December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: GAK patents, anyone?
by stonedog＠ns1.net-gate.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Sean Roach wrote: > At 01:34 AM 9/9/97 +0200, Anonymous wrote: > > >International terrorism as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2331 is > >"activities that > >(A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life > >that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United > >States or of any State, or that would be a criminal > >violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United > >States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended (i) to > >intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to > >influence the policy of a government by intimidation or > >coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by > >assassination or kidnaping." I can't read this paragraph without shaking my head in awe. Even if their motives were for the best, which is certainly debateable, who here _can't_ think of a few incidents where our own government's agencies were involved in _exactly_ these sorts of activities? I realize that I'm not saying anything that hasn't been noted time and again in this forum, but I suppose I'm young enough that this sort of blatant doublespeak just blows my mind. -stonedog

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Cryptography book source
by Joel McNamara 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just stumbled on to an online book vendor that advertises over a million titles available for order, many discounted from list. Very nice Web interface. A quick search for "cryptography" displayed 121 titles. A wide range, from Crypto proceedings to technical to historical. Check out: http://www.amazon.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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No Subject
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate wrote: > Let's look at an admittedly contrived example but I believe it will suffice. > There are two fires at opposite ends of the coverage area for a fire house. > On Saturday they receive a call to go to one end, where the wealthy live. > Would you have the owner pay prior to the firemen putting the fire out? > Would they pay some premium beforehand? Now on Sunday a fire occurs on the > other end where the poor are. Assuming they can't pay the bill would the > firemen drive away? If so, wouldn't this in fact pose a threat not only to > the other poor but also the wealthy since the fire might spread if it got > large enough. Would the wealthy then be asked to pay for that run of the > fire truck? What if they refused, how would the firemen pay for the food to > feed their family? Perhaps go out and burn down more rich houses... Contrived? Did you read the post from News of the Weird about the funeral home owners in Bankok(?) who were paying hospital employees to murder patients who were known to them and likely to use their services when they died? (Subject: Oxygen Escrow?) Sadly, no matter what sicko, bizarre scenario you wish to 'contrive' in order to illustrate a point, if your point is valid, then it is likely that you can find a real-life example that runs parallel to it.

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Crypto *import* ban?
by Brad Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What exactly does a ban on import of "defense articles and services" which are not in "furtherance of world peace" mean? Could you ban crypto imports? Imports of chopped liver? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Here is a final rule issued by ATF regarding the import of "defense articles" into the United States. It appears in the Federal Register at 60 FR 47866 (9/15/950). This becomes a regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 27 CFR, part 47, Importation of Arms. Sec. 47.52 Import restricitons applicable to certain countries. (a) It is the policy of the United States to deny licenses and other approvals with respect to defense articles and defense services originating in certain countries or areas. This policy applies to Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mongolia, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Vietnam, and the States that comprise the former Soviet Union [list of countries omitted]. This policy applies to countries or areas with respect to which the United States maintains an arms embargo [list of countries omitted]. It also applies when an import would not be in furtherance of world peace and the security and foreign policy of the United States. [end excerpt]

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Deadly Argyles [was Miami Vice]
by jordan＠macandco.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>>> Here's one: http://cnn.com/US/9709/09/briefs.pm/crime.sock.reut/index.html - Jordan <<<< He should have kept them rolled in his pants where they belong! For the browser impaired: [Begin quotation] Police think sock is gun, shoot man September 9, 1997 Web posted at: 7:43 p.m. EDT (2343 GMT) MIAMI (Reuter) -- A Florida man who covered his hand with a sock to work on his car was recovering in the hospital Tuesday after being shot by police who were told he had a gun. Bobby Whipple, 27, had wrapped his hand in a dark sock while working on his car Saturday, prompting at least two people to alert police to a man wielding a gun. After receiving the reports, 14 officers surrounded Whipple and five of them, including one using a shotgun that shoots pellets, opened fire when he did not respond to calls to put his "weapon" down. A spokeswoman at Jackson Memorial Hospital said Whipple was in good condition. "Witnesses said that he had a gun and the officers assumed they were correct ... He took the position of an aggressive stance," said Pat Brickman, a spokesman for the Metro-Dade Police Department. "At this point, we don't have any indication that they acted inappropriately when faced with deadly force." The Miami Herald reported that Whipple's attorney was preparing a civil rights lawsuit against the police department over the shooting. Copyright 1997 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

