December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Screen and secure sessions
by markh＠wimsey.bc.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On a related note. There's a program called term which is popular in the Linux community. from the latest term version announcement: (For those that don't know: Term is a user level slip replacement. It ISN'T slip, but achieves much of the functionality. Error correction, compression, and multiplexing across a serial line are all supported, enabling X windows across a serial line and such.. } Now, term already allows compression across the line (yes it has features for dealing with lines which can't handle certain characters). You can have several sessions going, file transfers and even X clients. I believe that it wouldn't take too much work to add DH key exchange and IDEA or triple DES? (GNU GMP might be a good place to look for the multiple precision math, but there are lots of choices). Am I going to do it? Well, not this week. If anyone has time to work on this, the term source is available by anon ftp from ftp tartarus.uwa.edu.au in /pub/oreillym/term. Last time I looked term would run on many popular Unix (or Unix-like) systems. Mark -- Mark Henderson markh(a)wimsey.bc.ca (personal account) RIPEM MD5OfPublicKey: F1F5F0C3984CBEAF3889ADAFA2437433 ViaCrypt PGP Key Fingerprint: 21 F6 AF 2B 6A 8A 0B E1 A1 2A 2A 06 4A D5 92 46 cryptography archive maintainer -- anon ftp -- wimsey.bc.ca:/pub/crypto

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Re: Where'd pgptools go?
by mpjohnso＠nyx10.cs.du.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hal <hfinney(a)shell.portal.com> writes: >I notice on csn.org:/mpj there is now pgptl10d.zip, PGP Tools version >1.0d. However, 1.0d is not the whole PGP Tools program. It is just an >addendum which implements Diffie-Hellman. Apparently pgptl10c.zip is still >needed to give you the whole of PGP Tools. Does anyone know of an FTP >site which still has pgptl10c available? Thanks - OOPS -- I must have prematurely deleted something. I still have it on the Colorado Catacombs BBS (303-938-9654), and I'll put it back up on csn.org within a day or so. I thought I merged the new with the old to create the latest .zip file.... ___________________________________________________________ |\ /| | | | | \/ |o| | Michael Paul Johnson Colorado Catacombs BBS 303-938-9654 | | | | / _ | mpj(a)csn.org ftp csn.org \mpj\README.MPJ for access info.| | |||/ /_\ | aka mpjohnso(a)nyx.cs.du.edu mikej(a)exabyte.com | | |||\ ( | m.p.johnson(a)ieee.org CIS 71331,2332 VPGP key by finger | | ||| \ \_/ |___________________________________________________________|

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Re: Format of PGP ciphered message
by norm＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks!

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A useful quote/stat to spread
by Stanton McCandlish 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it." - Philip Elmer-Dewitt, "Who Should Keep the Keys", _TIME_, Mar. 4 1994

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clipper & corp. espionage
by eman＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I'm new to the list. I was wondering if the clipper chip passed. what's stopping corrupt government people from selling access to the encryption to the highest bidders to spy on competitors communications. just curious. Emanuel(eman(a)netcom.com)

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Public Key
by fhalper＠pilot.njin.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Kent, would you send me your key again. I have to talk to you. Reuben Halper -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.3 mQCPAi16KosAAAEEAMUwRni4a9+GbuAhHDLcBWK60hCJUYxhr2hYokpELAhx0ejp 2fq61Tu9Hjn051CN8Xy5nu6sv2ODfG/t59l4DJSb5pirQaII3zaX0rMX0ydwGDoW YakL4ow1lNY+d/k14KpIuUW404+fNuNhIGSkdVLQIfbOgh0preK7/P44AKvdABEB AAG0JlJldWJlbiBIYWxwZXIgPGZoYWxwZXJAcGlsb3Qubmppbi5uZXQ+iQCVAgUQ LXorceK7/P44AKvdAQEUxwQAoffTibRlwE5tNQVGvrulh1OQgXNhTRec9vUaUwPy U64FIZ+KnmdfYgiJYXtcItA90EB9MDexazKeqJzMOPShVNOfyiwy2yUlnQs425f8 DxBvM//zuvj6s4/mXDTPUZtG9PP0HVaEGTJY15JdfRqtj/w+HHnsHlgCnj0NnIhX TW8= =D9UX -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Welcome to the foia-keys announcement list; request update
by gnu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You expressed interest in my FOIA request for the Clipper key database. Here's a minor update on the request. We send all our FOIA requests by registered mail, return reciept requested. According to the Post Office, NIST received our request on 28 Feb 94. This means that their response is due ten or twenty business days after that day. Based on experience, we believe that an actual timely response is unlikely; the government doesn't feel an obligation to follow the law. However, I encourage you to call or write NIST's FOIA officer (Karl Bell, Deputy Director of Administration, NIST, Building 101, Gaithersburg, Maryland) to indicate your interest in both the content and the timeliness of his response. John Gilmore gnu(a)toad.com

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Re: clipper & corp. espionage
by dmandl＠lehman.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Hi, I'm new to the list. I was wondering > if the clipper chip passed. what's stopping > corrupt government people from selling access > to the encryption to the highest bidders to spy > on competitors communications. > just curious. > > Emanuel(eman(a)netcom.com) Nothing. --Dave.

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Re: Mondex card
by Patrick Breitenbach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Recent articles on Mondex: The Economist, 1/29/94 NewsBytes, "The Cashless Card: UK Banks Introduce Mondex", 1/6/94 >From what I can tell: Mondex appears to be a rather agressive attempt at an open system for digital cash. The three major players are NatWest, Midland Bank and British Telecom. Unlike many other efforts, they are using a completely anonymous method rather than auditing all transactions. The cards are smart (IC chips embedded on a credit card sized card. I am not sure of the security specifics. They will be capable of representing 5 core currencies and many more temporarily. The "Mondex" name has been reserved in 30 countries and market research has been done in Japan, the US, Germany and France as well as the UK. They are piloting in the British town of Swindon (not sure of the size). Other interesting moves along these lines: Electronic Payment Services/MAC Network are piloting prepay Lufthansa/German Post/2 German Banks looking at multi-app card patrick breitenbach patrickb(a)panix.com

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Re: clipper & corp. espionage
by lefty＠apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Hi, I'm new to the list. I was wondering >if the clipper chip passed. what's stopping >corrupt government people from selling access >to the encryption to the highest bidders to spy >on competitors communications. > >just curious. Um, the goodwill and general trustworthiness of our elected officials and their duly-designated appointees? Just a guess, mind you. -- Lefty (lefty(a)apple.com) C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:.

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