December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

HTTP and ID Verification
by Mark Rogaski 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Can anyone tell me what the URL for the site that displays all the identifying info it gets when you request it is? - ----- Doc doc(a)phobos.lib.iup.edu aka Mark Rogaski http://www.lib.iup.edu/~rogaski/ Disclaimer: You would probably be hard-pressed to find ANYONE who agrees with me, much less my university or employer... [finger fllevta(a)oak.grove.iup.edu for PGP Public Key and Geek Code v2.1] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLxK1yB0c4/pqJauBAQHjjgP/VsewWr3MtyULjeb1H1SF7FEHBLK4rtML dHEGG88AOPI4C6shO/xpn7fauZM4serMt2OkXXoXcKjc4DXXnrRB23NUhWXXwEBl iIWucy4p6FEBzKLPv3ulmNRzl+JBsKvNdFTVvYiutFmagA1W/t9WCon+p1eEurnK LlBNqcnL+Rk= =DdD8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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DH testing
by nelson＠crynwr.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A DataHaven is only as good as it's been tested. You could pay for a tiger team to attack it, but why bother? Just take some nudie pictures of a girl >=18 years old who looks <18 years old, announce publicly that you have kiddie porn for sale, sit back and let the FBI test your DH for free. Be sure to charge enough for your eventual legal defense... -- -russ <nelson(a)crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | ask4 PGP key 11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 (9201 FAX) | What is thee doing about it? Potsdam, NY 13676 | What part of "Congress shall make no law" eludes Congress?

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"safe" Internet access
by nelson＠crynwr.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If you want to access the Internet in a way that doesn't reveal your physical location (much), buy access from Metricom. They sell Internet access via radios. A small part-15 (900Mhz) $500 radio modem is needed, plus a few dozen bucks/month (thereabouts). If you use a yagi antenna, that will reduce your emissions to mostly one direction. If you're in line-of-sight with one of their poletops, you can point a telescope in that direction, and transmit only when you *don't* see a truck bristling with antennas. Every radio has a serial number, and they record who's got what, so they could cut you off much, much easier than catching you. For more information, see <http://www.metricom.com>. Same thing can be done with radiomail, but the speed is slower and the radios and service are more expensive. And, they can still cut you off. Of course, part-time connectivity is problemmatic, because you need to receive mail at all times. Of course, you could use a mail hub in a "safe" country, but then you're tied to a government again. -- -russ <nelson(a)crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | ask4 PGP key 11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 (9201 FAX) | What is thee doing about it? Potsdam, NY 13676 | What part of "Congress shall make no law" eludes Congress?

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Re: Fwd: Re: netcom discussion in news.admin.misc
by mpd＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

johndix(a)ix.netcom.com (John Dix) writes: > I've mentioned to Netnews that a good first step would be to > make it harder to forge messages by changing the news > software to no longer accept a user-supplied "Sender:" line > in the article header, and he has agreed. However, I fail > to understand just *what* is taking so long to make this > (much needed) change. The problem here is that the news transport mechanism is not particularly resistant to arbitrary text being posted by a user. Newsreaders can check for forged "From:" or "Sender:" lines, but newsreaders then call shell scripts like inews and injnews to process their material. Users can call these scripts directly and bypass any checks by the newsreader. None of this requires any special privs, and only the lowest level of the news transport mechanism, relaynews, requires set-user-id netnews to function. The latest version of Tin does check for forged "From:" lines, but the version Netcom runs allows anything to be posted. Fudging the lower levels of the news transport mechanism to check "From:" and "Sender:" lines can mess up other things, since processes may need to inject news into the news stream which they themselves did not author. One solution to the problem is to have a secure level of the news transport mechanism add an "Originator:" line to every message which it handles. This will identify users attempting forgeries, and will not require munging of an existing header line. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd(a)netcom.com $ via Finger. $

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procmail: another question
by RGRIFFITH＠sfasu.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please excuse my ignorance, but will procmail run under DOS? Will it download mail from a PopMail server?

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Anarcho-Cap - Newt and Gorby?
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

