December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Flynt Daughter is pro CDA [fwd][news]
by Vipul Ved Prakash 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

*** Keep cyberporn from children, Flynt daughter says Anti-pornography activist Tonya Flynt-Vega said Friday she was "very disappointed" the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law meant to keep Internet smut away from children. Flynt-Vega, 32, daughter of Hustler magazine founder Larry Flynt, said children tended to be much more computer-literate than adults and were especially prone to "unwelcome contacts" on the Internet. " ... I want there to be some laws regulating that stuff. Don't put it in my face or my child's face," she said. The Supreme Court ruled June 26 that Congress violated free-speech rights when it tried to curb smut on the Internet. For story http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5031497-28e -- Powell lingered. "How's Earth?" It was a conventional enough question and Muller gave the conventional answer, "Still spinning." -- "Reason", Asimov. ================================================================== Vipul Ved Prakash | - Electronic Security & Crypto vipul(a)best.com | - Web Objects 91 11 2233328 | - PERL Development 198 Madhuban IP Extension | - Linux & Open Systems Delhi, INDIA 110 092 | - Networked Virtual Spaces

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[URGENT] Blowfish
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timmy C[rook] May's reheated, refurbished, and regurgitated cud is completely inappropriate for the mailing lists into which it is cross-ruminated. _______c___c / /_ _\ | ((6)(6)) Timmy C[rook] May ( )_ __\\ //__ o___n) (nn)\o/(nn)

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EAR question
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If crypto source code is published in printed form and distributed under a non-disclousre agreement does it meet the uncontrolled export criteria under the new EAR regs? My question seems to hinge on the definition of "general distribution," in Sec. 734.7. The key passages seem to be: Sec. 734.3 Items subject to the EAR. * * * * * (b) * * * (3) Publicly available technology and software, except software controlled for EI reasons under ECCN 5D002 on the Commerce Control List, that: (i) Are already published or will be published as described in Sec. 734.7 of this part; (ii) Arise during, or result from, fundamental research, as described in Sec. 734.8 of this part; (iii) Are educational, as described in Sec. 734.9 of this part; (iv) Are included in certain patent applications, as described in Sec. 734.10 of this part. Note to paragraphs (b)(2) and (b)(3) of this section: A printed book or other printed material setting forth encryption source code is not itself subject to the EAR (see Sec. 734.3(b)(2)). However, notwithstanding Sec. 734.3(b)(2), encryption source code in electronic form or media (e.g., computer diskette or CD ROM) remains subject to the EAR (see Sec. 734.3(b)(3)). Sec. 734.7 Published information and software. * * * * * (b) Software and information is published when it is available for general distribution either for free or at a price that does not exceed the cost of reproduction and distribution. See Supplement No. 1 to this part, Questions G(1) through G(3).

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encouraging digital pseudonyms
by Wei Dai 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One of Tim's suggested cypherpunk projects is to encourage the use of digital pseudonyms (i.e. cryptographically persistent entities not linked with True Names). I think the main reason why pseudonyms are not used more widely is the lack of support on client software, especially on the receiver side. When I see a piece of email sent to the cypherpunks list from an anonymous remailer, I typically delete it without reading, because there is no easy way to tell between anynoymous email (which are typically junk) and pseudonymous email, and there is no easy way to filter by pseudonym. Of course the long-term solution is to get native pseudonym support on the client software, but in the mean time there is a fairly simple workaround if someone wants to volunteer a modest amount of resources. That person should set up a mailing list that simply resends cypherpunk traffic that are signed by pseudonyms. To help filtering, the pseudonym's key hash should be prepended to the subject. When this is done, those of us who want to can filter out everything sent by remailers to the cypherpunks mailing list and subscribe to the proposed service. If enough of us do this, it should motivate anonymous senders to set up persistent identities. If the trouble of generating new pseudonyms is not enough to discourage the anonymous junk, the proposed service can charge ecash or hashcash either per pseudonym or per email.

