December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Schlafly on crypto
by Hallam-Baker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If we are having a Schlafy bash then i think it fair to bring up her "Con-Con" paranoia. She has published a series of articles predicting that there will be a "Constitutional Convention" - that is not one of your ordinary constitutional ammendment sessions but a wholesale rewritting of the US constitution by a cabal as happened when it was first written. A typical rant:- >They adopted a plan to plunge America into a Constitutional >Convention. Article V of the U.S. Constitution requires that "on the >Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, >[Congress] shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments." This >method has never been used; all 27 Amendments now in the Constitution >were adopted in the traditional way (passage by a two-thirds majority in >each House of Congress followed by ratification by three-fourths of the >states). http://www.eagleforum.org/users/eagle/public_html/psr/1996/may96/psrmay96.h… In fact despite Schlafy having predicted such a conference many times over the past years (I have seen more than 10) her claims are entirely false, not to say fraudulent. She uses the usual tricks of citing fraudulent references and making up quotes. In short she is a fraud hoping to get people to join her foundation to stop a Con con that nobody is proposing. I don't think that Schlafy is a usefull aly any more than Bob Dole basically its just opportunist politicians latching onto the rhetoric of debates without engaging in the argument. Dole senses that the mood of the country is pro crypto so he supports that, he senses that it is anti porn so he will support that. Basically Schlafy is playing the same game. She is saying things that she knows will curry favour so she can get people to join her Wacko club. Phill

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Re: MD5 completely broken!
by David F. Ogren 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Sun Aug 18 02:56:44 1996 > > >Atfer much scientific research, I have finally found a way to restore > >any message given only its MD5 checksum. > > uhm, congratulations <g> > > > maybe next time when you break a code and want to make > some $$$, sell your solution in secret > to the people who patented it!! > Not to mention that this is complete nonsense and a troll. No matter how weak the MD5 algorithm may or may not be, there are an infinite number of possible messages for each checksum. And thus the original message could NEVER be restored. Its as secure as a OTP. That's why its called a 'one-way' hash function. Not to mention the fact that he misspelled both 'entropy' and 'after'. P.S. But imagine if it was true! MD5 would become the ultimate compression algorithm. Any message could be reduced to a 128 bit archive. - -- David F. Ogren | ogren(a)concentric.net | "A man without religion is like a fish PGP Key ID: 0x6458EB29 | without a bicycle" - ------------------------------|---------------------------------------- Don't know what PGP is? | Need my public key? It's available Send a message to me with the | by server or by sending me a message subject GETPGPINFO | with the subject GETPGPKEY -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMha+reSLhCBkWOspAQFvkQf+PE2+p8gLJ5Fcg64fKogAaad1v0KUAm6N PDWKqOF87hr4GK7Je0TnflQ5640w11CbqnhQeTeuMZ1vypJ+OMod7riY+okd4VQL tLaAA91EuzDLUnSnh3VT16MmN152RTWWS0fufASdJPw2aknhC5NA8kp+0ryQUo+f zICE619/4I0Hjz6qwIzuEYD7tMW1OEz5KGRpyLnZaiOFXObxLHQ4/QwUuJVfLrY0 GrKxNrmtIMiFyHqksbmg22G8f9SsziKa8TjoHDrq2UIL7ForTneC/C20HTOVh9iS 6+C9u2Wij+AFEgPQSZMyxP0Wb8m20DcoeOpnzbBLBVw9BfiqNApvUQ== =Nu+T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Orbiting Datahavens
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Or About 2 Jul 96, 17:06, Brian Lane wrote: > to have a backup satellite in case of a disaster. Once the Delta > Clipper is functional They did have that big wreck a couple of weeks ago. I am not sure of the salvage status. Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906

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Re:NT remailer
by David E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Sat Aug 17 20:37:49 1996 > At 21:08 8/16/96, rednax wrote: > >Speaking of NT, I downloaded the full version of msie 3.0 the other day > but > >when I tried installing it, an error message came up saying that it > requires > >a Win95 or WinNT4.0 build of 1381 or higher. I am currently running NT > 4.0b > >that has a build of 1314, does anyone know of where is the upgrade or > >service packs(if available)? I have tried looking around microsoft.com, > but > >they neither provided any detail nor did they provide an e-mail. 1381 is the full release version of NT 4.0 - there probably isn't an upgrade or service pack. You'll have to lay down your cash just like the rest of us poor slobs. dave - ---- David E. Smith POB 324 Cape Girardeau MO USA 63702 dsmith(a)prairienet.org http://www.prairienet.org/~dsmith send mail of 'send pgp-key' subject for my PGP public key "Welcome to the human race." -- Snake, _Escape from L.A._ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Automagically signed with Pronto Secure for Windows. iQEVAwUBMhZz8DVTwUKWHSsJAQEelQf+I7iHCNOwFnYn94uvxuczY0PTYP5nU9dp nQXVbdlVNO+vZH4y+9CLEhoaNbD+BLxSaULk6nAIUmvwyL9dniKJ9wmcUsAoJrk0 ML/najbDHQJ8BsSbV9ivyLJZxwwnCGmLHwcvchJtppLdXzkKFO0EwvY0LGtim4CZ uWjhKlI6rUo9trHeLtPCn/RuQheaT4x4I7TEA4OZkP46DnWRl/4288MPAcL4SxUO ojt/Bw8eAxhNOeBhuj7s2UaFmfCejH6ml1jLI/b7+a9tUvDnq8hPMlRAyVDzkj4I n9kHLvO0spjweXWNgj2NqDHfu2Ygtz+vMlpXJN4FUX++aYOlMOvytQ== =kUCL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[NOISE] Re: Greetings from Whore.com
by Daniel Miskell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Nope. No web access. However, when school is back in session, and I get my radio show back and head back to the computer labs... <cackles evilly> Greetings from <property not found>, Daniel.

