December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: archiving cpunks
by L. McCarthy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > I'm working on a system that indexes,marks up, and serves up html versions > of E-Mail lists. It's still very alpha stuff. cypherpunks is in the > tryal part of system I call the Biblotech. All URL's that come through > the system are also indexed... [...] > Would anyone be against me doing such a thing? alowing anyone to > view the c-punks list via html etc... The list is public and has been archived before (and maybe still is, I'm not clear on the point). Hence I don't see any grounds for objecting to your project. - - -L. Futplex McCarthy - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBLu4dtmf7YYibNzjpAQFkNwP/XCHjzLX8Y5VCPTsDRMnP+sc41Koe7acQ RDfT6Ojgb/Fb6rtYiBjn9aSIu57kza5rSYjVmaKljM06p2QptZ2M1Jz9jxU7rfNk BHVJSAc2Y+kbu0KqVzAVgx4o5GC41BnCoJiB9/l8iWvIgkO5pvSHTO3LlrgD15+6 kjlS5fq664Y= =nr2r - -----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 iQBFAwUBLu4gTCoZzwIn1bdtAQHk1wF/XY0PbJjkuOia/lUi+11GsSFVODQLM6b1 lPEF38ufdFM157KPVWX4HI0ry7Wxr+Sm =W21x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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CHOMSKY MADNESS!!!
by L. McCarthy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- James Donald writes: > One may be a reasonable inference, as I inferred > that Chomsky sought to justify mass murder and > brutal terror. The other is a lie. Hey Eric, how about a filter that delays all messages to the list which mention Chomsky by a month or so ? - --- [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 iQBFAwUBLu4kpCoZzwIn1bdtAQHgDgGApDSD7Z+FZW+ykNEO8WujOFnDUhbyxSnv tyb0ZVY8mnVjmookxn19UVE8iRbLZQKU =Rwt7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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It works.
by storm＠marlin.ssnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I got PGP because of the comments by Freeh and I wanted to start 'showing the flag'. It was inconveniet doing it right while using reading mail/news on-line so I settled for just adding the "PGP key available" to my sig. Then along comes Eric with the idea of signing the posts to cypherpunks. All right, it's a good idea so I'll spend the time necessary to set up PGP support with the off-line reader called YARN. Now, been there done that. Funny thing is, last night I actually had a valid reason to send something that I wanted to make sure didn't get read along the way ($ involved). I had all the pieces, they were in place, they worked. And due to time constraints, I wouldn't have been able to do it, if everything hadn't been ready. So, thanks Eric. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBLu29gbU8rMgiP9PxAQEgjQL/Vp3tc6gFWAh58RQinsdYMy1R6kS/KEHs 6TpGs8NzjNXT+yy+FHV0heI8R3F9mXZesefxj4XQmBxgKxkOcpp4PZQiXhHIiEOp Gg6n+B8fPdGAVuydJXLlKu/69oMtbflw =z+w3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Clarification of my remarks about Netscape
by cactus＠seabsd.hks.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199412131937.LAA00857(a)netcom10.netcom.com>, James A. Donald <jamesd(a)netcom.com> wrote: >I am sick of you misrepresenting what I say, and I am sick of Eric >misrepresenting what I say. > >Cut it out. Excuse me, but my Ironometer just pinged itself off my desk. - -- Todd Masco | It's difficult to be loud about keeping your enumerated cactus(a)hks.net | rights when you're busy exercising your unenumerated ones. cactus(a)bb.com | http://www.hks.net/~cactus/cactus.html - --- [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 iQBFAwUBLu4qYSoZzwIn1bdtAQHSfgGAqS3pIouxLUp0+da7igUyDpJUTuJ0Ouz9 aNIfa3Z59mJW9ZqIWnaOHuUq8s+lFMo3 =+g6l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: calling all cpunks on netcom
by cactus＠seabsd.hks.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199412131946.LAA26053(a)netcom20.netcom.com>, Shrieks <srikar(a)netcom.com> wrote: >Just floating a trial balloon. Are you tired of the high traffic on >the cypherpunks list and having to wade through a ton of mail every >day? ... >Just a thought. Pheedback? % setenv NNTPSERVER nntp.hks.net % trn hks.lists.cypherpunks It's a bit slow because it has all the traffic since June. I'll implement "expire and archive" soon so it'll be faster. But its usable (I'm using it over a 19.2 SLIP connection to our local network). I understand that pine can do something much tidier, pulling newsgroups from multiple news servers. Read yer docs fer details. - -- Todd Masco | It's difficult to be loud about keeping your enumerated cactus(a)hks.net | rights when you're busy exercising your unenumerated ones. cactus(a)bb.com | http://www.hks.net/~cactus/cactus.html - --- [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 iQBFAwUBLu4rnyoZzwIn1bdtAQEFsAGAtecr1Ddz6GU25uZcvVPw8ohJbzxyYEnh sxqS8QBx6GU6MzcMNWydiPE3aZhoLcyk =Fsjn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: calling all cpunks on netcom
