December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

ecash payee anonymity, cpunk archives
by Alex Strasheim 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A while back someone posted a note saying that an ecash protocol garaunteeing payee as well as payer anonymity had been devised. Did that ever get posted here? The last message I saw said that it would be posted soon. Also, I missed whatever discussion there was about why the archives got shut down. Was it a copyright thing? A lack of resources? No one to volunteer? -- Alex Strasheim, alex(a)proust.suba.com

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No Subject
by Gary Howland 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CRYPTOGRAPHIC EXTENSIONS FOR JAVA _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION This library contains a suite of cryptographic classes for Java. All of the classes have been implemented in native code for performance reasons, and have been tested on Windows 95, Windows NT and Solaris. Download in source or binary form at http://www.systemics.com/software/ FEATURES All of the following have been implemented using native methods: * BigInteger class (based on code from Eric Young). This class implements arbitrary length integers and some associated mathematical functions. * DES class (based on code from Eric Young) * IDEA class * MD5 class (based on code from RSA Data Security, Inc.) * SHA class (based on code from NIST and Peter C. Gutmann) COPYRIGHT This library includes (or is derived from) software developed by (and owned by) the following: * Peter C. Gutmann * NIST * RSA Data Security, Inc. * Systemics Ltd <http://www.systemics.com/> * Eric Young <eay(a)mincom.oz.au> Also planned for release: * Cryptographic library for Java * PGP library for Java * Cryptographic library for Perl * PGP library for Perl

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Mandatory Voluntary Self-Ratings
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:31 PM 5/7/96, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote: >thought police, or concerned but ignorant parents/congressmen. If >self-labeling worked (which I see few cases in which it wouldn't) I can't >see the concerned but ignorant being unhappy. Rather they'd be a bit better Regarding this "(which I see few cases in which it wouldn't)" point, I have a different view. 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. Then we'll see what happens. (This is an old debate, here and on the Cyberia-l list, to wit, what happens when people/perverts/libertarians choose to subvert the voluntary ratings by deliberately mis-rating their stuff? Or what if they genuinely believe, a la NAMBLA, that youngsters should be exposed to certain things?) I believe the whole debate about PICs-type ratings and other "voluntary self-labeling" has taken us astray. I don't see calls for authors to voluntarily self-rate their print works, nor do I see calls for newspapers to have articles rated. Nor speech in general. However, the drumbeat of "V-Chip" advocacy is now spilling over into cyberspace. 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. --Tim May THE X-ON CONGRESS: INDECENT COMMENT ON AN INDECENT SUBJECT, by Steve Russell, American Reporter Correspondent....You motherfuckers in Congress have dropped over the edge of the earth this time... "the sorriest bunch of cocksuckers ever to sell out the First Amendment" or suggesting that "the only reason to run for Congress these days is to suck the lobbyists' dicks and fuck the people who sent you there," ....any more than I care for the language you shitheads have forced me to use in this essay...Let's talk about this fucking indecent language bullshit.

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Re: Why I Pay Too Much in Taxes
by nobody＠replay.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Black Unicorn wrote: >Where does the company get the funds to pay you? >From Tim's day work. It's a consulting company, i.e. it sells his services to whomever is employing him today. The whole idea was to hide Tim's income sources, or that's what he asked for anyway. You can hide your income by putting it in another jurisdiction. >What pay? I don't get it. Where does this friend gets his money? As a cut from the money Tim's employer gives him. >> By the way, are there any PGP encrypted mailing lists for >> discussing serious tax fraud? > >If such a list existed, would we tell an anonymous poster/fed? >If your above scheme is intended merely to conceal funds it is a fairly >poor example as it depends on the secrecy of each and every 'employee' of >the company. No it doesn't. One person knows where they money went when it left the country (and he is getting paid for the risk of doing time). Nobody knows where the funds are concealed. Probably in a trust that you can access when you are on vacation abroad. Mr.X.

