December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Afternoon Conference: UCC 2B: Information Contracts
by Steven C. Perkins 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Excuse x-posting. Please forward to appropriate lists. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- February 14 -- 1:30-4:30 PM -- UCC Article 2B: Information Contracts Rutgers School of Law-Newark and the New Jersey State Bar Association will co-sponsor a program to introduce lawyers, business, and others to the current draft of new Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code, Digital Electronic Information and its Transfer. Professor Raymond T. Nimmer, University of Houston and the Uniform Laws Commission Drafting Committee Reporter, and two members of the Committee, Professor David A. Rice of Rutgers School of Law-Newark and Professor Amy Boss of Temple University School of Law, will present the draft, seek comments, and respond to questions. Other panelists include Donald Cohn, Esq. of DuPont Corporation, Co-Chair of the ABA Software Contract Law Task Force and Holly Towle, Esq. of the Seattle law firm of Preston Gates & Ellis. This program is free; however, there is limited seating available. Please call Assistant Dean Margaret C. Bridge at 201/648-5968 to reserve seating. RELATED CONFERENCE: COPYRIGHT ISSUES AND THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE - February 15, 1996. Please see the Conference home page at URL:"html://www.rutgers.edu/RUSLN/copyconf.html". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- February 14, 1996 UCC 2B REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 10, 1996 (Walk-in registration permitted beginning at 8:30AM) Number Attending: ________ Name(s)_____________________________________________________________________ ________ Affiliation_________________________________________________________________ ___________ Address _______________________________ City _________________ State _____ Zip _________ Telephone (_____)__________________ Mail to: Rutgers School of Law-Newark 15 Washington Street Newark, NJ 07102-3192 Attn: Assistant Dean Margaret C. Bridge For further information, call Assistant Dean Margaret C. Bridge at (201) 648-5094, or send email to Professor David A. Rice at drice(a)world.std.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- **********||||||||||\\\\\\\\\\*//////////||||||||||********** Steven C. Perkins sperkins(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu User Services Coordinator Ackerson Law Library http://www.rutgers.edu/lawschool.html Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Law at Newark http://www.rutgers.edu/RUSLN/rulnindx.html VOX: 201-648-5965 FAX: 201-648-1356 |||||||||||||||\\\\\\\\\\\\\||*||///////////////|||||||||||||||

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Afternoon Conference: UCC 2B: Information Contracts - Correction
by Steven C. Perkins 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Excuse x-posting. Please forward to appropriate lists. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- February 14 -- 1:30-4:30 PM -- UCC Article 2B: Information Contracts Rutgers School of Law-Newark and the New Jersey State Bar Association will co-sponsor a program to introduce lawyers, business, and others to the current draft of new Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code, Digital Electronic Information and its Transfer. Professor Raymond T. Nimmer, University of Houston and the Uniform Laws Commission Drafting Committee Reporter, and two members of the Committee, Professor David A. Rice of Rutgers School of Law-Newark and Professor Amy Boss of Temple University School of Law, will present the draft, seek comments, and respond to questions. Other panelists include Donald Cohn, Esq. of DuPont Corporation, Co-Chair of the ABA Software Contract Law Task Force and Holly Towle, Esq. of the Seattle law firm of Preston Gates & Ellis. This program is free; however, there is limited seating available. Please call Assistant Dean Margaret C. Bridge at 201/648-5968 to reserve seating. RELATED CONFERENCE: COPYRIGHT ISSUES AND THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE - February 15, 1996. Please see the Conference home page at URL:"http://www.rutgers.edu/RUSLN/copyconf.html". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- February 14, 1996 UCC 2B REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 10, 1996 (Walk-in registration permitted beginning at 8:30AM) Number Attending: ________ Name(s)_____________________________________________________________________ ________ Affiliation_________________________________________________________________ ___________ Address _______________________________ City _________________ State _____ Zip _________ Telephone (_____)__________________ Mail to: Rutgers School of Law-Newark 15 Washington Street Newark, NJ 07102-3192 Attn: Assistant Dean Margaret C. Bridge For further information, call Assistant Dean Margaret C. Bridge at (201) 648-5094, or send email to Professor David A. Rice at drice(a)world.std.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- **********||||||||||\\\\\\\\\\*//////////||||||||||********** Steven C. Perkins sperkins(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu User Services Coordinator Ackerson Law Library http://www.rutgers.edu/lawschool.html Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Law at Newark http://www.rutgers.edu/RUSLN/rulnindx.html VOX: 201-648-5965 FAX: 201-648-1356 |||||||||||||||\\\\\\\\\\\\\||*||///////////////|||||||||||||||

