December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

ANNOUNCEMENT: Preliminary announcement of May physical meeting
by hughes＠ah.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT ======================== Different Date: The May cypherpunks meeting will be May 21, the _third_ Saturday of the month, for various scheduling reasons. New Location: We will now be meeting at Silicon Graphics, not at Cygnus Support as previously. Thanks to Katy Kislitzin for arranging this. Audio Available: We will be doing MBONE. SGI is already all set up for it. Theme: The theme is "Protocols". Contributions are encouraged. If you have original work, great. If you want to digest and present a paper from the literature, good. In either case, prearrangement is highly desirable. Mail hughes(a)ah.com. See you then. Eric it's like PGP 2.3 and 2.4 (modulo maintenance tweaks) but uses RSAREF for its crypto. Thus it is entirely U.S.-legal. I wonder what Sternlight will say to this. Eli ebrandt(a)hmc.edu "Users of PGP 2.5 should be aware that if copies are found outside of the U.S. and Canada, they could be charged with contributing to a conspiracy to export munitions to a foreign national."

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Re: Anonymous phone calls...
by SGT=DARREN=S.=HARLOW%ISB%MCTSSA＠nwsfallbrook3.nwac.sea06.navy.mil 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One of the problems of using the pre-paid cards was brought to light recently in the Olympic incident of Harding/Kerrigan. Harding's husband bought one of the cards to make phone calls and they traced the calls back to him via the card, since you have to present valid ID to purchase those. Sgt Darren Harlow - Computer Security MCTSSA, Camp Pendleton, USMC Internet: harlowd(a)nwsfallbrook3.nwac.sea06.navy.mil or another less reliable & slower: harlow(a)mqg1.usmc.mil Voice: Comm: (619) 725-2970 DSN (Autovon): 365-2970 Fax: Comm: (619) 725-9512 DSN (Autovon): 365-9512 PGP Public key available upon request "The views expressed are my own, and always will be..."

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Re: Keyserver service outRAGE
by Hal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Let's not fly off the handle. This _could_ be a very promising development. IF source code is available, this would be, at last, a U.S.-legal, free version of PGP. Let's wait and see what Phil Zimmermann has to say. Hal

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Re:The Value of Money
by GRABOW_GEOFFREY＠tandem.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

blancw(a)microsoft.com writes: >I understand this much: there is some gold and other actual metal >located in a vault, sitting there as a symbolic standard of wealth, >worth, value. Everyone stakes a claim to it, and they exchange that >claim to others in substitution for something else (dog, rifle, gas in >the car, baby-sitting). These claims can circulate as fast as a >computer can calcualte & transfer them, and that is all that circulates >while the standard continues to sit in the vault, not being used for >anything by anybody. As long as you hold a claim to this lump of >stuff, you're Somebody - a force to contend with in the Market Place. Didn't Nixon take the U.S. off of the gold standard? G.C.G. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Geoffrey C. Grabow | "What we demand are rigidly defined | | Oyster Bay, New York | areas of doubt and uncertainty!" | | | -------------------- | | grabow_geoffrey(a)tandem.com | Clipper, SkipJack & Digital Telephony | | | JUST SAY NO!!! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | PGP fingerprint = C9 95 0F C4 E9 DD 8E 73 DD 99 4E F5 EB 7A B6 1D | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re:Visual Basic (yes, Basic!), and "VBX" tools
by GRABOW_GEOFFREY＠tandem.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May writes... >Buried deep in Bill Garland's message, I found the following: > >> 6. Learn Unix. Maybe I'll get a shell account on Sameer's machine. >> I've been a DEC RSTS/VMS Basic-Plus/VAX BASIC V2 programmer for >> too long, and I've not yet become unixificated. I don't even >> know if I could read a C++ program. I'm obsolete...again. > >Maybe not. The tide may be shifting a bit. "Visual Basic," from >Microsoft, is coming on like gangbusters for Windows programmers. I agree 100%! Just check out some of the ZIP files of Windows programs on the FTP sites. Many of them include VBRUNxxx.DLL and VBX files. These are the telltale signs that the product was written in VBASIC. Even WinPGP was written using it! G.C.G. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Geoffrey C. Grabow | "What we demand are rigidly defined | | Oyster Bay, New York | areas of doubt and uncertainty!" | | | -------------------- | | grabow_geoffrey(a)tandem.com | Clipper, SkipJack & Digital Telephony | | | JUST SAY NO!!! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | PGP fingerprint = C9 95 0F C4 E9 DD 8E 73 DD 99 4E F5 EB 7A B6 1D | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Anonymous phone calls.
by GRABOW_GEOFFREY＠tandem.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I asked this a while ago, but my mail system has some problems and I don't know what the responses were, if any.... Is there any way to make a phone call anonymously? Caller ID can be blocked somewhat with one of those *## numbers dialed before the call is made. Is there a way to route a call through a series of phone-type remailer systems? This would allow one to make a call that would be as hard to trace as anonymous mail. Any ideas? G.C.G. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Geoffrey C. Grabow | "What we demand are rigidly defined | | Oyster Bay, New York | areas of doubt and uncertainty!" | | | -------------------- | | grabow_geoffrey(a)tandem.com | Clipper, SkipJack & Digital Telephony | | | JUST SAY NO!!! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | PGP fingerprint = C9 95 0F C4 E9 DD 8E 73 DD 99 4E F5 EB 7A B6 1D | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Anonymous phone calls.
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is there any way to make a phone call anonymously? Caller ID can be blocked somewhat with one of those *## numbers dialed before the call is made. Is there a way to route a call through a series of phone-type remailer systems? This would allow one to make a call that would be as hard to trace as anonymous mail. Any ideas? < G.C.G. - <- There's a 1-900 number that is supposed to do this. Which I could remember what it was.

