December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: The Upcoming DES Challenge
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Orbital mind control lasers made mpd(a)netcom.com (Mike Duvos) write: >Peter Trei (trei(a)process.com) writes: >>1. I'm astonished at the low level of reaction RSA's announcement that they >>will be sponsoring a DES Challenge, with a $10,000 cash prize. >I'm certainly jumping up and down and cheering. I said a while back that the >life expectancy of DES would be about two weeks if anyone forked over serious >cash. I'm still a bit nervous about what the reaction will be though - won't the US government (and anyone else pushing DES) be able to say "It took 10,000 Pentiums several weeks, noone would bother doing that, so it's safe" (with a possible side order of "Safer-SK64 is 256 times as secure, anyone we really like can use that provided they hand over the keys in advance"). Peter.

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Re: IWD_ism
by Thaddeus J. Beier 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Young wrote: > > 1-6-96. > > "Information-Warfare Defense Is Urged" > > The Defense Science Board said the Pentagon should > launch counterattacks against computer hackers by > injecting the attackers' computers with "a polymorphic > virus that wipes out the system, takes it down for weeks." > This is completely unbelievable, who are these people? I believe that the polymorphic virus is originally from the classic "Shockwave Rider" and was seen as an impossible fiction even in that book of improbable fiction. -- Thaddeus Beier thad(a)hammerhead.com Visual Effects Supervisor 408) 287-6770 Hammerhead Productions http://www.got.net/people/thad

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[CRYPTO] Quadratic residues
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy May's family tree goes straight up. All of his ancestors were siblings, to dumb to recognize each other in the dark. /\ o-/\ Timothy May ///\|/\\\ / /|\ \

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Modified Token Posting Scheme
by ed.falk＠Eng.Sun.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > > How about this simple policy scheme: > > > > > > 1) posts from known list members forwarded to list automatically > > > 2) posts with "approval cookie" also forwarded automatically > > > 3) otherwise, forwarded only after approval by moderator, > > > > I.e., libel from Timmy May, Ray Arachelian, and the rest of the gang > > is approved automatically, and when a victim tries to defend himself > > and to point out that Timmy May is a liar, the response is delayed > > and probably rejected by the moderator. > > > > It's been said that the best response to speech one doesn't like > > is more speech. "Cypher punks" want to take away the victim's > > ability to respond to the lies being posted on their mailing list. > > You are far from being the victim of anything. If anything you're a big > huge thug who spams the list, posts racist flames, posts homophobic > flames, uses social engineering to find out info on his "enemies" and > then posts that info online with requests that others send flames to that > person's employers. Besides, in my scheme, the first two options are explicitly there to avoid moderation. Just post under your real name or generate an authentication cookie.

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Re: FW: Modified Token Posting Scheme
by ed.falk＠Eng.Sun.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >> How about this simple policy scheme: > >> > >> 1) posts from known list members forwarded to list automatically > >> 2) posts with "approval cookie" also forwarded automatically > >> 3) otherwise, forwarded only after approval by moderator, > > > So does this mean that any personal attacks or useless and annoying > drivel from the likes of Timmy May, Ray Arachelian and Sandy Sandford > would be automatically forwarded to the mailing list even though they > are frequently more annoying than the spam posted by the people who > would be censored by Gilmore ? No, just the opposite. My scheme allows people to route around moderation by authenticating their posts. The goal here is to keep *random* stuff, such as spam, off the list.

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NEW
by express＠capella.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

THE FOX FIRES HAVE STARTED BURNING! http://www.mlmers-ad-net.com/FoxTeam/Fox FREE WEB PAGE AND CHECKS SENT OUT DAILY! Let it begin, John

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by rgwjr 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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FTC Online Privacy Report
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Federal Trade Commission released yesterday: "Consumer Privacy on the Global Information Infrastructure" http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/privacy/privacy1.htm Reuters 1-6-97: The Federal Trade Commission, which last year held a conference on privacy issues, said participants at the gathering agreed that businesses have four ways to protect consumer privacy: -- Notify consumers about how personal information collected online is used. -- Give consumers a choice about whether and how their personal information is used. -- Ensure the security of personal information is protected. -- Give consumers access to their own personal information to ensure its accuracy.

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An observation on the moderation thread.
by roy＠sendai.scytale.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Of passing interest: I'm seeing the majority of complaints about list moderation only as they are quoted in others' replies, because the origional complainents are already in my killfile. Carry on, Sandy and John. - -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy(a)scytale.com DNRC Minister Plenipotentiary of All Things Confusing, Software Division PGP Public Key fingerprint = 31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54 13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6 Key available from pubkey(a)scytale.com, which works now -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMtD6Phvikii9febJAQEYywP9GrCx0/UQJNns2kdwvyK2UcdGrETObWDG JeFc8ob+pEvX3mm89astZ2c6AF8tb77pGYofbGJu3qyLtsOFnQ+BJPBusZNta5wv 4NJ4I79rp5uioxyg/8mQbvoaMffYuuvAWVTzmI53eHXRl605Za8fkRlejXah2HSH iefACIE5pIw= =oeKw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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