December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Root Causes
by jgrubs＠voxbox.norden1.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- liberty(a)gate.net (Jim Ray) writes: > Amendment IX -- "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights > shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." > > [The right to write code was among many rights NOT enumerated.] > Most importantly, it includes the right to decide what the other unenumerated rights are..... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: http://norden1.com/~jim/sylvania.html iQCVAwUBMAm//N74r4kaz3mVAQHMJAP/RTmdhZc63J6XzL8FfKK6wk9RrXgcOZ4c kZHGqYzOo0ZJKbmsugOwEjerpGsbeIUu3SzM+vrVA+BaWHLaufELSmh7AQW4/FcY XyKv3Zu/JBBxEca+H0qbix/q433c+2r2iKJ1p8p1c8jgK/L+c66cJiTgWGMt2vPZ XBBMaYAOIUg= =DQyv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- WebCasters(tm) James C. Grubs jgrubs(a)voxbox.norden1.com 6817 Maplewood Avenue Tel.: 419-882-2697 Sylvania, Oh 43560 Fax: 419-885-2814 Internet consulting, HTML programing, Information brokering

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RICO and Asset Forfeitures
by tcmay＠sensemedia.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:59 PM 7/16/95, Andrew Spring wrote: >>ranked as a mobster subject to RICO. My guess is that the intent is that >>from one placement on an FTP server or one posting to a newsgroup, the >>perpetrator of that heinous act will have passed his RICO qualification and >>therefore be subject to having all he owns taken from him. > >RICO question: i thought that the idea of RICO is to confiscate assets of >racketeers that are derived from criminal activities. PGP and remailer >software is distributed free. so would RICO seizures even apply (yes I >know this doesnt' always stop the FBI)? As I understand RICO (Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, though the euphonious "Rico," a la South American drug kingpins, is the real reason for the name), only the assets imputed to the illegal act can be seized. Thus, boats, factories, houses, etc., that are imputed (believed, claimed) to have been bought partially or wholly from funds from illegal acts can be seized. Civil penalties are another matter. If you're charged with distributing something illegal and a fine of $250,000 is levied, then you may have to sell everything you own to pay it, but it's not a RICO seizure. --Tim May .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)sensemedia.net | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Mixmaster@obscura.com back with new keys.
by loki＠obscura.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mixmaster(a)obscura.com is back. Obscura crashed last weekend, taking all data with it. The remailer is running again but the secret keys were lost. This remailer is running Mixmaster 2.0.1 and the latest Ghio type1 remailer for cypherpunk messages. Here is the mixmaster key: mix mixmaster(a)obscura.com db91418edac3a4d7329feaee0b79c74f 2.0.1 -----Begin Mix Key----- db91418edac3a4d7329feaee0b79c74f 258 AATL25WGQY5CMM0/xBjYtuN6IT75h+aBQwwKqZZc isOrqdsl8HWAzARrB0iAtcr34c2qqPBzSRNa5UE8 d3jOYu/wp9K9M5abUSRogcDl7gkPlqxc+e72SdKd 2Gdgib8VDGVLpJdaPk4uSY/pkmsYB30OaQH3W8dU PPciTvSJKAYcTQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAB -----End Mix Key----- and here is the pgp key: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzAGIaQAAAEDAJpPdFihCI1Cfpc8njkqOSma/GVvS5nodpTnnff3B3RuZWJN bEvxC3s8TATo6f5JdXqOkZBXQCK+aHke4LKw+MGNNXBYeWH60NZ0IihVThHeyYqL f4ZQNJHlMlFfDrQEgQAFEbQqTWl4bWFzdGVyIFJlbWFpbGVyIDxtaXhtYXN0ZXJA b2JzY3VyYS5jb20+iQEVAwUQMAnzn/Pzr81BVjMVAQEzRQgAk3ansqZb2y8orEim 0igHJpA22J15l6tu5ZihHpnBbXJEqdDKvsp6P/LG+ZDBXa8bGGg7RxZ1xXFqVWSO kkv9iqcoMWB14VHzC5A6MckhkpUGqPt+HMyUEW/JnGzZ202Z4aaVXOjXMsLf5jo1 VIp94/8nQen+QJThpJLmaNGgl8z60skyXzbtoz93Wy6IZAQYYImeswSrYukO1wC6 FXy0/a3AkDjd7mJiCtA2m7tTxCZr2EBlSu4VemG1APmCTjh2f/wyXNU1iXmTDb7N QcplTAwpROrdvtBeslE+bzYqWZqipcFHHyW9W6YUVIr18cojt6k5GEVzI9WCEgAO v+kA1YkAlQMFEDAJ82xVZJN3Wse4ZQEBc7gD/izVs3+jXs3Ze+U+ZVmfO6guUcMU RB4VsNS6n5BHRm6KS7qXCXxHYc0tehkuHVuGD0riSaS232P0NNmp1D4dzXtUVQCY BZfMbWX4EooqHGGRAoqPGZuke8pZYfVGARUKFQB8+zqKGhCum8z1sbUPUgzR5bie Un9sktwsWEJEIcNoiQB1AwUQMAnxfeUyUV8OtASBAQF/5gL+OksEqwyBE+pUZCmN 1AXAmKlRxkd6gybJJl8lXOOa4KVGmSEroYW8pac+TlraJb6j90LvbqJ+7PHuMtHT 84uRna183HDqKOd6NMdwTTimE6ZGueGBB7mwIysaTU8oCZ66 =0s+r -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -Lance -- Lance Cottrell loki(a)obscura.com PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. Mixmaster, the next generation remailer, is now available! http://obscura.com/~loki/Welcome.html or FTP to obscura.com "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: Free The World Web Server project.. :)
by monty.harder＠famend.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

