December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Test case for RSA t-shirts
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There was a certain amount of international arms dealing at the Palo Alto Quaker meeting this week. Aside from the folks with the anti-assault-rifle petition, there was one person with an RSA sweatshirt (the Joel Furr flavor) and a woman from Eastern Europe (Slovenia?) who was probably not an Official US Person :-) My general guess about reception you'll get in the airports is that nobody will notice. It's worked for me domestically, anyway. #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 pager 408-787-1281 1995: Chat rooms, espresso, and Linux 1996: Exon, melatonin, and Java.

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[NOISE] crypto in the Racing Form
by tbyfield＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vaguely apropos the "let's not raise their awareness" thread, a few weeks back I noticed in the Racing Form a full-page ad for a horse named "Cryptoclearance." It raced well enough, but its owners getting a lot more mileage out of studding it--"the 13th leading sire." Its offspring: Cryptogram, Code of Love, Crypto Lady, Denied Access, Cryptodynamite, and--I can't tell if my scrawl deceives me--Cryptomay. (If it does, my apologies.) So those who're arguing for keeping a low profile crypto-wise had better hope that these horses are losers and that its other offspring (Denied Access, Final Clearance, Pinpoint Control, Mt. Bueran, Clearance Code) are winners. If there's another Seabiscuit or Secratariat in that Crypto- lineage (which is pretty doubtful)... Ted

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PPV Descrambler
by firebrd123＠ns.interconnect.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've been looking for a file on how to make PPV descramblers and havn't found any. Commercial descramblers cost around $200 base price. If anyone has a file on how to make them please e-mail me one. Thanks. captain_lee @mail.interconnect.net

