling chip prices, as the > company's products found uses in a growing number of devices.

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MIN_ers
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

New Sci 25 May 1996: "Panning for data gold." Nowadays nearly every organization from supermarkets to the police can boast a vast mine of electronic data. Separating the gold from the dross is the real challenge. A growing band of computer scientists say they can dig out nuggets of 24-carat knowledge from huge mountains of database dross. They call themselves "data miners", and they are wielding some pretty impressive tools -- information theory, laws of probability, neural networks, tree induction, genetic algoritms, disjunctive normal form logic. But the impact of their efforts is anything but esoteric. By identifying potential new customers -- or ways of hanging on to existing ones -- this information is worth millions in extra revenue. And this is just the start, according to Usama Fayyad of Microsoft Research and co-editor of a new book on data mining. MIN_ers

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Re: [SCARE]: "If you only knew what we know..."
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 27 May 96 at 21:46, Subir Grewal wrote: > > Oh, you mean, "for them, anybody who pass a judgment of his own > > that :contradict them should be killed" I see... > Glad you noticed that. Now tell me how AP for any other cause is > different? It has similarities. But AP will not be the enforcer of *one* opinion. And, according to Jim Bell, people will realize that the best way to behave is to adopt a low profile. Again, this is where I do not agree with JB, although I cannot say I disagree. I simply do not know. Maybe, since the basis for sustenance of human life is production, and since the majority has to be producers, the majority will endorse more libertarians ideas. But again, maybe Joe Average was so convinced that "the rich" owe him a free lunch that AP will lead to complete destruction of the system. I personnally tend to believe that Joe Average still has some common sense and integrity. JFA PLEASE NOTE: THIS POST DOES NOT MEAN THAT I ENDORSE MR. BELL'S SYSTEM. MY RATIONNAL CONCLUSIONS ABOUT IT'S INTERNAL MECHANICS AND IT'S INTRINSIC LOGICS DOES NOT MEAN THAT I LIKE NOR ENDORSE THE SYSTEM. I SIMPLY CONCLUDED THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PREVENT THE SYSTEM FROM BEING IMPLEMENTED. IMO, IT IS UNAVOIDABLE. DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee Limoges porcelain, Silverware and mouth blown crystal glasses JFA Technologies, R&D consultants. Physists, technologists and engineers. PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891

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