December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: The NSA (Was Re: Factoring - State of the Art and Predictions )
by anonymous-remailer＠xs4all.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ----- BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE HERE ---- An entity purporting to be Mike Duvos writes: > Such a situation does not apply solely to the NSA. There are, > for instance, secret lodges of French mystics who devote > themselves to higher mathematics, absorb everything the open > community produces, and rarely publish anything or draw attention > to themselves. They solve problems, write secret manuscripts, > put them on shelves, and have been doing this for centuries. > Perhaps the ultimate factoring algorithm already exists within > their walls. We would never know if it did, unless they chose to > tell us. Actually, the French group is a subsidiary of our Bavarian operation. However, "centuries" is, well, somewhat inaccurate, though the mathematician who first mentioned our existence about that time has since recanted after a visit from the Elders... A.W. - ----- PGP SIGNATURE BLOCK ---- PGP-Version: 23.5 PGP-Signature: T! - ----- END PGP SIGNED MESSAGE ----- - --- [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 iQBFAwUBLz/HsCoZzwIn1bdtAQEU/wF/Rr/9NvFyxbdxadvn6fql1wjfy19/oXOV 87PHHcmP1OWOxE8HU1oaZ9ZwVcNhD3XX =dIax -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Archives
by cactus＠seabsd.hks.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- (Add to the list of things to do: make a recurring post describing cpunk services available at various places, incl. c2.org, ftp.csua.berkeley.edu, hks.net, Tim's Cyphernomicon, etc. Anybody else willing to put the whole burrito together, or should I add it to my TODO list?) Somebody asked where the cypherpunks archives are. Recent traffic is available via nntp from news://nntp.hks.net/hks.lists.cypherpunks; Traffic older than that, back to June 94 at news://nntp.hks.net/hks.lists.cypherpunks-archive, and back to the beginning of the list from ftp://ftp.hks.net/cypherpunks/All/cypherpunks.archive.[0-3].gz The archives are extrememly difficult to navigate through right now, but the raw material is there and available. One of these days I will finish the harvest and/or hypermail installation to facilitate access. - - -- Todd Masco | "No matter how peculiar the medium or incongruous the scale, cactus(a)hks.net | the instinct to build persists." - Joy Of Cooking Cactus' Homepage - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLz+PFRNhgovrPB7dAQHc1gP/WSdhsJ7l0LpnEGm8wFBHrBcf4r9ujv7M OpK6SrfV1/ail5eWZN3waZWgMRzxLxVIkxk7cIILMWo7rZgwM3j50UH6VULWX+8f o8XBUsKqKxf2UYsm1Ew92HAXdgZgAHj+L2s3L38t2mFxuobK2JhB2+slFC4JEa1P nBKVgd0O8P0= =5DSV - -----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 iQBFAwUBLz/IrioZzwIn1bdtAQExxAGAptVJi2VmN3g+5zH21/GkBI4mft0Ww/S0 ufiqJkfGVSB50HPrKcvyCLmVPq+lcc9s =vg0X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: bill alert...
by wcs＠anchor.ho.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Do you think this will force folks into using encryption? > > If I was a sysop, I sure would have all my users using > > encryption... :) > > -lile [ obscene government threats CENSORED ] Well, a good start would be to use an encrypted filesystem for any server that you're allowing the general public on, and to support encryption on any remailers you might run... - --- [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 iQBFAwUBLz/FoCoZzwIn1bdtAQEANgGAipZg3vy7lkdA/WC9LnuCQspo2bXOxVOy ktMyX8kDHpInuZx77TnCq7LwpyC5GkKa =jQov -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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No Subject
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Has anyone checked into the software package "CryptDisk" for the Macintosh? It seems to be the Macintosh compliment to SecureDrive, but one must register and drop an extra $20 for the source code. I don't want to get into the issue of copyright and such, only the question of how much public scrutiny the source code for this application has seen. Anyone taken a peek? -uni- (Dark) -- 073BB885A786F666 nemo repente fuit turpissimus - potestas scientiae in usu est 6E6D4506F6EDBC17 quaere verum ad infinitum, loquitur sub rosa - wichtig!

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Re: lwall
by UseNet＠news.bull.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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EPIC to Debate Exon on CNN
by Connie Sadler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Subject: EPIC to Debate Exon on CNN Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:36:11 PDT A1-type: DOCUMENT Importance: normal >CNN's 6:00 p.m. (EST) news broadcast tonight (2/13) will include a >segment on S. 314, "The Communications Decency Act," introduced by >Sen. James Exon (D-NE). Judy Woodruff will moderate a discussion >of the bill with Sen. Exon and Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic >Privacy Information Center (EPIC). >_________________________________________________________________________ >Subject: EPIC to Debate Exon on CNN >_________________________________________________________________________ >David Banisar (Banisar(a)epic.org) * 202-544-9240 (tel) >Electronic Privacy Information Center * 202-547-5482 (fax) >666 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Suite 301 * ftp/gopher/wais cpsr.org >Washington, DC 20003 * HTTP://epic.digicash.com/epic For those of us who can't see this, will the text be available anywhere? Connie

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Ignore Test
by mpd＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The list seems a tad slow today. No new messages. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd(a)netcom.com $ via Finger. $

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What *is* the power of the FIPS
by Peter F Cassidy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friends, - My editor from the Covert Action Quarterly called with a question on a piece I've authored on the NSA's involvement in the development of the digital telephony bill. I animated the characters and campaign strategies in this narrative common to the clipper and DT initiatives. In that, taking about Clipper I mentioned its rise as a FIPS, etc. - QUESTION: Just what is the power of the FIPS outside of the interop issues in sending stuff back and forth from federal agencies?

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Excel 5 Encryption
by bwern＠jax.jaxnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Greetings one and all, I was wondering if anyone out there has played with or 'broken' Microsloths encryption, especially in it's Excel from? The story goes like this: A good friend of mine has an executive who stored a lot of data in excel, with his own password. He has died, and the company would very much like to get ahold of that corporate data. Microsoft has chuckled politely at helping them (they're a rather large company), and my friend has approached me... I don't have any experience with Microsoft encryption.. but I know that the likes of WP can be broken, so I was wondering if something similar to the cracks of that. ANY thoughts, comments, annencdotes, etc, etc. would be greatly appriciated. I'll post a summary to the list, if you send privatly. Danke, Ben Wern (Hopefully this satisfies enough of the Cypherpunks-related content to avoid scorch marks... :) ) bwern(a)jax.jaxnet.com bwern(a)pathtech.com bwern(a)unf6.cis.unf.edu PGP Key Available by Request! PGP mail gets preferred treatment! Ask for it by name!

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Re: What *is* the power of the FIPS
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>- QUESTION: Just what is the power of the FIPS outside of the >interop issues in sending stuff back and forth from federal agencies? Eh? Say again? Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) "There is no difference between someone Shipwright Development Corporation who eats too little and sees Heaven and 44 Farquhar Street someone who drinks too much and sees Boston, MA 02331 USA snakes." -- Bertrand Russell (617) 323-7923

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