December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

[NOISE] Re: AWARD: CHRISTMAS NET SCROOGE - AT&T & NETSCAPE
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [ More non-crypto garbage deleted ] > > God, you are annoying Fred, ER, I meant, "Alice". > My dearest Perry. > I am not Fred. I am not he. He is not me. Got it?? We aren't even in > the same category or the same country. Fred's an American, and I am not. But you do have much in common. Perry did not say that you are Fred, but instead implied he mixed the two of you up (quite understandable). > Scary, isn't it?? A non-American ... What's scary is a non-American foaming at the mouth about American politics when I'm sure his own country is far from perfect. P.S. This post is in the public domain. G. E. T. A. F. U. C. K. I. N. G. C. L. U. E. - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMOGt6yoZzwIn1bdtAQHvtwGAyZvsHKR64N1cPI6R95HiyMfuSuATVQNP BeXflQ0LGAhRHeXH9V8TUO79RBTe0y80 =m+al -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: DejaNews and Alta Vista Search Tools, and Privacy Implications
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:28 AM 12/27/95 -0800, tcmay(a)got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote: >Anyway, a point of clarification of a point, lest there be the belief that >_all_ Cypherpunks are opposed to comprehensive Web search tools: ...... ...offshore... ...... >Face it, every single word written by any of us to any Usenet newsgroup, >going back to the beginning of Usenet, and expanding out to many >ostensibly-private mailing lists, will fairly soon be searchable. The Internet not only makes it easier for everybody to get their 15 minutes of fame, it guarantees that anything stupid you've said in public over the last 15 years will be available to the entire world. So deal with it... I'm more bothered by people indexing what I read. What kinds of Cypherpunk technology can we use to affect this? I don't think we need to do too much work on _increasing_ data collection; the commercial markets will figure that one out fast enough, though understanding technical possibilities enough to stay ahead is good. Remailers and nymservers are obvious starts on the information-hiding end, and even the basic non-encrypted cypherpunks remailers are good enough for most applications. The problem is getting them widely deployed. I've seen a couple of web-page-based remailers, and they're probably easy to deploy widely; they're not very secure without SSL, but they're a start, and people on SSL-equipped systems can run them securely. Anon web proxies are more work to deploy, but they're not mysterious, and the main limits to deploying them are economics. Nymservers, however, are still pretty new - technology like anon.penet.fi is generally good enough for most people if you've got an operator you trust, and an economic base that makes it worth running them. But the more secure nymservers are still complex, and probably not something the average hacker can just pop up and run - we probably need to explore them more before it'll be easy to do. While I like getting services provided through community spirit, like most of the remailers, I suspect Tim's right that pay-per-use privacy services are going to evolve, and probably dominate. Among other things, they're in the balance between the couch-potato on-line services and real Internet connections; they're probably more likely to be offered by people who want full-time connectivity, and will be used to offset the slightly higher costs of real service. However, partly due to patent issues, and partly just to convenience, I don't think they all need to use fully-anonymous digicash for every transaction; most of them can get by with service-provider tokens that may be paid for by digicash or by less-anonymous systems. One of the main threats I see to privacy services is the Exon bill - it's pretty obvious that most US service providers will have to limit access to people over 18, in spite of any of the Good Senator's claims otherwise. If the Feds start making examples of people before any serious court cases get decided (or after, if the good guys lose), that probably means that service providers will have to check ID to protect themselves. There may be a market for services that validate that their customers are over 18, but provide anonymity within that. #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 # .... Heading back to The Big Phone Company

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Re: AWARD: CHRISTMAS NET SCROOGE - AT&T & NETSCAPE
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [ Non-crypto garbage deleted ] The Vince Foster articles were more relevant than this garbage (not to mention the fact they made more sense). P.S. This post is in the public domain. G. E. T. A. F. U. C. K. I. N. G. C. L. U. E. - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMOGjoCoZzwIn1bdtAQHRJwF/fATfL+ZmsLlB8wgGdme5QkXExqw8Fa0G MZuaH93wUT5B+VgTQSuWPfqfd+zaUUTo =jf8w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Did anyone see...
by Marshall Clow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On C-Span today: 2:06 pm ET/11:06 am PT Secret Codes Used in World War II National Security Agency -- Marshall Marshall Clow Aladdin Systems <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu> "Eternal vigilance is the price of PostScript" -- MacUser Jan 96 DTP and Graphics column

