December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

looking for an ftp site
by nate＠VIS.ColoState.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am looking for an ftp site to hold 16K of gzipped tarred file. It's my WWW interface to teh remailer network, and I cannot put it up for ftp at my university (The Powers That Be and all that). Please send email. -nate -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Nate Sammons <nate(a)VIS.ColoState.Edu> <nate(a)yuma.ANCS.ColoState.Edu> | | Colorado State University Computer Visualization Laboratory | | Data Visualization/Interrogation, Modeling, Animation, Rendering | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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test ignore
by fhalper＠pilot.njin.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

just a test for my .mailrc file please ignore.

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FW: Crypto export legislation defeated in House Intelligence Cmte.
by Claborne, Chris at SanDiegoCA 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> So much for lobbying. > > Look, something is going on here that doesn't meet the eye. Nothing is > ever unanimous in Washington. These guys were told something by somebody > that caused them to vote like this. You can bet it had nothing to do with > terrorists, drug pushers, or pedophiles. Why don't you expend > some effort to find out what they were told and by whom so we could learn > what this issue is really about because it is NOT about "national security". > Think about it... If you've had the ability to listen to any voice or e-mail traffic you felt like with a simple telco set or inexpensive computer any time, anywhere you felt like, wouldn't you put up a fight? It's like trying to take a gun from a NRA member. Once you have a freedom to do something you aren't going to give up easy. It's only going to be more difficult since NSA, and other three letter orgs are part of the government. Our metro-police, FBI, CIA, XXX, have been able to tap phone and e-mail (illegally or with court permission, or in the name of "national security") as easy as plugging in a toaster. Once citizens start using crypto systems, these three letter orgs are going to have to work for a living. OK, so a crook is using crypto in his communications. Most are so stupid, getting the keys won't be that hard and even better... the crook will still think his comm link is secure. I'll stop here with my arguments for dropping the barriers to crypto. For NSA, finding the right string to pull is probably real easy. The only thing we can do is continue to apply pressure at all fronts. Educating the general public is on one front. EFF has other fronts. ... __o .. -\<, chris.claborne(a)sandiegoca.ncr.com ...(*)/(*). CI$: 76340.2422 PGP Pub Key fingerprint = A8 FA 55 92 23 20 72 69 52 AB 64 CC C7 D9 4F CA Avail on Pub Key server.

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No Subject
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

who cypherpunks

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?
by dmandl＠lehman.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Thu Jun 23 13:26:22 1994 > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 10:14:25 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort(a)crl.com> > To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type> : > TEXT/PLAIN> ; > charset=US-ASCII> > Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Content-Length: 18 > > who cypherpunks > Well, it's a long story...

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MY FAUX PAS
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

C'punks, It's great to see that Cypherpunks not only write code; they write jokes too (unfortunately at my expense). Thanks for all the humorous responses to my "who cypherpunks" message. God, I love this group. S a n d y

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Re: e$: Geodesic Securities Markets
by f_griffith＠ccsvax.sfasu.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >> Perry Metzger says, >> >Yup. The certificate is held in street name -- the name such >certificates are held in is "Ceed & Co." for obscure reasons I've >never been able to fathom. I think it's Cede & Co. The original reason, which may not still hold, was that it was rather cumbersome to transfer securities held in the name of a corporation, much easier to transfer those in a partnership's name. Thyus, the clearing corp formed a partnership to hold the securities.

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PGP is Product of the Week
by Claborne, Chris at SanDiegoCA 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PGP is Product of the Week in last weeks PCMag. I will bang my drum one more time... How to beat the three letter agencies: 1. Power of the press is just one of the weapons at our disposal. Public education and continued press on privacy alternatives is important. One of the things that would help a concerted offensive against the three letter agencies that want to remove our privacy would be to send more articles to the industry rags. Hopefully better than the one published in Byte. The more exposure the better. You there! Start writing! 2. Improve the ease-of-use factor for PGP... That is, write more front ends (windowing since most of the general public uses it). Example: ViaCryptPGP for Compuserve's WINCIM and navigator. I believe in the critical mass theory... "A product becomes a defacto standard not that it is always the best product but because of sheer number of users". In this case I am pushing PGP but I think it would go for crypto products in general. 3. Drive for an independent "renegade" standard like PGP. The term renegade here meaning "having rejected tradition". Flood the net with it and the genie is truly out of the bottle. Now that PGP is "legal" in the US, and people outside the U.S. have the product spec no-one gets left out in the cold. 4. Mentioned earlier... "Attack the NSA budget". This can be a win and a loose since a smaller budget could lower our countries defenses. It is possible that an attack on the budget would get them to lay off without any real action needing to be taken. ... __o .. -\<, chris.claborne(a)sandiegoca.ncr.com ...(*)/(*). CI$: 76340.2422 PGP Pub Key fingerprint = A8 FA 55 92 23 20 72 69 52 AB 64 CC C7 D9 4F CA Avail on Pub Key server.

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New at EFF - Intell. Cmte. HR3937 crypto report, Inouye NII bill
by Stanton McCandlish 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Electronic Frontier Foundation ftp site: ftp.eff.org 06/23/94 - added House Intelligence Committee's enraging report on its so-called reasons for butchering the crypto export provisions of the Export Admin. legislation (HR3937/3627): /pub/EFF/Policy/ Crypto/ITAR_export/hr3937_intell_cmte.report - added Sen. Inouye's bill for "public spaces" on the NII: /pub/EFF/Policy/OP/inouye_nii_s2195.bill -- Stanton McCandlish * mech(a)eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist F O R M O R E I N F O, E - M A I L T O: I N F O @ E F F . O R G O P E N P L A T F O R M O N L I N E R I G H T S V I R T U A L C U L T U R E C R Y P T O

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Hardware RNG's
by John A. Thomas 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Roger, I would like some details about your hardware RNG, if you could, including how you were reading the random value. I had the impression you were taking one bit at a time. What did you mean when you said: "I just got a 3 standard deviation at a 1000000 sample..."? What statistical testing did you do? I used the chi-square test on 8-bit values (255 degrees of freedom), and also computed the probablility for the chi-square statistic. I programmed the runs-up and runs-down tests as suggested by Knuth, and computed the chi-square for those as well. Finally, I counted the numbers of 1 and 0 bits, and the number of times 1 followed 0, 0 followed 1, etc. I didn't do the autocorrelation test. If you have any code for that, I would appreciate having it. I'm not sure what you mean by "...the derevitives of the sequence..." What is that? I suppose these gadgets could be useful for those who want the absolute security of the one-time pad, and can exchange disks securely. With disks holding 1.44 meg now, it could be practical. John A. Thomas b858jt(a)utarlvm1.uta.edu 75236.3536(a)compuserve.com PGP public key available.

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