December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RC4 crack
by Robert A. Hayden 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- So what was the result of the RC4 key cracking thing that happened last week? It's at 100% but that's all it says. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: PGP Signed with PineSign 1.0 iQCVAwUBMAqt9DokqlyVGmCFAQGxTgP/X6Cm7RfWOeWrzI52ws/cibtnZ/jJ6nTV 8MrWam8ZziWmq3fZeovLU/6sz2CAVBN9msqxo3H0AFTRLBrv1ZRuDj1bCzMEcsXW JSFiUleDUOliF3qGQMTU9PyaekVr8Kc/OdiHcJhWm5xZjbYA+yvrcwUYCUR/vKBw UPyL29Jx0L4= =xMlz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ____ Robert A. Hayden <=> Cthulhu Matata \ /__ -=-=-=-=- <=> -=-=-=-=- \/ / Finger for Geek Code Info <=> hayden(a)krypton.mankato.msus.edu \/ Finger for PGP Public Key <=> http://att2.cs.mankato.msus.edu/~hayden

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Re: Free The World Web Server project.. :)
by Peter Trei 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: > 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>..... This sort of thing bugs me a lot. If your level of passion on an issue is not enough to send an individually composed letter, then send a form letter. But don't try to fake out people that your note is actually individually composed. One of my pet peeves is junk mail tricked up to look like something else. I expect legislators feel the same way, and have a lot of practice recognizing it. Personally, if I feel strongly about an issue, I call up the legislators office and give his/her aide a piece of my mind. I try to be polite, informative, and find an angle of interest to that particular legislator, no matter how much I may actually despise the slimeball (this was tough when talking to Exon's press secretary). Peter Trei trei(a)acm.org Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation trei(a)process.com

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TIME pathfinder registration
by wb8foz＠nrk.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I note someone has used "cypherpunks" as a login for TIME Mag's WWW service. I'd guess it was in the spirit of other such enrollments. If so, what's the password? - -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBMArQLhqU5+N/mI7JAQGAPwQAjVGA8kf/ncHJ+ltzVwnzr7ncCjCpcvxv kaPRYrIJHE5qQzm7YLKfrn6kv51f+QZgRQHZz0wWtQoQgSwta0WQXBbbU7CWFy95 vE1sKselPRElDkLRxzltgJqLCAYZBBAnjxlnck7EaDbXfyAGsTbNIE261PsXDMUk IyyYk+2Tc04= =JwQi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Automated Rant Generators and Letter Generators
by tcmay＠sensemedia.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 7:35 AM 7/17/95, Martin Hamilton wrote: >MONTY HARDER writes: > >| 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. > >Plus - choose the fonts & point sizes at random too ? :-) Yes, make your letters to Congressmen look like ransom notes...it really gets their attention! Seriously, I have no doubt that the next generation of "direct mail" will be geared toward automatic generation of personalized letters, using various natural language parser generators (a la the "rant generator" many of us have used), variable fonts and margins, and so on. This will further "flood the channel" and will ultimately make letter writing mostly meaningless. IN my case, I skip most letters to the editor--at least for local newspapers and weeklies--as they look to be automatically written ("I am outraged at your article about converting Lighthouse Point into a nuclear-powered whale-packing plant..."). Cypherpunks could probably have an effect on hastening this "denial of service" attack on the efficacy of letter-writing by releasing an easy-to-use package that does all this letter writing at the click of a button....just type in some key words, for the topics, and it does the rest. An interesting project, actually. --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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Perl Shirts
by Samuel Kaplin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Anyone know when Joel is going to ship the perl shirts? Thanks, Sam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 Comment: PGP Signed with PineSign 1.0 iQCVAwUBMAq/xe5wXwthmZO1AQEeoQP/dnmJNi+yz5HwPVU3BCOlqLWrQlGHIGjW LcREDkaXaOWIqJB+5wr/Sc59l54niivh+PifgS72kreLgiw+Im1rF0ftAIUa1f9x 2NUvp+v1yMNB20By25jEhZHwGgMo1dKe67xOhOBVukoEhe1VLg4YO9i7XIqPCh0E WUlLMj38itQ= =zz5B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Is it legal for commercial companies to use PGP?
by tim werner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I was reading in some Where to Get PGP Web page that "PGP2.6.2 is legal to use in the U.S. for non-commercial purposes (i.e., you cannot sell it or the functionality it provides)". Can anyone on the list say whether this is true? That is, was the use of "i.e." correct, or should it have been "e.g."? Or, to put it more succinctly, I was talking to one of the sys admins at A-B, and he said that we weren't allowed to use PGP to encrypt our mail, because Viacrypt owned the commercial rights. But, according to the bit I quoted, it would only be a violation if A-B tried to put PGP into one of their products. Has anyone heard a (hopefully legal, but I'll listen to anyone's opinion) answer to this? thanks, tw -- Well, Bust My Britches! Eggs Almondine and a Bottle of Beaujolais!

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Re: Cray Computer liquidating...
by thresher!thad＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Phil Fraerling asks if there is any crypto relevance to CCC liquidating. There definately is some. They were in the middle of building a Cray 3 with .25 Million PIM processors for the NSA. It was a wild machine, basically it used the Cray to pass data back and forth very quickly among the 1 bit processors. Someone who worked on it said that it reminded him of Wayner's hypothetical DES cracking machine. It was never very close to being finished. It will be interesting to see if somebody tries to finish it, or if they use some other platform to use the PIM (processor-in-memory) chips. I'd love to see who bids for the half-finished machine at the coming liquidation... thad -- Thaddeus Beier email: thresher!thad(a)netcom.com Technology Development vox: 408) 286-3376 Hammerhead Productions fax: 408) 292-8624

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Re: \"Judgement Proof\" and Putting Up or Shutting Up
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Responding to msg by klp(a)noc.cis.umn.edu () on Mon, 17 Jul 3:4 PM >Council on Foreign Relations. > >Silly me, I thought it was the Tri-Lateral Commission >that really steered the boat, must have been wrong :) CFR -> TLC -> Opus Dei -> Cyclops in the Land of The Blind -> Blind Leading the Blind -> Wanderers in the Wilderness -> Michael Jackson Leading the World's Rainbow Children of Benetton -> Marty Rimm, 16-year-old Sheik of AC, Porno-poller of CMU -> Bob Guccione - > FC - > CFR!

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Re: "Judgement Proof" and Putting Up or Shutting Up
by tim werner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 04:32:41 +0000 (GMT) >From: attila <attila(a)PrimeNet.Com> >and, conspiracy theories non-withstanding, we the people do not govern >America --we are only given a short list of politicians who have sold >their soul to CFR's satanist inner circle. What's CFR? tw -- Well, Bust My Britches! Eggs Almondine and a Bottle of Beaujolais!

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PGP compilation problems on vax
by CHEWEY-NOUGAT-ABE 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Once upon a time I was able to successfully compile PGP 2.3 on our vax without a fuss. Then we switched over to a happy alpha vax, and all my jolly executables went the way of the dustbunny. My problem is this: neither 2.6 nor 2.3 code will compile on my alpha, apparently because the function hashpass is undefined. Anyone have an easy remedy they can email me? Thanks, Eric

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