December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Internet Gateway for Bletchly Park Trust
by pjb＠ny.ubs.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am trying to setup an Internet gateway for BP Trust. I will either convience Sun to donate a SparcStation for this purpose, or I will donate one myself. What I need is a contact in the UK for some ISPs, or a University or somesuch that would consider hosting their domain/address. Will anyone having any information that might be of use to me in this endevour please email me at: pjb(a)ny.ubs.com and/or pjb(a)23kgroup.com. I have just returned from a trip to BP, and there are many new and exciting things going on there. I will (RSN) post an article re: the current state of affairs at BP. Cheers, paul

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Re: Representations of Pi, etc.
by stevenw＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >In summary, I would be surprised to find that a method for calculating the >Nth digit of pi works for base N but not for base M (modulo some minor >efficiency factors related to machine architecture, etc.). > >Any pointers to this result would be appreciated. See Peter Borwein's home page: http://www.cecm.sfu.ca:80/personal/pborwein/ under _Calculating Pi and Other matters_. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Compuserve grovels to foreign censors
by Gordon Campbell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:56 AM 1/5/96 -0500, Larry Sudduth wrote: >Attachment Converted: C:\WORK\WINMAIL.DAT What, pray tell, is this? ----- Gordon R. Campbell, Owner - Mowat Woods Graphics P.O. Box 1902, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 5J7 Ph: (613) 542-4087 Fax: (613) 542-1139 2048-bit PGP key available on request.

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Re: US cryptographic patents, 1995
by thad＠hammerhead.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

lull(a)acm.org (John Lull) said: > This data was extracted from a free database maintained by the > EDS Shadow Patent Office at http://www.spo.edo.com/ That's really http://www.spo.eds.com thad -- Thaddeus Beier thad(a)hammerhead.com Technology Development 408) 286-3376 Hammerhead Productions http://www.got.net/~thad

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DCSB: Digital Commerce: Living Room ExIm, Retail Replacement, or Mail-Order Redux?
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston (Formerly The Boston Society for Digital Commerce) Presents Fred Hapgood Digital Commerce: Living Room ExIm, Retail Replacement, or Mail-Order Redux? Tuesday, February 6, 1995 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Fred says: >So far Web commerce has largely been a speciality export story. >(www.activmedia.com says that web commerce is half exports.) This >reflects the obvious strengths of the medium: webstores are >globally accessible and can support information resources to any >depth customers require. > >However, the meat and potatoes of the $2 trillion American retail >market lie not in specialty exports but in geographically >structured markets built on access to local traffic and >characterized by low-information transactions. If web commerce >has no role to play in commerce on this level, it will end up >little more than an extension and enhancement of direct mail. >(Which is of course not to be dismissed entirely: direct mail did >$55 billion last year.) > >My talk will address the compatibility of these segments with the >web, now and later. Fred Hapgood has written on internet commerce for _CIO_ and _Webmaster_ magazines. He has written on associated subjects for _Wired_ and _Inc-Technology_. The February talk will be based on research for an article on the web and franchising. This meeting of the Boston Society for Digital Commerce will be held on Tuesday, January 2, 1995 from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $27.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have a jacket and tie dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, February 2 , or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston". If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Planned speakers for the following few months are: February Fred Hapgood Freelance Author March Glenda Barnes X.9 Electronic Commerce Security Group April Donald Eastlake CyberCash May Perry Metzger Security Consultant and Cypherpunk June Dan Shutzer FSTC July Pete Loshin Author, "Electronic Commerce" We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, rah(a)shipwright.com . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu . Looking forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMO1H9vgyLN8bw6ZVAQGPyAQAkJeE0VtJXMQ58uUss1hvW0Xtf5FBvAM8 3uNGxQIjLT48rkSPRtmqxsx8KLoirdbCdARwbwStewVVvehvUIByYTCGmUWXBxPH OKhCM/iuEqZ0oZR7RNcTHu2/rduIBdpC53CwyiUmaomj8tAgM5fry9H5h/mjJVu8 aRu36l8isH8= =+lq2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell The NEW(!) e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/ >>>>Phree Phil: Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf <<<<<