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DH in IE and NT
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Microsoft will use Diffie-Hellman in Internet Explorer 4.0 and Windows NT. See: http://www.cylink.com/html/microsoft.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNBbQejltEBIEF0MBAQFqowf+MnienInvTNqib8YfVxKXLQMpw17yymA2 YRlXalaClmwMnE2LzMwBKqwC9wFm+FPNWIAz8q5O36+k9IEDepCVazZpyar64/En HhUZ+7F8ZGnuxvNScDBhexxUFkSAU/fuPRcqETZIMwE1kHIBGkVO/28KBF+MJ8Aj engwErZi6lFHMqiS8378/iyJ01wxRmMqI2sMTeF7Ub8kWMh7bEq24y9xF8mRVwsg DAguXZsagGapgB/pIqT/L4xP2uBIxYCKrqCJw6KtB9tsffraw9NHBzvkaZn1d7bo c2V7GF4adk6BE4oFmdjRa03o6j0nr8sKpHPlHlxo1hmslZ8fjPxTWQ== =LXf8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Anyone for testing MOSS?
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've just gotten TISMOSS 7.1 running (whew!) and wondered if there was anyone else out there who could exchange encrypted email with me. Here is my public key: alias:raph@cs.berkeley.edu public-key:MFkwCgYEVQgBAQICAgADSwAwSAJBAKQ2qG5eZDa58HpVxM9fpru2hDVVkw0iK GC3BMhagHpio7XlGydpkbY3iSV08U92VVbkyTeB2aWhSe2xUUaONPsCAwEAAQ== I guess I'll probably wait until next week to test S/MIME. Raph

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XDM has the same problem as netscape ?!
by iagoldbe＠csclub.uwaterloo.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In article <9509210631.AA18308(a)sfi.santafe.edu>, Nelson Minar <nelson(a)santafe.edu> wrote: >Last time I looked, the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 scheme used in X11R4 had >the same problem: the random seed was based on the current time to the >microsecond, modulo the granularity of the system clock. I think I >figured that on my hardware, if I could figure out which minute the X >server started (easy with finger), I'd only have to try a few >thousand keys or so. Caveat: I never actually proved the idea. Wow. I just checked, and Nelson's right. The seed is this: #ifdef ITIMER_REAL { struct timeval now; X_GETTIMEOFDAY (&now); ldata[0] = now.tv_sec; ldata[1] = now.tv_usec; } #else { long time (); ldata[0] = time ((long *) 0); ldata[1] = getpid (); } #endif and if you don't have XDMAUTH defined, the auth value is this: seed = (ldata[0]) + (ldata[1] << 16); srand (seed); for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { value = rand (); auth[i] = value & 0xff; } Oh, well. We knew X didn't have much in the way of security, anyway... - Ian

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by owl＠owlsnest.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: economic espionage (@#$%^&*)
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vlad writes: >I would *die* to see an op-ed in the NYT with the subject: >"economic espionage: the new bogeyman decoy after the cold war" You might want to prepare your memorial service, then, as I recall reading editorials along these lines back around 1990, when "should the NSA be used for economic espionage?" was in the news. Not the exact title of their editorial, but the gist was that turning the NSA into a spy agency at the beck and call of Ford and Motorola is a bad idea. But if you die, Vlad, "the vznuri," at least you have seven other functioning tentacles. --Tim May Notice: Don't expect me to reply to trivial questions and complaints. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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