December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

The Detweiler Saga
by remailer＠merde.dis.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

once again, I am getting tired of trying to convince people that don't really give a damn and would rather amuse themselves by inventing new ways of calling me insane. I am tired of hearing the deafening silence of thousands of lurkers saying, quite eloquently, <SHRUG>. How Wrong I Have Been. So wrong. We always took Detweiler for granted. Our rock. Our knight. Will now our beloved Atlas shrug? Yea, will our prophet fall? You presence filled the heavens. You were without beginning middle or end. no one and a star stand am to am flaming dream to dreaming flame millionary wherewhens distant as reckoned by the unimmortal mind Those words come back to me as I reflect on our salad days, together in Prague, before the revolution. All, zorn. All, zorn. And I remember what you wrote, that dark day, and I remember the sound of the T-62's as if we were there again... the sunlight in the garden hardens and grows cold we cannot cage the minute within its nets of gold when all is *told* we cannot BEG for PARDON THE SKY WAS GOOD FOR FLYING DEFYING THE CHURCH BELLS! AND EVERY _EVIL_ _IRON_ _SIREN_ AND WHAT IT TELLS THE EARTH compells... (How those words haunt me now. How they haunt me.) I may focus on more damaging counterrevolutionary tactics soon and just give up on the BrainDead out here. I have tried to start a fire but get nothing but wet drizzle. soon I will wash my hands of it all completely, having done all I can, and the cyberanarchists will advance unhindered to an internet site near you. Every word burns like a knife across raw nerves. His radiance is blinding now! (o deliver me deliver me) O Lance, I can see your eyes shining; with an open mouth you glitter in an array of colors, and your body touches the sky. I look at you and my heart trembles; I have lost all courage and all peace of mind. When I see your mouths with their fearful teeth, mouths burning like fires at the end of time, I forget where I am and I have no place to go. I see our warriors and all the cryptonihilists who are here to fight. All are rushing into your awful jaws! I see some of them crushed by your teeth. As rivers flow into the ocean, all the warriors of the world are passing into your fiery jaws; all creatures rush to their destruction like moths into a flame. Filled with your terrible radiance, the whole of creation bursts into flame!! You have murdered me. murdered me murdered me murdered me murdered me murdered george william herbert gwh(a)crl.com Work: System / Net Administrator, CR Labs Home/Play: Retro Aerospace KD6WUQ gwh(a)crl.com gwh(a)soda.berkeley.edu gwh(a){isu,exec}.isunet.edu deltaV = g * Isp * ln(Mr) ... it's not just a good idea, it's the Law ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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PGP question
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This may sound like a question that I should probably already know, but it would appear not. How do I change my key ID to reflect my current ID? For instance: If my key ID now reads <me(a)here.net> also known as <me(a)there.com> and I wanted to change both of these a different, singular address; <me(a)where.edu> Is there an easy way to do this? Many thanks in advance!

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SQUISH
by Chris "Strunoph" Norman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please put me on the mailing list, if there is one, for SQUISH. I don't have the time to participate, but it looks interesting.

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Libertarian FTP site
by jdblair＠nextsrv.cas.muohio.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I know that there's a Libertatarian Literature ftp site- I've downloaded stuff from there, but I've lost the address. Could someone in the know pass it my way? Thanks in advance, -john jdblair(a)nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu

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Applied Cryptography
by jdblair＠nextsrv.cas.muohio.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Would somebody please pass on an ISBN number, publisher info, and the best placed to order "Applied Cryptography"? I would appreciate this greatly. Thanks in advance, -john.

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Re: PGP's e exponent too small?
by smb＠research.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is the e exponent in PGP too small? It's usually 17 decimal. Applied Cryptography pp. 287-288 says: "Low Exponent Attack Against RSA Another suggestion to 'improve' RSA is to use low values for e, the public key. This makes encryption fast and easy to perform. Unfortunately, it is also insecure. Hastad demonstrated a successful attack against RSA with a low encryption key [417]. Another attack by Michael Wiener will recover e, when e is up to one quarter the size of n [878]. A low decryption key, d, is just as serious a problem. Moral: Choose large values for e and d." There was some discussion on this on sci.crypt. Briefly, the folks from RSA don't agree that it's a problem in practice. If you always include some random padding in the message, you're safe, if I remember what Kaliski posted.

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SQUISH
by smid＠evan1.nl.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please tell me more about SQUISH! *********************************** Stephen Middlebrook/smid(a)evan1.nl.edu Director, Baker Demonstration School National-Louis University 2840 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60201 Voice: (708) 256-5150 x2580 Fax: (708) 256-1057 ************************************

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GUNZIP
by Gary Jeffers 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I need help. I've downloaded gunzip from the net but it doesn't work. My operating system is IBM mainframe vm/cms. error is "error in DMSRLD routine; return code 508. Maybe I got a wrong system gunzip?

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GUNZIP (fwd)
by Yaoshiang Ho 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 14:45:18 CST From: Gary Jeffers <CCGARY(a)MIZZOU1.missouri.edu> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: GUNZIP I need help. I've downloaded gunzip from the net but it doesn't work. My operating system is IBM mainframe vm/cms. error is "error in DMSRLD routine; return code 508. Maybe I got a wrong system gunzip?

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PGP, security, Applied Crypto, etc.
by Mike Ingle 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anon asked about changing PGP userids: pgp -ke Applied Crypto: John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN: 0-471-59756-2 Bookstores have no trouble looking it up from the title. About PGP security: is PGP safe with 17 used as the public exponent? Someone pointed out that pgp -kg 1024 17 will create a 1024-bit modulus and a 17-bit e, so you can create a larger e if you want to. I tried it and it's no slower. There is a compile-time constant which could make this a default - should it be increased? --- Mike >From USA Weekend: "Nicole Richardson, 20, of Mobile, Ala., is serving a 10-year mandatory sentence without parole for her first offense. Her crime? As a high-school senior, she fell in love with a small-time drug dealer. A police informant called to ask where he could find the boyfriend to finalize an LSD sale. She told him and was arrested for conspiracy to distribute LSD. Because she had no information to trade for a lesser sentence, she was put away for a decade. Her boyfriend, who did have information, got five years." Now doesn't that make you proud to be an American?

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