December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: A MODEST PROPOSAL (fwd)
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:05 PM 5/4/96 EDT, "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH(a)mbcl.rutgers.edu> wrote: > The reason I say majordomo is broken is that it shows up > with the address of the original sender, not the address of the list, > as the From address. Other mailing list software does not do this. I think that's user-settable, but there is no ideal approach. Cypherpunks tried several different approaches to addresses, and settled on this one as causing the least overall problems. The big advantage is that replies go to the original sender by default rather than to the list (which reduces the amount of personal mail going to the list, winning both on noise-reduction and embarassment-reduction); the disadvantage is that bouncemail goes to the original sender, rather than the list or the list-manager (bouncemail to the sender is annoying, but minor; bouncemail to the list is extremely annoying, as well as potentially causing mail loops, which are an extreme lossage. Bouncemail to the list-manager is ideal (not that the list-manager usually reads it), but it's hard to get without reducing replies directly to originators, as well as increasing replies accidentally going to the list-manager. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 # goodtimes signature virus innoculation

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Re: WWW proxies?
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:30 AM 5/5/96 -0400, you wrote: >} Has anyone developed such a beast yet? > >I know of two anonymizing web proxies. See: >http://hplyot.obspm.fr:6661/ and: >http://anonymizer.cs.cmu.edu:8080/ anonymizer has moved to www.anonymizer.com:8080 (hosted on c2.org.) There's also the Great Web Canadianizer, if you don't mind reading pre-hosed web pages, eh? Anonymizer does a better job, fixing up things like REMOTE-HOST, REMOTE-ADDR and HTTP-COOKIE which pass some information about the originating system. HTTP-DONUT, eh? Also, Netscape 3.0 is a bit quieter than earlier versions. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 # goodtimes signature virus innoculation

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by ynter＠spica.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Why I Pay Too Much in Taxes
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:31 PM 5/4/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >Not being prepared to risk imprisonment for tax evasion, and being desirous >of living in the United States rather than on a coral atoll, I answer the >questions that Macintax asks me, gulp when I see the final figure, and >write out a check (which I then have to sell even more stock to >cover...perpetuating the cycle). > >--Tim May The Transaction Records Clearinghouse has expanded their site on actual IRS criminal prosecutions into a neat table (for 1994) which shows: odds of referral (per million pop) 17 odds of conviction (per million pop) 8 odds of prison (per million pop) 4 # of referrals for prosecution 4,542 # convicted after prosecution 1,991 # sentenced to prison terms 957 population of federal district 260,340,990 http://www.trac.syr.edu/tracirs/analysis/IRS017tab.html For comparison, the annual risk of being murdered is about 80 per million (8 per 100,000). In addition, only 40% of the above refferals are for ordinary tax fraud and evasion. Sixty percent are for drug and money laundering kinds of offenses. Even though the population of those who regularly violate federal tax laws is smaller (20 million?) the records show that even for this population the odds of being convicted are approximately the odds of being nurdered. http://www.trac.syr.edu/tracirs/analysis/IRS019page.html Shows that the *median* prison sentence and *median* fine after conviction is Zero in both cases. DCF

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Web page for breaking commercial encryption?
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am looking for a web page that shows how to break the encryption in many commercial products. I have seen information on breaking a number of different products, but I can't find a web page that collects these methods into one place. Seems there should be such a page. Is there such a web page? If not, is anyone willing to start one and give me a URL? :-) Thanks, -- Vince PS This is just for a link in my web page, no I did not forget my lotus notes password or something. :-)

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17 Dec '03

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Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 17:17 5/4/96, Moltar Ramone wrote: [...] >> 6) DON'T talk to anyone else--especially in your home >> country--about what you have done, are doing or >> are planning to do. [...] >> 8) Send me $1000. If you follow my steps 1-7, you will >> save many times that amount. > >There's the rub... step 8 violates step 6. If following your directions >indicates a moral obligation to pay, doing so would violate your >directives and make one _not_ obligated to pay... :-) No contradiction here. Just make the payment to Sandy anonymously. Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, not those of my employer. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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Re: Kid Gloves or Megaphones
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 19:58 5/4/96, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: >From: IN%"shamrock(a)netcom.com" 21-MAR-1996 21:29:06.87 > >>It is true that the issuer is unable to discover that double blinding is >>being used. The real problem with the protocol is that it requires >>payor/payee collusion, which may make it difficult to execute. > > Can the payee discover that the payor isn't colluding before the bank >can figure out who the payee is? Yes, since the payee determines the serial numbers of the coins during intitiation of the protocol. It is the payee that also assembles the final coins. If the serial numbers are a match and the signature of the bank verifies, then the protocol has been completed. Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, not those of my employer. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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by ynter＠spica.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Web page for breaking commercial encryption?
by Joel McNamara 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bokler's Guide to Cracker Software is pretty comprehensive: http://www.hiwaay.net/bokler/bsw_crak.html >I am looking for a web page that shows how to break the encryption in many >commercial products. I have seen information on breaking a number of >different products, but I can't find a web page that collects these methods >into one place. Seems there should be such a page. Is there such a web >page? If not, is anyone willing to start one and give me a URL? :-) > >Thanks, > > -- Vince

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