December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: your mail
by billc＠true.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Likewise, please remove info@truecom from this list. ---------- From: Andrew Kantor[SMTP:ak@mecklermedia.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 1996 2:58 PM To: John Norseen; Craig; Robert Steele Cc: news_from_wschwartau(a)infowar.com; Betty G. O'Hearn; Winn Schwartau Subject: Re: your mail I'm not sure what this list is or why I'm on it, but would whoever runs this thing please remove me or send removal instructions. Thanks. AK ------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Kantor ak(a)iw.com Senior Editor, Internet World http://www.iw.com Otherwise, no one of consequence. http://www.kantor.com ------------------------------------------------------------ "Don't argue with the man who buys ink by the barrel."

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Re: Re[2]: your mail
by probst＠iro.umontreal.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, obviously the distribution list is the entire P-TRAK database from Lexis/Nexis. :-) David K. Probst

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Mitsubishi MISTY LSI
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Nikkei English News, 24 September 1996. Mitsubishi unveils Japan's fastest encryption chip Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said it has developed an LSI that can encrypt data at a speed of 450 megabits per second, which is four times faster than any other encryption chip developed in Japan and brings domestic technology in line with DES, the U.S.-developed encryption system that has become the standard in the U.S. and Europe. Because the chip performs the same as DES, Mitsubishi will promote it as a domestic product for encryption needs in Japan, with an eye on the growing market for corporate intranets and high-speed data communications. It said it will prepare for volume production during this year. The company fabricated the chip as a gate array using a 0.5 micron CMOS process and its own proprietary encryption algorithm MISTY. Operating at a maximum input/output speed of 40 megahertz, the chip can handle 32 bits per clock cycle. [End]

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Possible snake oil?
by Phil Fraering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I ran across this at the web site of a New Orleans area web authoring company. I checked with a friend of mine of long standing on this list, and he assured me that the information was probably false. (Here it is...) <begin included excerpt from web page) [deleted] has one of the fastest and most powerful web networks in the world, with servers effortlessly handling in excess of two million hits a day, and resources spanning four seperate backbone providers on two continents from North America to Europe. Entire networks at [deleted] are exclusively dedicated to web hosting, electronic commerce and other applications; separate servers are available with a plethora of advanced services including: SSL & SHTTP Encrypted Web Systems (using the maximum 1024-bit encryption keys) BSDI Unix 2.1 (our main net OS, proven to be superior to all), Windows NT, Windows 95, Macintosh, DOS, Linux and other platforms available. RealAudio, VDOLive, CuSeeMe servers RAID5 mirror networks in Europe Access to [deleted] Advanced Systems Products (IASP) servers and scripts exclusively available to [deleted] clients, which include shopping cart/automated ordering, web database systems, surveys & demographics, web page creation systems, ad & quote systems, and much more. ============= <end excerpt from corporate web page> Well? Do _any_ of you know of a 1024-bit encryption standard for the world wide web currently in use? According to these people, they're using it. ObLegalQuestion: Should I have been less coy about the corporation name? Phil Fraering The above is the opinion of neither my internet pgf(a)acadian.net service provider nor my employer. 318/261-9649

