December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Multiple symetric cyphers
by wcs＠anchor.ho.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Actually, a slight correction. PGP does have an algorithm byte > for the encryption algorithm; this byte is inside the RSA block. It's got another algorithm byte - the stuff at the beginning that says --- BEGIN PGP ENCRYPTED MESSAGE ---, letting everyone know it's PGP. That's one of the major risks of "algorithm bytes" - not that it tells the Bad Guys which algorithm you're using, but that it tells them "yes, this is crypto, not just noise". Bill

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Re: for-pay remailers and FV
by lcottrell＠popmail.ucsd.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Pierre Uszynski writes: >Doug Barnes said: <SNIP> >Same here, but from the other tack: "Remailer Guild??? Give me a >break :-)" My problem with the idea of "Guild" (or any quasi >general agreement) of remailer operators is that: > >On the one side: >- The whole idea of a using a remailer chain comes from distrust of >the operators. The operators should be the ones to distrust each other >the most. I agree. There should be minimal cooperation between remailer operators. They should work together on standards and policies to ensure the free flow of messages. They should not be afforded an oportunity to conspire. <SNIP> >Pierre. >pierre(a)shell.portal.com Observation: Most complaints to remailers come from news posts. Only a small fraction from direct mail. (Is this the experience of the other operators?) Suggestion: Pay the first and last remailers in the chain. The first remailer knows who you are. You simply purchase an account from him. He provides support and user friendly utilities... Block all posts from normal remailers. News posts only allowed from pseudonym servers like omega.c2.org. The user uses e-cash, or greenbacks in an envelope, to buy an account on the nym server. All email from other remailers, and to any address is free. Thoughts? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUBLxOHzVVkk3dax7hlAQGnfQP9HJG+O/L/+L9hGqZ6xYqfmJh30Kwli7r6 BTEck7NwJ1W3gk6IpLy+NG4l/v8HCEyWvQGHYsGcBJkl+y6i2otb8Y6Bec25xntZ KlfwNi6UON5rpnP8+EFolcolfb9OpEIMhfirzu07jVkM72mUBp7IAzFZjZ2NTUY+ oLDCa0V2EWg= =0TTW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell who does not speak for CASS/UCSD loki(a)nately.ucsd.edu PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. Encrypted mail welcome. Home page http://nately.ucsd.edu/~loki/ Home of "chain" the remailer chaining script. For anon remailer info, mail remailer(a)nately.ucsd.edu Subject: remailer-help "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche

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Re: Remailer postage
by lcottrell＠popmail.ucsd.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >jpb(a)gate.net wrote: >> Where can I get the Magic Money software? > >I'm a bit behind, so sorry if others have already suggested this, but >you should need any digicash for this... stamps can be just big random >numbers. Someone buys a books of stamps, you make 10 big random >numbers send them a copy and keep a copy on file. After a message >comes through with a particular number you throw that number out. > >Just like real stamps, and unlike money, they can be used only once. However I now can recognize which messages are yours. If I work with another operator, I can eliminate all the remailers between us for purposes of traffic analysis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUBLxOPhFVkk3dax7hlAQEy7AP+NZOV8cZ94VfInTy5RHKasPOxrmBzcy9k Bc1nqyK95ae4mr+XWNBBpqjL4FQBwTpnSVI+eVAnTd9QWK9XND3YN8M9PdzzM8zF qdrB4I7aB29AJsenQWD1zujZDNLwMaaRxDYe47xR5vD+o7LIUMHxBvveLllp0pAM Ek2wjwQhezI= =PsFM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell who does not speak for CASS/UCSD loki(a)nately.ucsd.edu PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. Encrypted mail welcome. Home page http://nately.ucsd.edu/~loki/ Home of "chain" the remailer chaining script. For anon remailer info, mail remailer(a)nately.ucsd.edu Subject: remailer-help "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche

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Re: Remailer source
by lcottrell＠popmail.ucsd.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Octavian Ureche <tavi(a)info.polymtl.ca> wrote: > >> Does anybody know where could I find UNIX sources >> for a remailer ? > Try mixmaster. I can not post the path for export reasons. Mail me if you want it. It runs on Sparc. Does not run on Linux and FreeBSD. All others unknown. -------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell who does not speak for CASS/UCSD loki(a)nately.ucsd.edu PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. Encrypted mail welcome. Home page http://nately.ucsd.edu/~loki/ Home of "chain" the remailer chaining script. For anon remailer info, mail remailer(a)nately.ucsd.edu Subject: remailer-help "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche

