December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

CUD 5.84
by jim＠bilbo.suite.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The following was recently posted to sci.crypt. I would like to get a copy of the referenced issue of CUD and check out the "DES: Broken!" article. I looked in the EFF ftp site, but they only have CUD up to issue 5.76. Anybody know where I can get CUD 5.84? Thanks, Jim_Miller(a)suite.com ------------- From: pwilk(a)reed.edu (The Cannibal) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Computer underground Digest Sun Nov 7 1993 Volume 5 : Issue 84 Message-ID: <2bn1u8$gt0(a)scratchy.reed.edu> Date: 9 Nov 93 03:14:16 GMT Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 29 Thought you might like to know: Computer underground Digest Sun Nov 7 1993 Volume 5 : Issue 84 ISSN 1004-042X Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2(a)NIU.BITNET) Archivist: Brendan Kehoe Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala Ian Dickinson Copy Eatitor: Etaoin Shrdlu, III CONTENTS, #5.84 (Nov 7 1993) File 1--Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '94 Conference File 2--CFP '94 Scholarship Announcements File 3--Korea 94: Call for Papers File 4--CPSR NII Paper File 5--DES: Broken! <----------------------------- File 6--NAFTA mandates software patents (fwd) File 7--Phiber Optik Sentenced to One Year in Prison read it. check it out. -- The _O_ "Darkness may cover me: midnight may steal along my living veins; Cannibal | yea and the ultimate futility, the ghastly nothing on which all things play may break ice-thin crust and freeze my soul" pwilk(a)reed.edu -=public key available on finger=- - John Cowper Powys

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tel news
by abootch＠sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FYI ---- (sorry if this is re-hash) Today's SF CHRON reports: Pac's Baby Bell will spend 15 billion installing fiber optics throughout California. ATT will supply ATM switchers to convert the video signals... And PacTel Cellular will offer Bay Area cell users CDPD - faster and more efficient cell data transmittion - it transmits the data in packets during "the idle milliseconds of voice conversations carried on cell. phone systems". So its compressed and.... -- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.3a mQBNAizdNhgAAAECAKYlJfK4YQoaRYtiywdgR7OQmsS23oRFr3QYZf4mE1pQTvPg DGB7xVx2mfRjsqUdQsar4vdWyNZmXLMmHNdez9UABRG0K0FuZHkgSS4gTWF0aW5v ZyA8YWJvb3RjaEBzZnN1dmF4MS5zZnN1LmVkdT4= =KJFP -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: Should we oppose the
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com M >First, I wasn't talking about the local-loop competition. I was M >talking about cable. I don't doubt that in *some* monopoly situations, M >mere reduction or elimination of regulation can allow markets to spring M >up. I just don't think this is true with regard to telcos and cable. Hasn't it occurred to everyone that the local loop is cable and cable is the local loop. There's no difference. Any way of squishing gobs of zeros and ones down a channel to you is the Local Loop and the Trunk and the Cable and everything. M >Secondly, and as I mentioned, there are non-market tactics that a M >supplier can use to prevent competition from arising. For example, why M >should a local telco decide on its own to be interoperable with, say, M >the Electric Company? In this Age of Open Systems? Anyway if they won't connect each other, I will with my own switch just like International Discount Telecommunications and the other companies are smashing the ITU monopoly pricing of international phone calls. M >It's always a mistake to confuse technical feasibility for M >competition. What's to prevent the dominant one or two providers (TPC M >and Cellular, let's say) from closing out the others by refusing to be M >interoperable? M >--Mike Sweden approved 5 national cellular franchises by far the most of any country. Sweden has the most market penetration of cellular by any country. No coincidence. Duncan Frissell --- WinQwk 2.0b#1165

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MATH: new number
by strick -- henry strickland 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

And now for something completely relevant: Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written From: daveb(a)harlqn.co.uk (Dave Berry) Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge, UK Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 19:15:59 GMT > It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered > recently is four times bigger then the previous record. > -- John Blasik Mathematicians at Cambridge University announced today that they have discovered a new whole number between 27 and 28. "We don't know much about its properties", said a spokesman, "but it is causing lots of bother in equations. However, we do know that it's divisible by 6 - but only once". -- "On the hour", BBC Radio.

