December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: CDA as a tool (was: Re: Helping the Crypto-Clueless)
by Bill.Humphries＠msn.fullfeed.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

banjo, lord of the c monkeys (is that a 1,000 monkeys trying for RSA code, 12 monkeys trying for a screenplay to a Terry Gilliam film?) wrote: >I agree: and in addition to that [stuff deleted above], I'd like to say >that >contrary to the beliefs of some people on this list, I don't think >the CDA is >representative of a legislative body's spiteful action against general >free speech and information; it's far to simple a motivation for >computer-illiterate, re-election minded professional politicians. The legislators may not have known or understood what they voted for, however, the fact of the matter remains is there were a host of groups (primarily the Christian Coalition) who know what the Internet can do to prevent them from dominating public discourse and dictating policy to the GOP. They used the congress and a press-release driven news media to get their way. bill.humphries(a)msn.fullfeed.com (not affiliated with the Microsoft Network) @$#! Henry Hyde, #!*% James Exon, !@$! Ralph Reed

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Futplex makes the news!
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just heard on WBUR (NPR) here in Boston that our own L. (I know his real first name now...) "Futplex" McCarthy was busted by the UMASS diginarks for putting "Nazi material" on the internet. This must be one of those Nazi-mirrors I've been skipping articles over... They were pretty hysterical, NPR. Maybe we should call him "FUDplex" in honor of his newfound notariety... ;-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- 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/

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http://www.xcitement.com/virus/
by brianh＠u163.wi.vp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It was up yesterday. I was there. and does have alot of info. > > re: Virus site (http://www.xcitement.com/virus/) reports error 404 - no > such file... > > ========================================================================== > + ^ + | Ray Arachelian |Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness| _ |> > \|/ |sunder(a)dorsai.org|is cleanliness and cleanliness is god-| \ | > <--+-->| |liness and god is empty, just like me,| \| > /|\ | Just Say |intoxicated with the maddness, I'm in| <|\ > + v + | "No" to the NSA!|love with my sadness. (Pumpkins/Zero)| <| n > ===================http://www.dorsai.org/~sunder/========================= > > -- UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN :-)

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Re: RC2 technical questions
by wlkngowl＠unix.asb.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 02 Feb 96 10:02:37 PST, "baldwin(a)RSA.COM" wrote: > In a shameless attempt to move the discussion of RC2 into >a more technical arena, here are some interesting questions to >explore about RC2. > --Bob Odd. You're from RSA.COM... It would seem that you're better able to find these things out than the rest of us. Make that Alleged RC2, BTW. ;) I'm rather curious about implementing known plaintext attacks. The reliance on addition and anding doesn't make me feel too confident. For example, the ciphertext produced by the input of all zeros (plaintext) is basically the added/anded (with rolls) skey bytes. With a bit of probabilistic analysis one could work at determining the skey[] bytes. Weaknesses in the key expansion may help this further... Rob.

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cypherpunks press
by jrochkin＠cs.oberlin.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The 29 January New Yorker has an article "Hackworm" that discusses the Mitnick-Shimomura-Markoff echoing cypherpunks lack of sympathy for the Markoff-Shimomura P.R. extravaganza. Article ends mentioning cypherpunks and John Gilmore specifically, discussion of crypto politics, while not entirely toe-ing the cypherpunks party line, an enhearteningly informed and rational treatement. [An altavista search reveals the New Yorker is at http://www.enews.com/magazines/new_yorker/, but they don't seem to put the entire issue online, and parts of the 15 January issue is what you get when you click on "current issue"]