DM> however, would be unobtrusive. A web page that mails a form letter to DM> _your_ congressperson's form-letter-readers (ie staff readers) would be DM> much better, IMHO. Expecially if the form letter generated would be randomly selected from parallel word streams. For example: Dear Senator <#SENATOR>: I am <concerned|alarmed|frightened> by the <attacks on privacy rights in|glaring First Amendment violations in|fascist mentality of|ominous provisions of|potential for civil rights infringement by> SB <#BILLNO> <introduced recently| proposed|offered> by Senator <#ORIGINATOR>..... You get the idea. Anyone who has read MAD Magazine could put such together. As an added bonus, use variable margin settings, and none of the letters would be exactly the same. Appropriate Imail => FAX software on a puter in DC (local call that way) with the phone number of the sender filled in on the top line for ID (izzat legal?) so it doesn't look like a form letter at all. The web page would generate a random letter, allow the user to edit it, further (possibly offering the alternate phrases) before he clicks on the [Send] button. * Len Buckholtz of Borg: LB> Quoting is irrelevant. --- * Monster(a)FAmend.Com *

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Re: ECM list.
by Bryce Wilcox 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > For example, you might be holding $85.73 in digicash (having played the > various slot machine pages, maybe bought a sky photograph from the Bradford > telescope). That's just about right. > What would it take for you to buy more digicash? How about to sell it? Right now I am thinking of e$ as a "collectors item" or a fun thing to brag about in some distant year. I'm offering US$1.00 for e$15.00, but I will quit offering that price once I run out of US$ or decide that I have enough e$! I think that the ecm market is probably composed of very few people who mostly want to buy, and is therefore not a high-volume market! If the ecm market got a link from the DigiCash home page (which I'm sure it could do) then you would probably get lots of people who just got their free e$100.00 and who are willing to sell part of it after having experienced the wonders of the slot machines and the "e$0.01-per-move tic-tac-toe" games. Could we set up a WWW version of the ecm market, listing latest offers to anyone with a WWW browser? Things might really pick up-- at least for us buyers! I'm also considering other strategies for gaining e$-- offering a service on the DigiCash "cybershops" page, or just going to all my e-mail using friends, showing them how to get their free e$100.00, and then begging them to give me half of it. (Finder's fee? Friendly gift?) Possibly I shouldn't have posted the above and given my e$-collecting competitors the idea, because eventually DigiCash is going to quit giving out freebies! Hopefully my friends will get on the ball and acquire their freebies before that point! :-) [mental note to add some of said friends to the Cc: line...] Bryce P.S. Oh great. My "friends" are asking for the $1.00 for e$15.00 deal... signatures follow /=============------------ Bryce Wilcox, Programmer [THIS SPACE FOR RENT] bryce.wilcox(a)colorado.edu ------------=============/ E-mail is between you and me-- use PGP! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBMAoTRZCUT4gUihHlAQEBMgQAueueOvkxSsVRBS20k49zUhOr8wa/CKcD vqsKLhHoeWhrXuYMKV5KTGgQ86TLwiu5n1C0fjomcJ+86UT1Py09i+yfeBj956hH sMFoGHgu4jKtQPZ94FsmsCzfDXPF6htnuOnQYjSrAydckomZoiQfPICDFRGeiSTp FbXeDMRMrMs= =1z8A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:59 PM 7/16/95 +0100, Andrew Spring wrote: >RICO question: i thought that the idea of RICO is to confiscate assets of >racketeers that are derived from criminal activities. PGP and remailer >software is distributed free. so would RICO seizures even apply (yes I >know this doesnt' always stop the FBI)? You _were_ using that software on a _computer_ weren't you? Guess it's one of your racketeer's tools, so we'll have to take it for ourselves, er, um, for evidence and protection of national security.... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com