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Re: Protecting floating datahavens?
by Sean Sutherland 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Sat Aug 17 20:15:22 1996 > The basic risks with such things are: > 1) Getting governments to agree to leave you alone. If you're doing a > 2) Getting governments and other pirates to actually leave you alone. > 3) Making it work financially, for the proprietors and tenants/co-owners. > 4) Convincing investors that you're safe enough on 1) and 2) Auctually, the one real big problem is that the data is all in one place. Rememeber that the whole point of a data haven isn't secure backup -- it's secure storage. And if the place gets blown sky-high (which can easily be done discreetly and possibly made to look like an accident), all the data is going to be lost, and you're basically screwed. The only workable solution to this that I can see has nothing to do with floating countries or anything of the sort. Instead, the use of data-splitting programs could be used. I'm not all up on the security or reliability of these programs, so if I'm making unwarranted assumptions, guess I did a lot of typing for nothing. This has probably been proposed before, too, but what the hey... For example, lets say you set up an office in 100 countries (it would be more effective to have more, but let's say 100). Through the use of anonymous remailers and encryption, he could apply for a customer ID number and password. To avoid any possibility of forgery, such IDs could be prehaps 100kb-1Mb (this is just for confirmation of identy when sending the data into the data havens -- shorter IDs would be used for identifcation). Then, he could split the program into 100 parts, with (say) 70 parts being needed to restore the entire file. He would then encrypt and send each of these files to each remailer through the Internet. To get the data back, he would send in the ID and password, encrypted again, to the nessecary number of offices in order to retrieve the data. Payment, if nessecary, could be made by anonymous bank transfer or something like ecash. Proprietary encryption systems (PGP-like, with IDEA/RSA hybrid in it, but can accept 5000+ bit keys and padding) might be used, as well. This scheme has several pluses. One, it doesn't rely on any fancy legal manuevering with off-shore nationalities and crap. Second, it isn't very vunerable. They would need to get legal jurisdiction in 70 different countries to sieze the data, and then they have the encryption to deal with. Third, if there's any server problems, it wouldn't affect the entire system. Fourth, you don't have to attach missle launchers and hire a private security force to defend it. There are several problems, though. First, it relies on the Internet, something which is inherantly insecure anyway. Second, if someone's being wiretapped in their own country, then the whole effort is in vain. Third, it would be incredibly costly, but probably no more so than any kind of off-shore platforms. In fact, it would probably be cheaper. Any comments? - --- Sean Sutherland | GCS/C d- s+:+ a--- C+++ V--- P L E- W++ N++ K w o O-(++) Key: E43E6489 | M-- V PS+ PE++ Y PGP++ t--- 5+++ X++ R b++ DI+ D+ G e- Vote Browne '96 | h! !r y -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Key: finger or email w/ 'send key' in subj. http://www2.interconnect.net/maverick iQEVAwUBMhZuq1ZoKRrkPmSJAQE9QQf7B+ikk1/dFKyydIzQkGcfX8+srK5GeRlr 5IhEFkXJY34dI4Dqg/yKQ6m/XwRMyqPHxcyV6lR6qU9ngaawBWjd1Q+HBtCOzEs6 Ch8AgTq5CWox8/7FZKz32xGJCVpPJ+etzeJSK2kqKfPnTW+yhz7rch+DIvEJKnM1 ktlxsi/3c1Hn89OLZrCHUeJQqBMoU7rVnmVv6sfGVUQuwJ09yWT457HCN7dZbH1z Nrc+w7ewlxivH1r6KZ1DNk8BJrroQXD7mSHvXmEwyTiyr9DzaPhtlllarz/iPNFF 295F/4Cj9K2HiwJfKH7pDy60OKLBGP72xnc0cjxj8TlIp/KDY7VsPQ== =BNfl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Orbiting Datahavens
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Or About 17 Aug 96, 5:24, Brian C. Lane wrote: > > How about an orbiting DataHaven. No jurisdiction to bother with, > extremely difficult to get to (except by large governments...). <SNIP> > it would work. Might even be cheaper than outfitting the oil-rig > with the rate that they are tossing satellites into space. > > If the HAM radio community can get a satellite into space, why not > the > Cypherpunks/Linux communities? This is a fascinating concept that needs to be further researched. It would be interesting to do some cost examinations. I have always been behind any private space programs! I am even behind the Govt. Programs. Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906 Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906

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anonymizer and cookies
by jfricker＠vertexgroup.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

is there anything definite about the Anonymizer and cookies? according to the DEC browser tester at http://www.research.digital.com/nsl/formtest/stats-by-test/NetscapeCookie.h… shows some successful cookies passing through www.anonymizer.com and some bad cookies. What's the final word?

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Final release of Navigator (with strong crypto) now available
by Jeff Weinstein 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The final release of Navigator 3.0, complete with non-exportable strong crypto, is now available for download by US citizens. Note that this is the released version of 3.0, so it will not expire. You can get it from: http://wwwus.netscape.com/eng/US-Current/ --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw(a)netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.

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Hackers invade DOJ web site
by Mike McNally 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN online (http://www.cnn.com) is reporting a "breakin" by "hackers" to the DOJ web site. They don't elaborate exactly how thy did it. ______c_________________________________________________________________ Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * For the time being, m5(a)tivoli.com * m101(a)io.com * <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * three heads and eight arms.

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