December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [SF Bay Area] Security And Freedom through Encryption Forum
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>SAFE: Security And Freedom through Encryption Forum, July 1, 1996 >================================================================= > For a national encryption policy that promotes commerce and protects > privacy > Encryption technologies, the "locks and keys" of the Information Age, > are an essential component of a secure and trusted Global Information > Infrastructure. Every day, millions of dollars in commercial > transactions and the private communications of individuals traverse > the global network. All are vulnerable to the prying eyes of > industrial spies, hackers, and rogue foreign governments. I'm more worried about rogue DOMESTIC governments, myself. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Search for WWW consultants.
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If anyone out there is interested in doing some SSL work, talk to David Normandin at the number below. Feel free to forward this to people you know that would be interested in doing this sort of work in the Boston area. >X-Sender: ceim(a)careerenhancement.com (Unverified) >Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:37:04 -0500 >To: reagle(a)rpcp.mit.edu >From: concepts(a)careercncepts.com (Career enhancement) >Subject: Search for WWW consultants. > >Hi Joe, thanks for helping me with this. What I'm looking for are skill sets >in secured socket layers for the WWW, and those with search engines >skills.These are very HOT,long term assignments with rates paying between >60 & 90 on an hourly rate. In addition I also have multiple needs for CGI & >Perl scripting consultants. Please have them forward thier information to >me via e-mail, fax @ 617-270-4443 or call me @ 617-270-4441. Again thanks >for your help and good luck in NY. David Normandin _______________________ Regards, Democracy is where you can say what you think even if you don't think. - Joseph Reagle http://rpcp.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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Stop Cross-Copying (Re: Take the money, Harry, re.)
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:19 PM 6/20/96, RogErick(a)aol.com wrote: > I agree with you, Tonie, as usual. > I struggled with this, for years, until I had a dream. I was on a >battlefield, pinned down by enemy fire, and I was out of ammunition. .... Hey, folks, I'm a libertarian, and even voted for John Hospers in 1972. But the Cypherpunks mailing list has over 1200 subscribers, and cross-copying to it for these debates is not a good idea. I presume the same is true about cross-copying Cypherpunks stuff onto "nwlibertarians(a)teleport.co," but I can't say for sure. What I know is that wide cross-posting (or cross-copying) is the bane of lists these days. There are so many lists, so much overlap, that the temptation is great to cc: any conceivably-related list. Hey, no one speaks for Cypherpunks, least of all me, but I think cross-copying between libertarian, or digital commerce, or Wobbly, or International Socialist Women of Color, or Unabomber Brigade mailing lists to the Cypherpunks list is inappropriate. --Tim May, member of Cypherpunks list, but not the others 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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The Rise of the Virtual State
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Foreign Affairs, July/August, 1996. "The Rise of the Virtual State" [Excerpts] Richard Rosecrance, UCLA Professor of Political Science Amid the supposed clamor of contending cultures and civilizations, a new reality is emerging. The nation-state is becoming a tighter, more vigorous unit capable of sustaining the pressures of worldwide competition. Developed states are putting aside military, political, and territorial ambitions as they struggle not for cultural dominance but for a greater share of world output. Countries are not uniting as civilizations and girding for conflict with one another. Instead, they are downsizing -- in function if not in geographic form. Today and for the foreseeable future, the only international civilization worthy of the name is the governing economic culture of the world market. Timeworn methods of augmenting national power and wealth are no longer effective. Like the headquarters of a virtual corporation, the virtual state determines overall strategy and invests in its people rather than amassing expensive production capacity. It contracts out other functions to states that specialize in or need them. Imperial Great Britain may have been the model for the nineteenth century, but Hong Kong will be the model for the 21st. As a result of these trends, the world may increasingly become divided into "head" and "body" nations, or nations representing some combination of those two functions. The world is embarked on a progressive emancipation from land as a determinant of production and power. Diminishing their command of real estate and productive assets, nations are downsizing, in functional if not in geographic terms. Small nations have attained peak efficiency and competitiveness, and even large nations have begun to think small. If durable access to assets elsewhere can be assured, the need to physically possess them diminishes. The virtual state is an agile entity operating in twin jurisdictions: abroad and at home. It is as prepared to mine gains overseas as in the domestic economy. But in large countries, internationalization operates differentially. Political and economic decision-makers have begun to recast their horizons, but middle managers and workers lag behind. They expect too much and give and learn too little. That is why the dawn of the virtual state must also be the sunrise of international education and training. The virtual state cannot satisfy all its citizens. The possibility of commanding economic power in the sense of effective state control has greatly declined. Displaced workers and businesspeople must be willing to look abroad for opportunities. In the United States, they can do this only if American education prepares the way. ---------- http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/vstate.txt (39 kb) VST_ate

