December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by owner-cypherpunks＠toad.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Jordan Hayes wrote: > > it _is_ anonymous ... > > And then: > > > can be refilled at ATMs > > You make a deposit or something? How does the transaction clear? > When they finally look in the envelope, they credit the card? > > Or do you mean just 'anonymous' between the user and the merchant? > > /jordan > sorry i wasn't clear: it is anonymous between the user and the merchant, and between the user and the card distributer (in this case Visa). "Refilling" at ATMs is essentially a download of "cash" from your bank account into the card.

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by owner-cypherpunks＠toad.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Jim Small wrote: > DO you know where I can find glide.c , or (newer) to bruteforce > .pwl files? http://www.c2.org/hackmsoft/ There will also be a utility for extracting and decrypting file sharing (Win95 as server) passwords as soon as the code is refined and the ReadMe is written. -rich

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Re: DSN
by um＠c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill Stewart <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: >>[RSA in 5 lines of Scheme, deleted.] >Got any short prime-number generators? I am writing some more Scheme code (not optimized for size, though). Have a look at http://www.thur.de/ulf/crypt.scm -- Ulf Möller * E-Mail: <um(a)c2.org> * WWW: http://www.c2.org/~um/

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

17 Dec '03

At 05:01 PM 2/9/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: > Whoops. I didn't mean to send that one to the list (re: ethics of >assasination). Sorry. I am still trying to decide on whether other discussions >of the non-Crypto aspects of Assasination Politics are appropriate; I would >appreciate mail back from Perry in response to my email to him. > Sorry again, > -Allen If Perry is REALLY sincere about objecting to the NON-crypto part of AsPol, he should demonstrate this by writing notes which are focussing on the crypto aspects, rather than just complaining. Jim Bell

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Re: Choices
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:05 AM 2/11/96, "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security" >Think I have been consistant - am FOR things which add to my choices and >AGAINST those which reduce the choices available. In general I do not >mind paying a delta for increased choice so long as it is small No, I don't think you're consistent. "Tim's Fine Televison Sets" does not like the idea of having to put CC (and, soon, V-Chips) in its t.v.s. Men with guns are telling him he must comply, or else. Your "am FOR things which add to my choices" ignores the fact that mandatory closed-caption hardware is an infringement on the basic property rights of someone who offers products for sale. Those who want CC devices, or V-chip devices, or automatic text-to-speech converters are of course free to buy them, if someone is selling them. They are not free to demand that my widget include them. --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 fuck them 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 fuck him." So the two daughters got him drunk and screwed him all that night. Sure enough, Dad got them 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 pulled out before he came....Remember, it's not a good idea to have sex with your sister, your brother, your parents, your pet dog, or the farm animals, unless God tells you to. [excerpts from the Old Testament, Modern Vernacular Translation, TCM, 1996]

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Building in Big Brother
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Building in Big Brother: The Cryptographic Policy Debate Edited by Lance J. Hoffman Springer Verlag Publishers Copyright: March 1995 Price:$29.95 ISBN 0-387-94441-9 _________________________________________________________________ "If you ever wondered how a particular computer technology could attract the interest of the directors of three intelligence agencies, the heavyweights in the computer industry, a gang of programmers turned freedom fighters, and the President of the United States, you need look no farther than Building in Big Brother. This book outlines the next civil liberties battle in the United States." - Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center "One-stop-shopping for even the most sophisticated analyst of the policy wars over cryptography." - A. Michael Froomkin, Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami Law School "Lance Hoffman has compiled an extraordinarily useful and well balanced collection of materials on cryptography and its applications. This book will instantly become a definitive compendium." - Peter G. Neumann "Though Lance Hoffman is a dedicated opponent of current government policy, he has assembled a volume that should be -- and will be -- on the desk of every cryptographic policymaker in Washington. He has accurately recorded the many voices in a debate that will profoundly affect our future, for good or ill, well into the twenty-first century. This book is an important contribution to the history of encryption. It is an even more important contribution to those who are struggling to shape that history." - Stewart Baker, Steptoe & Johnson (formerly General Counsel to the National Security Agency) "An authoritative source of political writings by the major players in the crypto revolution." - Philip Zimmermann, Creator of PGP _________________________________________________________________ Includes Steven Levy's peerless "Cypherpunks vs Uncle Sam" and other Shortstop-proof cpunx ammunitions.

