December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Why yes, yes you do. Don't you recognize the black robe, the scythe, the bony hand, the less-than-cheerful disposition? See if you can figure it out. And please hold still for a moment. Let me just wind up here with this thing.... At 06:43 PM 9/14/98 +0100, harald.fragner(a)idg.se wrote: >Do I know you? > >Harald > >------------------ >Harald Fragner >IT-avdelningen, IDG >Tel: 08-453 60 10 >Fax: 08-453 60 05 >Email: harald.fragner(a)idg.se >

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023026.htm
by the scent of old bones and fresh blood 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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MITCHELL Mercury News Staff Writer TriStrata Security Inc. of Redwood Shores isn't your usual Internet start-up. Its chief executive recently gave up the reins of a $2 billion subsidiary to run it. The company's founder and chairman is the man who invented the personal identification number (PIN). America's largest accounting firm is already endorsing it. And its promise lured some of the best-connected executives onto its board. Three months ago, Paul Wahl was running German software maker SAP AG's U.S. operations, which has 5,000 employees and first-half 1998 sales of nearly $1 billion. Last week he became chief executive of TriStrata, a 35-person start-up that makes Internet security software. The reason for Wahl's sudden career change and move from Philadelphia is a tremendous opportunity . . .to make Internet history by changing the way the world keeps information secure on the Internet, says Wahl, 46. That same dream brought John Atalla out of retirement in 1993 to form TriStrata. Atalla, now 74, decades ago created the PIN system and the security used today in 80 percent of the world's automatic-teller machines. He was enjoying the beaches of the world when friends in the banking industry asked him to work on the problem of Internet security. Both men believe TriStrata's software -- which works efficiently with voice and video as well as with data -- will revolutionize electronic commerce, enabling companies to create virtual private networks and permitting, for example, the secure and inexpensive sale of software, music and videos over the Internet. Some outside observers agree. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, which is the largest of the Big Five accounting firms and has 2,200 employees devoted to Internet security, believes this could be the de facto standard for encryption technology, says Jim Coriston, a PWC managing partner. TriStrata software is being implemented throughout the firm, which is also offering the product to its clients. It's a whole different approach to cryptography, says Larry Dietz, director of information security and legal strategies for Current Analysis, a market research firm. Its key principles make a lot of sense. But some critics question whether TriStrata's product is as secure as the company claims. And the company faces tough competition from established security companies such as Network Associates Inc. of Santa Clara and Secure Computing Corp. of San Jose, as well as from computer vendors like IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co., which include security in their products. Atalla rejected the traditional approach for enterprise security using public key encryption, a system that uses two keys, both controlled by the user: a private key, which must be kept secret, and a public key, which can be freely distributed. Such systems can be broken, have performance limitations and have restrictions on the strength of the key that can be exported. Instead, he turned to the one-time pad approach invented in 1917 by Gilbert Vernam. It uses randomly generated numbers that are never replicated in the exact same sequence. The one-time pad is theoretically unbreakable, cryptographers agree. But it hasn't been useful because it requires so much computing and telecommunications power. Atalla decided that the great advances in computer memory and processing technology and today's powerful and relatively inexpensive communications capability made the Vernam cipher practical, and he built his security system around it. As a result, each encrypted document has a different code. The system is so fast, so inexpensive and provides such a good audit trail that it will lead companies to make encrypted transmissions the rule instead of the exception, Atalla and Wahl say. The federal government, including the National Security Agency and the FBI, has cleared it for export because the system allows access to specific documents for which an appropriate court order has been issued. The company expects the product to be received warmly overseas, since the U.S. government cannot decode information at will. But it's unclear whether this feature will diminish foreign concerns about U.S. security products. Skeptics wonder whether the company has created a sufficiently large string of random numbers to approximate randomness, Dietz says. And TriStrata's approach is so different it won't be an easy sell. It requires companies to transform their security systems, a decision likely to be made by the chief executive and chief information officers, Dietz says, not the people who normally purchase security software. Here the many contacts of Atalla, Wahl and TriStrata's directors should prove useful. Atalla is well known in the high-tech community. At Bell Laboratories his research resulted in his patents for the metal oxide semiconductor (MOS), a key component of modern electronic devices. Then he co-founded Hewlett-Packard Associates and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and directed the company's solid-state division. He founded Atalla Corp. in 1973 and sold it to Tandem Computers Inc. in 1987. Atalla was able to attract to TriStrata a star-studded board that includes John Young, former chief executive of HP; Tom Perkins, partner in the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; and William Zuendt, retired president of Wells Fargo & Co. and former chairman of MasterCard. The company released its first product last November. As it prepared to move from R&D to large-scale sales, it added as a director David Beirne, a general partner of venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. Beirne, who had made his mark as one of the most successful executive recruiters before joining Benchmark last year, approached Wahl about the CEO job two months ago. Wahl, quite content at SAP, was negotiating a move back to Europe with the company when Beirne called and persuaded him to fly here to take a look at TriStrata. After a second quick visit, Wahl and his wife decided to come west. TriStrata is unlikely to become a huge employer; Wahl expects the workforce to perhaps double to 70 in the next year or two and reach 200 over five years. But it's impact on the Internet could be quite dramatic. And Wahl found that attraction irresistible. _________________________________________________________________ Write James J. Mitchell at the Mercury News, 750 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, Calif. 95190; phone (408) 920-5544; fax (408) 920-5917; or e-mail to [48]JMitchell(a)sjmercury.com . 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[NYT] FCC Extends CALEA Deadline
by bill.stewart＠pobox.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From the New Yawk Times, probably Friday or Saturday: WIRETAP DELAYED [New York Times, C14.] In a setback for the F.B.I., the Federal Communications Commission has given the telecommunications industry an additional 20 months to comply with a Federal law meant to bring law-enforcement surveillance into the digital age. But in extending the deadline the commission deferred action on some of the most disputed facets of the issue, which has pitted law-enforcement officials against telephone-equipment manufacturers, network-service providers and privacy-rights advocates. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was intended to address complaints by the F.B.I. and local law-enforcement agencies that were rapidly losing their ability to conduct wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance in the face of modern digital and wireless communications networks. But industry groups had long warned that they would be unable to meet the approaching deadline for complying with the law by installing the software and hardware that would allow for court-authorized surveillance on modern networks. The F.C.C. extended the deadline to June 30, 2000. "This ruling is really a prelude to the privacy fight," said James X. Dempsey, a telecommunications expert. "For now the commission has given itself and the industry some breathing room. They've said, 'Don't rush into these additional surveillance areas.'" The decision came in response to a request for a deadline extension that was filed in March in a joint petition by AT&T Wireless Services, Lucent Technologies and Ericsson.