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Re: Some PGP problems
by Halvor Kise jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello! I have send an reply to C. Crunch. I enclosed the "Where to get the latest PGP"-FAQ - Halvor. >Hi, > >I'm trying to decode a PGP file that was created with Ver 2.6. >At this time, I thought that my older ver 2.1c (Running on a >Mac) would at least be able to decrypt something made from >a higher version, running on a PC. Apparently that is not so. > >So, the next thing I did, or what any self respecting >Cypherpunk might so, is to go out on the net and look >for a later version to FTP> Well, after discovering >that soda.berkeley.edu don't exist anymore, I eventually >found the ftp site where it lives. ftp.csua.berkeley.edu. > >I learn that Mac PGP2.3 exists, but NO version 2.6 >exists for the Mac. Is that true? If not, then >where can I get a copy, so I can decode a message >created with 2.6? If ver 2.3 will decode a message >encoded with 2.6, then I'm faced with how I can >extract this Mac file which has a .gz extension. >Binhex don't seem to decode it. So, I now got this >file named "macpgp2.3.cpt.hqx.gz" on my Mac. Was >I supposed to have used some special UNIX itility to >convert the .gz thingie first? Please emlighten >this confused cypherpunker!!! :-) Or will I even have >to do all of this because 2.3 is incompatable with 2.6. > >C. Crunch -- * MEMENTO MORI * _____________________________________________________ | Halvor Kise jr. * Halvor.Kise.jr(a)hiof.no | | * halvork(a)sofus.hiof.no | | Ostfold * halvork(a)frodo.hiof.no | | Regional College * Student at | | N-1757 Halden * Computer Science | | * | | | | Finger halvork@sofus for PGP-key | -----------------------------------------------------

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Re: "safe" Internet access
by Andreas.Elbert＠gmd.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

sorry to correct you, but the 900 MHz licensefree radios, the cellular radios (analog and digital) and Modacom and Mobitex are all different animals. i don't want to go into details though, because it doesn't change your main point, the ability to localize one of these radios while transmitting. Andreas

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PGP and Windows
by Michael L. Acklin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mark, I saw your message on Cypherpunks List and noticed that you were using WinEudora. My question is do you know of a program that will do encryption with PGP on the fly within Windows. I know how to encrypt a file and attach it to a message. And I have both WinPGP 2.6 and WinPGP 1.0. Both only encrypt files. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks in Advance.... Mike Acklin ---------------> hroller(a)metronet.com Pub Key available at MIT Key Server.

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Windows Eudora PGP/remailer add-on
by joelm＠eskimo.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm working on a pre-mailer/PGP shell that works with Eudora for Windows. You compose the mail in the shell, encrypt it, specify remailer(s), and it transfers the message back to Eudora. It's called Private Idaho. Anonymous FTP from ftp.eskimo.com /joelm/pidaho11.zip. There were some problems with the loading routine in version 1.0, but hopefully I've fixed them in this version. Any comments, requests, bug reports appreciated. Joel McNamara joelm(a)eskimo.com - finger for PGP key

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telecommunications reform again
by an158409＠anon.penet.fi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Telecom Legislative Effort Opens WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1995 JAN 12 (NB) -- The Herculean task rewriting the nation's telecommunications law, an effort that failed in the 103rd Congress, has begun in Washington. The Senate Commerce Committee opened the action this week with a hearing on general concepts of communications reform. The last time Congress successfully addressed the communications needs of the nation was 50 years ago, with the 1934 Communications Act. The new Republican Congress is expected to support deregulation and competition in the provision of telecommunications services. But so do most Democrats, and the devil will be in the legislative details, as the various forces in the marketplace seek to use legislative language to secure competitive advantages. Sen. Larry Pressler (R-SD), chairman of the committee, predicted that his panel will report a bill by July 4. Rep. Jack Fields (R-Texas), who heads the House telecommunications subcommittee, said his group will approve a bill by Easter. But neither legislator has yet to introduce a bill, so experts are unable to predict where the inevitable fights will occur and on whose turf. "Let's pick a starting date -- January 1, 1996 or 1997 -- and say, 'Gentleman, start your engines. We're going to have a race and let the best man win,'" said Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) at the hearing. As the opening bell was ringing in the Senate, Vice President Al Gore was trying to gin up support for the administration's views on telecommunications at a meeting of state regulators and local government officials. "Competition in the information marketplace will provide Americans with lower prices for their telephones, cable and information goods and services and give them more and better choices," Gore said. The White House estimates that competition in telecommunications will also create 1.4 million new jobs over the next 10 years. The contending forces were also getting organized. The seven regional Bell operating companies announced that Gary McBee, former chairman of the United States Telephone Association, will head their lobbying efforts in the new Congress. The Baby Bells support opening all markets to immediate competition. "It's time to open all markets to all competitors, under the same conditions and at the same time," McBee said. "That will mean lower prices, more choices and better service for everyone." McBee's coalition will be called the Alliance for Competitive Communications. (Kennedy Maize/19950111/Press Contact: Bill McCloskey, ACA, 202-463-4129) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help(a)anon.penet.fi. Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin(a)anon.penet.fi.

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Cellular and Crime
by Mats Bergstrom 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is this criminal trial going on in Stockholm concerning a group of suspects that entered a bank vault through the roof over a weekend in 1992. They have been prime suspects for a long time but evidently it has taken a lot of time to build up a case against them. Traffic analysis (but not tapping of the actual conversations, GSM? - no mention of the system in the news stories) plays a substantial role in the prosecution. 'A and B were at X at the same time','B and C were in the vicinity of the Bank at this time' etc. The suspects have not tried to argue that their cellulars were on loan to some stray persons. We all know that a booted cellular is a wonderful Area Locator. (I wonder if the suspects new?) But I have (naively) been thinking that the authorities needed prior suspicion using this feature in 'real time'. Judging from what has been written about this trial the police must have requested, and received, logged traffic data quite some time afterwards. Perhaps they log it for ever? Mats

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