December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Wearing RSA shirt to school
by Ian Goldberg 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK, I'm confused. Is it or is it not legal to disclose cryptology to a foreigner? T.C.May (I think it was; sorry if I misremember this) posted a couple of days ago that it _was_ legal (citing that textbooks are not stopped from being published internationally). Perhaps this is just because the publishers of these texts never applied for an export license (maybe)? I was reading Bernstein vs. US Dept. of State, et al. (http://pgp.ai.mit.edu/~bal/legal/complaint-950221.html) and found this: G. RESULT OF DEFENDANTS' REJECTION OF PLAINTIFF'S CJ REQUEST 71. Plaintiff's scientific paper, algorithm and computer program are speech protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Thus, by rejecting Plaintiff's CJ Request, Defendants have determined that these items are "defense articles or defense services" which may not be exported without submitting to the above-described prior restraints. Since Defendants define "export" to include disclosing or transferring cryptology to a foreign person anywhere in the world, including within the United States, Plaintiff is informed and believes and therefore alleges that he is required by law to obtain a license to publish or publicly discuss any of the Items whether within or outside the United States. 72. Plaintiff is presently unable to publish his scientific paper, algorithm or computer program within or outside the United States. The only reason preventing publication is the threat of prosecution for an illegal export if he does so without a license. 73. To this date, Plaintiff has not received a response to his appeal or a license to publish his paper, algorithm, or computer program and as a result, he has not published the Items. So it seems to me (at least according to the Plaintiff (EFF, I guess)), that the ITAR regulations _do_ restrict publication and public discussion of cryptology. - Ian "and why is Canada considered part of the US for this?"

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Re: Emergency File Wipe Algorithim
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:44 9/5/95, Andrew Loewenstern wrote: >Of course, you data must be worth quite a pretty penny for an attacker to >attempt to recover data from the oxides on the cells in your RAM. Didn't I just read a day ago that Robert Morris (ex-NSA) cautioned that one should never underestimate the time and effort an opponent is willing to put into recovering your data? May I also point out that the rules of economics do not apply to the federal government, since it insits - quite successfully - on having a monoploy on using lethal force to extract arbitraily large amounts from hundreds of millions of working Americans? -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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Re: Non-US SSL128 site
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > a) Use 128 bit SSL if the client allows it. > > b) Tell users which cipher is being used on a secure session. > Netscape's press release on the RC4-40 crack seems to have disappeared from > their home page, but I don't remember any specific mention of 128-bit > U.S.-only clients, just servers. > So what's up? Netscape sells a 128-bit US-only client for $39 Peter Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation http://www.process.com trei(a)process.com

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Re: Welfare Solution #389
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tom Mix wrote: > I could imagine that a junkie who takes some old lady's purse to buy > heroin is victimizing the old lady, but is a student smoking marijuana > and drinking a beer victimizing anyone? What about a heroin junkie who > is rich, though unpopular, and never committed any other crime? Have > they made themselves a victim of something? Maybe so...the needle, > the darkness, the overwhelming Love Which Cannot Be Real. But the > state shouldn't recognize "mystical entities" like this as perpetrators. > The person in this case is making a choice; they will do no harm but > to themselves. Are they then a victim, or a perpetrator, or both? -- Excerpt from "Victim" (c) County Mountie Productions -- {Passage sung by purse snatcher who is mugging little old lady.} "I knocked her dowm, stepped on her face, Slandered her name all over the place. Hit her with my fist, kicked her with my shoe, "I said, "Lady, I'm a victim. A victim, just like you. I'm a victim of a Bad Attitude." -- When this song was recorded, it was somewhat tragically ironic, but it proved to be prophetic. I believe that "Bad Attitude" is now a recognized psychiatric illness, allowing one a reduced sentence and monetary support from the government while the poor victim of "Bad Attitude" takes "the cure" on the beaches of the Hawaii. I know a man in Tucson who worked all his life, spent all of his money recovering from an accident, and then couldn't get welfare money when he needed a few more months of recuperation before returning to work. The lady who turned him down made the mistake of commenting that it was a shame he wasn't a drug addict, because then he would "qualify" for welfare. The man lived on the streets for several months, barely surviving, until he was healthy enough to work, and he has never paid a dime in taxes since then. What is even more atrocious is that a church that he attended occasionally turned down his request for minimal assistance, because their policy was to only help those who qualified for government benefits (in order to help weed out the "bums"). He wasn't "entitled" to the church's help as a Christian, but he would have been, as an agnostic junkie. I met the man in the park, and gave him a place to live for the last month of his recuperation, so he could shit, shower, shave and use it as a base to look for work. In the next two years, the company he went to work for bought around $50,000 worth of computers from me. Before this experience, the man was a "God and Country" type of individual who probably would have turned in anyone he found was "cheating" on their taxes. Now he is perfectly willing to go to jail rather than give the robber barons their booty.