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The Law Loft: Surviving the Biometric I.D. Card
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Though some will petulantly claim that this has "nothing to do with crypto," I think the report on legislation which may lead to new levels of national identification is very apropos to the themes of this list. A national ID card could be tied in to the CDA and other such legislation: the "Internet Driver's License" we are worried about. This would also facilitate the criminalization of anonymous remailers. (I noticed at a local night spot large posters announcing the city's "Zero Tolerance" policy for passing a drink to a minor. Imagine the same folks passing laws about the criminalization of giving access to a minor....) Here's the forwarded article: > Path: we.got.net!news.oz.net!newshub.internex.net!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!overload.lbl.gov!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!usenet > From: klynch(a)intrepid.net > Newsgroups: misc.survivalism > Subject: The Law Loft: Surviving the Biometric I.D. Card > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:34:25 GMT > Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. > Lines: 148 > Message-ID: <4ir7hj$391(a)nntp.texas.net> > NNTP-Posting-Host: klynch.intrepid.net > X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 > > -------------------------------- > Here is the latest Alert from The Law Loft. Sorry its > late. > > If you are benifitting by this information, please don't just > keep it to yourself - share it with someone immediately. And > perhaps you can Fax Suzanne and Pete a thank you and ask > them what you can do to help. > > This work is pretty lonely and grinding. And oh so few ever thank > you for it. Of course that's not why their doing it. > > Many of you could do the same thing I'm doing. You can listen to > 7.435 MHz at 8:00 pm EST and take notes from The Law Loft. You > can FAX them a request to send you information. You can then pass > it on to others. > > When you don't see anything from me out here, you can pitch in and do > it. This is late, because I had no other choice but to catch an early > train. > > Throw away the "boob" tube and stop wasting your precious little time > that we have left to learn and work together. Invest in a good > Short-Wave radio with a built in tape machine. I use the Radio Shack > DX-392 portable receiver. NO LICENSE REQUIRED TO LISTEN. > > Check out other fine alternative news programs on 5.065 between 6:00 > pm EST and 12:00 midnight week nights. > > Please help us - do your little part. > > For Freedom, > Kerry > http://www.intrepid.net/~klynch/uslaws.html > --------------------------------------------- > H.R. 2202 Immigration Bill > > Special Alert II > > March 19, 1996 [Please note this date when reading - Kerry] * * * * * > * * * > > H. RES. 384 bringing H.R. 2202 and 17 proposed amendments to the floor > passed today in the House. Debate on the bill and amendments > continues tomorrow. Vote on amendment number 4 is expected tomorrow: > > The picture in the House of Representatives grows darker. H.R. 384 > bringing H.R. 2202, the Immigration bill, to the floor for a vote > along with 17 proposed amendments passed easily by wide majority in > today's session. > > Work on amendments including Congressman McCullum's amendment no. 4 > will start up again tomorrow. We estimate that the vote on amendment > number 4 will occur about 3:00 pm EST. > > Both the House and Senate bills are intended to bring us some form of > universal biometric identifier i.d. card either in the form of a new > social security card or a passport linked to biometric identifier > birth certificates and drivers' licenses: > > The House bill, H.R. 2202, if passed will bring in the biometric > identifier slowly with greater subtlty than the Senate version. The > biometric identifier is clearly in the picture here. Here's why: > > 1) The report of the U.S. Commission on Immigration entitled U.S. > Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility talks openly about the use > of biometric identifiers for driver's licenses on page 65. Key > language throughout the report dealing with fraudulent use of > identifying documents also leads to only one place - introduction of > the biometric identifier form of identification. > > 2) The NarcOfficer, official publication of international narcotics > enforcement officer association in its September/October 1995 issues > states point blank that a universal biometric identifier system is > intended for use by everyone on the planet. > > 3) The Senate bill formerly S. (unumbered) now split into S. 269 and > S. 1361 in sections 111-116 talks about birth certificates with > fingerprint or other biometric data'. The same section talks about > new driver's licenses with fingerprint or other item of biometric > data'. > > 4) The Hoke Amendment to H.R. 2202 added by the House Judiciary > Committee talks about a demonstration pilot project with a reliable, > easy to use, confirmation mechanism'. > > > 5) The McCullum amendment, no.4 on the calendar of amendments to H.R. > 2202 talks about creating an official document that offers the best > possible security against counterfeiting, forgery, alteration, and > misuse'. And provides for creating a new social security card that > would be as secure against fraudulent use as United States passport'. > Part of the catch here is which version of the passport? The Senate > bill provides for the creation of anew fraud resistant passport. > > The McCullum amendment would make the new technology binding on all > social security cards issued after January 1, 1999. Beginning on > January 1, 2006, all employers would be required to verify employment > eligibility with the new social security card. > > Any way you cut it, this is too much authority to invest in any > government! > > Our founding fathers knew that only way to be free and remain free is > to constrain the power of the government. As John Dickinson said in > 1768 in Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania: "For who are a free > people? Not those, over whom government is reasonably and equitably > exercised, but those, who live under a government so constitutionally > checked and controlled that proper provision is made against it being > otherwise exercised". > > Creation of a mandatory, universal biometric identifier identification > system lets the genie out of the bottle. It would gut the 4th > Amendment's right of provacy and let the government surveil and > control us instead of vice versa. > > What to do now: > > We need at least 100,000 phone calls and faxes in Washington by > tomorrow. We may not win in the House but we have to try. Remember > if we build up steam now in the House our chances will be better later > in the Senate. > > Contact your congressman tonight by fax (best) or tomorroww by phone > (good). Argue with him, politely. He might think that just because > amendment 4 says it won't be used as a universal identifier, that > amendment 4 and the bill are okay. Remind him what happened to the > social security card. It was supposed to be voluntary too in the > beginning. > > As time permits, contact as many congressmen as you can in California, > New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, and Illinois. These congressmen are > going to be under especially heavy pressure to pass the bill no matter > what it says. You can use the toll-free numbers for your call: (800) > 962-3524, (800) 972-3524, or (800) 872-8513. > > Tell them we want to keep the 4th Amendment to the Constitution and > the only way to do that is to kill the 4th amendment to the bill. > Tell them that we are not at all amused by the hidden joke of using an > amendment 4 to kill the 4th Amendment to our Constitution. No, no, no > to any version of the biometric identifier! Vote no to H.R. 2202! > > Suzanne Harris > The Law Loft > Los Angelos, CA > (818)-305-7613 > 7.435 MHz (Short-Wave) 8:00 pm EST Week nights.

