December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

1984 Shirt Ordering Info
by jdblair＠nextsrv.cas.muohio.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

1984 NSA T-shirt ordering information: The shirt will be printed in white ink on a dark colored shirt. The shirts are 100% Cotton. Available sizes are L, XL, and XXL, and available colors are black, navy, dark green, and maroon. The price is $15, which includes postage and handling. Make your check or money order out to "John Blair" and send it to: 1984 T-Shirt John Blair 210 Mary Lyon Oxford, OH 45056 Be sure to include the requested size and color, as well as an e-mail address for confirmation of the order, and a snail-mail address to send the shirt to. Students: be sure you include an address you will be at after May 14. I must recieve your order by Wed., April 27. It is possible that there will be extra shirts avaiable to people after this date, or a second printing run for late orders, but I can only guarentee shirts to orders recieved by this day. Assuming all goes well, I will have the shirts in the mail by Sat., May 14. Thanks to all who have offered suggestions while I was refining the design, and for all the un-expected interest. A reminder: The shirt is available for viewing at http://phoenix.aps.muohio.edu/users/jdblair/t-shirt.html This is accesable by Mosaic or Lynx. Lynx will download gifs of the design to your own disk. It will be available soon via anonymous ftp. I will post the address when that is confirmed. Thanks again, -john. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Blair: <jdblair(a)nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu> voice: (513) 529-4877 PGP public key available upon request. KILL YOUR Privacy in the information age is a right, not a privilage. TELEVISION Information = Power = Control. Fight the centralization of information.

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Today cryptography, tomorrow ??
by nobody＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

AP 4/8/94: A federal grand jury indicted an MIT student Thursday on charges he ran a computer bulletin board that allowed people to copy more than $1 million worth of copyrighted software for free. [...] The bulletin board, named Cynosure, allowed people on MIT's computer network to copy business and entertainment software, the indictment said. [...] Internet users also were able to illegally copy the software, Stern said.[..] Many of the Cynosure users hid their identities by using an Internet address in Finland that provided an anonymous forwarding service for the pirated programs, according to the indictment. .... Like to include more but ..uh.. "fair use" and all that .... Wonder how come he didn't encrypt?

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password matrix thing for Windows:
by Stanton McCandlish 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was uploaded to us. I'm wondering 2 things: 1) is it worth archiving - that is, is it a good idea, or a security risk for anyone that used it, and 2) would it qualify as an ITAR export-controlled crypto product. I have my own ideas about this, but am interested in 2nd opinions. Here's the readme for it (the package is psswrd30.zip) Password Matrix 3.0 Written by Thomas Hassler This Windows utility was written for my personal use and I then decided that it might be marketable. The basic concept of this program is fairly simple: It was created to be used in conjunction with an encryption utility like that of Norton Utilities and other shareware versions around. This program allows people in a group to pass encrypted files around with the password embedded in the filename. Let me explain. This utility uses a matrix (you get to make your own) to encode a filename from a password. This would be incredibly complex if one used any old characters... so I used only numbers in my matrix. this simplifies things and still allows a HUGE number of possible matrices. Version 3.0 will generate a random password and its corresponding filename, decode a filename, or encode a filename to or from a password. Once you see it in action you will see exactly what I mean. In the fully registered version ($10) there is a functioning filefinder (directory tree) that you can double-click on a filename and it decodes the password instantly. If you use this program consistently, please register and you will have full benefits. Future versions (registered users get prior notice) may contain: Random matrix generation Drag and drop (file to program and decrypts) Multiple user defined matrices Thank you for supportin Hossware! _________ end _________

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1984 Shirt--Entrepreneurs Wanted!
by tcmay＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Blair wrote: > 1984 NSA T-shirt ordering information: > > The shirt will be printed in white ink on a dark colored shirt. The > shirts are 100% Cotton. Available sizes are L, XL, and XXL, and available > colors are black, navy, dark green, and maroon. > > The price is $15, which includes postage and handling. Make your check or > money order out to "John Blair" and send it to: Speaking of such things, what I'd love to see is some entrepreneur out there buying and selling "Cypherpunks 1994 World Tour" t-shirts, decals, coffee mugs, secret decoder rings, etc. I neglected to order one of the "Big Brother Inside" t-shirts, or one of the "Cypherpunk Criminal" shirts, so now all I've got is my EFF t-shirt. (Hey, maybe that's another t-shirt idea: "The other Cypherpunks went to federal prison for encrypting and all I got was this lousy EFF t-shirt.") Here's my serious point: An entrepreneur can buy up some number of these items (3 t-shirts now, stickers) and then sell them at a markup to folks like me, who forget or neglect to place their orders at the right time. Capitalism at its finest. It also spreads the word at EFF events, Libertarian Party events (or whatever your politics are), those "rave" things Crunch is always talking about, and so on. Sort of a Cypherpunks Store. P.S. If anybody has any of those previously done t-shirts they want to sell, I'm interested. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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bumperstickers
by nates＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have found a source for paper to print bumper stickers on. It's a thin plastic that is *very* sticky on one side, and made to go through laser printers. I have been tossing around some ideas for stickers to make, and I have come up with a few... what so you think? The WIRED ist icon, with and without text "CYPHERPUNK CRIMINAL" the "Warning: Strong Crypto" logo from the Tshirts "1984: We're behind schedule, NSA" and others. Who would be interested, and does anyone have more ideas. I would be selling individual stikers for between $0.50 and $1.00 each, depending on their size (some may be 3" square, some may be "8x3", etc...) -nate -- +--------- | Nate Sammons <nates(a)netcom.com> PGP Key and fingerprint via finger. | Clipper == Big Brother Inside. Question Authority. Encrypt everything. +---------

