December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by cryptic531＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

not what i thought it was. get me off this f...ing list please

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Need ride from SF to CP meeting
by mbriceno＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I need a ride from SF to Saturday's meeting. If you are going there and would like to split the cost for gas, email me with your phone number or leave a message on my voice mail at (415) 435-7939. Please respond before 11 a.m. TIA, -- Marc Briceno <mbriceno(a)netcom.com> PGP public key by finger Big Brother Chips? The Clinton Administration has decided to foster use of "Clipper Chips" in government communications equipment, thus allowing the FBI et al. to eavesdrop on computerized messages. The FBI reportedly is also investigating increased use of "sniffer" programs, which steal passowrds and access to private data on the Internet. Time Magazine, February 14, 1994, page 18

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Magic Money bug removed
by remailer＠merde.dis.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Anonymous writes: >It appears that the problem with bigendian magic money is specific >to the "mint" function. Minting one coin works OK, but minting more >than one causes every coin after the first to be rejected by the client. >Creating a coins.dat file with the -p function of the client works OK, >even with more than one coin. Sending the output.asc to the server works >OK too, as does handling the ascii file that comes back from the server. >Only minting fails. Thank you for finding this one. That was not a big-endian problem, that was simple stupidity on my part. When I added the coinid field to the protocoin structure, I forgot to move the free(pc); down to the next line. So the coinid was getting freed and then written. Version E is on its way to csn.org. By the way MPJ, did you get pgptl10b? Pr0duct Cypher mp_modexp_crt(c->c.value,pc->c.value,sk->p.value,sk->q.value, dp,dq,sk->u.value); free(pc); <-------------------- DUMB MISTAKE pgp_fix_mpi(&c->c); f=fifo_file_create(fp); fifo_put(MM_REGCOIN,f); fifo_aput(pc->coinid,16,f); pgp_create_mpi(f,&c->e); pgp_create_mpi(f,&c->c); fifo_destroy(f); free(c); <-------------- MOVE IT HERE! free(d); } -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLVtnbsGoFIWXVYodAQHaZgP+JfohckwzIVLvFB3K+r+ywl9ee53h5387 XycJ+qqjnHvLyPp4wTgfYaYnpqLAOzYDGZkq834pQ3EoE83fr++OmA70CpugXwX/ 6cFTFtc3mK3Lp+MTc5tKJxVe3ktuL4DFY1c80gcbapur4PCw/NS/BIWQQIZNXtwu gJH7lPjRno4= =I0+O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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MIRACL & Scramble
by uc022＠freenet.victoria.bc.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Was wandering the net tonight and came across this: ripem.msu.edu /pub/crypt/other 675558 Jan 27 15:37 miracl-3.23.zip There is a whole lot of source (c and cpp) for various bits of factoring, rsa, etc, and a few executables but most interesting is a program called "Scramble". Has anyone tried this out? I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but it appears to be a terminal program that uses IDEA encryption to make a secure link between two modems. From the .doc and loop function it appears to be quite functional. There are many interesting little tid bits in this, I'm just wondering why I have never heard of any of it? Drop me a line you know if this stuff is actually secure or not... Thanx uc022(a)freenet.victoria.bc.ca Darren Hill

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Re: List of forbidden mathematics?
by danisch＠ira.uka.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Do any of you have a current list of banned mathematics topics handy? > I was reading a number theory book (Rosen) and got worried that I > might be stumbling into some of the areas forbidden to private > citizens. Are these topics forbidden by law or by influence? Hadmut

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DELETE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST
by BOBES_PIERRE＠delphi.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry to take up bandwidth; but I have tried the proper procedure for signing off this list to no avail. Please do sign me off. thanks bob

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PGP
by mpd＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Could someone EMAIL me where I could get a copy of PGP for my Netcom account? Thanks. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.3a Public Key available $ mpd(a)netcom.com $ via Finger. $

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forbidden mathematics (I got the joke now...)
by danisch＠ira.uka.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to all for showing me that it was a joke only. :-) I didn't have the context and was taking this as strange but serious. It is sometimes very difficult to distinguish between satire and law. Hadmut ( a little bit slow with everything today...)

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Re: Strategies for getting encryption in widespread use QUICKLY
by Pat Farrell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In message Sat, 12 Feb 94 11:11:09 MST, Bryan Ford <baford(a)schirf.cs.utah.edu> writes: > This is another good application, but I think it suffers from the same > problem as encrypted E-mail messages: as long as it's even a little > less convenient than no encryption, most people just won't care enough > to use it. I agree completely with this. we have to move encryption onto the desktop PCs and Macs, and make it transparent to the naive users. Eudora and NUpop are a good start, but aren't transparent when you use PGP or ViaPGP. I've written a non-TCP/IP Windows POP/SMTP client that will work with commercial providers such as Netcom and Digex, but I can't get the low level communications code to work - Window's comm.drv API is too flakey for me to understand and get working. I believe that my code is less than a week or two from being ready to distrubute, if I can get some help with the communications code. I asked a few months ago, and had one volunteer who didn't deliver. I'd love to find a cypherpunk willing to work with me to provide some sorely needed enabling technology. Pat Pat Farrell Grad Student pfarrell(a)gmu.edu Department of Computer Science George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Public key availble via finger #include <standard.disclaimer>

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Re: Strategies for getting encryption in widespread use QUICKLY
by Pat Farrell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In message Sat, 12 Feb 1994 13:00:55 -0800, Peter shipley <shipley(a)merde.dis.org> writes: > This is why I email this list to encourage the use of MIME email headers > with a MIME mailer (elm, pine, mh, Zmail etc..) when a person > receives email, the mailer agent will invoke pgp automaticly > thus reading encrypted email is a user transparent process. Clearly MIME is a step in the right direction. And clearly MIME is steg friendly, who can tell a MIME encoded PGP message from a MIME encoded GIF file without looking at character frequencies, etc. (You _know_ that I'm going to lie about the MIME-Content-Type flag :-) But I haven't yet found a Windows PC client that will work without TCP/IP. Maybe I haven't looked hard enuff. Since 85% of all computers are shipped with Windows, "widespread use" means Windows (or Windoze for the cynics). I also don't know why the network vendors charge so much more for SLIP and/or PPP, but until IP is as cheap as async, there is a need for lower technology solutions. There are also some design questions that have to be addressed on the human interface side. For example, some folks strongly prefered not to receive encrypted mail, because they didn't work in an PGP friendly environment. So you need to have a client that is smart enuff to automatically encrypt to folks who control machines on the net, and not encrypt by default to folks using unsecure delivery such as netcom.com's vt100 based users. And you need a nice way to override the default. Clearly this information goes in the roledex that you keep with your client software. I mention it only so that folks realize that the simple publication of a PGP or RIPEM key does not indicate that a user is ready to receive all email encrypted. Solving these problems is exactly why we write code. Pat Pat Farrell Grad Student pfarrell(a)gmu.edu Department of Computer Science George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Public key availble via finger #include <standard.disclaimer>

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