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Anonymity
by don＠cs.byu.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In a project relating to the need for anonymous remailers, I would like to find out about someone in particular. (I would like to do so without the resulting information getting circulated any more than it probably already is.) Specifically, I have a full name and an email and am curious how much information can be collected. (whoever has those US-population CD's, that's the kind of thing I'm looking for) Preferrably I would like to go from the email address only to a SSN or address or something unique, but I will make the two of them my starting point if necessary. The point being, of course, that anonymous remailers are the only thing that keeps many email addresses from becoming a life history. Anyone who can help me research please send PGP encrypted (key 0x994b8f39) mail. Thanks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMR2C0cLa+QKZS485AQFGNgL/XIOSJqabFsiHa9xtwWb1kltGbjcMnLZ4 appMShASZNBUULl9dj7qwyhSxVosgaaKIHPMd9H4DiywRG47WYXxqbKDI1dBSA+l f7Wy68QYA0RVtL9oci6z+w6UGpwfRbnV =rP7B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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"internet underground" magazine
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

just went to Barnes&Noble to check out magazine titles on the Internet/cyberspace, and walked away with 10 separate titles!! anyway, there is a new one that will be especially appealing to cpunks here. I haven't seen it mentioned here: "internet underground". issue #3 has interesting articles on - web transaction tracking, by S.Garfinkel - "my secret life with Phil Zimmerman", S.Garfinkel - how to send anonymous email. mentions cpunk remailers. by editor S.Ellerman plenty of other fluff. maybe some people here may want to contribute. often when magazines start out they are hungry for writers and getting into them is not as hard. I suspect "internet underground" may end up covering cpunk topics regularly with or without anyone's help from here. (oh, the spooks are rolling in their coffins. heh.)

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"feudal" states and national destiny
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I don't wish to get this one going on c-punks, but you will see shortly just how quickly the "feudal" national powers are going to be able to erect national firewalls. We are entirely dependent on AT&T, Sprint, MCI, British Telcom, and so on for nation to nation or region to region communications --and they in turn are entriely dependent on the various national governments for the _franchise_ to "enter" or operate within the country. telephone lines are a trickle of information --the old uucp when I complained when the daily _total_ traffic exceed 2 megabyte and the heydey of TrailBlazers. today it's 154 Mb/sec trunks, and they are bogging down. the governments regulate these lines and outside the U.S. most governments own these lines. satellites are another perfect example; the governments control the franchises for the up and down links and the allocation of frequencies. and, who controls the satellite launches? Even the European consortium is controlled --forget the Chinese and the Russians! Is the government doing something illegal vis a vis communications policy (other than the obliteration of free speech with CDA)? No, but it is obvious they will, since the CDA or whatever is their intent and they have the power to enforce their intent --if nothing else by invoking FEMA, which a cornered Clinton might do. the extremists are almost always ignored. we are certainly viewed as extremists. nobody took the Libertarian party seriously until Howard Stern ran for governor of NY --and that was the circus of Will Rogers, not a political platform. Years of cooperative political graft (the interest in the status quo) has made the two party system the only __succeedable__ political system in the U.S. eventually, only violent revolution of the masses succeeds --men of rational thoughts and wise counsel are easily suppressed, if not eliminated. As for the dreamers who believe the government is or will NOT do (be doing) something illegal, the line forms to the right for reeducation. __________________________________________________________________________ go not unto usenet for advice, for the inhabitants thereof will say: yes, and no, and maybe, and I don't know, and fuck-off. _________________________________________________________________ attila__ To be a ruler of men, you need at least 12 inches.... There is no safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be.

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Re: Choices
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:05 PM 2/10/96 -0500, A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security wrote: >Gov does have the right (in fact the duty) to regulate communications >between citizens and non-citizens/sites in other lands (and if you do not >think communications with sites such as anon.penet.fi are inside the charter >of the NSA, I have this prime Florida land - we're in the dry season now 8*). Needless to say, I disagree. Government does not possess ANY "rights." Merely powers. Secondly, the Constitution says NOTHING about the authority of the Federal government to "regulate" (or, for that matter, even merely MONITOR) communications cross-border. Sounds to me like you're arguing the statist line. Jim Bell Klaatu Burada Nikto.

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