December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Remailer Unreliability
by jordyn＠alinc.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 18:00 EST >> From: nobody(a)myriad.pc.cc.cmu.edu (Anonymous) >> >> What if it was possible to specify an alternate remailer? In the case that >> a remailer went down, you could specify an alternate. For example: > > Well, *I* think it is a good idea. But how does remailer1 know that >remailer2 is both a remailer and down? The issue of whether or not the alternate address is a remailer seems to be largely irrelevant. It doesn't really hurt anyone to be able to specify an alternate address, and the feature would even seem to have some practical value as you could specify alternate addresses for an end-recipient if you suspect an address might be unreliable. As long as the alternate address is only invoked if the first mail delivery fails, the problem of the exponentially-growing message is avoided as well. Jordyn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jordyn A. Buchanan Environmental Studies (B.U.S.) jordyn(a)alinc.com University of Utah -- '95 (hope) PGP Public Key: 0xADEEC1 ED 3D 36 5A 98 CE 9D B4 4B 37 0B 9B B5 D6 F3 4B

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Parental Advisory
by merriman＠arn.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just wanted to let folks know that I'm able to confirm that He is still monitoring the list. Got a response to my posting about my Web page :-/ I hope others will stop by and check it out - links to it welcome. Dave Merriman This is a test (3 UUE lines) of the unconstitutional ITAR - 1/713th of the PGP executable. See below for getting YOUR chunk! ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [015/713] ------------------- M=$<(&L`#*IPP",(G6(,,S,`P](<2RWU96XCW86/JBYV8A\D8@X'HB_9H#&\X MX'PCUB.,13B"X8`R?^J-:UB.M_`U\>[#)BS&5$0C,Y#^1CS>1`\T1QTXX6!3 M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> My web page: http://www.geopages.com/CapitolHill/1148

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Re: Triple-DES controlled?
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> Didn't the ANSI financial committee just adopt 3DES (over NSA >> objections)? >> Presumably they consider the export situation solved/solvable. >There is the trivial solution of buying outside the US. The hardware >is actually better these days as the Germans and others have a >worldwide market and the economies that brings. Also. the ITAR rules give banks and financial institutions Extra Slack for exporting crypto gear for their own use. In some ways that makes sense (electronic bank robbery could be a very profitable business, and bankers are politically influential), and yet some of the government's biggest objections to free crypto seems to be that it allows people to have financial privacy... #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #--- # Crypto in 3-4 lines of perl --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/

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Re: RSA/Perl Shirts
by aba＠dcs.exeter.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Schultz <jschultz(a)coins0.coin.missouri.edu> writes on cpunks: > On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, Rev. Ben wrote: > > Has Joel Furr shipped his shirts yet? > > > > I see some people on the list have gotten shirts and i was wondering as > > I still have not gotten mine. > > I was wondering the same thing myself. I know my check was cashed over a > month ago, but no shirt has arrived. There are 2 (well 4 actually) suppliers of shirts: 1) (US/Canada) Joel Furr at Josh Osborne's instigation (no current offer, but still to send out shirts from first batch) OFFER PASSED 2) (free world :-) Me - Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa UK printing cost only - still taking orders 1st batch will be ordered RSN 3) (US/Canada) Don Henson <dhenson(a)itsnet.com> http://colossus.net/wepinsto/ 25% of proceeds to Phil Z legal defense fund - 1st batch shipped, taking orders next batch 4) (AU region of free world) Lucy Chubb <lucyc(a)suite.sw.oz.au> (no WWW URL yet) will soon be printing some in Australia cost only also send her email for status, starting soon The last I heard about the status of Joel's shirts was on the netstuff mailing list, some time ago, he said there had been delays due to various reasons, and that his shirst wouldn't be ready until end July. As July has ended, I'm presuming this will be RSN. The people who have their shirts are those who ordered through Don Henson, who has proceeded very quickly to ship shirts, he was the start of the 350 ordered thread. Adam -- HAVE *YOU* EXPORTED RSA TODAY? --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ --rsa--------------------------8<------------------------------- #!/bin/perl -s-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL $m=unpack(H.$w,$m."\0"x$w),$_=`echo "16do$w 2+4Oi0$d*-^1[d2%Sa 2/d0<X+d*La1=z\U$n%0]SX$k"[$m*]\EszlXx++p|dc`,s/^.|\W//g,print pack('H*',$_)while read(STDIN,$m,($w=2*$d-1+length($n)&~1)/2) -------------------------------8<------------------------------- TRY: rsa -k=3 -n=7537d365 < msg | rsa -d -k=4e243e33 -n=7537d365

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Re: Pat Robertson Fears E-cash?
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:41 AM 8/2/95 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >So, hearing that "Pat Robertson is warning against a digital cash society" >is not too worrisome to me. I suspect he means the stuff about Big Brother >tracking us and the Number of the Beast, and so on. Correct. I have in my hot little hands a book called "Racing Toward the Mark of the Beast -- Your Money, Computers, and the End of the World" by Peter & Paul Lalonde (hosts of "This Week in Bible Prophecy") published by Harvest House. They relate the story of their attendance at 1993's "Solutions for the Global Frontier" card technology conference in Washington, DC which happened to be held during the Waco Inferno. "This Week in Bible Prophecy" and CNN were the only electronic media represented. Waco encouraged discussion by the participants for electronic tracking of cult members. The book hits all the high points of privacy invading technology. But has nothing about our sorts of privacy techniques presumably because we are not yet well known in the Christian community. Chapters: 1. Boy, Have I Got Your Number 2. Kiss Your Cash Goodby 3. What's in the Cards? 4. Your Body: The Only ID You'll Ever Need 5. Will That Be Hand or Forehead? 6. If You're Not Paranoid, It's Because You're Not Paying Close Enough Attention 7. Bringing the World On-Line 8. 666: The System Is Born 9. The Chosen Generation 10. Where Will You Stand? I have generally found "Fundies" to be better informed about privacy problems and more protective of their own privacy than any other discrete group. DCF "60 million job changes per year + Federal Job Licensing (The Jordan Commission proposal to require employers to verify SS#'s) + the 25% error rate in the SS#-Name database = 15 million legally unemployable for a total unemployment rate of 18%."