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Re: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign languages
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:41 AM 3/28/96, Charles Bell wrote: >On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Timothy C. May wrote: >> >> There is not a single foreign language I can think of it that would help me >> in my goals or help anyone I know. This is the reality of a world dominated >> by English-speaking persons and in which all technical people learn >> English. >> > >I guess you don't know anyone who expects to do extensive business in >China during the 21st Century. Unpersuasive. And school systems are unpersuaded as well, as very few offer classes in Mandarin. A notoriously difficult language to learn, especially to write. (A friend of mine spent 8 years learning Japanese, a somewhat similar language, and made only moderate progress.) The "needed for business" is what sparked the mini-boomlet in Russian classes in the 70s, then the larger boomlet in Japanese classes in the 80s. Most of these lessons were wasted. In any case, the issue is not the classes taken by _some_ (the few percent who study Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, etc.), but the topic of this thread: "Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign languages." Or do you think Mandarin should be taken by high school and college students so they can do business in China? Reality Check: I know the folks moving to the PRC to set up Intel's operations there. They are native speakers of Mandarin, of which there are already a vast number in U.S. electronics companies. The notion that Suzi T. Nelson should take Mandarin in high school to help prepare for the 21st century is absurd, and any guidance counselor who so advises her should be fired forthwith. --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, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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unsubscrive
by Nibiru 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

unsubscrive cypherpunks ------------------------------------------------------------------- NIBIRU E-Mail : nibiru(a)columbus.co.za South-Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: DESCRIBE
by kermie＠paonline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Take me off of the God Forbidden list already! Now!

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What backs up digital money?
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I apologize for changing the thread name, but the existing name, "Re: (X:x)e$ 's other use," seems unrelated to these points. At 1:46 PM 3/27/96, Scott Schryvers wrote: >Question. >If e-cash were backed by gold would that make it more reliable than say the >dollar? This question, and much of the debate that appears here about digital money in its many and confusing forms (e-cash, digicash, bitmarks, e$, cypherfrancs, chaums, etc.), displays a "type error" in thinking about digital money. No form of digital money extant is an actual currency in the conventional sense. Nor does this seem likely. Nor necessary. Nor useful. Nor important. Rather, think in terms of _checks_ or _wire transfers_ and the like. An order to transfer funds from one account or place of holding to another. Eric Hughes was our local resident self-educated expert on commercial paper, notes, bank drafts, etc. Bob Hettinga has also written extensively on this. A nice little book I use is "The MIT Dictionary of Modern Economics," 4th, edited by David W. Pearce, 1992. Nothing yet on digital money and how various forms of it fit into the taxonomy of financial instruments. I expect by the 6th edition, in a few years, we'll see some stuff. But here are just a couple of definitions, to tell you all that an actual taxonomy does exist, that "money" is not the all-inclusive type. * "currency. Strictly, that component of a country's money stock that literally circulates from hand to hand, i.e., coin and banknotes...." * "cheque. A document, normally supplied in printed form by a bank, ordering the bank to transfer funds from the drawer's current account to a named payee...." (more wrinkles about negotiability, endorsements, counter checks, etc.) So, what are the classifications of the schemes offered by CyberCash, First Virtual, Digicash, Mark Twain Bank, and so on? A useful project for any of you out there with banking or finance interests. Most of these are currently variants of credit card transactions, and the best of these (in cryptographic terms) appears to be a variant of a straight bank. I might give instructions for Union Bank to transfer X amount of gold, or Swiss francs, or dollars from Account X to Account Y, where Account Y might be in the same bank, might be in another bank, or might be to anyone who showed up at the bank and produced the claim... The point being that talking about "what backs up digital cash?" is misleading. (What really backs it up is the reputation of the entities, but I digress.) --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, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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No Subject
by elran＠pl.jaring.my 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

undescribe cypherpunks(a)toad.com elran(a)pl.jaring.my

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RC4 implementation questions
by Jack Mott 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just finished coding RC4 from the algorithm described in applied crypto 2nd edition. Could someone send me a little file encrypted with a know-to-work rc4 program so I can see if mine is working right? thanks a lot. -- thecrow(a)iconn.net "It can't rain all the time"

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