December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

About Triple DES ......
by Victor Ramon Aguilar Ocampo 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello: Please let me know if TRIPLE DES is regulated by the same rules than the others criptography systems in USA. We want to use it here in National Autonomous University of Mexico, so we don't want to get jailed. In case we can use it somebody knows where can i get the source code ?? I have searched this already in WWW, archie and Veronica. Thanks in advance. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Academic Computing Services National Autonomus University of Mexico Victor Ramon Aguilar Ocampo Coordinacion de Servicios de Computo DGSCA - UNAM E-mail: aguilar(a)servidor.unam.mx " Solo tienes dos cosas en tu hacer, las Razones y los Resultados. Las Razones no cuentan ". ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Crypto CD UpDate
by aba＠atlas.ex.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The idea of putting together a CD with crypto stuff is an excellent IDEA, and one which I very much welcome. However a question .. are you (Ben) located in the US? If so... that rules out overseas buyers unless you fancy messing with ITAR... Is it possible that you could come to some arrangement with some one outside the ITAR fence who has a CD writer (any one reading have one?) put together the same CD for those outside the US? Adam

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Re: Pepsi World - Gotta Have It!
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:14 AM 3/26/96 -0800, geeman(a)best.com wrote: >hoax, I presume? Not a hoax. On occasion people signup on various web sites requiring a username and password with this list name as the e-mail contact and the user ID and password as "cypherpunk". Because of that, occasionally spam from such accounts shows up here, adding to the noise level. I find it annoying, but I just filter it and go on with my life. --- 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/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon

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Re: Bad news from Judge Richey
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:16 PM 3/26/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote: >At 6:29 PM 3/26/96, jim bell wrote: > >>Now now, Tim. You know me better than that. You know that I would never be >>so restrained as to call for the killing of ONLY ONE federal judge. > >Your sense of humor is also called "digging your own grave." Better hope >your words don't get to prosecutors anxious to set an example.... I don't think they'd be stupid enough to do that. Even a fool knows that what I really want is publicity, and that is exactly what the government would be best advised NOT to give me. If they decided to press the issue, it would turn into one of the purest 1st amendment cases that has ever existed. Worse for them, it would automatically publicize my AP idea to an audience of millions, which I believe would cook their goose but good. They know this, and they know that harassing me will not stop the fundamental idea. >>Seriously, however, I think you slightly mis-read my letter. The implied >>"threat", if you are inclined to call it that, would simply be that if >>domestic >>software writers are prohibited from exporting encryption software, they >>might be inclined (and have time for) writing the entire AsPol system into >... > >I read your article as essentially saying: > >"Judges ought to remember that a box of shells costs a lot less than an appeal." Good line! But what I really meant was, "Jim Bell is advocating building an ammunition factory." Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Test case for RSA t-shirts
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[I posted this to comp.org.eff.talk but got virtually no response, maybe someone here can make use of it] In July I'll be going to the US for a conference. I have one of Adam Backs RSA-in-perl t-shirts and am prepared to wear it into (and possibly back out of) the country if anyone feels it would do any good (for example to act as a test case for exportability). If anyone thinks this would be useful or wants to offer a legal opinion, let me know. For something less trivial, I can also carry in a disk of crypto code or something similar (say, 20 pages of DES bar codes) and see if I'm allowed to take it back with me. Peter.

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ViaCrypt PGP 4.0 for Windows shipping
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have not seen this here yet, so sorry if you have seen it... ViaCrypt is claiming that they are now shipping the Windows version of their PGP 4.0. (I tend to not believe marketing claims until I hear from people who actually have it.) Does anyone know if there are plans for this version to be interoperable with PGP 3.0? Furthermore, has anyone tried the new version? --- 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/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon

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Re: Let's *NOT* "Raise their Awareness"
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:52 PM 3/25/96, David K. Merriman wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >At 11:25 PM 03/25/96 -0800, tcmay(a)got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote: >> >>I try to avoid "me too" echoes, but this is worth concurring with, strongly. >> >>Nothing good can come out of "raising awareness," especially of an issue >>where the Consitution is already pretty clearly on the side of the right to >>speak in whatever language one chooses, to keep diaries in code if one >>wishes, to whisper to others, to place curtains on windows, to lock doors, >>and so on. (I suppose Jim Bell will point out that the Constitution >>contains no explicit language about placement of curtains....) > >Regrettably, I must disagree with Mr. May on the matter of speaking in >whatever language one chooses. It seems that here in Texas (specifically, >here in Amarillo), a local judge informed a Hispanic family that they were >prohibited from speaking _only_ Spanish to their child at home. The >rationale was that since English is the (ostensibly, in this area) Public >Language of the school system here, failure to encourage use of English >would adversely impact the child's education, and was thus a form of child >abuse. If need be, I can provide excerpts from the local snoozepapers >coverage of the issue. Right, and I've cited this "family law" case recently here in Cyphepunks as an example of an aberrant, unconstitutional law (family law has a lot of such things...it may come from the hard-to-untangle situation of a family). I don't take specific statutes or interpretations, such as this example, as being the same as what the Constitution says. Though it may come to the point where what's in the Constitution is buried under a blizzard of such exceptions and special cases. In any case, I think the First Amendment is a better protection of cryptographic rights than is some putative (and arguably nonexistent) "right to privacy." --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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RE: Noise Sphere in Java
by Chuck McManis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to the post in C++ we now have a version of the Noise Sphere program in Java. You can see it at: http://www.golfweb.com/cmcmanis/noise.html The source is online as well. It currently plots the randomness of the java.util.Random class. Modification for other classes that generate random data should be easy, as long as the class has a method nextInt() which returns a new random number. Other hacks are possible, feel free to hack away at your leisure. --Chuck McManis cmcmanis(a)golfweb.com

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No Subject
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Subject: HP ships full DCE internationally As I sit, somewhere not in North America, I can see a CD-Rom from Hewlett-Packard, which I've had since last year. Recently I received the following letter. I've attempted to retype its contents accurately. ---------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8< [HP Logo] Hewlett-Packard Company Software and Information Delivery Operation, SST 690 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, California 94043 415/968-9200 Dear HP-UX Support Customer, Hewlett-Packard has uncovered a bundling problem in the DCE-Core fileset that is on the October HP-UX Application Release 10.0 s700/800 Application CDs. These products were bundled such that they are not compliant with U.S. Government export regulations. The part numbers for the affected CDs and products are listed below. If you have updated your systems using these CDs or for the products listed on the October HP-UX Application Release Media, please update your system with the enclosed January HP-UX Application Release 10.0 s700/800 Application media, and destroy the October media. If you have not updated your systems with this media, please just destroy the October Application Release media and use the new enclosed Application media. If you require a replacement for the October HP-UX 10.0 s700/800 Application CD that has this bundling problem corrected, please contact your local support office to request shipment of the new CD. Hewlett-Packard apologises for any inconvenience you may experience due to this bundling issue. Sincerely [signed] Charles Henderson Software Information and Delivery Operations CD PART NUMBERS --------------- 24998-11710 SE application s700 10/95 24998-11711 SE application s800 10/95 B3782-10054 Trade application s700 10/95 B3920-13614 Trade application s800 10/95 PRODUCT NUMBERS --------------- 10.01 800 B3191A DCE CORE SRV MEDIA/DOCU INTL 10.01 800 B5162AA DCE 9000 Executive Client 10.01 800 B3519AA DCE QUICK START KIT INTL S800 10.01 800 B3923AA CICS/9000 Bundle Media & Manuals, Int'l 10.01 700 B2921A DCE Core Services International 10.01 700 B5162AA DCE 9000 Executive Client S700 10.01 700 B3519AA DCE Quickstart 700 Bndl Int'l Document P/N: 5964-5231 ---------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8< Excuse me, I just have to go and destroy that CD :-)

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Re: LIST OF SHAME VOLUNTEERS
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:22 AM 3/25/96 -0500, Declan B. McCullagh wrote: > Leahy Bill has NOT A CHANCE IN HELL of passing, and so is worth > supporting to raise awareness of crypto. Washington is the last place where we wish to raise awareness of crypto --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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