December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: inman vs. crypto
by sommerfeld＠orchard.medford.ma.us 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

' "My Answer", he said "would be legislation which would make it a criminal offense to use encrypted communications to conceal criminal activity. This isn't so bad all by itself, but... ..you could have a registry of institutios which can legally use cryphers. If you get somebody using one who isn't registered, then you go after him." ' ... this is absolutely unacceptable! BTW, I just called Sen. Kennedy's office. Kennedy is on the Armed Services committee, and according to the secretary is in favor of the nomination, but I asked a staffer to ask Kennedy to ask Inman about how he reconciles the First Amendment with statements he's made like these. - Bill

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Inman
by dmandl＠lehman.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I seem to recall a major article on Inman in Covert Action Information Bulletin back in, oh, 1982 or so. It might have even spanned a couple of issues of the magazine. It was chock full of dirt (the kind only CIAB could dig up), but unfortunately I can't remember many of the details. Would anyone on the list happen to have a copy? --Dave.

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VIACrypt PGP ?
by James Still 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I would appreciate some commentary as to whether the VIACRYPT PGP MSDOS >package is licensed for use by PKP (Public Key Partners). >It is my belief that it is. Could anyone who has purchased ViaCrypt PGP answer my question? What is the executable filename? Is it still PGP.EXE or did they throw their own little proprietary in there with a VIAPGP.EXE or some such? I appreciate your response! (I'm about to put out another version of a shell program and thought about extending support to ViaCrypt's if it is a different exec...) --- still(a)kailua.colorado.edu -----------------------------------------

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Re: Bobby Inman
by koontzd＠lrcs.loral.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: tcmay(a)netcom.com (Timothy C. May) >He was head of MCC in Austin for several years and then his own >company, a kind of high-tech holding company (Westmark was the name, I >think). > >I recall seeing a company selling crypto products, "Ultron," in 1988 >or so, and noting the mention that it was a division of Inman's >company, Westmark. Ultron is around the San Jose area, a manufacturerer of a Type I CCEP chip, comprised of a classified piece of silicon contained in a 68 pin PGA package along with a 8741 family single chip computer. Ultron also appears to be the originator of the crypto ignition key (speculation). I recall seeing adds for the chip in Electronics, circa 1985-6.

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Public Hearings on Privacy
by Dave Banisar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Public Hearings on Privacy NEWS US OFFICE OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: George Idelson (USOCA) December 10, 1993 (202)634-4344 Patricia Faley (USOCA) (202)634-4329 PUBLIC HEARINGS ON INFORMATION AGE PRIVACY SET FOR CALIFORNIA AND WASHINGTON, DC. Sacramento: January 10-11, 1994; Washington, DC: January 26-27, 1994. Public Invited to Participate. Representatives from the public, private and non profit sectors will present their views on personal privacy and data protection in the information age at public hearings of a U.S. Government task force in early 1994. The hearings will be open meetings of the Privacy Working Group, chaired by Patricia Faley, Acting Director of the United States Office of Consumer Affairs (USOCA). The Working Group is part of a task force set up by the Clinton Administration to consider how to spur development of an "information superhighway." officially known as the National Information Infrastructure (NII), the "data highway" will be capable of exchanging data, voice and images electronically within a vast network of individuals, businesses, government agencies and other organizations around the world. Ensuring ready access to information is the goal of the Administrative initiative, but protecting individual privacy is essential to its success. The public meetings will examine privacy issues relating to such areas as law enforcement, financial services, information technology, and di:rect marketing. The California mooting, January 10th and llth, will be hosted by Jim Conran, Director, California Department of Consumer Affairs in the First Floor Hearing Room at 400 R Street in Sacramento. The Washington, DC meeting, January 26th and 27th, will be held at the U.S. Department of Commerce Auditorium, 14th & Constitution Ave. NW. Registration begins at 8:30am, meetings at 9am. The public is invited to attend, question speakers and to make brief comments, but space is limited. Concise written statements for the record should be sent to "Privacy," USOCA, 1620 L Street NW, Washington DC 20036 or faxed to (202)634-4135. # # # United States Office of Comumer Affairs - 1620 L Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036-5605

