December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Penet-style web remailer?
by camcc＠abraxis.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:17 PM 5/8/96 EDT, you wrote: > http://noah.pair.com/anon.html. It appears to be >sort of a penet-style anonymous remailer, only without return messages. Anyone >know anything else about it? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I have tried noah.pair.com in several tests and for seemingly secure communications with good results. In addition I have carried on an e-mail conversation with him. Give him a try. Alec camcc(a)abraxis.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMZHduCKJGkNBIH7lAQF8HgQArQRgSTMWL0WcAkv9Byk1ZghBYsI9AxRF mxE3nGnHu4H8dhMQXZtUOoY0LN7GkdcCYH8LBab91XwaJCYp3j5WqVt4xPP+feF5 hUTch6VUb/dPB1VYEfHjwNXPAhkOuM2Noarq3cFqbhJNK4UkC1IzNhy1rrhE2yZ+ Yyzv8ppwe4g= =d9bl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Remailer fot NT
by Lou Zirko 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Thu May 09 09:28:20 1996 Does anyone know of a remailer that runs undet NT. If not, any source that might be ripe for a port. Lou Z. Lou Zirko (502)383-2175 Zystems lzirko(a)isdn.net "We're all bozos on this bus" - Nick Danger, Third Eye -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMZIBJBKvccEAmlQ9AQGs5Af+I8BfY640aj/e483mDzbdHOioEaPrQmZ1 R8rA7H0Kg29VU4/4f+Y5J66ZshMVr4ojOYzj8/H7mrsCjsZPx7MjBqiIH1pbUouG ky0NvGLw+HeBRWZz1OSElDUYE+QMHnMr2CxYnaepS/91erJmpt0xE5/oXVohEQOq q/ARLWAYw4FJ6n7cgDDfkcxp5scHthLsAzMCbuHxfsvzAm/1LdU/QFvUWG2+BNv3 4Hx2TWasGWaSfX/+zZGuXHA123JW2frE98o+nRORcM5y7kCOaXPP69xp+aAJsGdh wf7M/ekRhBjfJgdOLtgID+zKBJbZEHA3kGgCmHdz1ynoWiXnMcTlcw== =bWV8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Looking for someone to speak on JAVA security issues (fwd)
by TQDB 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 03:25:29 -0700 From: The Dark Tangent <dtangent(a)defcon.org> To: dc-stuff(a)fc.net Subject: Looking for someone to speak on JAVA security issues If you or someone you know has seen a Java security expert who would speak at DEF CON, please have them contact me! -- Hey! All my mail is sniffed! Don't forget to PGP important stuff. PGP Key (2.3a & 2.6) on key servers or mail me. Voice (AT&T) 0-700-TANGENT DEF CON mailing list, mail: majordomo(a)fc.net with "subscribe dc-announce" in the body. DEF CON FTP: ftp.fc.net /pub/defcon http://www.defcon.org

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hks newsgroup
by Kent Briggs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hks.lists.cypherpunks has shown no new articles in the past three weeks. I've resubscribed to the mailing list but have seen no mention of the newsgroup's status. What happened to hks and is it ever coming back up? Kent