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Re: SAY WHAT? [Assassination NOISE]
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:30 AM 9/25/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >Bell, like X, is proposing mechanism without built-in policy, >as well as suggesting some potential policy implementations. If you use >the mechanism to sponsor assassination of people who have initiated force >against you, you're only using retaliatory force, not initiating it. Funny that Simon didn't see that... >On the other hand, the mechanism also can be used against people who >haven't initiated force against the sponsor - even against politicians >who have refused to get the country into misguided but popular wars >or judges who have refused to convict innocent but wrong-colored defendants. That's a too-superficial interpretation. If AP were operating, it would be unnecessary to "get the country into misguided but popular wars" because anybody who wanted to war with some external enemy need merely kill him via AP, by individual donation. There would be no legislature to make the war decision, and no need for any such decision. War as we have known it (a collective decision that is binding on all citizens, whether or not they approve) would simply not exist. There would be no mechanism to force other people into a war on your side, other than rhetorical arguments. Attempting to do so by force would merely make more enemies. As for "judges who have refused to convict innocent but wrong-colored defendants"? I think that's an unfair and misleading "problem." Much of the problem of bias and discrimination in this country is caused by the fact that these factors have been institutionalized BY GOVERNMENT. Trace it back just a little, and you'll discover that the "innocent but wrong-colored defendants" were arrested and charged BY GOVERNMENT in a display of bias. At best, that courageous judge is merely ceasing, in one particular incident and too late, an episode of bias which shouldn't even have been started in the first place. Is this "good"? Not really. It's just "not quite as bad." There's still the underlying problem which will repeat ad infinitum. Why depend on a judge to do this? Why not fix the bias before the defendant gets to court? I look at it this way: Why shouldn't the black community (and any outraged whites, as well...) have been able to purchase the deaths of all of the LAPD officers who beat Rodney King, INCLUDING the ones who stood around and watched it happen? I claim that in a society where they could do this, such a beating simply would never have happened, because no cop would have dared to take the risk that a camera would be nearby. In other words, the problem would have been solved before it started. The quickest response to this is that "pretty soon, you won't have any more cops." But no, that's not true. It _is_ true that the thugs will no longer want to become/stay as cops, so that'll be a loss for the good. More likely, cops will simply stop doing those things that will end up offending a substantial fraction of the population, like beating a carload illegal immigrants that they have stopped after a car chase. >Like democracy, it's a really terrible system, and like democracy, >there are some alternatives that aren't worse :-) Maybe even democracy. >It's at least as appalling an idea as government. > >If it does catch on, and I suspect that the technology will certainly >make it possible, I hope that most of the public will have enough sense >and decency not to pay for murdering people who don't deserve it, >so assassins will find more of a market for killing people who do, >and that the lower-paid assassins who kill undeserving people will >be less competent and get caught like most stupid bank robbers do. > >But there are enough Drug-War-Loving Americans that I doubt it. The de-facto drug war won't end instantly after the adoption of AP, but it will be pretty quick. Instead of today, when every citizen is forced through taxation to support the Drug War, this will probably drop to 25% voluntary contributions or less post AP. It's pretty hard to get enthused about a victimless crime, and likewise it's hard to enforce such rules, so people's donations won't match the pre-AP funding. Classic drug-warriors won't dare spread any of their propaganda; people's memories will still be fresh on the pre-AP abuses, so the Bennetts and the Rangels will either be silent or dead, or effusive with apology for their prior behavior. Further, the dramatic drop in the prices of currently-illegal drugs will translate into a similarly large drop in crimes to pay for those drugs, an improvement that everybody will notice. >And attila replied >> all very true. but I will defend Jim Bell's rights to propose >> them, even if Bell is more than a few cards short of a full deck. > >Sure, he's got the right to, and if I run a remailer again he's welcome >to use it to discuss AP (though not to propose assassinations....) >Doesn't mean I want to encourage this sort of thing, though. >Remailers can damn well afford to be choosy, and I'll bet >5 zorkmids that the first person to use my remailer for assassination >doesn't last a month. (Oh, wait...) "Your bet has been duly recorded, sir." <beep!> Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Where to write crypto?
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Steve Schear wrote: > >> I believe Taiwan might be an excellent location to have 'clear room' crypto >> work done. Taiwan has a very large skilled software labor pool and isn't a >> member of COCOM. >Why go so far, when you can export crypto from Anguila or Canada. The >first is right next to Florida and is a tax haven, the second has a large >talent pool and the same qulity telecom as the States. The main problem is >concealing the fact that there may be any Americans involved. Both save >you the trouble of learning Chinese. I didn't mean that an U.S. citizen should relocate and develop in Taiwan. Why do that when almost all Taiwanese CS speak, read and write fluent english. Just develop the specs and contract for programming. There are many companies waiting to take you business . BTW, there a several U.S. companies (e.g., Typhoon Software, typhoon(a)typhoon.com) which can manage the development of a wide variety of software projects (including crypto code) by highly qualified personel in the former Soviet Republics. For comfort, the software can be tested in the U.S. (just to make sure no trapdoors have been insered by the Russian Mafia ;-) -- Steve

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Dyson on anonymity (in WSJ article on our challenge to GA net law)
by Stanton McCandlish 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FYI: [...] Esther Dyson, president of high-tech publisher EDventure Holdings Inc. and chairwoman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a high-tech civil liberties organization that is a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit, calls the Georgia law "brain-damaged and unenforceable," and adds: "How are they going to stop people from using fake names? Anonymity shouldn't be a crime. Committing crimes should be a crime." [...] -- <HTML><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/~mech/"> Stanton McCandlish </A><HR><A HREF="mailto:mech@eff.org"> mech(a)eff.org </A><P><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/"> Electronic Frontier Foundation </A><P> Online Activist </HTML>

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EFF declaration/affidavit in support of anonymity in GA case.
by Stanton McCandlish 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Full text (with some scannos, but it's readable) in next message. Enough about "lies". We're not just talkin' the talk, we're walkin' the walk too. Also, we are negotiating final details on assisting Julf with a legal defense fund for anon.penet.fi's troubles. -- <HTML><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/~mech/"> Stanton McCandlish </A><HR><A HREF="mailto:mech@eff.org"> mech(a)eff.org </A><P><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/"> Electronic Frontier Foundation </A><P> Online Activist </HTML>

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Re: your mail
by John Norseen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

robert, good to hear from you again...what else is new and exciting on your front...norseen

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Re: Uses of Computational Chaos
by E. Allen Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"adamsc(a)io-online.com" "Chris Adams" 17-SEP-1996 15:12:13.73 >Supposing, too, that you know these weaknesses, would using separate algorithms >for different portions of the number work well? That would seem to be a possibility; admittedly, the local copy of AC has been checked out for the past year, so I haven't been able to take a look at it. I'd tend to think that if you _know_ the flaw, one could come up with a better way to deal with it than the generalized method I discussed. For instance, if the MSB of bytes coming out of a scribble window is too low in entropy, only use it XORed or whatever with a more-random bit. -Allen

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