December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: My 2.3a Key is listed as a 2.6 (Aaargh!)
by danisch＠ira.uka.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> As to not being allowed to have or use 2.6 in Europe, what makes you think so? I didn't think in european law, I was thinking in US law. It is prohibited to export, it is prohibitet to use (patents) and the day will come where it is prohibited to be european and we get arrested after coming to the States... ;-) > I may be wrong, but I thought the only obstacle was that it may not be exported > to us due to ITAR. Once it's available here there's nothing wrong with having > or using it. Do you think they will accept this if they put us in jail after entering an american airport next time? Just a stupid question: Do I violate american law when I transfer files from United Kingdom to Germany? In some cases the internet packets are routed through american machines because the connection Germany/Britain is lousy slow. Hadmut

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Re: PGP 2.6 is dangerous in the long term ?
by f_griffith＠ccsvax.sfasu.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>meanwhile provide a simple, patched version of 2.3 for all platforms that >both offers fully-2.6-compatible ciphertext and 2.6-impersonating keys. > > dave > Wouldn't it be better to have a patched version of 2.5? Wouldn't this remove the questions about legal use in the U.S.?

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Info: Policy Statement by Viacrypt re: PGP 2.6
by NetSurfer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I received the following and thought it would be of interest to the list: *.................................................................* . == = =....James D. Wilson.....jdwilson(a)gold.chem.hawaii.edu.. . " " "....P. O. Box 15432..........or..NetSurfer(a)sersol.com.. . " " /\ "....Honolulu, HI 96830..Give me the finger for my key. . \" "/ \"....FRC/FAM/AASR/GWB/OTO..........NETSURFER............ *.................................................................* -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- VIACRYPT POLICY STATEMENT ViaCrypt(tm) PGP(tm) compatibility with MIT PGP Version 2.6 27 May 1994 This policy statement may be reproduced and redistributed as long as it is done so in its entirety and without alteration. On 24 May 1994, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology began distribution of PGP Version 2.6 which incorporates the RSAREFTM Cryptographic Toolkit and is licensed for personal noncommercial use along with other restrictions. MIT stated that to protect RSADSI's intellectual property rights in public key technology, PGP V2.6 is designed so that messages it creates after 1 September 1994 will be unreadable by earlier versions of PGP, which includes ViaCrypt PGP V2.4. PGP V2.6 will, however, always be able to read messages generated by ViaCrypt PGP V2.4. It is ViaCrypt's policy to make ViaCrypt PGP interoperable with both ViaCrypt PGP V2.4 as well as with MIT's release of PGP V2.6. Therefore ViaCrypt will soon release ViaCrypt PGP V2.7 which will contain new features found in PGP V2.6 and will accept messages created by ViaCrypt PGP V2.4 as well as those created by PGP V2.6. For messages created by ViaCrypt PGP V2.7, either the present format compatible with ViaCrypt 2.4 or the new format which will be produced by PGP V2.6 after 1 September 1994, can be selected. Because PGP V2.6 is licensed for personal noncommercial use, after 1 September 1994 the new format is expected to come into wide use. ViaCrypt strongly urges all ViaCrypt PGP users to upgrade to ViaCrypt PGP V2.7 and to the new format. A ViaCrypt PGP V2.7 upgrade package will be made available to registered users of ViaCrypt PGP V2.4 at a nominal charge of $10 (which includes shipping and handling). Effective the date of this notice and until ViaCrypt PGP V2.7 begins shipping, all new purchasers of ViaCrypt PGP V2.4 will automatically receive a free ViaCrypt PGP V2.7 upgrade package. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.4 iQCVAgUBLeZDzmhHpCDLdoUBAQE9iAP/Rg7iO+adsNHSfmGT51BNzrVTzhUlHrcE Nl/i4BAfz3THOb1mr2th3Ed8SzFllw3qXE7jos9Ddu0SeAxKCktt/7KL0JJD25q1 6Bqwq51XU8ID3Sl9lfUjjeFjT9ZQrng2FnPFmDZQbGqDWnhhtgpJ8k4hr+IJ8/Vb kyar9V5LtM4= =o3iY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Phone Taps Take In Israeli Who's Who
by nobody＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