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Mounting a "Secure" filesystem in UNIX
by Sameer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Right now I'm running Linux with SLIP at home, and with telnetd disabled, I feel very secure keeping my PGP secret key on the system. The drawback inherent in this system, however, of course, is that I can't connect to my home system and collect mail/do work/etc. remotely. (That's why I have all mail going to uclink, from which point it goes both to my home machine and netcom.) I was wondering if it was possible to mount a "secure" filesystem/partition using Linux or some other free version of UNIX, so that it's inaccessible if logged in remotely, but accessibly when logged in locally. That way I can store my PGP secret key on the "secure" filesystem, and keep telnetd enabled. Any thoughts? Thanks, Sameer

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Cancel me.
by opus＠xstablu.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please cancel my subscription. Thanks.

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Brady Bill and Instant Check system
by jim＠bilbo.suite.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think I heard on CNN last night the the Brady Bill passed the House and is on its way to the Senate. I think part of the Brady Bill calls for the development within 5 years of a nationwide computer system for performing "instant" checks on people attempting to purchase handguns. Without getting into a discussion on the issues of gun ownership (I'm *very* in favour of it), how do you suppose this Instant Check system will work? How will they index into the database? SSN? Health Security ID number? Fingerprints? I know TRW has developed a pilot fingerprint identification system for the San Jose Police Department. It's called C.O.N.F.I.R.M. (COunty-wide Networked Fingerprint Identification Remote Match. I'm not suggesting that CONFIRM was designed for the Instant Check system, just that the technology to create a nationwide fingerprints database exists, if the Gov'mnt were to decide that was a good thing. What can be done to insure that this Instant Check database idea doesn't get out of hand? (If it's not already too late.) Can personal cryptography prevent the accumulation of information on people who are arrested (regardless of whether or not they are convicted)? I doubt it. Only the elimination of the function of a police force would achieve that! A related, and more philosophical question is: Is there any room in Cypher-topia for databases containing information that can be used to identify convicted "rights-violators"? Jim_Miller(a)suite.com P.S. let me know if none of this is appropriate for the Cypherpunks list. I'm still new to this list.

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Re: (fwd) Netcom adds access in Denver area
by geoffw＠nexsys.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I'd be more thrilled if they were doing what demon do and putting > people's own sites on the net under SLIP for a flat rate (with demon > it's 10 pounds per month - call it 15 bucks) and just ordinary phone- > call costs on top. [If netcom now does this, apologies - it's been > some time since I looked into the US slip culture] Well InterNex is hooking people up via ISDN using PPP. This is a full 56 kbps link with domain name registration, and nntp feed for $150/month (plus your ISDN bill which will run $28/month + $.01 per minute) I have this installed in my house (nexsys.net) and it's great, there's never any need to leave my Sun at home, except for meetings and such, if your interested you can ftp their stuff from ftp.internex.net.

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Fractal cryptography?
by an41418＠anon.penet.fi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Instant check system
by kone＠COURIER1.SHA.CORNELL.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Miller asked about the "Brady Bill" instant check system. In the House version no deadline is set for the nation wide system. As for fingerprints, it is one of the ways the bill authorizes to check back grounds. My over payed earrend boy, Congressman Hinchy, got a copy of the bill for me and two of my Cornell pre-law friends looked it over. We still don't know what they want in the end. (not counting the total ban.) The bill did refer to an "individual number" a lot. It is not clear if the "individual number" is your SS number or the serial number of the weapon. I personly like the idea of instant check, if my privacy can be preserved. The last thing I want is either a convicted "rights-violator" with a weapon or someone keeping track on what I buy or don't buy. I have been trying to keep my life out of as many records as possable, and am a bit worried by the vage instant check program. (is visiting a srink for depresion a sign of mental instablity?) Ther should be a way for individuals to check on their own record, as often as they want, yet not alowing for others to check. i.e. the sellor types in your number (public key) and the confuser says OK or NOT OK. You type in your private key and see your arest record and such. One final item, I do agree that weapon ownership is not the issue we should talk to, but how can we protect our privacy yet keep "rights-violators" from open access to weapons. William Kone "I have trained over a thousand young men to eat, sleep, and shoot with their weapon. But, I still get worried the first time I give them the rifels."

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