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Re: IP: Impeachment Petition -- NOT!
by Albert P. Franco, II 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:54:36 -0400 >From: Ray Arachelian <sunder(a)brainlink.com> >Organization: SunderNET >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; I) >To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri(a)netcom.com> >CC: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Subject: Re: IP: Impeachment Petition -- NOT! >Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Reply-To: Ray Arachelian <sunder(a)brainlink.com> >X-Loop: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > >So much for this being a working thing: > >Anyone else get a bounce? > >Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:20:14 -0400 >From: System Administrator <postmaster(a)mail.house.gov> >To: sunder(a)sundernet.com >Subject: Undeliverable: Impeach Clinton Now! > > I sent mine to Vic Fazio (D-CA) about six hours ago and no bounce yet. Maybe it's your rep's system that's down. :)

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 14, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

========================================== Welcome to today's edition of the CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM. Please click on the icon / attachment for the most important news in wireless communications today. Your company just formed a partnership in a country you never heard of. Are you worried about international roaming fraud? You should be. CTIA's Wireless Security '98 - It's Just Smart Business. Orlando, Florida · November 9 - 11, 1998 http://www.wow-com.com/professional Team WOW-COM wowcom(a)ctia.org ===========================================

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Dallas Gold & Silver Exchange Registration
by Nobody 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

this is your account information for the dallas gold and silver exchange please save this message and put it in a safe place. user name: cypherpunks password: 5t9vd7 expires: Wed Oct 14 14:58:25 1998 Thank you for requesting your 30 day free trial online metals spot trading from Dallas Gold and Silver. You may use your account as often as you wish for 30 days. You may want to activate your account by calling 1-800-527-5307 and registering for only per month. Your username is: cypherpunksYour temporary account password is: 5t9vd7 If you have any problems entering your password be sure to look for alpha-numerical similarities ie: the letter O and the number 0, the letter l and the number 1 etc.... Please try these combinations before contacting us for technical support. Thank You.

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Re: Predictions: Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Tim "I have a LOT of gold in my house" May > > America will get what it deserves. > > The inner cities will burn. 10 million ethnics will wipe themselves out. > Miami, Chicago, Washington, LA, New York, Atlanta, New Orleans, and a dozen > other cities will be like Berlin after the war. > > See "A Clockwork Orange" for details. Today's Ebonics kids will be > tomorrow's Droogs. > > Burn the prisons with the inmates locked inside. > Then simply execute those who commit the most serious crimes. > > Militias and freedom fighters will have to start hitting U.S. military > installations. Many will die. Eventually the military will abandon the > Washington elite and will join the freedom fighters. > > Ten million politicians and welfare thieves will be put up against the wall. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Who woulda thunk Toto was the sane one on the cypherpunks list? ---guy Assuming Toto had his Soma supply.

