December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

The pot and the kettle
by Bradley W. Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 20:48:13 -0700 >From: m(a)BlueRose.com (M Carling) >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >Subject: Re: Soldier of Fortune magazine. >Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com >This seems counterproductive. PGP should not be portrayed as a tool >for those that most Americans consider antisocial. But PGP _is_ a tool for those that most Americans consider antisocial: "hackers" (i.e. the computer literate). >M Carling I read SOF religiously and almost always learn something from it. I can't say the same about Time or Newsweek. bdolan(a)well.sf.ca.us

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Remailer reply addresses
by Hal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Graham's suggestion about automatic remailer reply chains reminded me of a simpler system which I would like to see. Suppose one site, somewhere, would create new mail addresses upon request, and map them to encrypted remailer chain blocks. (These are nested remailer requests, where the outer layer is encrypted for the first remailer and tells it where to send the message, the next layer is encrypted for the 2nd remailer and tells it where to send, and so on. No remailer sees anything more than where it is sending the message and where it received it from.) A new account is created which maps, say, to a file which has one of these "anonymous return addresses" in it. Any mail incoming for that address simply gets sent to the remailer in the file, with the ARA stuck in front of it. This is not complicated software. I wrote a Bourne/Korn shell script which does the whole thing in a dozen lines. What is needed is a sendmail hack to allow mail to addresses in a specified form (say anxxxxx) to be piped to this script. I don't have a machine where I can do this. If such a site were running, then I could create an ARA block and send it to that site (via a remailer, of course). The site would make me a new address and return it via the ARA. That new address would be my pseudonym. Now, when I want to send something pseudonymously, I just stick a "Reply-To" into the outgoing headers of the message as it leaves the last remailer. The remailer-chain-creation script can easily be modified to do this. The Reply-To points at the address I got back from the pseudonym server site. With this software I could do something which cannot be done today. I could send mail to which someone could hit "r" to reply, and receive that reply, without any one person knowing my pseudonym. This is not that much to ask for! I'd say it is the bare minimum for the use of pseudonyms on the net, yet we don't have it, after all this time. And look how close we are to being able to do it. With this basic system in place, some of Graham's ideas about time-limited or use-limited pseudonyms could be applied as well. Other extensions people have suggested would have the pseudonym server hold messages in inboxes until people trigger a dump to a freshly created anonymous address. A lot of things are possible. But we should walk before we run. Right now I don't feel that we are even crawling yet. Hal

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Re: US Constitution Online
by jmueller＠gac.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Jeff Davis <eagle(a)deeptht.armory.com>: > > For one thing, I suggest that everyone have a refferance with the > > Constitution with in arms reach of their terminals. > > Or *on* their terminals: > ftp://wiretap.spies.com/Gov/World/usa.con > > The same directory contains constitutions and charters of many countries, > from Chian to Slovakia, as well as the covenant of the Hamas, and the Magna > Carta. Maybe someone should mail the Constitution to president(a)whitehouse.gov - just to make sure he hasn't forgotten. -- Joel Mueller - "Here lies one whose name is writ in water." Keats GO -d+(---) -p+ c++@ l+ u++ e m+ s+/- n- h-- f+@ g+(-) w+ t(--) ry? PGP 2.3a Public Key : finger jmueller(a)gac.edu or on keyservers. "This must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays." A. Dent

