December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Housewarming/birthday party
by lstewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You're invited to celebrate Laura and Bill's New Home Bill's Birthday and anything else you'd like to celebrate! Date: Saturday, January 13 Time: 5:00pm (or whenever) Putative location: 2040 Rock Ave. #22, Mountain View, CA RSVP (acceptances): lstewart(a)prisminc.com, or Laura Stewart at work: 408-744-3359. What to bring: If you RSVP by Jan 12, don't bring anything! We'll provide something resembling dinner. If you don't RSVP, bring food or drink. You are welcome to bring your family or other guests, but please do not forward this invitation to other mail lists. Smoking is prohibited, laptop computers tolerated, board games warmly encouraged. How to get there (all directions are written as if 101 really went north and south): HOW TO FIND THE APARTMENT The address is 2040 W. Middlefield #22, but ignore that fact. It is much easier to find if you firmly believe that the address is 2040 Rock Ave. #22. From the corner of Rock & Rengstorff, follow the big lighted "2040" numbers along Rock. Just after the second driveway on Rock you will find a walkway into the complex...follow the walkway to #19, then climb the stairs to #22. HOW TO FIND THE CORNER OF ROCK & RENGSTORFF Cypherpunks: From La Castena (the burrito place), just go one block "west" on Rengstorff. From Highway 101 southbound: Take Rengstorff exit, which makes a 180-degree loop. Turn left onto Rengstorff westbound (away from the bay, toward the ocean). One block after Old Middlefield (and one block before Middlefield), turn left on Rock Ave and park on Rock. See above to find the apartment. From Highway 101 northbound: Ignore the Middlefield exit. Take Rengstorff exit, which makes a 270-degree loop and merges onto Rengstorff westbound (away from the bay, toward the ocean). One block after Old Middlefield (and one block before Middlefield), turn left on Rock Ave. and park on Rock. See above to find the apartment. From 680 at Dunbarton exit: Taking the Dunbarton bridge to 101 is a few minutes faster, but it's easy to get lost between the bridge and 101. Unless you're familiar with the area, we recommend taking 680 to 237, west on 237 to 101, and north on 101 to the Rengstorff exit, which makes a 270-degree loop and merges onto Rengstorff westbound (away from the bay, toward the ocean). One block after Old Middlefield (and one block before Middlefield), turn left on Rock Ave. and park on Rock. See above to find the apartment. Further complications..er, clarifications: Rock Ave. and Rock St. are the same thing. Middlefield Road and Old Middlefield Road are two different things. Middlefield Rock Old Middlefield 101 ^ | | | | | | | | | "North" | | | | the | | | | bay Rengstorff----------------------------------------------------- | _______ | | | | [ 2 ]| |La | | [ 0 ]| |Castena | | [ 4 ]| | | | [ 0 ]| | | | [_______]| | | | #22 | | | | | | | | | | | Lost on the day of the party? Call us at home: 415-938-1697. The price of condo living: There is no guest parking in the complex, and the party must end by 10pm. Please help us get along with our new neighbors by respecting the condo rules. Thanks!

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(no subject)
by HousePasley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Talk to me..my son has shoes...cypher this... mays out of maggots, go arial.

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Netscape 40-bit cracking. The new computing benchmark?
by Weld Pond 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From Infoworld Dec 25, 1995 page 3. Netscape Commerce Server Security Broken Integrated Computing Engines Inc. (ICE), in Cambridge, Mass. announced it has cracked the 40-bit DES [huh? not RC4] encryption in the Netscape Commerce Server. Unlike a similar security break-in [talk about bad terminology] by a French university student last August, which required eight days, 120 workstations, and two supercomputers, ICE said it used a computer that cost $83,000 and compromised the Wold Wide Web server's security in 7.7 days. [Hey, what about the Cypherpunks crack that only took 31.8 hours?] Netscape Communications Corp. officials were not surprised by the security crack. "We've known that 40-bit encryption is breakable since we shipped the server. That's the reason it's allowed to be exported," said company spokeswoman Rosanne Siino. "We need to keep lobbying to get rid of the U.S. governments 40-bit restriction on what can be exported." Within the United States, Netscape sells products with 128-bit encryption. Weld Pond - weld(a)l0pht.com - http://www.l0pht.com/ L 0 p h t H e a v y I n d u s t r i e s Technical archives for the people - Bio/Electro/Crypto/Radio

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"Deterrence"
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the 1960's movie, "Dr. Strangelove," the title character defined "deterrence" as being "the art of making your enemies FEAR to attack you." As has been well-publicized recently, pressure from a German prosecutor had induced Compuserve to cease access to a number of sex-related Internet groups. Clearly, neither Compuserve nor its users nor the Internet community in general has demonstrated adequate DETERRENCE to him or people in his position. In my essay, "Assassination Politics," I pointed out that it would be relatively easy to deter such official-type actions if enough of us simply said, "NO!" and denominated it in terms of dollars and cents. After all, with four million Compuserve users, if they each were willing to donate a penny to see this latter-day Fuhrer dead, that would be $40,000. (Pardon me if I don't translate this into marks and other currencies.) In practice, of course, if such a system were in place, it is highly unlikely that he would have even dared try to put pressure on Compuserve, and Compuserve wouldn't have dared respond cooperatively to such outrageous influence. It is worth noting that if six million Jews had been willing to donate a dime each in 1932 to see Hitler and his cronies dead, much of the late thirties and forties would have ended up quite differently. Some may argue that today's situation isn't nearly as serious now as it was then, but then again, the situation probably didn't really look very serious in 1932, did it?!? WHEN, exactly, would it be appropriate to act?