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Re: COMMUNITY CONNEXION ANNOUNCES APACHE-SSL COMMERCE
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

: At 01:12 PM 12/26/95 -0800, sameer wrote: : > The Apache-SSL Commerce webserver is the only commercial encrypting : > webserver with source available. Ian Goldberg, graduate student at : > U.C. Berkeley, well-known for his work on SSL security, commented on : > the importance of available source, ftp://ftp.hacktic.nl/pub/replay/pub/apache/ -AJ-

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GEY_ser
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

12-27-95. W$Jug: A test of superfast cable modems at Boston College prove addictive to speed freak faculty and students downloading junk data in seconds not minutes and hours, thus accelerating mind-rupture. And, an editorial red flags the telecom billions giveaway; nags Republicans to shut the geyser and not-reg the I-Way. GEY_ser

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Crypto specialist wanted
by P.J. Ponder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CSI's most recent _Computer Security Alert_ has a listing for: Cryptographic specialist for a San Diego based firm. Headhunter's address is: vfalcon(a)onramp.net (I know this is isn't jobs.misc, but traffic having been relatively light, I'm passing this on to others who may be interested in crypto, but aren't on CSI's mailing list. Now back to frequency hopping radios and Anti-Fred)

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DOS - MD5 - Thanks
by P.J. Ponder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to everyone who offered help on the MD5 for DOS. Greg Broiles pointed me to the pgp source, which may do the trick. (There is MD5 module in pgp[?]) I will investigate. For everyone's info, didn't find a freestanding dos implementation, tho. My copy of Schneier didn't have the disk, so I don't know if it's there, either. -- PJP

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URL for cypherpunks
by norm＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am putting up some solutions to the Garage Door problem that was discussed here perhaps a year ago. I would like to refer to the cypherpunks by URL. Are there currently any appropriate URLs ?

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German government orders censorship of CompuServe -- a sign of things to come djf
by Dave Farber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Posted-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 17:47:17 -0500 X-Sender: farber(a)linc.cis.upenn.edu Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 17:47:17 -0500 From: Dave Farber <farber(a)central.cis.upenn.edu> Subject: IP: German government orders censorship of CompuServe -- a sign of things to come djf To: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: William Giles Russ Robinson CompuServe Incorporated CompuServe Incorporated 614/ 538-4388 614/ 538-4274 COMPUSERVE(R) SUSPENDS ACCESS TO SPECIFIC INTERNET NEWSGROUPS COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 28, 1995 -- During the past week, CompuServe Incorporated temporarily suspended access to more than 200 Internet newsgroups in response to a direct mandate from the prosecutor s office in Germany. Each of the newsgroups that was suspended was specifically identified to CompuServe by the German authorities as illegal under German criminal law. CompuServe did not select any groups or determine the nature of the newsgroups that have been impacted by this action. German government officials, as part of an investigation of illegal material on the Internet, ordered CompuServe to do what was necessary with respect to specified newsgroups in order to comply with German law. German authorities are investigating newsgroups and other Internet content that may contain child pornography, other pornographic material illegal for adults, as well as content that although not illegal for adults is of such an explicit nature that it is illegal for minors. While access has been suspended, CompuServe continues to work with German authorities to resolve this matter. CompuServe cannot alter the content on the Internet in any way and has only suspended access to the disputed newsgroups through CIS. The issues being investigated in Germany, like those being addressed across the industry, need to remain focused on the individuals and groups placing content on the Internet. CompuServe, as an access provider, is not responsible for the origination or nature of content on the Internet over which it has no creative or editorial control. The global market is vital to CompuServe. We currently have 500,000 members in Western Europe and anticipate doubling that number in the next year. As the leading global service, CompuServe must comply with the laws of the many countries in which we operate. However, laws in different countries are often in conflict, and this creates new challenges unique to the emerging online industry. CompuServe is investigating ways in which we can restrict user access to selected newsgroups by geographical location. >

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