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Number Theory
by Peter Murphy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, since a fair amount of people have been asking for Number Theory books (including myself, I must admit), I decided to get off my butt, and see the major number theorist in this department, Dr. Keith Matthews. He is a really nice guy, and is always interested in writing and/or distributing programs for number theory calculations. He even showed me one of his newest programs, and demostrated it by factoring 2^71 -1 for me. Anyway, I asked him if he had any bibliographies for the subjects he teaches, and could I post it to the list. Voila! Not only did he have it printed out on paper, but he also mailed me the relevant LATEX files. I have decided to remove the LATEX symbols, course codes, class times, etc., from the files and just strip it down to the textbook list. Of course, this is only for a 2nd level subject, but the Library of Congress catalog codes included should help you look for new books. There are, of course, other books on this subject. I hope people find it useful. (If anyone wants the original LATEX files, well. . . I've got those too.) So, with Dr. Matthews kind permission, I present the following refernces: (Peter Murphy. <pkm(a)maths.uq.oz.au>) {Textbooks: Number Theory} G. Andrews, "Number theory", QA 241.A5 1971, D. M. Bressoud, "Factorization and primality testing", QA161.F3B731989, T.H. Cormen, C.E. Leiserson, R.L. Rivest, "Algorithms", MIT Press, 1989, QA76.6.C6621990. H. Davenport, "The higher arithmetic", QA 241.D2 1952; G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, "Introduction to the theory of numbers", QA 241.H3 1945, T. H. Jackson, "Number theory", QA 241.J3 1975, N. Koblitz, "A course in number theory and cryptography", QA3.G7NO.114, W. J. LeVeque, "Fundamentals of number theory", QA 241.L57219771, I. Niven, H.S. Zuckermann, H.L. Montgomery, "An introduction to the theory of numbers", QA 241.N561991, O. Ore, "Invitation to number theory", QA 241.O68 1967, H. Riesel, "Prime numbers and computer methods for factorization", QA 246.R54 1985, K. Rosen, "Elementary number theory and its applications", QA 241.R67 1984, H. Shapiro, "Introduction to number theory", QA 241.S445 1983, M. Schroeder, "Number theory in science and communication", QA 241.S318 1984, W. Sierpinski, "Elementary theory of numbers", QA 241.S477 1964, H. Stark, "Introduction to the theory of numbers", QA 241.S72 1970, R. F. C. Walters, "Number theory -- an introduction", QA 241.W32 1987, N.L. Biggs, "Discrete Mathematics", QA 76.9.M35B541989, P. Giblin, "Primes and Programming", Cambridge University Press 1993. The following books are also of interest: [(a)] H. Flanders, "Scientific Pascal", QA76.73P2F551984, [(b)] R.K. Guy, "Unsolved problems in number theory", QA141.G891981. [(c)] P. Ribenboim, "The book of prime number records", QA246.R471988. {Textbooks: Cryptography} N. Koblitz, "A course in number theory and cryptography", QA3.G7NO.114, D. Welsh, "Codes and Cryptography", Oxford Science Publications, 1988, Z103.W461988 H.C.A. van Tilborg, "An Introduction to Cryptology", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, Z103.T541988 W. Patterson, "Mathematical Cryptology for Computer Scientists and Mathematicians", Rowman and Littlefield, 1987, Z103.P351987 C. Pomerance, "Cryptology and Computational Nunber Theory", Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Volume 42, AMS, QA76.9.A25C841990 D.E.R. Denning, "Cryptography and Data Security", Addison-Wesley, 1982, QA76.9.A25D461982 G. Brassard, "Modern Cryptology: a tutorial", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 325, Springer 1988, QA76.L4V.325 G.J. Simmons,"Contemporary Cryptology", IEEE Press, 1992, QA76.9.A25C66781992 { Textbooks: Error--Correcting Codes} S. Roman,"Coding and Information Theory", GTM 134, 1992, QA3.G7NO.134 S.A. Vanstone and P.C. van Ooorschot, "An Introduction to Error Correcting Codes", Kluwer Academic Publishers,1989, TK5102.5.V321989 R. Hill, "A First Course in Coding Theory", Oxford Applied Mathematics and Computing Science Series, 1986, QA268.H551986 V. Pless, "Introduction to the Theory of Error-Correcting Codes", Wiley 1982, QA268.P551982 D.G. Hoffman et al, "Coding Theory", Marcel Dekker, 1991, QA268.C691991 O. Pretzel, "Error--Correcting Codes and Finite Fields"", Oxford Applied Mathematics and Computing Science Series, Clarendon Press 1992.