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Oct 13-14 IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers(ISWC)
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 03:22:15 -0500 From: <testarne(a)media.mit.edu> To: technomads(a)UCSD.EDU Subject: Oct 13-14 IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) Actually, Steve, can you use this one instead? Thad Starner MIT Media Laboratory Wearable Computing Project -------------------------------------- Oct 13-14 IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) The International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) is the first annual conference on computers that are worn as clothing. The conference is peer reviewed and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. The purpose of ISWC is to bring together researchers, product vendors, research sponsors, and other interested persons to share information and advances in wearable computers and augmented reality. The conference will include paper presentations, exhibitions, and poster sessions. Registration is now open at http://mime1.marc.gatech.edu/wearcon/ Reserve your space before SEPTEMBER 1ST for the best hotel rates. A list of topics from the CFP and the advance program is below. Please forward! Thad Starner MIT Media Laboratory Wearable Computing Project -------------- >From the CFP: CONFERENCE TOPICS The topics for ISWC may include: o Applications, including affective computing, augmented reality, computer-supported collaborative work, computer-supported cooperative living, ubiquitous computing, personal imaging, consumer applications, industrial applications, medical applications, military applications, and software agents o Ergonomics o Future of wearable computing o Hardware, including head-mounted display technologies, batteries, power management, heat dissipation techniques, industrial design techniques, and manufacturing packaging issues o Human interface issues, including hands-free user speech recognition, mobility-challenged users, user modeling, user evaluations, and health issues o Networks, including wireless networks, on-body networks, the World Wide Web, and networked vs. standalone computers o Operating system issues o Social implications o Software architectures o Training, including performance support systems ---------- International Symposium on Wearable Computers Advance Program Monday, October 13, 1997 8:00 - 8:30 Coffee, Put Up Posters I 8:30 - 8:40 Opening Remarks 8:40 - 10:10 Evaluation Studies Evaluation of three input mechanisms for wearable computers by B. Thomas, S. Tyerman, and K. Grimmer Wearable computers for performance support by J. Ockerman, L. Najjar, and C. Thompson A field usability evaluation of a wearable system by J. Siegel and M. Bauer 10:10 - 10:30 View Posters I, Demos, Coffee 10:30 - 12:00 Industrial and Business Applications Mobile approach support system for future machine tools by R. Daude and M. Weck Factory Automation Support Technology (FAST): A new paradigm of continuous learning and support using a wearable by C. Thompson, L. Najjar, and J. Ockerman Wearable computers for three-dimensional CSCW by M. Billinghurst, S. Weghorst, and T. Furness III 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 New Hardware, Software Technology Eyeglass-mounted displays for wearable computing by M. B. Spitzer, N. M. Rensing, R. McClelland, and P. Aquilino Intrabody buses for data and power by R. Post, M. Reynolds, M. Gray, J. Paradiso, and N. Gershenfeld Software organization for dynamic and adaptable wearable systems by S. Fickas, G. Kortuem, and Z. Segall 3:00 - 4:00 View Posters, Demos, Coffee 4:00 - 6:00 Invited Talks Dick Urban, DARPA Rick Satava, DARPA Jerry Bowskill, BT David Mizell, Boeing 6:00 - 6:30 Take Down Posters I, Demos ---- Tuesday, October 14, 1997 8:30 - 9:00 Coffee, Put Up Posters II 9:00 -10:00 Personal Applications An historical account of wearable computing by S. Mann A touring machine: Prototyping 3D mobile augmented reality systems for exploring the urban environment by S. Feiner, B. MacIntyre, T. Hollerer, and A. Webster 10:00 - 10:30 View Posters II, Demos, Coffee 10:30 - 12:00 New Sensors, Displays Tactual displays for wearable computing by H. Tan and A. Pentland Affective wearables by R. W. Picard and J. Healey A sensate liner for personnel monitoring applications by E. Lind, S. Jayaraman, R. Rajamanickam, R. Eisler, and T. McKee 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 Communications Canard: A framework for community messaging by P. Chesnais Metronaut: A wearable computer with sensing and global communication capabilities by A. Smailagic The wearable remembrance agent: A system for augmented memory by B. Rhodes 3:00 - 4:00 View Posters II, Demos, Coffee 4:00 - 5:30 Using Wearable Sensors A wearable computer based American Sign Language recognizer by T. Starner, J. Weaver, and A. Pentland Stochasticks: Augmenting the billiards experience with probabilistic vision and wearable computers by T. Jebara, Cyrus Eyster, J. Weaver, T. Starner, and A. Pentland Towards situated computing by R. Hull, P. Neaves, and J. Bedford-Roberts 5:30 - 6:00 Take Down Posters II, Demos --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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approx of bignum^rational
by cman＠communities.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone have a good method for approximating bignums raised rational exponents in the interval [0,1]? Thanks, Douglas Barnes Electric Communities