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Bal's PKS; pgp.net?
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In addition to Bal's public key server being unavailable... www.pgp.net yields University of Paderborn's Mathematics department in Germany, with a link to a page in English which currently doesn't exist. -- The word "gaijin" literally means "foreign person". Many Westerners like to think that the Japanese use it in the same way as the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan uses "nigger", but it ain't really true. They use it when they mean "nigger", but they also sometimes use it to mean "honorable nigger". - Bill Lambert in soc.couples.intercultural

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Re: Safemail
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 20 Jun 96 at 12:28, Andrew Loewenstern wrote: [..] > There are other, more serious, drawbacks to such a scheme though. You can't > change your passphrase without changing your public key. People can try to > guess your passphrase with only your public key. Crack can guess peoples > account passwords something like 24% of the time. I doubt the average joe > would use much better passphrases for their secret key. That's a scary > thought!! At least with PGP someone has to get a copy of the encrypted > secret key first. You could require *very good* passphrases. Rather than changing a passphrase, revoke the key. Perhaps expire keys after a certain period of time. Longer lasting keys (such as a digital timestamp service) would save private keys with a protected password instead. --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.

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Re: where'd Bal's PKS go?
by fredfjr＠netserver.nti.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 10:24 AM 6/20/96 -0700, you wrote: >Did it move? I hadn't seen any announcement of this... I just visited the site earlier tonight and it seemed to be working...it took me a couple of tries but I was able to extract a key from there. But just to make sure, the one I visited is at: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-commands.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMcodwlzzEIlY82+tAQF/BQP9HrT1ThbfmxcTWHZ6V55eAqVJysC2g1yU T2cCHvXGxYvCf7jU4YyJMUgNThCbIC/GIv6MZzZ4SPaej8jky5qs+KH6urDEXwXe d2YBeXihOxQ/5lEBMgniB61DcPjvcK4nl8MhVsn+3r+/9c5/kfTNEXAMK820gIEc 94BO0/MFf0I= =A1Um -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Current status of RSA patent...
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:32 PM 6/20/96 -0400, Intense wrote: >On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, jim bell wrote: > >> At 10:59 AM 6/20/96 -0400, Intense wrote: >> > >> >does not matter - it will be renewed in the interest of the government >> >The goverment want's there backdoor... would you expect less? >> >> As far as I know, patents can't be "renewed." I've heard they can be >> "re-issued," amended, but to my knowledge that doesn't extend their term. > >That is probably true... But, i am sure that goverment is going to want >to keep there backdoors, they have showed no interest in it's citizens >priviciy as of yet... and i doubt they have changed... Yes, it's true. I happen to believe that the only purpose the government had in granting patents on public key and RSA is to help keep it from the public. They did a fair job, but the patents expire in 1-4 years and it'll be too late by then. Their attempts to foist the Clipper standard on us didn't work. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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"Filegate" may be good news for us
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The current flap over the Clinton Administration's request for and receipt of FBI dossiers is being called "Filegate." The Administration has claimed the requests were innocent, and based on outmoded Secret Service lists. The Secret Service denies this, and says the list did not come from them. Some say the list was of "Clinton's enemies," as it contained mostly leading Republicans and Bush Administration staffers (even including former Sec. of State Jim Baker). Investigations are underway, and Att. General Janet Reno is suggesting that Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr handled this investigation. Why is this good news for us? (Besides the partisan issue of embarrassing and degrading the current government, which is always a good thing.) Because it underscores how difficult it is, even with ostensible safeguards, to control the distribution of dossiers, secret files, and surveillance reports. If the White House can order up several hundred supposedly-secret FBI dossiers on leading Republicans and political enemies, imagine what they could do with "voluntarily escrowed" crypto keys! (We all know all this, of course. My point is that this is providing a timely demonstration of how little government can be trusted to keep its secrets.) In this political year, this "Filegate" flap may effectively table any serious discussions of Reno-type GAK. Not all news is bad. --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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ALERT: Crypto hearings in D.C. 6/26/96, submit your comments through WWW!
by Voters Telecommunications Watch 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

