December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Taxes in the digicash world
by nv89-pla＠nada.kth.se 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Bell wrote: > If, for every $1 somebody paid in taxes, he instead (or, in addition to) > paid 10 cents to a fund to eliminate the tax collectors, at the end of that > year he wouldn't be paying any taxes anymore. That's why AP will work so well. > > > Jim Bell > jimbell(a)pacifier.com > Isn't getting rid of the tax collectors a public good? If I pay money to this fund, everyone will benefit (assuming getting rid of the tax collectors is good). -Peter

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Re: CPC_ode
by koontz＠netapp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

thanks

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Lords Boost Robust Crypto
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A positive excerpt from UK's House of Lords's July 23 lengthy, thoughtful report on the information society: http://www.hmsoinfo.gov.uk/hmso/document/inforsoc/ch5.htm#5.92 5.92 The US Government's restrictions on exporting software from the USA which includes high levels of encryption is threatening to become a major barrier to the development of the information Superhighways, which is in no-one's interests. The Government must join with other EU Member States in putting pressure on the USA to relax its restrictions on the export of encryption technology. Thanks to Mark Gould on Cyberia-L, see the full report at: http://www.hmsoinfo.gov.uk/hmso/document/inforsoc.htm INFORMATION SOCIETY: AGENDA FOR ACTION IN THE UK

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Re: fbi, crypto, and defc
by pjn＠nworks.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>At this year's DefCon (last weekend), there were two speakers from the >recently created FBI San Francisco Computer Crime division. they were there >as spokesmen for the FBI, but people could talk to them later and ask any >questions they liked, and "the answers may surprise you". Evidence that >maybe some goons really do have a clue, but are still too afraid to do >anything about it... //cerridwyn// Since they were speakers, could they be part of the Spot The Fed contest? P.J. pjn(a)nworks.com ... Can not read right brain: <A>bort <R>etry <F>rolic ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR]

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Re: WaPo on Crypto-Genie
by pjn＠nworks.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> ... I've unsubscribed ... In> Door. Ass. Bump. Just be happy :) P.J. pjn(a)nworks.com ... Press any key ... EXCEPT THAT ONE! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR]

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Re: You know it's getting late when...
by David Rosoff 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 10.41 AM 7/30/96 -0800, jim bell wrote: >If anyone out there still doubts that the time for my "Assassination >Politics" idea will never come, I claim that it's later than you think. No, I'm fairly sure that it will never come. :) =============================================================================== David Rosoff (nihongo ga sukoshi dekiru) ---------------> drosoff(a)arc.unm.edu PGP public key 0xD37692F9 -----> finger drosoff(a)acoma.arc.unm.edu or keyservers 0xD37692F9 Key fingerprint = 25 7D AA 01 85 41 43 89 50 5A 33 76 F1 F1 99 67 Do you know who's reading your email? ---> http://www.arc.unm.edu/~drosoff/pgp/ Is it a forgery? --- I have PGP signed all email and news posts since May 1996. =============================================================================== "Relax. It's not a real alarm. They can't crack _Pentagon_ codes. Can they?" :p -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMf7oEBguzHDTdpL5AQHOPgP+PAHGvrHhQ9SBTY76dA9gYEflvGHqXKJx /NwFn+kwg/ZHxIcyYXdiLWmKIMmEuUMxyPfJaZ/OVhqqEUGqU11LpviflJp1u42B eNoMaugwybfaB3XM+k3WKieJB3Fekj29bYHXuhD1h9VNndTeX016MtR/rHeEM43u oCjX2BrjDsQ= =R+wB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: ANNOUNCE: 2nd trip to National Cryptologic Museum
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:15 PM 7/31/96, Zorak Ramone wrote: > Following the lecture, we will be going over to Henckles (10 minutes >from the museum), a local resturaunt reported to be a favorite hangout for >NSA employees. Henckles has amazing sandwiches as well as good beer on tap. Jeez, first they tap our phones, and now they're tapping our beer! --Klaus