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(fwd) Re: RSA Broken by the Russians?
by tcmay＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

That April Fool's Day joke I did about RSA being broken by the Russians has generated 25 responses on sci.crypt and sci.math (where I posted it after sending it out to this list). (Someone added soc.culture.soviet to the dist list.) Here's a recent one, which indicates I guessed fairly accurately that Kolmogorov was involved, or his methods were. The Wolfram hypothesis, noted to me by Eric Hughes and confirmed by Wolfram, is also supported. --Tim Newsgroups: sci.crypt,sci.math,soc.culture.soviet Subject: Re: RSA Broken by the Russians? Message-ID: <1994Apr7.163939.31350(a)husc14.harvard.edu> From: verbit(a)coolidge.harvard.edu (Misha Verbitsky) Date: 7 Apr 94 16:39:38 EDT Distribution: world Organization: Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv In article <GENE.94Apr6161116(a)insti.physics.sunysb.edu> gene(a)insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Eugene Tyurin) writes: >>>> "MV" == Misha Verbitsky <verbit(a)widder.harvard.edu> writes: > >MV> This secret city probably exists, but the mathematical quality of >MV> Soviet secret cryptography is extremely low. First of all, KGB >MV> did not try to recruit graduates of Universities (at least as far >MV> as I know). >Well, may be I'm awfully wrong, but in the Moscow University there was >a special "Department of Structural Linguistics" (or something like >this) which was rumoured to be a KGB crypto-college. I remember (from >the time I was studying for the admission exams) that their math tests >were as hard as the ones for Math, Physics departments. I can guess >from this that the quality of students was the same. Well, dept. of Structural Linguistic was a section of philology department. It was organized by the famous logicist V. A. Uspensky who was friendly with Tartu (and Moscow) school of structural linguistic. The intent was, Lotman and Co. used (or believed they use) Kolmogorov's notions of entropy and complexity in philology, so philologists who wanted to study structuralism needed to learn some mathematics. For a while, MSU Str. Ling. dept. was the best philology school in the country. Now, after a serie of pogroms it still remains one of the best school (mostly because after those pogroms all MSU philology department went awry). Since I was friendly with some of Uspensky's students I know the situation firsthand. The students of Str. Ling. dept. were 80% girls, they did't know (or like) math, and most of the math lecturers (after Uspensky) were Jews and/or dissidents. I doubt strongly KGB would use many people connected with Str. Ling. dept., though I know some whom they offered cooperation. Anyway, Str. Ling. dept. have had no classified courses, unlike most of other MSU depts. The funny sci.math related detail: Uspensky read calculus on Str. Ling. dept. for years. After a while he became bored and instead of usual calculus program offered the non-standard analysis course. Poor girls, who naturally hated mathematics, were completely distressed, because now they could not even make they boyfriends to do their problem sets. Misha. P. S. I apologise for Vulis reposting every second article that I post to sci.math. I hope you stay amused. There is no way to make Vulis stop this practice, as far as I understand. I think he developed a crash on my net.personality.

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RE: RMorality and Ethics (was Pseudonym's and Reputation)
by Blanc Weber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Jeff Davis "McCandlish and I discussed morality and ethics early during our initial "handshake". Stanton said there is no morality, only ethics- what do you think?" I think one is the study of the subject and the other is the application of it, according to one's personal interpretation. *** Morality is the ablility to differentiate between right and wrong, without denotation. Thus, each situation defines an eidetic decision and implementation which would be the application of an ethical standard based on past experience. Therefore, endogenous morality is quite tangible, while exogenous morality is most likely unethical, and detrimental to the purity of being. *** I couldn't understand this paragraph very well, as it is too cryptic. Blanc

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NSA T-shirt FTP site
by Jonathan Corbet 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK, the NSA T-shirt gifs are on ftp.atd.ucar.edu in pub/Crypto -- help yourselves. "Don't forget to use binary mode to fetch them." Jonathan Corbet National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division corbet(a)stout.atd.ucar.edu http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/jmc.html

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NSA T-shirt FTP site
by Jonathan Corbet 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK, the NSA T-shirt gifs are on ftp.atd.ucar.edu in pub/Crypto -- help yourselves. "Don't forget to use binary mode to fetch them." Jonathan Corbet National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division corbet(a)stout.atd.ucar.edu http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/jmc.html

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NSA Security Manual
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You realize, of course, that by posting the manual verbatim you have allowed them to discover where the leak was. They have the ability to change the wording slightly on every document, so that when you quote the document they can discover who gave it to you. That is why newspapers no longer report quotes from documents that they have, or never show pictures of secret documents. Then again, for something as simple as a manual, they may not bother to change each one. But the capability exists. user(a)host.domain.site <- This sort of manual is never seeded. I'm sure the NSA will fuss because there has been a technical violation, but in the grand scheme of things this is not a major concern except the the extent it shows that an individual has the moral ability to release the stuff to the public. The information itself is not damning but law enforcement tends to frown on the CONCEPT of such releases. If it were seeded, Grady never would have been called. ./ -uni- (Dark)

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