December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Eternity Server 0.04 Available
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am pleased to announce that I have successfully installed Adam Back's "Eternity Server" on my home page. This server permits a user to transparently browse Web content posted to Usenet in encrypted form in newsgroups like alt.anonymous.messages. Eventually, the Eternity Server will also serve web content from a variety of more permanent repositories, like Altavista and Dejanews. The Eternity Webspace is comprised of http URLs in a new virtual top level domain, .eternity. All documents are PGP signed, and posters may optionally choose to have their domains indexed in a top level directory under the URL http://eternity/. PGP is used for encryption, and documents may require the user to supply a password before they can be viewed. Documents may also be encrypted with the hash of the URL, so that documents are only accessible to individuals who already know their names. Although I expect most people will want to install their own servers in their Unix shell accounts, I will leave my server open for a little while so that people can play before installing the software. To try it out, just select the "Eternity Server" link on my homepage http://www.zipcon.com/~enoch In order that people have something to browse, I have seeded alt.anonymous.messages with two virtual web sites. The first of these has a URL of http://barney.eternity/ and is a single document describing different ways one might kill a certain purple dinosaur. The second has a URL of http://boylinks.eternity/ and is a large index of boy-related resources on the Web, recently made homeless by the CPAC/Sewer people. The authors have devoted their best efforts to make sure this list contains no links to porn or illegal material. The latest version of the eternity server may be found at Adam Back's Web site and is called eternity-0.04.tgz. You will need Perl 5 and access to cgi-bin to install it. The eternity home page is... http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/eternity Included are the eternity server, written in perl, and a "sitegrabber," which can be used to post entire websites to Usenet. Enjoy... -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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Re: NEXT CHALLENGE: so, when does it start?
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, I've got the program, and I'm ready to start sweeping (about 35,600 keys/sec on a P5 90 Mhz NT machine - have to see how many I can draft for this) - I even compiled for Win 3.11 (less than 800 keys/sec on a 486/33 - don't think I'll bother). I've got the challenge file from Adam's messages. But when do we start? Have we started already? Have we completed? It's difficult to tell. There was talk of starting at 12:00GMT (about 6 AM here on the east coast), but there was no 'start now' message to the list. At Adam's site, I can see that 'project 11fa' has been completed, but the key (000000001234) looks like test data. If I try to allocate keys, I get the 600 SLEEP 3600 message, which suggests strongly that the seach has not started yet. Adam, when you fix a time to start the search, could you: 1. Send a message to the list, clearly saying so, and giving the time. 2. Put a <h1>headline</h1> in your page saying it's underway? Thanks. Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation trei(a)process.com

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House Report on SAFE
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

House Report 105-108, Part 2, July 25, 1997, reports on the recent House International Relations Committee action on Goodlatte's SAFE crypto bill, and includes analysis, supporting and dissenting views, and a few letters sent to the committee: http://jyx.com/hr105-108-pt2.htm (87K) As before offered, see HR 105-108, Part 1, published at the end of May: http://jyx.com/hr105-108-pt2.txt (94K) Note: that's JYX.COM, (same as 108240.primehost.com) our temp site to fill in for remanded JYA which is to be unJimmed soon, isn't it, your honor, what stink you screeching about, that's just rotting pork.

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Re: C$ prize for bruting Hal's next challenge?
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 19:50 8/22/95, aba(a)atlas.ex.ac.uk wrote: >I hereby donate c$ 50 to the pot, mail me your c$. (It won't be a >good idea if you post your c$ to the lists, as the first person to >cash it gets it, you need to do it in private email, PGP it even). To >generate your payment either save it to a file, or email directly to >me via the digicash client, click on the icon which looks like a note >(is that what it's supposed to be? the one next to the bank symbol), >then choose to send via file / email toggle make payment, enter the >amount (leave the shop account ID blank, give a payment description if >you like). I like the idea, but there are two problems with it: -Not all platfoms let you save e$ to a file. You got to open a shop. -Leaving the shop ID blank won't work. You got to use @ (wildcard) for shop ID to turn e$ into a bearer certificate. Get the shop going and I'll donate e$50 -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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Re: NEXT CHALLENGE: so, when does it start?
by aba＠dcs.exeter.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Well, I've got the program, and I'm ready to start sweeping > (about 35,600 keys/sec on a P5 90 Mhz NT machine - have to see > how many I can draft for this) - I even compiled for Win 3.11 (less > than 800 keys/sec on a 486/33 - don't think I'll bother). > > I've got the challenge file from Adam's messages. > > But when do we start? Have we started already? Have we completed? Soon. No. And not yet. > It's difficult to tell. There was talk of starting at 12:00GMT (about 6 > AM here on the east coast), but there was no 'start now' message to > the list. At Adam's site, I can see that 'project 11fa' has been > completed, but the key (000000001234) looks like test data. Yes confusion abound. Dead mailer for me, Piete away for a while (back now). Rest assured big announce of a deadline when it is fixed, with plenty of warning. Perhaps a start time of day which is more convenient would be better, also for people using WWW, few likely to be around at 6AM, perhaps later in the day, when the time is decided. > If I try to allocate keys, I get the 600 SLEEP 3600 message, which > suggests strongly that the seach has not started yet. Yes, correct. For people with the unix client, this means they can leave the client running already, and it will sleep in 1hr chunks, until there is something on the server to do. > Adam, when you fix a time to start the search, could you: > > 1. Send a message to the list, clearly saying so, and giving the > time. Okay will do. Adam