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Scientology and police visit XS4ALL Amsterdam
by announce 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: XS4ALL Internet Postbus 22864 1100 DJ Amsterdam tel: +31 20 6222885 fax: +31 20 6222753 PRESS RELEASE ------------- Police and members of Scientology church enter offices of XS4ALL ================================================================ Amsterdam - thuesday september 5, 1995. Today at about 14:00, XS4ALL was visited by Mr. S. Braan, bailiff. He was acting on behalf of the Religious Technology Centre, better known as the Scientology Church, or Scientology for short. He was assisted by a local police officer and Mr. Hermans from the 'Nauta-Dutilh' legal firm that represents Scientology in The Netherlands. Also present were two computer experts (Mr. Ootjes and Mr. Van Suchtelen) a locksmith (to enter had we not been present) and two American employees of Scientology, Mr. Weightman and Ms. Jenssen. Scientology is filing for seizure of XS4ALL's computer equipment. Under dutch law, this means that a bailiff comes in to record your assets. In real-life, the computer-experts that were present have recorded the types and serial numbers of all the computers in our offices. They did not take any equipment, the continuity of XS4ALL's services is not in jeopardy. What is this all about? ----------------------- The Scientology Church claims that the XS4ALL anonymous remailer was used to disseminate documents over the Internet to which the church holds the legal copyright. This has led the church to ask the president of the district court of Amsterdam to grant permission for this seizure as a prelude to legal procedures concerning damages suffered by the church. The remailer in question has been disabled more than 2 months ago. During the visit of Scientology to XS4ALL this afternoon, the remailer was not the subject of any conversation. The organisation seemed totally preoccupied with the information about Scientology that one of our users has put on his home page. Part of this information is said to be a file to which Scientology holds the copyright. If we were to delete the file in question on the spot, they were willing to drop the seizure. Responsability of Internet Providers ------------------------------------ XS4ALL categorically denies any responsability for contents of users' homepages. The users decide for themselves what is on their homepage. Since XS4ALL does not edit the homepages and has no mechanism of control over the contents we strongly feel that the users themselves are responsible for what they say on their homepage. This whole affair demonstrates the need for clarity concerning the legal postion of Internet Providers. We are shocked that our offices can be invaded bij freshly flown-in U.S. cult members. If we as Internet providers are held responsible for what our users say, that will undoubtebly kill freedom of speech on the net. Scare-tactics ------------- XS4ALL is not alone in receiving this kind of attention from Scientology. Scientology, a semi-religious multinational, is at war with a number of people on the Internet. A non-organized group of people on the net has started to openly discuss the activities of the church. Until recently, the church has always managed to supress critical voices by means of sheer intimidation and by engaging in endless legal battle. One of the people that Scientology has a problem with is 'fonss', an XS4ALL user that publishes the F.A.C.T.-net Kit on his home page (http://www.xs4all.nl/~fonss) This kit (which can be found on numerous homepages all over the Internet) consists of a large number of documents that show the true face of Scientology. One of these documents is a piece to which Scientology supposedly holds the copyright and which has been added to the kit without the church's permission. Additional information can be found on the Internet: http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/scientology/home.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~fonss news:alt.religion.scientology news:alt.censorship news:alt.clearing.technology

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Emergency File Wipe Algorithim
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 16:20 9/5/95, Andrew Loewenstern wrote: [...] >andrew >(wonders how many readers will take their keyboards apart to look for radio >transmitters) Been there. Done that. Hmm, come to think of it, it's about time for another check. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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