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Re: A Chronology on crypto bans
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:08 PM 7/16/95 -0400, Dave Banisar wrote: >Someone asked why is there such a flurry recently on banning crypto in >recent months. This is not a recent issue. There have been almost non-stop >attempts for the last 15 years. True, though there have been more and louder calls for banning crypto as it becomes more widely used, and as the Internet and electronic commerce make its use more relevant. The number of cats running around outside of bags has been increasing, so the effort of the politicians to herd them back in has become more and more noticeable. A lot of it has been good public relations but the Good Guys as well - back in the late 70s, when I started following it, crypto was mostly for spooks, bankers, and academic math nerds*; PGP and the government's persecution of Phil have made a lot of people aware that the stakes are high and the Bad Guys are serious, and the Clipper Chip sounded enough like "The Feds want to tap my phone" that the general public could understand, a bit, that this was something that affected them... It's also been technology - real crypto needs computers, and computers have gone from million-dollar room-fillers that you might use at work or university to appliances you can buy at WalMart, like tv sets, which your kids use for school, if you don't count game machines, which your kids can buy at K-mart... Suddenly a third of the country's got a machine they can do real crypto on, and for 10 bucks a month they can be on a world-wide email network. And it's mostly the _rich_ third of the country, who might want to do their home banking somewhere a bit less taxing than before. Oh, yeah, there's also drugs - folks might want to use the Home Shopping Internet for more than just fake jewelry :-) * at the time, I was an academic math nerd designing banking networks at the phone company, and my department also did studies for spooks... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com

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NSA and NatSec Looks
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There's a pretty good recent overview of NSA -- history, organization, operations and, best, facilities -- at: URL: http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/irp/nsa/ This is part of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) web site, cited here by Jim Gillogly in connection with the VENONA papers. There are links to a bounty of other information on national security and governmental secrecy. Among many sweetmeats, the homepage on "Cyberstrategy" may be of interest (John Pike's project): URL: http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/iswg/cyberstr.html

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Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 11:19:29 -0400 >From: "Brian A. LaMacchia" <bal(a)martigny.ai.mit.edu> >>In the subsection that explicitly mentions crypto, it says that it's >>unlawful to put (non-GAK) crypto on an open net, "regardless of whether such >>software has been designated non-exportable". If the phrase "nonexportable" >>means the same thing in the context of this subsection, then provision (b) >>would only seem to apply RICO to stuff that already falls under ITAR. > >What worries me is the first sentence: "each act of distributing >software is considered a predicate act." The crypto section has no GAK exclusion. It makes it as illegal to release GAKed crypto on a net as PGP. I believe that the concern about defining predicate acts this way comes from the RICO requirement that there be TWO instances of a crime in order to pass the test of perpetrating a *pattern of crime* and therefore be ranked as a mobster subject to RICO. My guess is that the intent is that from one placement on an FTP server or one posting to a newsgroup, the perpetrator of that heinous act will have passed his RICO qualification and therefore be subject to having all he owns taken from him. ------- Meanwhile, the Federal civil forfeiture fund goes to good things. The last $9M (I believe it was) went to buying up AT&T DES phones to be made into Clipper phones. Of course, the conversion hasn't happened yet and the DES phones are sitting in a warehouse someplace -- but the $9M fund went to really good use, saving the world from AT&T DES. (sarcasm off) +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme(a)acm.org http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/home.html | |PGP: E0414C79B5AF36750217BC1A57386478 & 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | | ``Officer, officer, arrest that man! He's whistling a dirty song.'' | +----------------------------------------------------------- Jean Ellison -+

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Stego Standards Silly ? (
by monty.harder＠famend.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

LM> The standard answer to agent-in-the-middle tampering is of LM> course digital signatures. Now, the question is, will we be allowed to sign LM> our possibly-stego-enclosing GIFs with reasonable confidence that the govt. LM> can't forge our signatures ? Obviously the signature itself can't be LM> stegoed, or else we fall into an infinite regress. Not obvious at all. You encrypt and sign as usual, stego the resultant output, and perhaps include in the stego routines some kind of CRC or hash if you like. But the point is that the signature still works to indicate whether the message was tampered with or not. If we posit a MITM, he can tamper with cyphertext =or= stegotext, but he can't defeat the signature. I would recieve a GIF which my stego software would turn into a file that PGP would puke on, telling me that Someone Is Messing With My Mail. I would not, of course, be able to reveal this fact directly. However, I could ask my correspondent to re-send the GIF, and when it comes out different in EVERY SINGLE LSB, I have proof of tampering. * Support legislation for a waiting period on taglines....... --- * Monster(a)FAmend.Com *

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