December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Internet Backbone Traffic
by ferguson＠icm1.icp.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Blair <jdblair(a)nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu> writes - > 1) Where can I find an estimate of the mail volume on the net? > 2) Are there any projections of internet usage (subscribers, mail users, > etc.) over the next several years? Vint Cerf, President of the Internet Society, projected some interesting figures at ONE BBSCON in Colorado recently. According to an article in the October BoardWatch magazine, ".....by December, 1993, there will be over 2 million ping-able hosts on some 46,000 registered IP networks in 22,000 registered domains strewn across some 91 countries. As of June, 1991, it is NOT primarily academic use, but actually that was the crossover point where commercial use applications exceeded academic use. Over 137 countries are now reachable via the Internet domain name e-mail system via UUCP, and the NSFNet backbone is now carrying some 7 TERABYTES of traffic per month. The Internet overall is growing at a rate of 12% per MONTH." You do the math. ,-) Cheers.

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Electronic Cash Card
by Mike Ingle 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Payments between individuals are carried out by inserting the card into a >pocket sized electronic wallet and making 6 key strokes. Customers and >retailers can deposit money into thier bank accounts over the phone. If A can transfer to B offline, and B can transfer to C without calling into the bank first, this has to be either security- through-obscurity or non-anonymous at some level. You could stack digital signatures to represent a transfer chain. But you can't pass anonymous digicash from one person to the other without the possibility of double spending. Unless of course the recipient is required to dial in before using the received cash, in which case it isn't offline. If this system is truly offline (i.e. not cryptographicall secured), somebody is going to figure out how to rip it off. >However, cards could be locked to prevent unauthorised use by tapping in a >four digit personal code. Once locked, the money could not be spent without ~~~~~~~~~~ >reentering the code. At least you don't have to worry about a brute-force search ;-)

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unsubscribe
by Richard Dixon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

unsubscribe for now. sorry for the post but cypherpunks-request unsubscribe did not work. rdixon

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Distribution of Secure Drive
by edgar＠spectrx.saigon.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Nov 30, I sent a private msg to Eric Hughes asking him to put Mike Ingle's Secure Drive program for MSDOS SECDRV10.ZIP 68155 11-19-93 Secure Drive 1.0 with SRC. On the Soda.Berkeley FTP site and to advise me of its location. I have not received any response at all. I'm on a UUCP system, so I have to do FTP requests via an E-mail server, which is cumbersome if one has to "fish around" for a file one doesn't know the exact directory & filename for. I'm aware that Mike said he hadn't submitted Secure Drive to the FTP site because of "export concerns." But since this site is already distributing PGP, I wouldn't think this a "concern" to the site administration. So I'm asking any public-spirited Cypherpunk (perhaps even an anonymous one) to place Secure Drive on an FTP site or a site with an E-mail file server and to post the location of the file either here or to me privately. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLQg3Zt4nNf3ah8DHAQHWPwP7Bhr/FkuqS3FqkOszCdB97+P6WtKJPsYR d6VshdtFDm59JKsTcUk1V2wY6//5u+BhpFowgJ0qsGR/pl8Bzcl8upTn+RC2IBKH 07oxyJIlciiqYJ+ghlqnMZiPq/ZZ3Z/jHGTlOW1cAP2jHgT2Ok5kPhrr4mGYlAGO h1FfB8AJsDM= =tUFI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- edgar(a)spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Cupertino, Ca

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Re: NYT article on Mosaic today.
by haeberli＠apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Where can you get 'Mosaic'? >Walter A. Kehowski <wak(a)next0.math.pitt.edu> Try anonymous ftp to: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/pub Then browse - and good luck! Thanks, Martin Martin Haeberli Apple Computer, Inc. MS 73-HA 20525 Mariani Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 974-8562 (408) 974-8644 (fax) haeberli(a)apple.com haeberli(a)applelink.apple.com MartinH(a)online.apple.com

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small memoryspace DES?
by jim＠Tadpole.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Getting back to the cypherpunks-write-code theme, I'm currently attempting to put DES on a u-ctlr that has a whole 1k of memory for things like 'stack'. All the DES implimentations I've found thusfar have traded memory for speed. I can afford a lot of text space, and initialized data can go in the text segment, of course (think eeprom, ok?), but I have to live within a 1k space for all my dynamic memory needs. Has anyone ever done anything like this? Care to share? Jim

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MEDIA: EFF's Kapor on NPR Talk of the Nation *today 2-3pm* 12/10/93
by Stanton McCandlish 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday 12/10/93 2-3pm EST (immediately, that is), on NPR's Talk of the Nation, the focus is the "information highway". Will it just be 500 tv channels, or is the Administration planning something more along the lines of an interactive network? More one-to-many couch potato fodder, or everyone as multimedia publisher? Mitch Kapor, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will be a key participant in the discussion. Don't miss it! Note: different stations may air the show at different times, even split it up into multiple shows. It's live at 2pm EST, however. -- Stanton McCandlish mech(a)eff.org 1:109/1103 EFF Online Activist & SysOp O P E N P L A T F O R M C R Y P T O P O L I C Y O N L I N E R I G H T S N E T W O R K I N G V I R T U A L C U L T U R E I N F O : M E M B E R S H I P @ E F F . O R G

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LPC for speech (fwd)
by jerry＠terminus.dell.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message:

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cryptoanarchists ingfo request
by mrw＠ukc.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi there d'you think youcould email me some background info on cryptoanarchism? i've been interested in situationism, and related things for a few years now, and i'd be interested to learn more. Thanks m a t t h e w

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HELP: EFF BBS Project needs your support!
by Stanton McCandlish 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please pardon the wide cross-posting (some of which are actually mailing lists), but all of these newsgroups involve issues with which EFF deals, and we hope the readers of these groups will support EFF's BBS project. EFF needs to set up a bulletin board system, to be called "Outpost - EFF Online", to help spread the word to people in the BBS community, most of whom do not have access to the resources of the net, on: cryptography privacy activism civil liberities online networking national information infrastructure open platform principles censorship laws that affect computer users ITAR restrictions telco/cable mergers internet access many-to-many communication virtual communities cyberspace digital telephony bbs seizures online resources and more... WHAT WE NEED: We need donations of funds and equipment. We already have BBS software (Digital Dynamics has donated their Synchronet BBS package), but still need a platform to run it on, including basic PC system, modems, tape backup, monitor, hard drive, etc. If you'd like to contribute to this project, please contact mech(a)eff.org (Stanton McCandlish, EFF Online Activist/SysOp, 202-347-5400 voice, 202-393-5509 fax, EFF - 1001 G St. NW, Ste. 950 E, Wash. DC 20001) All donations are tax deductable, and any donations of funds or hardware worth $40 or more will get the contributor a one-year membership in EFF. All contributors will be listed in a "thank you" note in an upcoming Effector Online (EFF's electronic newsletter), and permanently on the BBS itself. Great advertising! Thanks for reading, and thanks for your assistance!

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