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[local] Minneapolis CP get-together
by Kevin L Prigge 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Who: Minneapolis Cypherpunks What: Local get-together & key signing party When: Saturday, Feb 10th @ approx 5pm -> ??? Where: Applebees (3200 W Lake St) I'll be facilitating a key signing, send your public key to me before hand to get on the list. If you have any questions or need directions, let me know. -- 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: [rant] A thought on filters and the V-Chip
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:56 AM 1/26/96 -0800, Alan Olsen wrote: >I have known too many adults that believe that by restricting their kids >access to information, they can prevent them from growing up. In these >parent's minds, such information is what makes them want to hump their >little brains out. Biology has nothing to do with it in their limited way >of thinking. Cluelessness does not just cover computers with these people. >It also covers any other topic that required more than two brain cells to >understand. Actually, if you place a child in one sort of environment or another you do get a different "product." The behavior of Amish children raised on farms in rural Pennsylvania differs significantly from the behavior of children raised crack-addicted parents in Bed-Stuy. In fact, you get almost non-overlapping bell curves for every characteristic. I would guess too that if you switched kids at birth between these two populations, the final results wouldn't differ by much. What parents are attempting to do when they restrain their children's access to "sex and drugs and rock and roll" (or Republicanism for that matter) is to mediate their "spiritual" environment to keep them from becoming hardened. They know the kids will grow up, they just want them to grow up in a nice way. Children who listen to Vera Lynn's singing and Cole Porter's songs will end up quite different from those who favor louder, less vocal music. Note that in spite of what liberals might think, fundamentalist christians are less likely to divorce, less likely to report spousal beatings, less likely to kill themselves, and more likely to measure high personal satisfaction levels on standard psychological tests than are, say, readers of The Nation. The cypherpunks relevance of all this is that it should soon be possible to create completely mediated environments for ourselves and our children. Through the use of implants and real-time VR processing, it will be possible to edit our "interface" with the Real World such that unpleasant aspects are edited out. We will be able to change the attire, hair, facial expressions, voice, and even smell of those around us to conform to our own esthetic desires. Likewise with our physical surroundings. Safety may discourage making a complete transformation in one's surroundings, but one can certainly soften the edges. Note that this is just an easier-to-implement version of what we can do already with our own minds. It will be interesting to see the effects on people who live in these mediated worlds. DCF "My grandmother didn't like to use the word 'Democrats' in the presence of the children. She called them 'bastards' instead." -- PJ O'Rourke

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NOISE: Borenstein's Fatal Spam (Was: Plonk, Dr. Fred)
by P.J. Ponder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

please don't try to make sensible replies to this type of tar-baby garbage. What's the point in arguing with someone who only wants you to argue with them and make sure you spell their name right? First Virtual, you lost a lot of ground with me. (sounds like others feel the same way, too). ... that sucking sound is your reputation capital being snarfed off your keyboard and encrypted by tempest-bots lurking just under your tinfoil helmet. I'd be worried. The corrupted keyboard buffer of "W. Kinney" <kinney(a)bogart.Colorado.EDU> wrote: . . . > Followed by an hysterical essay on how FV has "discovered" the keyboard > sniffer. Oh, please. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. To which FV's own replied: I trust you've seen by now that we made no claim to have discovered keyboard sniffers. Please read our claims more carefully, and I'd be delighted to discuss them rationally. -- Nathaniel ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ delighted to discuss them at all, I would bet. Anyone interested in a discussion of whether or not keyboard sniffers work? a pox on your virtual house for a bad spam, poorly aimed at this list, in particular. NEVER TYPE CYPHERPUNKS(a)TOAD.COM IN THE TO: LINE

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Netscape encrypted email!!
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> * Integrated email - Netscape Navigator 2.0 offers full-featured and rich > email capabilities, allowing you to both read and send secure email > messages without launching an external email application. I downloaded it and checked it out. But it was not clear how to use this secure email - so it may lack something yet in user friendlyness, or I may have just missed it. Anyway, it should be much easier to use than PGP. Are we all going to switch to Netscape for email? Is anyone using this? Want to tell us how? -- Vince INTRODUCING NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR 2.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- END-USER FEATURES * Enhanced performance - New features such as client-side image mapping, Progressive JPEG support, and support for multiple simultaneous streaming of video, audio, and other data formats enhance the performance of Netscape Navigator 2.0. * Integrated email - Netscape Navigator 2.0 offers full-featured and rich email capabilities, allowing you to both read and send secure email messages without launching an external email application. * Integrated newsgroups - Sort, read, and post newsgroup messages in fully threaded hierarchical windows. * Security - New dynamic trust capability allows users to accept new certificate authorities. Other features include improved security user interface and protection against a site impersonating another site.