============================================================================= ____ _ _ _ / ___|_ __ _ _ _ __ | |_ ___ | \ | | _____ _____ | | | '__| | | | '_ \| __/ _ \ _____| \| |/ _ \ \ /\ / / __| | |___| | | |_| | |_) | || (_) |_____| |\ | __/\ V V /\__ \ \____|_| \__, | .__/ \__\___/ |_| \_|\___| \_/\_/ |___/ |___/|_| SECOND SET OF CRYPTO HEARINGS (S.1726) SET FOR 6/26/96 IN WASHINGTON D.C. IF YOU CAN'T BE THERE, YOU CAN STILL HAVE YOUR COMMENTS ENTERED INTO THE RECORD AT WWW.CRYPTO.COM Date: June 21, 1996 URL:http://www.crypto.com/ crypto-news(a)panix.com If you redistribute this, please do so in its entirety, with the banner intact. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents News How to receive crypto-news Security And Freedom through Encryption forum: July 1, 1996 Press contacts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS The sponsors of the Pro-CODE bill (S.1726) will hold the second of two hearings on the encryption issue in Washington D.C. this coming Wednesday, June 26. Witnesses scheduled to testify at the hearing, which will focus on the Burns/Leahy Pro-CODE bill (S. 1726) include: * Phil Zimmermann, Inventor of PGP * Whit Diffie, Father of Public-Key Cryptography * Jerry Berman, Executive Director, Center for Democracy and Technology * Matt Blaze, Cryptographer * Phil Karn, Cryptographer * Barbara Simons, Chair of US Public Policy Committee, ACM * Marc Rotenberg, Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center * AND YOU!! (See below for details) The hearing will focus on the need to reform US encryption policies, proposals to relax export controls on encryption, and the privacy issues raised by the current policy. Senator Burns (R-MT), Senator Leahy (D-VT) and the other sponsors of the Pro-CODE bill want to hear from the Net.community about why encryption is important to privacy and security on the Internet. If you're like most of American, you cannot take a day off just to attend the hearings to make your voice heard. Luckily, you can use the handy World Wide Web form to express your opinion and have it entered into the record. Please be sure to visit http://www.crypto.com/ and add your voice to the debate over encryption policy on Capitol Hill. Responses will be tabulated and the results, along with selected statements, will be included in the Congressional Record by Senator Conrad Burns. The results will also be featured during the Security and Freedom through Encryption Forum (SAFE) on July 1 (details on that event are attached below). If you find the WWW form too constraining, or you do not have access to the World Wide Web, send your testimony to Shabbir J. Safdar (shabbir(a)panix.com) who will make sure it gets into the record. To add your voice to the crypto debate in Congress, visit: http://www.crypto.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTEND THE SAFE FORUM - JULY 1, 1996 STANFORD CALIFORNIA On July 1, 1996, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley at Stanford University, members of Congress, prominent computer industry leaders and privacy advocates will meet to discuss the need to reform U.S. encryption policy. The event is FREE and open to the public, but space is limited and is going fast. To find out more, and to reserve your free ticket, visit the SAFE Forum Web Page at: http://www.crypto.com/safe CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Among other prominent industry leaders, cryptographers, privacy advocates and members of Congress, confirmed speakers include" Industry Leaders and Cryptographers Members of Congress * Marc Andreeson, Netscape * Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) * Jim Bidzos, RSA * Rep. Tom Campbell (R-CA) * Eric Schmidt, Sun Microsystems * Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) * Brad Silverberg, Microsoft * Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) * Phil Zimmermann, PGP Inc * Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) * Matt Blaze, AT&T * Sen. Larry Pressler (R-SD) * Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Systems Privacy Advocates and Legal Experts: * Michael Froomkin, U. of Miami Law School * Jerry Berman, Center for Democracy and Technology * Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform (invited) * Ken Dam, U. of Chicago Law School (invited) This event will be "cybercast", with full audio and still video clips, live online with the help of MediaCast. Details on the cybercast are available at http://www.crypto.com/safe/ SAFE FORUM SPONSORS This important discussion on the need for an alterative policy to protect privacy and security and promote commerce on the Global Information Infrastructure is being made possible by the generous support of the following companies and public interest organizations: America Online Americans for Tax Reform AT&T Business Software Alliance Center for Democracy and Technology Center for National Security Studies Commercial Internet eXchange CompuServe Incorporated Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Cylink Corporation EDS Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Messaging Association Electronic Privacy Information Center Information Technology Association of America IEEE - USA MediaCast Media Institute Microsoft Corporation Netcom Online Communication Services Netscape Communications Corporation Novell, Inc. Oracle Corporation Pacific Telesis PGP Inc. Prodigy, Inc. Progress and Freedom Foundation Securities Industry Association Software Publishers Association Sybase, Inc. Voters Telecommunications Watch Wired Magazine Please visit the SAFE Forum Home Page for more information (http://www.crypto.com/safe/) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOW TO RECEIVE CRYPTO-NEWS To subscribe to crypto-news, sign up from our WWW page (http://www.crypto.com) or send mail to majordomo(a)panix.com with "subscribe crypto-news" in the body of the message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESS CONTACT INFORMATION Press inquiries on Crypto-News should be directed to Shabbir J. Safdar (VTW) at +1.718.596.2851 or shabbir(a)vtw.org Jonah Seiger (CDT) at +1.202.637.9800 or jseiger(a)cdt.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- End crypto-news =============================================================================

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