## From: sherbock(a)remailer.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Crypto-anarchy, many-to-many communications, inter- national/cultural communications, bandwidth price plummet, computer ubiquity, philosophical/ideological evangelism, freedom of speech/trade/association and other factors talked about on this list are together heralding huge transformations. With this as background together with the statement that I am somewhat of a "Frissell/Sandforth Optimist," let me present a short essay and ask a single political question. I want to propose that a change to more of a Snow Crash society with anarcho-capitalism as the norm is not necessarily being _caused_ by pressures listed above, but, rather, fit a grander historical destiny. What we are seeing and will see in the information age has been bound to happen all along. It is an inevitable follow-on phase to our industrial age. One way to view our (Cypherpunks) work is "lead, follow or get out of the way." What's happening is going to happen. I just want to be in the center of it! (I could write much more in support of this. Read Gilder, Rees-Mogg, etc. and much of the techno Sci-Fi suggested by Cypherpunks.) Hindsight is 20/20. Many experts have analyzed the collapse of the USSR. Many are quick to claim that the dissolution was inevitable, historical, even. Consider the possibility that the dissolution of large, centralized federal republics is also inevitable. (The Frissel/Sandforth Optimists have been arguing this exact point.) As an interesting specific, consider parallels in the roles of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Gorbachev, by self-proclamation, was a communist first and foremost. He was in no way a destructionist. In fact, it can be argued that he never intended to weaken the central power of the Supreme Soviet. He introduced liberalization reform (parestroika?) with the intent only of heading off the foreboding economic collapse of his State. Gorbachev's reforms were little baby walking steps in a direction that the Bear already was poised to _run_. Mr. Gingrich is a REPUBLICan. From what I can see, he loves the Constitutional government process of the United States. His proclaimed intentions are for downsizing and deregulation. However, he does not seem to desire the dissolution of federal, central government. He has not openly claimed to be libertarian or anarcho-capitalistic. :) Will Newt's deregulatory reforms be baby walking steps in the direction Uncle Sam (and the world) is already poised to _run_? G. del Sherbock - -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBNAy8RoncAAAECAK5jkuO+3qNE4veGXrwKqgJs9GhJibpNBOOacLN/OueiDX4R w0+fvCNCwIGT49T6acJvgSb/Kej3BcJViw4fkRUABRG0D0cuIGRlbCBTaGVyYm9j aw== =RPy1 - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBLxKvjAXCVYsOH5EVAQEXHQH+IT6n/vth2UcQrhJ9faEn8nfwU/XA/OyL 3qfXso1b7/NoivfSiuAvI8wQHasXQsWOheSwTE9c/TI7w6gAX4Yltw== =TJqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RSA Licenses Commercial Distribution Rights to RSAREF (URLs to PressRelease)
by eric＠remailer.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've been waiting for this, for oh, about two years now. Eric ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RSA Licenses Commercial Distribution Rights to RSAREF ===================================================== RSA announces that it is licensing commercial distribution rights of its RSAREF software to Consensus Development, allowing for implementation of commercial Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) applications. Press Release -------------- REDWOOD SHORES, CALIFORNIA--JANUARY 9, 1995--RSA Data Security, Inc. and Consensus Development Corporation jointly announce today at the RSA Data Security Conference that Consensus Development is licensing the commercial distribution rights of RSAREF from RSA Data Security. RSAREF (pronounced "R.S.A. reff") is short for "RSA reference implementation" and is a cryptography source code toolkit designed to allow developers to create PEM (Privacy-Enhanced Mail)software and other encryption/authentication tools. Until now, RSAREF has been an unsupported RSA product approved for use only as part of freeware and not-for-profit software applications. Consensus Development will now be able to market and license RSAREF to commercial software developers, and provide software support and future enhancements to the RSAREF source code library. (continued in full text press release...) Full Text --------- A World-Wide-Web/Mosaic page for this press release can be found at: <URL=http://www.consensus.com:8300/RSAREF-PR.html> A digitally signed text copy of this press release can be found at: <URL=ftp://ftp.consensus.com/pub/consensus/pr/RSAREF-PR.txt> Discussion/Announcement List ---------------------------- Consensus Development will be creating an email discussion list for software developers interested in RSAREF. To join the discussion, send a message to <listproc(a)consensus.com> with the body of the message requesting "subscribe RSAREF-DEV-L firstname lastname".

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anti clipper graffiti
by Avi Harris Baumstein 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

check out: <http://wps.com/anti-clipper-graffiti.gif> and while you've got mosaic going, check this out on the same server: <http://wps.com/toilet/toilet.html> -avi

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Storm Signals
by cactus＠seabsd.hks.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On a social mailing list that I'm on, two things have been noticed in the last week: 1: Somebody's roommate (a Green Beret) has been called back into 6 months of active service. He was not told where he'd be. 2: GPS fine positioning has been turned off. This is only done during times of military operations (such as the 'invasion' of Haiti and the Iraq Massacre). It's also been highly correlated with Pentagon pizza deliveries. Anybody else have any clues as to what's up? No overt crypto relevence, but some parallels to traffic analysis could be easily drawn. - - -- Todd Masco | "life without caution/ the only worth living / love for a man/ cactus(a)hks.net | love for a woman/ love for the facts/ protectless" - A Rich Cactus' Homepage - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLxKkJhNhgovrPB7dAQGCqwP/YzFcuNDCoUDY4a8O5YuVryBZ51HisN6m PHwc5W2bmwXx8LLQs1fOu8J9d3SFZM8l47bBj8EZCIvXatrUCHPVIqnBWfE30z8w 7uQRBn+eTtct/vs9MgPTGDk+mNWgDtYHL7TQ8vfypkYVgrlWH3pNbEs4+EkRv/5l ayYaAPq3IoU= =YUo1 - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLxLe7CoZzwIn1bdtAQHEcgGAm0rMUiMy+5bUX419XmkLtHFXNUjvV8e0 1YylcQ5G9C/HlWXYZett0tudtpBUGZsS =kfFB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: RSA Licenses Commercial Distribution Rights to RSAREF (URLs to Press
by Christopher Allen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:21 AM 1/10/95, Adam Shostack wrote: > Its just another example of RSADSI trying to act more like a >government agency. :) I hope not -- one thing that I'm trying to do by taking over support for RSAREF is make it much more responsive to what developers demand. Like you I was disappointed by the slow progress of RSAREF, so that is why I worked so hard to get this deal going. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...Christopher Allen Consensus Development Corporation.. ...<ChristopherA(a)consensus.com> 4104-24th Street #419.. ... San Francisco, CA 94114-3615.. ... o415/647-6383 f415/647-6384.. ...Mosaic/WWW Home Page: .. ...Consensus Home Page ..

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