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ACM Account Verification Code
by webmaster＠acm.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Dear Joe Cypherpunks: Thank you for establishing an ACM account. To complete the process, you must return to Step 3 and verify your account. You will find your account verification code listed at the end of this message. The code is case sensitive, and does not contain any digits. Select the "Continue to Step 3" button from the "Create an Account" page at <http://www.acm.org/account/create.html>. Do not repeat Steps 1 and 2. (See note below.) Enter your username, password and verification code into the appropriate fields and activate the "Verify Account" button. Username: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Verification Code: AFGKE If you have any questions or comments please contact webmaster(a)acm.org. Sincerely, The ACM Webmaster Note: if you repeat steps 1 and 2, your old account is deleted and the verification code associated with it will not be valid. A new code is created and sent. You must use the new code to verify your account. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Just a reminder: if you have not subscribed to the Digital Library, you can still browse the Library and access bibliographic information. Your account username and password will act as your authentication. Visit the Digital Library at <http://www.acm.org/dl/>. Read about subscribing to the Library at <http://www.acm.org/dl/slide8.html> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= // This message was generated by ENS. The public key // // is available at http://www.acm.org/sys/ens.html // -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBNf2Hp840plPFvmzxAQHfOwL/Srm7AQXIiNoP10jllyU4rDxYslYvPwqm 7xRvRfNadT2fkW0DNfCJhdr2Gd40cSpUqKBAvn8uPIsKeuT6G2NX65tHe5crNpDx XSDva/VV9OZWSgnEHuUulabmjdv/Bhux =P/RE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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emission test, Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms, & settlement
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Monday 9/14/98 2:33 PM Don When I drove back from Pullman in about 9/96 I realized the valve seals were leaking in my VW Rabbit. Blue smoke coming out the exhaust pipe. Passing the low speed carbon monoxide test is the hardest. On 09/06/96 the emission test showed Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 2.88 FAIL You showed me your tool to change seals. But I needed to work on other projects. After spending about $400 to get the seals replaced, I got another test on 09/10/96 Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 1.31 FAIL In DESPERATION I used Berrymans B-12, changed oil, etc and REMOVED THE AIR FILTER for the test on 09/11/96 Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 1.19 PASS Talk about squeaking by! If your vehicle continues to FAIL emissions test, your life will be made extremely disrupted by the VEHICLE POLLUTION MANAGEMENT DIVISION. The Rabbit had its 1998 emission test due in September 1998. I was totally prepared for failure. I ordered about $500 in parts from JC Whitney in preparation for a DISRUPTIVE engine rebuild. And, of course, I ordered for the fun of it the NAFTA [Mexico] exhaust headers. I could not wait to see the effect of exhaust headers on performance, so I installed them immediately. WOW! I estimate about a 20-30% performance improvement. Rpms up the ying-yang. Patty kept putting the 1998 emissions notice on my dinner plate. On Saturday I took a FAST ride to Oro Guay peak and hiked. I took a FAST return trip. I drove into EXPRESS EMISSION operated by Dung Nguyen. I wanted to see how badly my grey rabbit, R2, would fail. R2 is how the grey rabbit is denoted in my repair log. I couldnt stand to personally watch R2 fail, so I went outside while it was tested. On my return the two operators were smiling both and had their thumbs pointed up! R2 PASSED!!!! Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 00.13 PASS !Viva NAFTA exhaust headers! ANOTHER disruption out of the way so that I can concentrate on completing the digital FX! My HUGE FEAR what that I would have to spend time getting R2 into shape to POSSIBLY PASS the emissions test. TRYING to get a car which failed the emissions test is a nightmare! Sandia colleague Ron Pate had to have a rebuilt engine installed in his bronco so that it would pass. Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms, by William H. Payne advertised at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ / and presented at http://zolatimes.com will hopefully AID in getting my other distraction settled. Then, too, of course, are the JUSTIFIABLY upset MUSLIMS who are reading my zolatimes article. Sandia president C. Paul Robinson observed at http://www.jya.com/its-us.htm wrote A quick walk around the globe: other emerging threat nations ... What is perhaps most frightening is the apparent increase in the flow of technology, hardware, and a "barter system" in dangerous materials. We must understand "What are their motives?" Simple, in one case. Settlement. WE WANT OUR MONEY! This is on Internet at http://www.jya.com/crypto.htm DoE: Pay Bill Payne Thought about you guys at the fun Metriguard Monday corporate lunch. The Acer scsi Scan Prisa I ordered just arrived by UPS. Now I can scan in my schematics. And bash the Great Satan EVEN HARDER. But let's all hope for settlement before matters get WORSE. Later bill

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Is nym.alas.net down?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is nym.alias.net down? I've sent a request twice using a different remailer chain each time yet it still doesn't reply. It's been about two days since I sent it in. I did however create a nym with dongco.hyperreal.art.pl. Is this service reliable? or will it disppear quickly?

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