by cactus＠seabsd.hks.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199412132147.NAA13766(a)netcom12.netcom.com>, Timothy C. May <tcmay(a)netcom.com> wrote: >Netcom expires _all_ newsgroups, even its own ("netcom.*" local >discussion groups), in the "normal" period of 2-3 weeks. There is no >reason to expect them to make an exception for our group. If this is >not made an exception, then a 3-week hang around period will hardly >constitute an "archive." (Yes, it will reduce _some_ storage, by a >shared pool, but only temporarily.) nntp.hks.net's hks.lists.cypherpunks has back to June. We'll continue to keep at the very least one month back, even once we start archiving and expiring -- and the archives will be available by ftp. So people need only keep pointers to Message-IDs within the archives. I'll almost certainly hack something together that will retrieve articles on the Web in my copious spare time. For now all the articles are available both via nntp for newsreaders and ftp via ftp://ftp.hks.net/cypherpunks/nntp/cypherpunks/ (it's big). - -- Todd Masco | It's difficult to be loud about keeping your enumerated cactus(a)hks.net | rights when you're busy exercising your unenumerated ones. cactus(a)bb.com | http://www.hks.net/~cactus/cactus.html - --- [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 iQBFAwUBLu4tbyoZzwIn1bdtAQHLIAGAiAT5Vh2YJnduSJ0aJvSGDSbcBEhoIVz2 Fcjw0PfU1wlGLZsiDIiky6fEsms0EdnY =JKuL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: IPSP and Netscape
by jamesd＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I wrote: > > Eric and Perry have repeatedly used this method - > > not only attacking a straw man, but lying outright > > that their opponent has *explicitly* proclaimed > > the straw man. > > > > I am thoroughly sick of this dishonest debating > > tactic. > > > > If someone genuinely believe his opponent assumes > > or implies something that is obviously false he > > should say "implies" or "assumes" > > > > To say "claims" or "states" is to say something completely > > different. Perry E. Metzger writes > We're sick of you inventing facts, but of course, you'll just claim > we've been doing that. I will provide an example: Will you? You wrote: > You claim we haven't done anything and Netscape has. Where did I claim that? That is an example of a fact that you invented. Now provide an example of a fact that I invented. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we James A. Donald are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. jamesd(a)netcom.com

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calling all cpunks on netcom
by srikar＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, Just floating a trial balloon. Are you tired of the high traffic on the cypherpunks list and having to wade through a ton of mail every day? Any of you folks approaching your 5M limit from archiving too many messages? Well, I am and I don't really want to start paying for the extra memory. I was wondering if it might be worth petitioning the netcom sysadmins to start up a local newsgroup (eg. netcom.cpunks) that serves as an archive for the mailing list. That way one gets to use the abilities of <insert favourite threaded news browser here> to keep threads together and so forth. I'm sure there are enough netcom subscribers to warrant this. Another alternative might be to set up something along the lines of discuss at mit, which is a local collection of "meetings" on various topics that one can browse through and serves as a handy archiver too since it isn't flushed nearly as often as a Usenet queue. I believe this list is already archived in a discuss meeting at MIT. Just a thought. Pheedback? -S ---- Srikar "shrieks" Srinath srikar(a)netcom.com Hackito Ergo Sum ---- "Free your mind and your ass will follow." - George Clinton

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Re: News->Mail & CMU's Andrew Message System
by cactus＠seabsd.hks.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <9412131824.AA13662(a)sulphur.osf.org>, Rich Salz <rsalz(a)osf.org> wrote: >> AMS is pretty strongly tied to AFS (now known as part of DCE) > >At some levels DCE's distributed file system (DFS) is "AFS version 5" (sic), >but not really. The original intent was that DFS was AFS with the IPC replaed >with secure DCE RPC, but there's a whole mess of protocol changes since then. > >They're different beasts. I stand corrected. FWIW, I was mentioning DCE mostly for context rather than any claim of interoperability. - -- Todd Masco | It's difficult to be loud about keeping your enumerated cactus(a)hks.net | rights when you're busy exercising your unenumerated ones. cactus(a)bb.com | http://www.hks.net/~cactus/cactus.html - --- [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 iQBFAwUBLu4waCoZzwIn1bdtAQHU5wF8Cn2+2I3AmqnVPcmNTBke6jqaCNmZ0ljU FfYJlbG37TSZcKomZ2a12MG8VjuHKXgO =wkvs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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More 40-bit RC4 nonsense
by raph＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- If I recall correctly, the first byte out of the RC4 stream has about a 40% chance of being the first byte of the key. Thus, if the 40-bit "secret" part of the key is the _beginning_ of the full 128-bit key, then the keyspace is effectively reduced by about seven bits, meaning that I would be able to crack a key on my PC in a couple of days or so. Of course, if the "clear" 88 bits went first, there would be no advantage whatsoever. The SSL document very carefully does not say how they combine the two key parts to form the 128-bit key. Does anyone know? Raph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUBLu3cI/4BfQiT0bDNAQEToQQAtcy2v0sBd+g5GBrm+Pa1AykqS4tTctfu EYga7kPry4wvGmI7/HpD+SVVDQRcJe+O9CxH9cpvRgBRIBhyvsFXVBSTW0OTJgXb 1bYh5qerD5J/gXAs0XWIp0+Hj8GqeTIRkFTseU4MDcDfQ7tOSEFvul97iSNYIytX AMkmAEmMXxU= =S80T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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