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Re: Netly News Fan Mail
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mike Duvos wrote: > It appears that the CPAC/Sewer folks have read the recent Netly News > article on their activities and were not pleased. This little blurb > healines the "Sewer List" this morning. > > -----Begin Officer Paladino Rant----- > > July 29, 1997, I was told of an article that appeared on the Net. > It appeared on a Netly News site. ... > In the article he links to a few sites showing young boys but he > forgot to link to the 1000's of sites showing young boys in the > nude. > You will see sites exposing young boys, as young as 4 years old, > nude. Strange. I followed some of the links on the Sewer site, and all I found was that they were harassing and slandering people with perfectly legitimate reasons for having normal pictures of clothed children on their site. Are child actors supposed to put pictures of adults who look similar to them on their web sites? Are pictures of themself (fully clothed) "pornography" when gay teens put them on a web site, but pictures of themself that Christian teens put of themself on s web site are "wholesome?" > Freedom is a great thing and this is the greatest country in the > world. I wonder how many soldiers that gave their lifes fighting > for that freedom, had pictures of nude boys in their wallets, > instead of their families. Think about > that....................... No doubt some of those soldiers had naked pictures of their children in their wallets, but I doubt if those pictures gave them a hard-on, as they would obviously do for Officer Paladino. Officer Paladino seems to fail to understand that "his" hard-on does not make "other" people perverts. > -----End Officer Paladino Rant----- > Will someone please buy this poor man a spell-checker? :) Intelligence and educations are not requirements to become a member of the Righteous Right. Neither are tolerance and respect for the personal moral beliefs of others. It will be interesting to see whose "moral values" prevail on the InterNet when the laws and traditions of various societies and nations come into conflict. My prediction is that it will be the moral values of the most intolerant nation with the largest weapons. Dr. Anonymous

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Re: C$ prize for bruting Hal's next challenge?
by aba＠dcs.exeter.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> writes: > > [me on donating to the c$ prize fund for Hal's 2nd challenge] > I like the idea, but there are two problems with it: > -Not all platfoms let you save e$ to a file. You got to open a shop. > -Leaving the shop ID blank won't work. You got to use @ (wildcard) for shop > ID to turn e$ into a bearer certificate. > > Get the shop going and I'll donate e$50 Okay, a quick email conversation with Mark Grant as to how one goes about doing shops via cgi/www, and a brief bit of fiddling, and here we are: http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/sslprize.html Just click on amount to donate to the pot. Pay in parts if the amount you want isn't there (ie 15 c$ = 5 c$ + 10 c$). cpunks + ecm folks + digicash enthousiasts, accepting your c$ donations now! Adam

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Re: uncensorable net based payment system?
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> said: >Then I can have some net cash savings backed by the rights to 1Tb of >bandwidth at 100 Mb/sec. 100 Mb/sec for 3 days. > >A problem with this is that the market prices of the assets is >continually dropping. How do I hedge against this. Can I buy futures? >Sell 100 Mb/sec for 3 days now in exchange for 200 Mb/sec for 3 days in 1 >years time at an predicted equivalent value? I could imaging making a currency backed by "megabytes of data transfered" to and from my server here in Anguilla. This could be to run a web page, mailing list, or whatever. But you are right that it is an asset continually dropping in value, so it is an odd thing to back a currency with. Would only want to keep enough money in it to do what you currently wanted to do, not as a long term investment. I could imaging just gradually increasing it so that $0.25 for 1 megabyte today became $0.25 for 1.1 megabytes in 3 months, or something like that. Interesting idea... -- Vince

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URGENT ANOTHER SCIENTOLOGY RAID: FACTNET
by syrinx＠c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FORWARDED FROM: alt.religion.scientology Believe it or not, Co$ has just struck again! I just talked with Lawrence Wollersheim of FACTNet in Golden, Colorado. As I type (10:20 a.m. PDT), Federal marshals are looking on as Co$ goons grab all of FACTNet's computers, records, archives, and on and on. Look for more information shortly. Please post this EVERYWHERE. Get the word out! -------------------------------------------------------- A special note to T.C. May: These are nice people, eh. Three raids for posting unsealed court documents. Get a clue Tim!

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Re: Third World Man
by monty.harder＠famend.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

TC> When a certain character in a television show referred to "Third World TC> mutants," he was also referring to "your basic brown types." (His words, TC> not mine. Ten credits to anyone who can identify the t.v. show and the TC> character.) "Hill Street Blues", Lt. Howard Hunter. TC> The term "Fourth World" has in the last 20 years come to refer to the TC> countries which are so impoverished as to be almost hopeless. Bangla Desh TC> is the canonical Fourth World nation. Cyberia is the "Fifth World", akin to the "Fifth Dimension". Let the sun shine.... * I love my country. * I fear my government. --- * Monster(a)FAmend.Com *

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