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Re: Active processes monitoring?
by Jeremy Mineweaser 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:59 PM 2/2/96 -0500, you wrote: > >> Are there others applications like MEM that are not as universal? >> (here, I guess that such stealth behaviour have to rely on identifying the >> program being loaded, thus, a less common program has less chance of >> being fooled) > >Mem /C doesn't do squat under 95... don't know about 3.11.... since each >DOS box runs in its own space, MEM /C cannot see what processes are >running in Windoze. There are a number of process viewing applications available for Win95/NT. I use two of them: one is called pstat.exe and the other is ps.exe. Both of them show most of the visible processes running. ps does not show running services, but pstat does. Both of them are available at ftp://csa.gt.ed.net Jeremy --- Jeremy Mineweaser | GCS/E d->-- s:- a--- C++(+++)$ ULC++(++++)>$ P+>++$ j.mineweaser(a)ieee.org | L+>++ E-(---) W++ N+ !o-- K+>++ w+(++++) O- M-- | V-(--) PS+(--) PE++ Y++>$ PGP++>+++$ t+() 5 X+ R+() *ai*vr*vx*crypto* | tv(+) b++>+++ DI+(++) D+ G++ e>+++ h-() r-@ !y-

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Re: Futplex makes the news!
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I just heard on WBUR (NPR) here in Boston that our own L. (I know his real >first name now...) "Futplex" McCarthy was busted by the UMASS diginarks for >putting "Nazi material" on the internet. This must be one of those >Nazi-mirrors I've been skipping articles over... So, the "expanded version" of the story says that it was a nazi-mirror, and FUDless verbage why Futplex did it, and that UMASS Amherst said they didn't want "Political messages" on their web-server, so they booted Futplex. LOL! The most Politically Correct university in the universe doesn't want "Political messages" on their web server! The ganglia twitch... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- 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/

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Futplex makes the news!
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

rah(a)shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga) wrote: > I just heard on WBUR (NPR) here in Boston that our own L. (I > know his real first name now...) "Futplex" McCarthy was busted > by the UMASS diginarks for putting "Nazi material" on the > internet. This must be one of those Nazi-mirrors I've been > skipping articles over... Horrors. We seem to be discovering more and more side effects from the defense of free speech for the unpopular. The Holocausta Nostra is cheering wildly at the opportunity to present the works of Mr. Zundel under a banner reading "Nazi Scum". Zundelsites are being set up by people whose views are so disgusting they probably offend even Mr. Zundel himself. And now our very own "Futplex" will have to live the rest of his life branded as a electronic distributor of "hate literature" by the forces of political correctness at UMASS. It may be time to regroup and take inventory of what we are suposedly trying to accomplish here. -- X-Signature: Mike Duvos X-Signature-File: c:\netcom\mail.sig On a completely different note, which I am appending so as to waste as little bandwidth as possible, Cypherpunks messages to my netcom account stopped dead two days ago, and I am getting no response from either majordomo(a)toad.com or cypherpunks-owner(a)toad.com. I am currently reading the list quite nicely on news://news.hks.net/hks.lists.cypherpunks using Netscape so it really isn't a big deal, but I was just curious if there was a routing problem or some other Net glitch. Please EMAIL any replies.

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Re: FEBRUARY MEETING
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, Gary Edstrom pointed out to me that I forgot a minor detail about the upcoming meeting and party--the date. They will be on Saturday 10 February. Sorry about that. S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Call for Demos at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '96
by Leonard N. Foner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Since 1991, the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference has brought together experts and advocates from the fields of computer science, law, business, public policy, law enforcement, government, and many other areas to explore how computer and telecommunications technologies are affecting freedom and privacy. This year, for the first time, it's happening at MIT. I'm helping to coordinate a Technology Fair of interesting demos related to CFP's themes, and I'm soliciting people for neat things they'd like to show. If you think you have something you'd like to demo, please let me know. For more information about the conference, you might want to check out http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~switz/cfp96/ and for information about the demos themselves (including telling us what items you may need us to provide), you should check out http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~switz/cfp96/call-for-demos.html Some examples to get you thinking: . A demonstration of anonymous remailers? . A demonstration of NFS packet substitution on the wire? . Real-time Netscape key-breaking? . A bake-off between some individuals or companies to see who can find out the most dirt on someone the fastest? . Something else? Remember, a lot of the things that Cypherpunks take for granted are relatively unknown even to the type of crowd that goes to CFP; this could be your chance to raise some awareness on these issues, show reporters what can _really_ be done, and so forth. If you'd like to demo (or even if you're just thinking about), please send me mail as soon as possible so we can have time to plan. Thanks!

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