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re: Dempster-Shafer...(re: Transitive
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:18 AM 5/9/96, watson(a)tds.com wrote: >tcmay's approach is elegant, and it's refreshing to find a practical use >for AI approaches. I think it needs one more step, though. If we learn >to quantify our trust in a key, we still need to know what the threshold >should be for a given application. Maybe I can get by with a 0.05 Bel >for posting to cypherpunks, but maybe I want a 0.95 for a monetary >transaction. Seems to need a comprehensive risk management approach, [was the rest accidentally cut off?] Anyway, I agree that a more comprehensive system is needed. But even attaching belief estimates to keys, for example, goes a long way in letting others than do some transitive calculations. --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, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Applicable Models for Trust Calculations (Re: Dempster-Shafer Theory and Belief Networks (Re: Transitive trust))
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:51 PM 5/7/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >In particular, one form of belief representation seems especially relevant: >Dempster-Shafer theory. Two quick things: (more in my forthcoming thesis) 1. It is very instructive to consider systems for considering trust and belief (and Dempster-Shafer is a rather nice one). However, these systems (my own decision analysis discussion to a degree, but less so with respect to information gathering) and Dempster-Shafer in particular require the events to be independent: "Further, Dempster-Shafer theory provides rules for combining probabilities and thus for propagating measures through the system. This fourth point is possibly the most attractive, but it is also one of the most controversial since the propagation method is an extension of the multiplication rule for independent events. Since many of the applications involve events that are surely dependent, that rule is, by classical statistical criteria, inapplicable. The tendency to assume that events are independent unless proven otherwise has stimulated a large proportion of the criticism of probability approaches; as it stands, Dempster-Shafer theory suffers the same ill" [Shapiro (ed.) Encyclopedia of Aritificial Intelligence. /Reasoning, Default./ p 846.] The very term "Web of Trust" makes one pause with respect to independent events. 2. Just as a comment, it seems there are different meaning of "transitiviy" in related but different disciplines, for instance in value and utility functions, one requires transitivity, but in a way different from what Hal discusses: "For any three possible set os of consequences, X1, X2, and X3, if X1 > X2 and X2 > X3 then the preference is transitive such that X1 > X3." [deNeufville, R. Applied Systems Analysis: Engineering Planning and Technology Management, 1990, p 313.] This refers to a single person's preferences (rather than 3 individuals in a "network.") _______________________ Regards, Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. -Spinoza Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E

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Re: Mandatory Voluntary Self-Ratings
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 11:17 AM 05/9/96 -0400, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. <reagle(a)MIT.EDU> wrote: >> I've figured out where my differences between myself and others >lay. The _only_ system and service that I am aware of that is distributing >PICS labels is RSAC. (http://www.rsac.org) They are what one could call an >objective and non-arbitrary content rating system rather than an >"appropriateness" system. "Appropriateness" systems will be valuable 3rd >party systems when the vigilantes and fundamentalists wish to create label >bureaus. For self labeling, if many people (main stream people) are going to >use that system within their browser, it will have to have mind share. If >it's going to have mind share, I think it would be advantegeous to it to be >a descriptive label rather than "appropriate." Hence, much of the concerns >I'm hearing aren't so worrisome to me. SurfWatch is offering self-rating via a web page at their site. It spits back the appropriate 'meta' tags to embed in an html document. Dave Merriman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMZFQ+MVrTvyYOzAZAQFM+gP/edsvNSSkeiyZVBuJyWYCK82J7O1zG5O8 jI5cGj22R/qSPAhhpZj6pLFxvoKnuUc7P+8QzAao1ccxihZpy5ZW3fzM/+pyn6dW B126/l4R+SRCrDiPV+5HeXyBTXAiWYMjRAuv2nZtHVIiLjQrjziwrug4H/4U26GP NEbKT8Uqwno= =UAbu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------- "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." P. J. O'Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> http://www.shellback.com/personal/merriman/index.htm