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Re: Mixmaster posting poll
by Erik E. Fair 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:40 9/13/95, Lance Cottrell wrote: > >I seem to recall that someone on this list wrote some mail2news software, >Who was it and which standard did it follow (if either). Has anyone installed >it? Is anyone else planning to install it. I will install a gateway when I >get my T1 (in a couple of months). Rich Salz wrote mail2news, based on some ugly stuff I wrote, ages ago. Erik Fair

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Explaining Zero Knowledge to your children
by danisch＠ira.uka.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is a paper about explaining Zero Knowledge methods in simple words. It's titled "Explainig Zero Knowledge Authentication to your children" or something similar. It's said to be in the proceedings of any conference. Does anybody know where to find it? Thanks Hadmut

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cryptography eliminates lawyers?
by terrell＠sam.neosoft.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: "Cortland D. Starrett" <cort(a)bioanalytical.com> >Subject: cryptography eliminates lawyers? >As a follow-up to the article reference I posted, I pose the >following question: > >Will cryptographic technology and information (communication) >technology reduce the need for legal services in the future? >(especially regarding contracts, buying/selling, patent law, etc.) >Will legal services just look different? Will they be more >efficient (cheaper)? > >Put bluntly, will cryptography put lawyers out of business? >Any comments would be appreciated. > >Cort. > How could crypto put lawyers out of business? People would still have disagreements; plans would still go wrong; cars would still crash. More important, transactions would still need to be structured to carry out the desires of the parties while minimizing risks. Good communications technology, including crypto, could make lawyering more efficient, but I suspect the savings would be minimal. Communications technology will no more put lawyers out of business than CASE put programmers out of business. Buford C. Terrell 1303 San Jacinto Street Professor of Law Houston, TX 77002 South Texas College of Law voice (713)646-1857 terrell(a)sam.neosoft.com fax (713)646-1766

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AOL Porno
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Will the federal prosecutors and Fibbies on this list please emphasize that the Internet was not involved in the AOL kiddie porn case. The Internet has enough opportunities for bad publicity as it is. DCF "Who wonders: How it is that CompuServe was able to exist from 1979 to the arrival of Prodigy and AOL without major sex, and drugs, and rock and roll problems?"

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Re: DD, pedaphiles, and Terrorists, oh my
by anonymous＠freezone.remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

September 13, 1995 PRESS BRIEFING BY MIKE MCCURRY [Snip] MR. MCCURRY: ... [The President]'ll be making some fairly significant news on Thursday. So he'll be very busy next week. Q News? What kind of news? Q News on what? MR. MCCURRY: You'll see next week. [Snip] Q What about Thursday -- Q Are you going? MR. MCCURRY: Half and half, I think. I'll go -- I think there are some days that look more political; I don't think it's necessary for me to be there. Q What will be the general topic on Thursday? MR. MCCURRY: On Thursday? Technology. [Snip to end] URL: http://docs.whitehouse.gov/white-house-publications/ 1995/09/1995-09-13-press-briefing-by-mike-mccurry.text ---------- Any scuttlebutt that computer security, the Internet or encryption are the "technology?" Or related to the NYT spin today on LEA-web-snooping: "We are not going to permit exciting new technology to be misused to exploit and injure children," Attorney General Janet Reno said today in announcing the arrests. The culmination of the inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigatlon comes at a time when the agency has needed some favorable attention to offset a string of incidents that have cast it in a negative light. Its officials have come under fire for their role in the siege at Waco, Tex., the standoff with a white separatist in Idaho and, most recently, over an attempt to cover up aspects in the Idaho incident. Or diversion from the allegations of Special Agent Whitehurst that Feeb lab rats and bosses are corrupt -- tar-morphing even Golden Boy Freeh. Pray that kid-loving Reno HRTs the abusive brats.

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[NOISE] Alice's Remailer site (was:Re: Digital Fingerprinting)
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: patrick(a)Verity.COM (Patrick Horgan) > > From: Mac Norton <mnorton(a)cavern.uark.edu> > > To: Patrick Horgan <patrick(a)Verity.COM> > > On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Patrick Horgan wrote: > > > > > Then, in W.Ky., as in Stockbridge, "You can get > > > > > anything you want..."? :) > > > Why do I feel like I'm sitting on the group W bench? > > I don't know, kid, what you in for? > Encryption. And they all moved away from me on the group W bench there, > talking mean hairy eyeballs and all sorts of things until I said, and > annoying the NSA, and they all moved back, talking about crime, PEM, PGP, > and liberty and justice for all;) > Patrick I've seen various 'Alice Restaurant' pastiches, Alice's NNTP server, Alices MIT GUI, etc. I guess it's time to try to do one for crypto.... This song is called Alice's Remailer site and it's about Alice, and the remailer site, but Alices Remailer site is not the name of the Remailer site, it's the name of the song, and that's why I called this song Alice's Remailer site. You can send anything you want through Alices Remailer site. You can send anything you want through Alices Remailer site. Connect right in it's around the back. Halfway down that seventeen inch rack. You can be anyone you want through Alice's Remailer site. etc.... Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation http://www.process.com trei(a)process.com

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