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Re: Compuserve grovels to foreign censors
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:47 PM 1/5/96 -0500, Gordon Campbell wrote: >At 12:56 AM 1/5/96 -0500, Larry Sudduth wrote: > >>Attachment Converted: C:\WORK\WINMAIL.DAT > >What, pray tell, is this? > When a MS Mail attachment wanders around the world, it is accompanied by a data file of some kind. That is winmail.dat. So every MS MAIL attachment is really two attachments. Try to ignore it. DCF "Windoz. It may not be an operating system but at least it's out there on the hardware."

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Portland Cypherpunks Meeting
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Here is the final(?) information on the Portland Cypherpunks meeting. Date: Jan 20, 1996 Time: 5:23pm (discordian time) Location: The Habit Internet Cafe 2633 S.E. 21st Av., Portland OR 97202 SE 21st @ Clinton in Portland, OR (503)235-5321 For more information on the location, visit: http://www.teleport.com/~habit/ We will be having a key signing and other activities, as well as general socializing. Bring information on projects you are pursuing or questions you would like to ask. Please leave your cameras and other photographic equiptment at home as some of the people attending are pretty camera shy. (And not shy about informing you of it...) It looks like we will be getting people outside of the Portland metro area attending as well. (I have heard from at least one person from the Bay area and one from Seattle, so who knows how many will show up.) If you want to be on the information list for this, just send me e-mail at alano(a)teleport.com. If all goes well, this may turn into a regular thing... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMO19CuQCP3v30CeZAQGi+wf+N7HUDRpgP40SDZHcHlGLk2ApMrQhfAKM 9zxYzphkuqNqNfQB1+b+EFb4dYGOJUcE+DScCbmZMFdy4k9xY78z3Lc3aGFQz4uS ALuPh2T4jbe3rqqJq0aqM/mHlYD63oMi1/aZNMLRmGb7UVMUiGvulYaWI6GBiZVz rMTrmKdQ/2jEzZRpCWbyVCa8X04QY3XnH2nP2s/nDgWyZl9Y87KXN44BizRKfde/ 9x/vWf3mceVa1e09YHwQEwzZNFBvIGlpM4XWLkxh12QeQGCu08CvfJo3dSL0OU/u nRlaBO7IqLH90Ejv0/bLRuI0G3jKXb6yZxexORl6+PUbmwusIeaWIA== =qpD8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "Governments are potholes on the Information Superhighway." - Not TCMay

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Scaling Web-of-Trust
by Kevin L Prigge 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry for the noise, someone had emailed a while ago with the URL for a paper on scaling the web of trust for PGP, and I've lost the email. If whomever it was could resend the information, I'd be most appreciative. Thanks. -- Kevin L. Prigge |"Have you ever gotten tired of hearing those UofM Central Computing | ridiculous AT&T commercials claiming credit email: klp(a)tc.umn.edu | for things that don't even exist yet? 010010011101011001100010| You will." -Emmanuel Goldstein

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Re: RSA's Art gallery is now on the web
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:57 AM 1/5/96 PST, you wrote: > Are you tired of the clip art you downloaded last week? Do you >need a new background screen for you PC? Does your cubicle need something >to give it character? > Look no further. Visit the RSA Data Security Art Gallery and >download to your hearts content. BTW, the URL for this is: http://www.rsa.com/rsa/gallery/gallery.htm Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "Governments are potholes on the Information Superhighway." - Not TCMay

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recent garbage posts
by Daniel Leeds 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The user in question has been talked to. DO NOT mailbomb root or any other account any more, this will be seen as hostile activities. We apologize for your inconvenience, but please, the death threats, physical bomb threats, and other nonsense is not called for.

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