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Looking for users of VIACrypt PGP for comments
by Syl Miniter 803-768-3759 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have purchased the VIACRYPT MSDOS package and would value some "DON"T DO THIS"/"DO DO THIS " as i am completely unfamiliar with using V_PGP and would benefit from the mistakes and learning curves of others. I would also find it valuable to have some people to contact outside the c-punks list with the trivial "what"s zis" kind of questions Thanks fo rthe responses. SYL

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No Subject
by nobody＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 10:27:58 -0500 From: sommerfeld(a)orchard.medford.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld) BTW, I just called Sen. Kennedy's office. Kennedy is on the Armed Services committee, and according to the secretary is in favor of the nomination, but I asked a staffer to ask Kennedy to ask Inman about how he reconciles the First Amendment with statements he's made like these. I just called Sen. Kennedy's office as well. If you're a Massachusetts resident, consider giving them a ring and talking to a staffer. If enough people do this, Sen. Kennedy might actually ask Inman a couple of questions on the topic. (Which, I suspect, is the best we can hope for; but it is *something*.)

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Re: Bobby Inman
by karn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Inman's first job after retiring from his spook's life in the Navy was to start MCC in Austin, TX. I saw him speak in 1984 at Bell Labs Murray Hill shortly after the AT&T divestiture, before Bellcore got its own facilities. He was there to sign up Bellcore for MCC membership, although we didn't know it yet. He gave an almost content-free talk about "regaining America's technological leadership" or something like that. When he finished, I got up and asked him how he could reconcile his stated need to lead the world in high technology with a DoD-dominated export control system specifically geared to keeping us from selling those very technologies in which we lead the world. He waffled like a classic politician. I was still trying to decipher his answer long after he finished. After MCC, I think he went to Westmark, a defense contractor. He also showed up on at least one Baby Bell board of directors (SW Bell?). As a shareholder, I made it a point to specifically withhold my vote for him when the proxies got mailed out. (To be sure, big corporation proxies are about as meaningful as ballots in a Communist election, but what the hell -- unlike the Publishers' Clearinghouse sweepstakes, at least they pay postage. Eventually I started voting against ALL of the directors on all of the Bell proxies, just for the hell of it.) After what Inman tried to do to civilian crypto in the late 1970s, the word "slime" keeps coming to mind. But then again, there are plenty of Inmans in the military-industrial complex. Phil

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DES chips.
by loki＠nately.UCSD.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am looking for suppliers of DES chips. I wanted to use an IDEA chip in the phone I am designing, but the only one made is 177Mbps and costs about 200SFR. So one possibility is IDEA in software, and the other is DES (or tripple DES) in hardware. So, if you know name, address, phone, or email for companies that produce or sell DES chips, please let me know. ---------------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell who does not speak for CASS/UCSD Obscura Security Products loki(a)nately.ucsd.edu PGP 2.3 key available by finger or server. "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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QUOTE from Gerald M. Weinberg
by fnerd＠smds.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Having said all that, I do not shrink from personal responsibility for what I have done in writing this book. We stand at the brink of a new age, an age made possible by the revolution that is embodied in the computer. Standing on the brink, we could totter either way--to a golden age of liberty or a dark age of tyranny, either of which would surpass anything the world has ever known. Perhaps no individual's efforts will make any difference in the result, but we must never cease trying, for then the result is sure to be tyranny. This book is my effort against the tyranny, the enslavement of men by other men and by their own ignorance. Would that it not be adopted by the forces of tyranny themselves, as no doubt it will be. Lacking that hope, I can only hope that its use to the other forces will, in the balance, be greater." --Gerald M. Weinberg, _The Psychology of Computer Programming_, 1971 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a aKxB8nktcBAeQHabQP/d7yhWgpGZBIoIqII8cY9nG55HYHgvtoxiQCVAgUBLMs3K ui6XaCZmKH68fOWYYySKAzPkXyfYKnOlzsIjp2toust1Q5A3/n54PBKrUDN9tHVz 3Ch466q9EKUuDulTU6OLsilzmRvQJn0EJhzd4pht6hanC0R3seYNhUYhoJViCcCG sRjLQs4iVVM= =9wqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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