December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Desubscribe
by MrAdvent＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I would like you to desubscribe me from you mailing list

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Re: In reference to comments made to me and to the Group
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sir, Please get a spell checker before you post any more thousand word flame-outs On Or About: 29 Aug 96, 0:05, William H. Geiger III wrote, jumping into a flame war before he learned how to spell polititions orginised, > campaines Prodistant Prodistant Palisinians > Unauthorised mistamener <sp?>. mabye, mabye possiable > obsecurity conserned . Ofcource experiance comprehention big bost These are just a few of the spelling errors in a huge rant!!!!! =========== Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906

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DoJ is poking around
by skeeve＠skeeve.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Im running a mirror of the DoJ site on http://www.skeeve.net/doj/ It has had some 14000 hits or so since I put it up.. so I installed a stats package to see where they were coming from... low and behold! US Government wdcsun1.usdoj.gov 09:07:07 /doj/ wdcsun1.usdoj.gov unknown - [28/Aug/1996:09:07:07 +1000] "GET /doj/ HTTP/1.0" 20 0 8416 also US Military palisade.spacecom.af.mil 07:21:50 /doj/ 08:30:51 /doj/ looks like the DoJ have been looking around at the mirrors.. maybe to legally hassle people about them.... Well since Im not in the US.. good luck DoJ anyone else been probed by the Doj? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Skeeve Stevens Email: skeeve(a)skeeve.net CEO/The Big Boss/All round nice guy URL: http://www.skeeve.net/ MyInternet Australian Anglicans Online http://www.myinternet.net/ http://www.anglican.asn.au/ Phone: (+612) 869-3334 Mobile: (0414) SKEEVE [+61414-753-383] Key fingerprint = D2 7E 91 53 19 FE D0 5C DE 34 EA AF 7A 5C 4D 3E

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Re: There is no Agent Toby Tyler at the FBI [UK Observer Story]
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:17 PM 8/28/96 -0700, Richard Charles Graves wrote: >...two different sources, both of whom are anonymous because they work for >competing newspapers, tell me. > >Could someone else with contacts/time to kill/attributability please confirm >this? When I first saw the name, I remembered my misspent youth: Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960) USA 1960 Color Produced by: Walt Disney Productions Genre/keyword: Children's / Drama Language: English Runtime: 96 Also Known As: Toby Tyler (1960) Directed by Charles Barton Cast (in alphabetical order) Henry Calvin Kevin Corcoran .... Toby Tyler James Drury Gene Sheldon Bob Sweeney Written by Lillie Hayward James Otis Kaler (novel) Bill Walsh DCF

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Re: In reference to comments made to me and to the Group
by Remo Pini 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com, whgiii(a)amaranth.com Date: Thu Aug 29 11:53:46 1996 I kind of like this valid discussion going on. PERIOD. But I believe that although there's something (maybe, maybe not) politicians (be they Protestant, Palestinians or from Dresden) might find a misdemeanor, one shouldn't boast with possible unwarranted encryption. No, seriously, your arguments tend to be belittled by your spelling. (Maybe you should get Pronto Secure, it has a spellchecker included) BTW, I don't get paid by Commtouch for writing that (SNIF!). A quick overview: beleive, politions, disscusion, orginised, sponcered, orginization, wekness, vailid, Dresdin, durring, expantion, Prodistant, Palisinians, unwarrented, PEROID, somthing, mistamener, mabye, mabye not, possiable, encyrption, disscussing, bost I hate teachers and people who show of with their spelling (and I'm a split personality). Yeah, me too. - ------< fate favors the prepared mind >------ Remo Pini rp(a)rpini.com PGP: http://www.rpini.com/crypto/crypto.html - ----< words are what reality is made of >---- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMiVoqxFhy5sz+bTpAQFYUgf/eu+dQvQALz7Of3DCWLoBWVICY2fmnDJB tQcHTNbuPXybjACVq8+LxdKT2wjXzuU401/rv4dW5+LgrMRlKMIhjx8xAIKSKBOg VBb2ruV9SG2/+sY0iYzJY1Dz4opf5c9aCLgN5ptM2LeWyWOtK71VtV8ASDaoGBP7 HIs9jVJ3sbyQaf8CPfR+pEQSjGLHCm8QshazSjPvuUdIRxB5f9Etpy+45vK4FVPP EXWYaN3jTBOPC24Qe8qGs+Dn/9C5ZR9y0Y2edv/XzWDZrdg951lSdQKxca4wtCbD nyKQ/R86wvfy65uwrBDzUSFupuA1M8TcF63ncybQ/316cHl8x/z0rA== =musf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Simulations
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:05 PM 8/28/96 -0800, jim bell wrote: >To me, the most obvious one is GIGO: Simulations, especially >political/social ones, might depend heavily on assumptions that are >programmed into them. A trivial, yet interesting example is the computer >game "Sim City" which allowed you to adjust the "tax rate" but problems >always cropped up the further away you were from 7%. The libertarians were >frustrated that we were unable to drop the tax rate and still get a >well-functioning, happy society. I was taking economics back in the Armonk Iron days and we played around with an economic simulation program written in Fortran. One was supposed to adjust government spending and taxes to find an optimum level. I set both taxes and spending to zero. We got a lot of economic growth and a lot of inflation (this was not a monetarist simulation). But we were happier. DCF

