December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Report available: "Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers"
by anonymous＠freezone.remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I downloaded this so-called "report". It doesn't even mentions PGP. Gotta wonder why the 007 wannabe "experts" and the Big Business (BSA) want you to only use 90 bits for your keys and why they've never heard of PGP... Anyone who listens to crypto advice from people who's purpose in life is to listen to *YOU* gets what they deserve. I'll stay with PGP which has a 2048 bit key. JustWalT

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cypher-list for telcom legislation
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Since the telcom legislation has been passed, I thought it might be prudent to remind everyone that there is a PGP encrypted mailing list called cypher-list. It can be subscribed to by sending email to cypher-list-request(a)vishnu.alias.net. All messages and transactions are encrypted. The code is a little buggy but it works for the most part. It seems that cypher-list would make an excellent platform for discussion on the telcom legislation and maybe even ways to thwart it. If you have trouble subscribing, perry(a)vishnu.alias.net has been very helpful. (he got me on!) Lazarus

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"Plonk"
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Why do people feel the need to announce to the whole world that they have just plonked someone? Big deal. It happens all the time. Plonk 'em and get on with your life.

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Re: Encryption and Backups
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Death rays from Mars made jpp(a)software.net (John Pettitt) write: >CP Backup (part of PC Tools for Central Point aka Symantec) has DES. As to >how good the implementation is: I have no idea. It's slightly more secure than the widespread double rot-13 encryption. PC Tools uses 2-round DES (or at least it did the last time I looked). There's some criticism of this in the SFS docs somewhere. Peter.

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Nando Times and the "decency" act
by stevenw＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The NandO Times is an online newspapaer (www.nando.com) that has George Carlin's seven dirty words and lots more as their lead story today: see http://152.52.2.152/nt/nando.cgi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Weller | "The Internet, of course, is more | than just a place to find pictures | of people having sex with dogs." stevenw(a)best.com | -- Time Magazine, 3 July 1995

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Re: Applied Cryptography, 2nd Edition -- Errata version 1.2
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:49 AM 2/9/96, Bruce Schneier wrote: > APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY, Second Edition > > ERRATA > Version 1.2 - 1 February 1996 > ... Wow. Does this mean the Third Edition will be coming out soon? (Not to sound harsh, but that's a *lot* of errors still in the book...I thought a lot of reviewers were going to squish out these sorts of things?) --Tim [This Bible excerpt awaiting review under the Communications Decency Act] And then Lot said, "I have some mighty fine young virgin daughters. Why don't you boys just come on in and do em right here in my house - I'll just watch!"....Later, up in the mountains, the younger daughter said. "Dad's getting old. I say we should do him." So the two daughters got him drunk and did him all that night. Sure enough, Dad got em pregnant....Onan really hated the idea of doing his brother's wife and getting her pregnant while his brother got all the credit, so he whacked off first....Remember, it's not a good idea to have sex with your sister, your brother, your parents, your pet dog, or the farm animals. [excerpts from the Old Testament, Modern Vernacular Translation, TCM, 1996]

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Blue Ribbons
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- For as long as my 10-yard spool of blue ribbon and box of paperclips hold out, I'm sending a ribbon/paperclip to any snailmail address in the U.S. Note that each one is an individually hand-crafted work of art :-) Dave Merriman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMRnw4cVrTvyYOzAZAQGXUQP/fu7/K7dkjSkbcDAgrOmVNH0OaUn6t5SP E6DKfyfz3Wlu2VIhxCAS0KGHaLdCSH1teGFfIuhwOWikq+FdidJjXjep04/MAuAe +KXI0QoaFYY4dVVi9qX8Uzz1igOHs2MXDXG/6eZ1AlSux+HG1DHPz44PyUY7flWP sVizJ7plH2w= =qrdr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------- "It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error." Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Judge <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> My web page: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1148

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Re: Assassination Politics--isn't it gambling?
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 06:00 PM 2/6/96 PST, banelaw(a)med.com wrote: >Jim: as to "Assassination Politics." Isn't the structure you describe >gambling? Placing money on a prediction, with the correct predictor >winning? I guess that depends on the laws, doesn't it? <G> Seriously, though, since all the participants are anonymous, and it can all be done from overseas... Somehow, though, I think politicians will take little solace from knowing that they are protected from death only by laws against gambling. > And if so, isn't it illegal if done over the wires, i.e., federal >commerce? I'm not looking for a way to declare your scheme illegal, I'm >just pointing out that there are other angles, especially if done over the >wires. I'd sure like to read a serious legal analysis of all this. Maybe all the lawyers are too terrified to respond. > I guess you could move the structure off shore--pity the poor country >hosting such an entity! If you were at all succesfull, the server accepting >digital cash would be moving from place to place--remember pirate radio? Presumably, the digital cash could be encrypted with the organization's private key, and published (anonymously) on a USENET area, in a way which is untraceable and unidentifiable. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com Klaatu Burada Nikto Something is going to happen. Something.......Wonderful! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMRlnY/qHVDBboB2dAQHJcQP/T8u6c5K3Idb5K8/ztBJWSqTQBPmvMlpR y4GlRgOyIn11jnMX60p7ffselQwSF8mxM3BJv4O2ODr/KWwACeQoK9svWW30xSyF 0eSuFzHvOfrZLW3xvpTo1mMoxRCtYeUQZLZGLvU2G99P6GeWCPRhWbFfTQ1Q6aen yiEOvB/DfUs= =Aj2b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: RSA-China Crypto
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- BTW, there's an article about it on RSA's home page now. - --- [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 iQBFAwUBMRr/eyoZzwIn1bdtAQHRBAF+PNYhhytVCUQ5LDn9vM5sSFNJ9l0zKm8T mfzCvhN/eE/qLpl8fDi1gvLJDnrWte/Z =t5nc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Reasons in support of crypto-anarchy WAS Re: Why am I (fwd)
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:45 PM 2/8/96 -0500, Perry wrote: >You are annoying me. How much do people want to bet someone kills >Jim Bell in the next six months? 6 cypherbucks, if I can get the ecash software to work again. 12, if you'll accept killfiling as well... #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

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