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USWA
by Adam Lake 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have a thought....... Did anyone ever think of involving the USWA (no, not the United States Wrestling Association) United We Stand America in the Clipper fight? Sounds to me like this would be a mass appeal if it appeared in their newsletter. For anyone who doesn't know, this is Perot's egg hatched a few years ago. I would hope somebody on the list has a contact/is a member. Despite his weak performance in which he was GORED on CNN, I would think he would be a definite ally. adam lake(a)uenics.evansville.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Help! New Remailer?
by Halvor Kise jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello all Cypherpunks! I want to set up an anonymous remailer in Norway. I once had one, but after formating my hard disk - it's no longer there. Why you ask? There are so many remailers as it is? Well, I think that it is important to have remailers in different countries. It's a little harder for the american FBI/NSA/CIA/whatever to shut down a foreign remailer. But now there is so many to choose from... What is the diffrence between Hal's, Sameer's, Nates' and hh's remailer?? I have seen that hh's? remailer at soda.berkeley.edu can post to newsgroups. Do I need a SMTP-NNTP gateway to use this remailer WITH the option to post to newsgroups? Can all of these remailers use PGP-encryption? I'm sorry if this is newbe questions for some of you, but there are surely others who also wants to know. Thanks for helping me out! Yours, Halvor Kise jr. -- * MEMENTO MORI * _____________________________________________________ | Halvor Kise jr. * halvork(a)sofus.dhhalden.no | | * halvork(a)gyda.dhhalden.no | | Ostfold * halvork(a)frodo.dhhalden.no | | Regional College * Student at | | N-1757 Halden * Computer Science | | * | | | | Finger halvork@sofus for PGP-key | -----------------------------------------------------

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Number Theory
by Matt Thomlinson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Peter Murphy writes: >... > >and see the major number theorist in this department, Dr. Keith Matthews. >He is a really nice guy, and is always interested in writing and/or >distributing programs for number theory calculations. He even showed me >one of his newest programs, and demostrated it by factoring 2^71 -1 for Is this really that impressive? MapleV and my 386dx-20 just factored it into 212885833 * 48544121 * 228479 in a matter of 23 cpu seconds. >he teaches, and could I post it to the list. Voila! Not only did he have >it printed out on paper, but he also mailed me the relevant LATEX files. way cool. thanks for the legwork.. >{Textbooks: Number Theory} >... >N. Koblitz, "A course in number theory and cryptography", QA3.G7NO.114, Speaking of who .. he's at my university. :) Nice guy; one of the people who offered to help me with the remailer situation last year. Funny thing; last year the computer administrators wouldn't even allow a copy of PGP to reside on their systems -- now it is part of their public account (student-run officially University unsupported software, usable by all). >H. Shapiro, "Introduction to number theory", QA 241.S445 1983, this isn't the Hawk Shapiro..? >D.E.R. Denning, "Cryptography and Data Security", Addison-Wesley, 1982, > QA76.9.A25D461982 sigh. mt Matt Thomlinson University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. phone: (206) 548-9804 Check my home page -- ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/phantom/home.html PGP 2.2 key available via email, or finger phantom(a)hardy.u.washington.edu

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fake pgp messages
by hh＠xcf.Berkeley.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

in the process of doing stuff to fight traffic analysis, i need to generate a bunch of fake pgp messages. it is possible to asciiarmor random bits, but this is pretty easy to spot. does anyone know a good way to generate a large amount of bogus pgp messages? e

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Re: fake pgp messages
by Jeff Davis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Eric Hollander asked about faking pgp messages. How much disk space do you have? I have a couple of megs of active files of text I could email you and you could just send them out as ascii.armored real messages. -- PGP PUBLIC KEY via finger! JAFEFFM Speaking & Thinking For Myself! * eagle(a)deeptht.armory.com email info(a)eff.org * *** O U T L A W S On The E L E C T R O N I C F R O N T I E R **** ***** Committed to Free Public Internet Access for World Peace *****

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rng, anyone?
by Erich von Hollander 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

i'm doing some stuff on this remailer which requires a good rng. perl's rng just calls c's rng, which totally sucks. does anyone know of a cryptographically sound rng i can use? i could just call it from perl or something. thanks, e

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