LA Times, Sat. 5/28/94, pA2 Phone Taps Take In Israeli Who's Who Two private eyes are charged with listening in on hundreds of people's cellular calls. The incident is viewed as a warning to a security-conscious country. By Michael Parks (Times Staff Writer) Jerusalem -- What do Israeli President Ezer Weizman, Tel Aviv Mayor Ronni Milo, the editors and publishers of the country's best-selling newspapers, two bank managers, and the manager of the Maccabees soccer team, several big building contractors and the owner of high-fashion clothing stores have in common? The answer is that they were all on a list of 231 Israelis -- many politically prominent, some financially powerful but a few relatively obscure -- whose cellular telephones are said to have been methodically tapped for eight months by two Tel Aviv private investigators. But the real riddle -- why? -- so far has no answer. The two investigators, arrested in April and facing charges of illegal wiretapping, are refusing to tell police who hired them or what they overheard. Rafi Friedan, one of the investigators, initially told police that he had been asked "to gather data" and that he was confident that his clients' reasons were "personal and family related," according to court records. but Friedan has said nothing further, on his lawyers' advice. The list of those whose calls were regularly monitored, according to preliminary evidence given Tel Aviv courts, is a veritable Who's Who of Israel's movers and shakers -- and a warning to a security-conscious country of the risks many of its leaders are running in unguarded conversations on their always-in-use cellular phones. "The police have found records of some conversations of some of our people that are, well, rather embarrassing in their content," a senior Israeli official commented, asking not to be quoted by name. "Things were said that should not have been said on open lines, and then things were said that were professionally indiscreet. "During World War II, American had a saying, 'Zip a lip and save a ship,' and we had better think the same way. People have gotten very, very casual in their use of their [cellular phones]. If two guys in a Tel Aviv office building can listen to all that they did, just imagine what a real intelligence service is doing." Among the phones that were monitored, according to police, were some belonging to the Israeli Defense Ministry, senior officials of the country's security services, two members of the opposition Likud Party, the state comptroller and the director of an airline used by the government for charter flights. There were also Weizman, top executives of the country's two television stations, a number of lawyers, the agency that administers the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, an insurance company, staff members from the newspapers Yediot Aharonot, Maariv and Haaretz -- and 10 other private investigators. Friedan and Yaakov Tsur, his partner in Agam Security Consultants, were held for three weeks and are now under house arrest. If convicted under Israel's laws prohibiting wiretapping, they would face sentences of three years for each conversation they monitored. Although police do not believe the two monitored all conversations, they have had very limited success in determining which calls they did record and no luck in finding out what they did with them. "Their clients did not exactly pay with company checks," one police detective said. Prosecutors theorize the monitoring operation may have grown out of the bitter rivalry between Yediot Aharonot and Maariv, which have been engaged in a long-running circulation war. But they are at a loss to explain how it came to encompass such high-ranking officials. Friedan, a former undercover policeman, and Tsur listened to the conversations with a monitor that continually scanned the radio frequencies used by cellular phones for calls made to and from specified numbers, according to prosecutors. They had rented the $200,000 monitor from its Israeli manufacturer, ECI Telecom, for "experimentation purposes" prior to its sale to foreign security services and police departments. Friedan and Tsur pledged in the contract with ECI to listen only to their own telephones and those of ECI. Friedan has a reputation as a "tapping contractor," working for a number of clients and taking on cases from other private investigators, and police and prosecutors have suggested that ECI knew what use he would make of its monitoring equipment. "Even wiretapping for experimental purposes requires permission," prosecutor Rafi Levy told a Tel Aviv court this week, "and they did not get it." -----<O>-----

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American Eagle Scherzando!
by Gary Jeffers 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

AMERICAN EAGLE SCHERADO Cypherpunks, I have found a source of info. that I just must share! American Eagle Publications, Inc. P. O. Box 41401 Tucson, AZ 85717 I'm sure they will send you a catalog just for the asking. So, what are they about? They are about VIRUSES! They don't just carry a couple of virus things - they are the VIRUSES-ARE-US of the virus world! They have a journal: Computer Virus Developments Quarterly. They have books on viruses, virus protection, cryptanalysis, the science fiction book "Heiland", a CD-ROM for $99.95 of several thousand live viruses, disks of viruses with source code, executable & utilities, programs & cards for boot protection, & even a virus IDEA computer system protector. Copy follows for two items of particular interest to Cypherpunks: POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE, KOH By the "King of Hearts" A sophisticated piece of software which uses ideas first developed by computer virus writers to secure your computer system against those who would like to get their hands on the information in it. You give KOH a pass phrase, & it uses state of the art IDEA data encryption algorithm to encrypt all of the information on your hard disk & your floppies. It is, for all intents & purposes, unbreakable, & works well with DOS & Windows. Many encryption programs offered commercially are easily cracked, but this one is not. Some people call this program a virus, come say it is not. In ways, it acts like a virus to do some of your security housekeeping for you. Yet at worst it is a friendly virus that lets you choose when & how it will replicate. program & manual on disk, $10 program, full source, & manual on disk, $20 (Overseas customers add $12: KOH cannot be exported from the US, but since it was not developed in the US, we will forward your order to the overseas distributor. Please allow 6 weeks for delivery) HEILAND By Franklin Sanders 276 pages, Paperback, 1986 Here's an entertaining book about America in the year 2020. If you wonder if it's proper to use viruses in wartime or if such a virus could be termed "good", this book will give you some food for thought. Sanders makes use of computer "worms" when the oppressed people of the US attack the federal government in an all-out war against tyranny. Sanders uses his worms right too - not as some all-powerful monster. Rather, they are deployed as part of a larger military strategy. For a book written in 1986, that's not bad! And if you're fed up with the government, this book is sure to give you a vision for the future. Sanders has been part of the mounting tax protest in this country. He's fought the IRS in court for years & won some important battles. Unfortunately the government seems to be con- firming some of his worst suspensions about them. Now you can get a good dose of his philosophy & his ideas about remedying our problems. And if you work for the government, don't be offended - this book is doubly recommended for you! Book, $8.00 for shipping add $2 per book. 5% sales tax for AZ. residents. It is my belief that in the next few years more uses for viruses than just being a vandal will be found. Also, they may find a place in protecting our electronic freedom. - for instance virus remailers. Also see my previous post - The FREEDOM DEAMON. Also, they have a place in my CHATTERBOX concept(a remailer for chat mode or commands). "Viruses aren't just for Sociopaths anymore!" Also, I suspect the state may start cracking down on virus tech- nology. Incidentally, did you all know that crypt has a place in modern viruses? Encryption is used to hide "nasty" code & virus signatures until they get into the system & decrypt. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers PUSH EM BACK! PUSH EM BACK! WWWAAAYYY BBBAAACCCKK! BBBEEEAAATTTTT STATE !

