December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

COS_sec
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-23-95. NYPaper: "An operating system to keep the wide spaces open while providing security. Providing tools to build hangouts in cyberspace, protected by encryption." Denise Caruso's column. Electric Communities began work began in 1993 on the Cyberspace Operating System, or COS, designed to manage the resources of shared computing -- like security and bandwidth -- just as operating systems like the Macintosh OS or Windows 95 manage resources inside a desktop PC. The team is inventing some technology, including a programming language (compatible with Sun Microsystems' new Java language for Internet applications) and a design concept for software building blocks which it is in the process of patenting. In addition, staff cryptographers are weaving encryption throughout the system to make it absolutely secure and private. COS_sec (6 kb)

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PIS_tst
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-26-95. Wash Rag: "CIA & The Justice Dept. Ground Rules for Disputed Territory." Officials told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that the Clinton administration has made improving cooperation between the CIA and the Justice Department a priority, so they can routinely exchange sensitive information on a growing list of topics that embrace both domestic and international activities -- such as terrorism, organized crime, narcotics, alien smuggling and arms proliferation. PIS_tst (6 kb)

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SPI_bux
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-22-95, NYPaper: "When Spies Look Out For the Almighty Buck." "The fact of the matter is that the intelligence agencies are the center where all this is put together -- the economic, the political and the security concerns," said Robert B. Zoellick, a former top State Department official who handled much of the economic portfolio in the Bush Administration. "And perhaps that makes sense, because they should have more detachment than the individual economic agencies would." "Economic Espionage." Editorial The C.I.A. has not made a convincing case why it should start from almost no base to build a center for economic intelligence and analysis when the Government can hire outside experts or look to agencies like the Treasury Department that already have more knowledgeable staffs. William Casey had many faults as Director of Central Intelligence in the Reagan Administration. But he did know a thing or two about economics. Whenever he wanted economic intelligence, Mr. Casey often said, he would ask a businessman, not an intelligence analyst. SPI_bux (14 kb)

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RE: Let's Not Merge Mailing Lists, OK?
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:11 PM 10/26/95, Ali Bahreman wrote: >Being subscribed to cypherpunks is not a prerequisite for following the list; >thanks to its hypermail archive and numerous filters. No,. of course it isn't. But copying the www-buyinfo(a)allegra.att.com mailiing list on a post, as you and some others did, is much more than following the list with hypermail and other such tools: it is actively posting to two mailing lists. Sometimes this is OK, but often it results in two lists only marginally educated in the issues of the other list. I replied at more length to Ali in private, but will say here that anyone is welcome to join the Cypherpunks list and to read up on the FAQs and archives of past discussions. --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: idle CPU markets
by Stephan Somogyi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 18:45 26.10.95, Wei Dai wrote: > What other problems would benefit from easy access to lots of > distributed CPU cycles? It would be within the capability of smaller animation houses to render a feature length computer-animated film at high quality without significant capital equipment expenditure or excessive rental costs. If the granularity of transaction is per-frame (not unreasonable for a night's worth of cycles), the evil participant problem is avoidable since each frame would have to be inspected by a person, and payment for a correct frame approved by same, before it's integrated into the film. _______________________________________________________________________ Stephan Somogyi Senior Editor Digital Media

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Re: idle CPU markets
by jpb＠miamisci.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:45 PM 10/26/95, you wrote: >What other problems would benefit from easy access to lots of distributed >CPU cycles? 3D Rendering and Physics simulations come immediately to mind. signoff 2048bit-Fingerprint: 74 64 C7 6F 51 72 36 3D 87 75 F9 F5 2A F6 8F 74 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Help Phil! email zldf(a)clark.net or see http://www.netresponse.com/zldf

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type trapz...
by rwm132＠psu.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: newsweek oct 30 Levy digital cash article
by Steve Bryan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>also, my question about whether one loses the downloaded Chaumian bucks >if one's hard drive crashes was answered in the affirmative by Levy. > >But as I said, if the drive is backed up you don't lose it. It's my >understanding this is the case with the current Digicash/Twain bucks. >But not necessarily with all implementations. > >This "lose your money" with digital cash really does seem to get to >people. I always point out that when you take $ out of an ATM machine, >you don't expect to get it back if you lose it. For those forms of >e-money that are irretrevable when lost users are warned not to download >huge amounts. > >Question: will people's worries about losing their e-money lead them to >accept a higher degree of tracibility as a tradeoff? I have a question about Digicash that I haven't seen addressed. I've participated in the beta test but have to admit I didn't use it with great frequency. I only downloaded $10 at a time. What surprised me was that one time I was informed that the money I had downloaded had expired. I was able to go back and pick up more but am perplexed with what happenned in that case. Does digicash actually age and disappear if not used soon enough? -Steve Bryan

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Re: Linux security issues
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:23 10/26/95 -0500, Aleph One wrote: > I dont see what this has to do with Linux. The question should >be does the PGP pass phrase ever apper in a swap partition/file. Actually keeping the pass phrase out of swap space is fairly easy (although I havn't looked at the PGP code to see if it actually does this). Read the pass phrase in raw mode, one character at a time and convert it one character at a time to the decryption key for the private RSA key. Then the OS doesn't need to buffer the whole line, either in kernel space or in user space. However, the pass phrase is not the only dangerous information. Intermediate forms used for decrypting the RSA private keys, and the decrypted RSA private keys also have to be protected. The logic of PGP requires that it keep at least one of these around for a long time, so it will probably be written to swap space. N.B. This problem affects all virtual memory operation systems. I can think of the Unix/Linux family, MacOS with virtual memory turned on, and most mainframe OSs (e.g. IBM's VM/ESA). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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pub key expert wanted
by rschlafly＠attmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Re: Schlafly v. Public Key Partners & RSA Data Security I am deposing the inventors, but there are apt to be some loose ends that I will need to tie down and I may need some expert testimony. I'd like to have someone * with expertise in public key crypto * with some impressive-sounding credentials * willing to volunteer to help break some patents Any suggestions? Roger Schlafly rschlafly(a)attmail.com phone: 408-476-3550

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