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KOH "Helpful" Crypto Virus
by Laszlo Vecsey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm looking for more information on the KOH Virus, a 'helpful' virus which kindly asks to infect your system and encrypt all of your data. It spreads to floppies (upon request) and to other systems, encrypting all files. I read about it in Boardwatch magazine, which surprisingly states that the U.S. government forbids the distribution of all cryptographic programs in binary form; source code can be freely distributed. Please point me towards the source/binary, or further information. (define(RSA m e n)(list->string(u(r(s(string->list m))e n))))(define(u a)(if(> a 0)(cons(integer->char(modulo a 256))(u(quotient a 256)))'()))(define(s a)(if (null? a)0(+(char->integer(car a))(* 256(s(cdr a))))))(define(r a x n)(cond((= 0 x)1)((even? x)(modulo(expt(r a(/ x 2)n)2)n))(#t(modulo(* a(r a(1- x)n))n)))) "SGI and Linux both run Motif and X11. They both compile c++ cleanly (using gnu g++). They're the same!"

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Re: [NOISE] Borenstein's Fatal Spam
by daw＠boston.CS.Berkeley.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <pgpmoose.199602010813.60849(a)paganini.sydney.sterling.com>, Greg Rose <Greg_Rose(a)sydney.sterling.com> wrote: > A number of people have written words to the > effect of: > First Virtual, you lost a lot of ground with me. > (sounds like others feel the same way, too). > > I disagree. I think there is a big difference > between "knowing theoretically that X, Y and Z > are possible" and "look, I have a program that > does X, Y and Z in a certain order, and very > fast, and surprisingly successfully, and this has > major implications for the banking community". [...] > I think most of the problem here is that we heard > about it in media words first, and in a reasoned > argument second. That's life. Ok. Fair enough. Good points. Personally, what I found most distasteful about FV's post was their conclusions, not their experimental procedure. I agree that their keyboard-sniffer lends more evidence to the well-known argument that, to make good use of crypto, you need secure endpoint machines. I disagree when FV concludes that this makes crypto useless. Instead, I'd contend we just need to work to secure our endpoints better; then we can do all sorts of neat stuff with crypto. I found their conclusions to be academically displeasing. But I guess that's what happens when you're trying to sell a product... - -- Dave Wagner - --- [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 iQBFAwUBMQ/lHSoZzwIn1bdtAQG3bQF6AnSQY/3Hy6ha35vI5YrbyF8w7Xq/IcN9 IIwNqUKmrqlugKuduk0A9VqDG9Zi0Ksm =7awQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Two Bits Four Bits ETC
by Brian D Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>Brian D Williams writes: >>Excellent point Bill! Lets not forget that IBM owns Lotus Notes, >>be sure to include that in your bashing. They caved in on Lucifer >>after all. ;) >"Perry E Metzger" <perry(a)piermont.com> adds: >Lucifer isn't stronger than DES, so it wasn't a cave in. An >understanding of differential cryptanalysis makes all the >difference... True, I was refering to them halving the original key length. Brian

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Crypto Cards
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - From 29 Jan edition of EE Times, P 24: "Aix-en-Provence, France - A startup formed here to capitalize on the interest in cryptographic smart cards has won an assignment that could help put its name on the data-security map. The company, Inside Technologies, has been selectedby the Open Microprocessor Systems Initiative (OMI) to do the combo-chip layout for OMI's Cryptographic Reduced Instruction Set Processor (Crisp) project." ... "'In public-key cryptography, 512-bit keys are typical and already vulnerable. So we are looking at 640-bit-long keys supported by a scalable design' said [IT partnet William Orme]. He said that conventional smart-card ICs tend to be based on available 8-bit microcontrollers and, sometimes, cryptographic processors. Because it iss designed specifically for smart-card applications, the 8-bit RISC processor will require only 2,500 gates. Conventional crypto coprocessors tend to support only one type of algroithm, such as Rivest, Shamir, Adleman (RSA) or the Data Encryption Standard (DES). Orme said that by designing the CLU at a lower level of granularity, multiplies and squaring operations, calculations can be built up in the form of building blocks and can support a variety of algroithms adn key lengths. 'Users want their own, custom algrotihms, which can be downloaded at the time of use', he said. The CLU should support RSA, DES, and the Digital Signature Standard (DSS). RSA optimization will cover 320-, 512-, and 640-bit key lengths. 'The CLU will operate at a higher clock frequency than the RISC - 60 MHz, in our design - yielding 640-bit RSA decrypt in less than 50mS', Orme said." Dave Merriman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMQ8mc8VrTvyYOzAZAQHa4wP+Ml3UAaywNzw+0OrN3iRfQ6y2DbjcDOs9 12Th32OGNJc5Ri0BPkI3n1+mlpZfIp9jQQI8B5gLI39nwkC9u0xnfmLFxHcSGsLB /dynNagjOQ6/GhcZFs7XVMp0RJPYrmZ2QcmCZC5MF+V69+bTrGCMhN0+O1dPPneC VB9x/klwdLk= =yp0C -----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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