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Phone Taps Take In Israeli Who's Who
by jktaber＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > > LA Times, Sat. 5/28/94, pA2 > > Phone Taps Take In Israeli Who's Who > > Two private eyes are charged with listening in on hundreds of > people's cellular calls. The incident is viewed as a warning > to a security-conscious country. > > By Michael Parks > (Times Staff Writer) A little skepticism is in order. The story reeks of PR, most likely by Israeli counter-intelligence. It appears to threaten (in a nice way) the civilian leadership. I would suspect the facts as being inflated, the private eyes a convenient cover for the desired message. I read it as some sort of blackmail by Israeli secret police.

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doubled messages? doubled messages?
by Eli Brandt 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anybody else started getting double messages? They're both To: the list, not a Cc: and a To:. Eli ebrandt(a)hmc.edu

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procmail
by tim werner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Someone said: >> > With procmail, you can associate arbitrary actions with a match, so no >> > it would not have to be silent. Will anyone who has procmail working please send me an example of how you use it? I am totally confused. thanks tw

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The Assault on Unicorn has Begun
by tcmay＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Earlier today I predicted that Unicorn's satisfaction with tmp's "apology" would be short-lived, that the so-called apology actually looked like a dead ringer for Detweiler's "abject apology" to the Cypherpunks list several months back. I predicted that Detweiler/tmp's latest "apology" would presage a major new assault. Faster than I imagined, it arrive tonight. Filled with invective, forgeries, thinkly veiled death threats, and more accusations that Black Unicorn is the mastermind of a plot to cause the collapse of Western governments (let's hope Unicorn's Swiss clients are spared this one). Unicorn challenged me today about when the last time I responded/defended myself against tmp's rants--I said it was a couple of weeks ago (and then to expand on a point, not to answer the juvenile rants). Generally, any response, no matter how reasoned, not matter how measured, produces a ten-fold resonse from Detweiler. It's pointless to respond. Detweiler is apparently now persuaded that Unicorn cannot touch him, and plans to go for the jugular. If Unicorn's True Name and True Phone Number is known to LD as a result of their recent negotiations (which were apparently moot), I expect we'll see this soon enough in Detweiler's phony sig blocks. (Fortunately, in all the months LD has been attaching my phone number, 408-688-5409, in his various sig blocks, I've never gotten a phone call asking what the hell is going on. Restores my hope.) Anyway, the action is raging in talk.politics.crypto. For whatever reason, Detweiler has to date made only limited use of remailers. All hell will break loose when he really starts. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Email Stalking on CNN
by snyderra＠dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:33 PM 5/27/94 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: >The idiot box behind me is making noise about Headline News' lead story >for the evening, Email Stalking. The woman involved states she'll never >use email again. Seems to me her arguments are moot, as cypherpunks has >already developed the technology to solve this problem. Anyone volunteer >to be a spokesperson for rebuttal? The stalking itself wasn't conducted via email, from my understanding of the story. They met via email (on AOL, it appears), and she tried to slow things down, and he showed up and sent her email saying he saw her leave work, and that he thought she was attractive. The involvement of email is only secondary, but since email fits in the "Information Superhighway" buzzword catagory, I suspect CNN jumped on this. This really has little to do with cryptography, though. Bob -- Bob Snyder N2KGO MIME, RIPEM mail accepted snyderra(a)dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu finger for RIPEM public key When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

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