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Advertisement
by nobody＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I realize that one-time pads are sort of outri these days, but what do you use when there are no computers around? I've written three programs in C which [1] construct a TeX-printable sheet of pads with pseudo-random numbers (use your own rand() function), [2] automatically encrypt a message using modular summing rather than XOR (easier to do if you don't have a computer handy), and [3] decrypt the message. They aren't the best examples of C coding, but they work. The first program is included below, conventionally encrypted with PGP. For a total of just 12 [TWELVE] Tacky Tokens I'll release the password. Please send your COIN.DAT contributions by encrypting with the PGP key below and posting to alt.test with the subject: IGNORE - NEON. Cast your bread upon the waters. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.3a mQCVAi2/ZzEAAAEEOQGMwT6H90aJMTmkf3bLdMVyJ3hyBDoh8ruQfa2x/8tTEPhs 0dyOMroWwMMFQHY5Gdc7etULE6G3W8Q8CGotwFIEUMCXEc9UBeePv3WaU3ovZ/Dz bdvnTeH8KYpQhV68bi1jvX3ahM2tk5jRwK8zP9+YHv5ZpbQlubVI6pRIYxGNuGfP zntP48UABRG0CG5lb24gPEA+ =CTOG -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Since I don't know how to do a zero-knowledge (0-k) proof, I post part of the documentation below, as proof that it exists: PAD CONSTRUCTION ---------------- Cut each pad out seperately as shown, and staple together. A hot-melt glue gun can also be used for binding. 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Re: Advertisement
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-> The first program is included below, conventionally encrypted with PGP. For a total of just 12 [TWELVE] Tacky Tokens I'll release the password. Please send your COIN.DAT contributions by encrypting with the PGP key below and posting to alt.test with the subject: IGNORE - NEON. <- Is there a mac version?

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Server clusterfuck
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-> From: Derek Atkins <warlord(a)ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Sigh... You know, when things are on a delicate balance, a single message sent too soon can really screw things up. I can tell you for certain that your questions *will* be answered in due time, please wait for the final arrangements to be made. No, PGP 2.5 is *NOT* available (this second). Yes, there is one in the works, and I expect it Real Soon Now. Also, please do not condemn Bal or his keyserver for not accepting keys from versions of PGP before 2.4 -- as I understand it, that was part of the agreement in order to make 2.5 happen, but I really don't know all the details. <- Then this should have be stated in the "press release" message he sent. As should have the details, what were available, of the PGP 2.5 release. The fact that the limitations on the keyserver were imposed only makes me wonder more. I hope the code of 2.5 is looked at real carefully. -uni- (Dark)

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