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Violation or Protection? [OLYMPICS]
by David Rosoff 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I don't have any crypto references, but due to the Libertarian overtones on this list I believe it is on-topic enough. On the local news I saw footage of a couple schmoozing in the Olympic (Centennial?) Park after its reopening. The voice-over said that all bags are being searched, and the couple said that rather than be alarmed or nervous, they "appreciated" it. I'm not quite sure what to think about this. I don't have enough experience to form a well thought-out opinion. I'd like to hear some of everyone's thoughts on this: Is this bag-searching a violation, (which was my immediate reaction) or is it not, because you have to already be going into the controlled area to get searched? Thanks for your help. =============================================================================== David Rosoff (nihongo ga sukoshi dekiru) ---------------> drosoff(a)arc.unm.edu PGP public key 0xD37692F9 -----> finger drosoff(a)acoma.arc.unm.edu or keyservers 0xD37692F9 Key fingerprint = 25 7D AA 01 85 41 43 89 50 5A 33 76 F1 F1 99 67 Do you know who's reading your email? ---> http://www.arc.unm.edu/~drosoff/pgp/ Is it a forgery? --- I have PGP signed all email and news posts since May 1996. =============================================================================== "Relax. It's not a real alarm. They can't crack _Pentagon_ codes. Can they?" :p -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMf7oqBguzHDTdpL5AQEtkQP8DjGWrL2n4V0C+Uz+S2adprh3QlXpEBhj xQEPH70mTIYT/iNSvuPQqWtmedlssa0f2A+ziAGPV/DFGTQnACflgcSy3okZVq64 QeuAYx3sDk230FI5vOKXwMPZt3cGwaaVpLwZhc1MkjuSgZwkE9T39JlS1worPGNQ iGkZ8Bp2ZlY= =FEjP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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re:WaPo on Crypto-Genie Terrorism
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:17 AM 7/31/96 -0800, Vinnie Moscaritolo wrote: >"The people of Burgdorf went to parades and speeches--some because they >genuinely believed in their leaders; others, because not to go would call >attention to themselves. Most practiced the silence they were familiar >with, a silence nurtured by fear and complicity that would grow beyond >anything they could imagine, mushrooming into the decades after the war >which, some began to fear, was about to happen. The Nets sure haven't been silent, however. Tyranny is tougher these days. DCF

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Re: Secure drive under Win95... a better way.
by Geoffrey C. Grabow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

After much fiddling, I've found (IMHO) a "good" way of using secure drive 1.4a under Win95. After doing the partitioning and encrypting, put the following in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file... cd\utils\secdr14a sectsr login D: /S @choice /T:N,1 @if errorlevel 2 goto ContinueLoad :EnterPP login D: @if errorlevel 1 goto Again @if errorlevel 0 goto ContinueLoad :Again @choice Try again? @if errorlevel 2 goto ContinueLoad @goto EnterPP :ContinueLoad cd\ cls abviously you have to replace the D: with your drive letter, and the directory at the top with your SECDR14a dir. Then, in Win95 you have to turn off 32 bit disk access. To do this without losing all the speed of virtual memory, do the following... right-click on My Computer click on Properties, Performance, File System, Troubleshooting and check the box labeled: Disable all 32 bit protect-mode disk drivers. Re-boot. If you have a CD-ROM drive, you will have to load the DOS drivers in order to be able to access it. Granted, this is just a kludge until Secure Drive is re-designed for Win95, but I've tried a dozen different combinations, and this gives you all the SecDrv security under Win95 (except being able to lock/unlock after Win95 starts) and sacrafices the least amount of system performance. Enjoy! G.C.G. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Geoffrey C. Grabow | Great people talk about ideas. | | Oyster Bay, New York | Average people talk about things. | | gcg(a)pb.net | Small people talk about people. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | PGP 2.6.2 public key available at www.pb.net/~wizard | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | That which does not kill us, makes us stranger. - Trevor Goodchild | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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