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Internet wiretap?
by Joel McNamara 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This tidbit was posted a few hours ago on c|net (12/29 4:00 PST). Thanks to a wiretap on the Internet, three people have been arrested for illegally selling and manufacturing cellular phone equipment and electronic devices over the Internet, according to Secret Service agent Brian Gimlett. This is the first time the Secret Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration were allowed to wiretap via the Internet, says Gimlett. The rest of the story talks about an exchange of e-mail discussing the sale of various nasty cellular accessories. There is no information on exactly what "wiretap" means or any other technical details. Interesting to note the DEA was in on it. Crypto-relevance only if the perps were using a remailer (which I kind of doubt). Full story (quite short), at: http://www.cnet.com/Content/News/Files/0,16,326,00.html Joel

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http://www.gsa.gov/irms/ki/sipmo.htm
by Rich Salz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As many of you probably already know, the US Postal Service is creating a national public-key infrastructure for individuals (I've never heard any mention of Corporate identities, not to say that there won't be any). A few weeks ago the General Services Agency of the US Gov't had an open working session of their Security Infrastructure Program Management Office (SIPMO). At that session they announced a pilot program for electronic filing of federal tax returns, using the USPS infrastructure. The URL in the subject line has not yet been updated to discuss the pilot; right now it is basically an overview of SIPMO. Anyone know more? /r$

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January meeting (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, Please make the date Saturday January 6, not Sunday January 7. Forwarded message: > From ravage(a)ssz.com Fri Dec 29 22:41:13 1995 > From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> > Message-Id: <199512300441.WAA01326@einstein> > Subject: January meeting > To: austin-cpunks(a)ssz.com (Austin Cypherpunks) > Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 22:41:11 -0600 (CST) > Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] > Content-Type: text > Content-Length: 373 > > > Hi all, > > Just a reminder that the next general meeting will be held on January 7, > 1996 from 6-8pm at the Central Market HEB on N. Lamar at 42nd. > > We will be discussing further issues related to the video and setting a > schedule of meetings and deadlines for various production points. > > Hope to see you folks there! > > Jim Choate > >

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(no subject)
by daniel guerard 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

please, mail list of server. Tank you

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DIBS
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, Eric Hughes and I are calling dibs for the FEBRUARY Cypherpunks meeting. On February 10, we will host the meeting at our offices in downtown San Francisco (easily accessible by BART and Muni). More details later. After the meeting, I will be hosting a gala costume party in the large, elegant Oakland house owned by two of my co-hosts. I will soon be setting up an invitation on a web page provided another co-host, C'punk hero-of-the-revolution, Sameer. Stay tuned. S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Massey, CEO of Compuserve, on Internet
by Peter D. Junger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Michael Handler writes: : On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Timothy C. May wrote: : : > Wow! I am watching the CEO of Compuserve being interviewed on CNBC, : > explaining how his company is "taking the high road by complying with the : > laws of Germany" in removing access to 200 Usenet groups. : : A blatant lie. [Material deleted] : CompuServe is starting to look worse and worse in this thing. I'm : still waiting for the real story. Here is an excerpt from a story on the : AP: : : <stuff deleted> : Munich prosecutor Manfred Wick confirmed Friday that Bavarian state : police investigators searched CompuServe's networks and computers last : month for child pornography, but he would not say what they found. : "We didn't threaten them with charges," Wick said. : Arno Edelmann, a CompuServe product manager in Unterhaching, : Germany, said Friday that the company blocked access to 200 : sex-oriented newsgroups in a portion of the Internet called Usenet. : "It is perhaps an overreaction but we want to cooperate with the : Bavarian prosecutor's office," Edelmann said. : <stuff deleted> : [ end ] : : And herein lie the pitfalls of trying to establish a global ISP : presence. : One should also notice that Bavaria is only one state in the German Federal Republic; this case is more like Texas investigating Compuserve than the United States federal government investigating Compuserve. Bavaria is the stronghold of what can properly be called the (Catholic) Religious Right in Germany. It should also be noticed that in general German publications and television seem to be less constrained in publishing materials that in the United States would be called ``indecent'' by some than are United States publications and broadcasters. -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH Internet: junger(a)pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger(a)samsara.law.cwru.edu

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