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Real or Not ?
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I snagged this off a news group this AM.. comments?? A lot of people think that PGP encryption is unbreakable and that the NSA/FBI/CIA/MJ12 cannot read their mail. This is wrong, and it can be a deadly mistake. In Idaho, a left-wing activist by the name of Craig Steingold was arrested _one day_ before he and others where to stage a protest at government buildings; the police had a copy of a message sent by Steingold to another activist, a message which had been encrypted with PGP and sent through E-mail. Since version 2.1, PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy") has been rigged to allow the NSA to easily break encoded messages. Early in 1992, the author, Paul Zimmerman, was arrested by Government agents. He was told that he would be set up for trafficking narcotics unless he complied. The Government agency's demands were simple: He was to put a virtually undetectable trapdoor, designed by the NSA, into all future releases of PGP, and to tell no-one. After reading this, you may think of using an earlier version of PGP. However, any version found on an FTP site or bulletin board has been doctored. Only use copies acquired before 1992, and do NOT use a recent compiler to compile them. Virtually ALL popular compilers have been modified to insert the trapdoor (consisting of a few trivial changes) into any version of PGP prior to 2.1. Members of the boards of Novell, Microsoft, Borland, AT&T and other companies were persuaded into giving the order for the modification (each ot these companies' boards contains at least one Trilateral Commission member or Bilderberg Committee attendant). It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it. The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation", in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above 2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler is older than from 1992.

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Mimic Function Stego Programs?
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anybody have a stego program along the lines of Peter Wayner's Mimic Functions? I'm looking for something that you can hand a grammar and a set of bits that will produce sentences in the grammar, plus a decoder that can take the sentences and reconstruct the bits. I have a friend who lives in a kleptocratic country where the local bureaucrats have made it clear they'll confiscate the main email node in his town if they catch traffic they recognize as encrypted, and text in some non-popular language may be less obvious than, say, Mandelbrot sets with stego-bits or other artwork. ----- PHB would work ok... http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert960821-9577.gif ----- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Reassign Authority!

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Re: Hayek (was: Cato Institute conference on Net-regulation)
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:26 AM 8/28/96, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: >Senile tcmay(a)got.net (Timothy C. May) rants: >> Indeed, Hayek has had a _lot_ to do with the Cypherpunks! From "The Road to >> Serfdom" to "Law, Legislation, and Liberty," his works have exerted a >> profound influence on me, and on many others. > >But he's fucking unreadable. I plan to teach economic this semester and >make every student read Hazlitt (economics in 1 lesson). I can't force them >to read hayek (or Rothbard) because they're fucking unreadable. Shit. Well, to one who inserts "(spit)" after nearly every name he cites, and critiques Hayek as "fucking unreadable. Shit.," I suppose Hayek must indeed seem unreadable. Shit. After all, Hayek rarely writes things like: "The senile Von Mises (spit) and his Sovok Cabal plotters...." As to "forcing" your students to read Hayek, just who is in charge? If you're the instructor, they can choose to read what you tell them to read, or be unprepared on the exams you give and possibly flunk the class. What part of "Required Reading" do you or your students not understand? --Tim (spit) May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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MSIE cryptography
by John Hemming - CEO MarketNet 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just downloaded the most recent English Version 2.1 for Windows 3.1. This does appear to do the same in terms of no encryption at all after the server hello. To be fair to Microsoft the number of cycles performed for the private key echange is quite high. Therefore, not having any key and not doing the RSA calculations makes the access quite a bit faster. The older versions (and some Win95 versions) that we have found around seem to just crash our server. I am not really feeling like debugging that.

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