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Announce: Private Idaho 2.5 beta
by joelm＠eskimo.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The 2.5 beta version of Private Idaho is now available from: http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm or ftp.eskimo.com /u/j/joelm/pidho25b.zip After I'm satisfied it is relatively bug free, it will be announced to the appropriate newgroups and placed on mirror sites. Significant enhancements include: send SMTP mail directly from Private Idaho attach sigs conventional PGP encryption option anonymous USENET posting through supporting remailers improved multi-key interface The final release will also have full Windows-style help as well as an automated installation program. This is my first venture into writing TCP/IP - Windows Sockets code. The SMTP routines seem to work with my ISP, but we'll see what happens on other mail servers. Coming attractions - once I determine the TCP/IP code is stable, I plan on implementing POP3 background checking for PGP messages. As usual, comments, questions, and bugs to: joelm(a)eskimo.com ---------------------- Joel McNamara joelm(a)eskimo.com - http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm for PGP key Thomas Jefferson used strong crypto, shouldn't you?

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How To Spot a Spook page
by merriman＠arn.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As a start on a Web page, here are some things I thought of. What else? What are the initials of some of the world's intelligence groups (CIA, NSA, KGB, DGI, MI5(?), ???) 1> Antennas - more than TV/Ham/CB/Satellite (or 'unusually' shaped antennas). 2> No, or *very* few, visitors (esp. kids) 3> Visitors are seldom the same, or almost always the same. 4> Doesn't talk about job/company. 5> Activity at 'unusual' times. 6> Not very 'sociable' (keep to themselves). Or, tell me to forget it, it doesn't belong here.... :-/ Dave This is a test (3 UUE lines) of the unconstitutional ITAR - 1/713th of the PGP executable. See below for getting YOUR chunk! ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [015/713] ------------------- M=$<(&L`#*IPP",(G6(,,S,`P](<2RWU96XCW86/JBYV8A\D8@X'HB_9H#&\X MX'PCUB.,13B"X8`R?^J-:UB.M_`U\>[#)BS&5$0C,Y#^1CS>1`\T1QTXX6!3 M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> My web page: http://www.geopages.com/CapitolHill/1148

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Announce: Private Idaho 2.5 beta (addendum)
by joelm＠eskimo.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry, up all night coding, and forgot to briefly describe what Private Idaho is: Private Idaho is a freeware, Windows frontend to PGP and the anonymous remailers. It provides a simple, easy to use interface for encrypting and decrypting messages as well as preparing messages to send through remailers. Although quite usable by crypto-novices, there are a number of advanced features for more experienced users.

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Prime Number Gen's.
by Rev. Ben 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone know of where I could get source, royalty free, in the US for a good Prime Number Generator? One that used a set of quick probabalistic algorithms would be cool. Thanks Ben. ____ Ben Samman..............................................samman(a)cs.yale.edu I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.-- K. Gibran. SUPPORT THE PHIL ZIMMERMANN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND! For information Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf

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Prime Number Gen's.
by aba＠dcs.exeter.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Rev. Ben" <samman(a)cs.yale.edu> writes on cpunks: > Does anyone know of where I could get source, royalty free, in the US for > a good Prime Number Generator? GNU code sounds like it would fit the royalty free bill. Try the GNU multi-precision library: gmp-1.3.2.tar.gz from all good GNU sources. I get my stuff from ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnu/ if you don't have a GNU ftp site to hand. There's a function int mpz_probab_prime_p(mpnum, SURETY) which returns true if the prime passes SURETY probablistic prime tests. I think if it passes say 25 tests, then there will be less than a 1/2^25 chance that it is not prime. Also, on: http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa-keygen.html I've got some code Aggelos Keromitis <kermit(a)forthnet.gr> wrote using the GNU mp library for generating RSA keys, it uses the probab_prime function, like this: while (!mpz_probab_prime_p(&p, 25)) /* Find a prime */ mpz_add_ui(&p, &p, 1); Where p is a random starting point. Ie just add one and repeat. It would be faster to check for some more obvious things like even nos, etc. But it seems to work well enough, and generates working RSA keys. Adam -- HAVE *YOU* EXPORTED RSA TODAY? --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ --rsa--------------------------8<------------------------------- #!/bin/perl -s-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL $m=unpack(H.$w,$m."\0"x$w),$_=`echo "16do$w 2+4Oi0$d*-^1[d2%Sa 2/d0<X+d*La1=z\U$n%0]SX$k"[$m*]\EszlXx++p|dc`,s/^.|\W//g,print pack('H*',$_)while read(STDIN,$m,($w=2*$d-1+length($n)&~1)/2) -------------------------------8<------------------------------- TRY: rsa -k=3 -n=7537d365 < msg | rsa -d -k=4e243e33 -n=7537d365

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