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www.cdnow.com accepts ecash
by bryce＠digicash.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Cool. Get your fresh CD's via WWW and UPS. Pay with Mark Twain ecash. This is the first thing (excepting, of course, BAP, cyberbuck gambling, and pornography) that I actually want to buy with ecash. And I spend time crawling www.cdnow.com even when I don't want to spend money, just to read the words and look at the pictures. http://www.cdnow.com/ This has been a public service announcement. CDNow is not paying me. (Although, of course, they are welcome to send me some free CD's in return for my kind words...) Bryce Disclaimer: NO. I'm not speaking for anyone else. Not even the company mentioned in the From: line. PGP sig follows -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMZIn9EjbHy8sKZitAQELPAL9G6lYkqhbTdYrt0YFe4VjF9jyyjxznCi2 SY3f86o2XvD86AMUQkVT31GhQAmGC6TN2cJ0pQDRpHfh5Qk+IZFgd3iyEEZqzrmc UztgRNEhaIFgYXjV33gzRE5sk+fnpQaL =H96X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Compu$erve, Netscape offering Lotus Notes competitor
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is no mention in either of these articles about what encryption protection will be used; it does appear that Netscape Navigator software will be used, which does have some protections (very little for the out-of-US stuff, of course). Jeff? -Allen >Copyright 1996 Nando.net >Copyright 1996 Bloomberg >COLUMBUS, Ohio (May 9, 1996 12:41 p.m. EDT) -- CompuServe Corp. this fall >will offer corporate customers Netscape Communications Corp. software used >to share documents over computer networks. >The move presents another challenge to International Business Machines >Corp.'s Lotus Notes software, whose popularity has declined as companies opt >for cheaper Internet software capable of many of the features Notes offers. >Using Netscape's software, company employees and partners in distant offices >can exchange and work on documents at the same time. Netscape also is >developing audio and video technology that will let employees talk to each >other. [...] >Columbus, Ohio-based CompuServe already offers Lotus Notes and decided to >strike an agreement with Netscape because customers were asking for a >similar, cheaper product. [...] >CompuServe will offer Netscape's server software, used to relay information, >and Internet browsing software. Terms of the marketing and development >agreement weren't disclosed. >Netscape's software is based on technology it acquired with the purchase >last year of Collabra Software Inc. [...] >Copyright 1996 Nando.net >Copyright 1996 Reuter Information Service >COLUMBUS, Ohio (May 9, 1996 12:47 p.m. EDT) - CompuServe Corp. and Netscape >Communications Corp. said Thursday they will jointly create a managed >intranet service that will allow a company's employees to communicate over >in-house computer networks. [...] >Intranets refer to private corporate networks that are designed to make use >of Internet software tools. >Under the strategic partnership, the two firms will offer so-called >groupware, a category of software that allows employees to share >applications and electronic mail. They will manage such networks on behalf >of corporate customers. >Customers will have access to features such as electronic mail, online >discussion groups and document-sharing that allow them to share and >co-develop information in new ways. >The service is slated to be available this fall, using Netscape's Navigator >browser and server software.

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Re: Mandatory Voluntary Self-Ratings
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 19:34:50 -0400 >To: tcmay(a)got.net (Timothy C. May) >From: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle(a)mit.edu> >Subject: Re: Mandatory Voluntary Self-Ratings > >At 09:58 AM 5/8/96 -0700, you wrote: >>At 9:31 PM 5/7/96, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote: > >>Should "voluntary self-criticism" become widespread, I expect to rate all >>of my posts as suitable for children of all ages, suitable for >>hypersensitive feminists, suitable for Jews and Gentiles alike, and so on. >>Regardless of whether I'm advocating post-birth abortions or forced >>encheferation of Muslim girls. > > I've figured out where my differences between myself and others lay. The _only_ system and service that I am aware of that is distributing PICS labels is RSAC. (http://www.rsac.org) They are what one could call an objective and non-arbitrary content rating system rather than an "appropriateness" system. "Appropriateness" systems will be valuable 3rd party systems when the vigilantes and fundamentalists wish to create label bureaus. For self labeling, if many people (main stream people) are going to use that system within their browser, it will have to have mind share. If it's going to have mind share, I think it would be advantegeous to it to be a descriptive label rather than "appropriate." Hence, much of the concerns I'm hearing aren't so worrisome to me. > > I'll have more on that when a case study I'm working on with some colleagues for a Sloan on ecommerce course at MIT is finished.. (in about a week, and I should then be making that and my thesis available.) > >>I say it's a waste of our time to even be thinking or worrying about how to >>implement an infrastructure for ratings. In fact, building such an >>infrastructure could make later imposition of "mandatory voluntary ratings" >>(Orwell would be unsurprised) a greater likelihood. > > Maybe, maybe not, hard to say... This or the -L18, both are easy for an ignornant legislator to approve. > _______________________ Regards, Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. -Spinoza Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E

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