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Re: remailer-in-a-box
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>At 3:51 PM 5/7/96, anonymous-remailer(a)shell.portal.com wrote: >>No one answered me. >>What's the best remailer-in-a-box. >>I'd like to run one. I would think people would be falling >>over eachother to tell me. I was running a modified ghio2-based remailer until I shut it down because of spammers. You should be able to get the code off my web page, or send me email and I'll forward it. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 # goodtimes signature virus innoculation

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Re: self-ratings
by rick hoselton 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy C. May writes: >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. Not me. If someone doesn't want to be offended, then I would rather they never read anything from me, ever. I share family, race, culture, and backround with my father, and there have been times when I offended him unintentionally. One person liked me enough to marry me, but I occasionally offended her, too. Imagine how easily I might offend a stranger. Better to take no chances at all. If somebody wants a rating system, then they should just consider everything I have to say as "X-rated" in EVERY category, just to be safe. And that's a policy that everyone on the net should follow. If this self rating system becomes mandatory, I think the cypherpunks should cooperate fully, by notifying ALL sites that are not self-X-rated if they can find ANYTHING that ANYONE might EVER find offensive. Better safe than sorry. Nobody will be prosecuted for saying they have an offensive site, even if they don't. Imagine a prosecutor trying to prove that NOBODY could POSSIBLY be offended by my newsgroup postings! But many people will be prosecuted for not identifying their sites as offensive. Now, if everyone follows my advice, the net may become very boring for those who have their filters set on, but congress will NEVER make "being boring" against the law. If mandatory-self-rating ever becomes the law, cypherpunks can definitely promote true justice by strictly interpreting it and supporting it completely.

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MD5 weaknesses
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Perry Metzger posted a note to coderpunks about >A paper by Hans Dobbertin dated May 2 in private circulation has found >an easy method for generating collisions (not pseudocollisions as was >done in previous work) in the MD5 compression function. I was told >that this was public information. And somebody provided a URL to http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/dobbertin.ps The coderpunks discussion has been titled Re: Favorate flavor of hash? for which I suppose there are alternative interpretations :-) # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 # goodtimes signature virus innoculation

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COMMUNITY CONNEXION ANNOUNCES UNCENSORED USENET ACCESS TO THE FRENCH INTERNET COMMUNITY
by sameer＠c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Leahy bill dead?
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Maybe this seems a bit redundant, but is it generally agreed "out there" that the Leahy bill is dead? When originally proposed, the conventional wisdom around here was that the Clinton Maladministration was going to be dead-set against it. (Not a bad guess...) It was also claimed that it couldn't be changed to fix it. (although one of the nyms that claimed this hasn't been seen around here since then...) Since then, most if not all of the people and groups who might otherwise have been in favor of it have, likewise, turned against it. And while the Burns bill isn't totally out of the woods, I assume "we" (the people on the right side of the cryto argument) can all agree that it is at least better than Leahy's booby-trap. So does that spell the end of the Leahy bill? The reason I mention this is because it was my suspicion that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the "anti-crypto" faction designed the Leahy bill to be as anti-crypto as they felt they could pass, including just enough bait to get us to take the hook. Obviously, that tactic failed. However, if I'm right we'll seem some life in the carcass yet. Obviously, this is a highly longshot prediction. "Nobody" is supposed to be for the Leahy bill now. But I'm reminded of the last 20 minutes of the movie, "Terminator"... Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: remailer-in-a-box
by Jay Haines 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Reply to: RE>>remailer-in-a-box >>No one answered me. >>What's the best remailer-in-a-box. >>I'd like to run one. I would think people would be falling >>over eachother to tell me. >The reason for the quiet may be twofold. First, I and many others delete >unread list messages with out subjects. Second, remailer-in-a-box does not >.really exist. Mixmaster, and most of the other remailers are fairly easy to. >set up for anyone with UNIX experience. I run Mixmaster + Ghio + reorder >scripts. > -Lance Does one exist for the MAC? If not, would anyone be interested enough to see one developed?

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