December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: Desubscribe
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> On Or About: 29 Aug 96, 16:57, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: > > > jbugden(a)smtplink.alis.ca writes: > > > > can not unsubscribe since majo= rdomo notices > > > jbugden(a)smtplink.alis.ca in the header and treats the attempt to > > > unsubscribe as a forgery. > > > > If you don't have the brains to forge the From:, then you have no > > business being subscribed to any mailing list. > > > What's worse? Losers who can't unsubscribe from a mailing list they subscribed to OR spammers? ;-) Ross

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Nuke Singapore Back into the Stone Age
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:21 PM 8/29/96, Jean-Francois Avon wrote: >I completely disagree here! > >Taking into account the philosophico-political context there, it >*obviously* indicate a *complete* understanding of the nature of the >net. It is you (the writer of the forwarded article) who did not >either dare to state or simply recognize the true nature of a govt >pushing such measures. > >I am fed up of seing net users giving every would-be dictator the >benefit of the doubt. There is no tolerance to be applied to that. >There is no such thing as being tolerent to poison. > >Why don't we start naming things by their true names? I agree with Jean-Francois--most of the recent announcements by governments about the Internet actually indicate *full awareness* of what their actions could mean for the propagation of articles, the extradition of Net.criminals, and the development of a Global New World Computer Order. The United States knew what the CDA would mean, the government of Bavaria knew what the crackdown on "racist" Web sites and newsgroups would mean, the government of Singapore understands full well what their actions could mean, and so on. And it is likely that the "control" advocates in each of these countries (and others) are pleased when one of their brother countries announces new crackdowns on the Net and Web. Very few governments actually like free speech in all of its forms, and certainly the U.S. government does not. Sure, there is lip service paid to "free speech" in the U.S., but the list of illegal things to say keeps getting longer (just last week Clinton illegalized many forms of speech involving cigarettes--what part of "Congress shall make no law" is not being understood here?). As to why so many of the criticisms of such crackdowns use "weasel language," such as the example Jean-Francois disagrees with, well, this is the way the game is played. The alternative to "The government of Singapore fails to understand the nature of the Net and could do grievous harm to it" is not quite so diplomatic: "Fucking statists. Time to nuke 'em back to the stone age." Personally, if this crackdown in Singapore happens, I intend to post various anti-Singapore and anti-Lee Kwan Yew & Sons screeds to various newsgroups that Singaporans might like to read. Then, if the Yew Dynasty decides to pull the plug, it'll be to more and more groups. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I 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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Mail to sbinkley@atitech.ca
by Brian Pecic 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You are continualy sending to Scott Binkley (sbinkley(a)atitech.ca) Scott is no longer at ATI so please stop sending to this invalid address. Brian Pecic bpecic(a)atitech.ca

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Re: Clinton follies ideas?
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:08 PM 8/28/96 -0500, David E. Smith wrote: >Our esteemed figurehead, Bill Clinton, will be doing >the first stop of his "Road to Victory Tour" campaign >this Friday, just a few blocks from my apartment. Does >anybody have any cool suggestions on things to do to >harass, heckle, or maybe get taken down by the Secret >Service? (Or should I just yell, 'Clinton, you suck!'? :) It's too bad that somebody can't fiddle with his speech tonight, at the end of a page inserting the text, "I'm really sorry that my friend and advisor Dick Morris was caught..." and then replacing the rest of the speech with blank pages... Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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PGP & Default
by nobody＠replay.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I created a nym with a public key. Now, it's become the default so when I go to send an encrypted message, I get prompted to enter the password for my nym key. So, for the $64,000 question: How I can get my *original* public key (the one with my "real" email address) to again be the default. Thx.

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Errors-To: for cypherpunks
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Whoever is in charge of maintaining this mailnig list, PLEASE add header Errors-To: cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com I am flooded by stupid "Mailbox is full" messages from Banyan and CC-mail gateways. - Igor.

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Re: Intel to rule the basic crypto engine market?
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:56 AM 8/24/96 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote: >Intresting but..., In the era of ITAR, GAK, Key Escrows,Clipper,& FileGate >do we really want to put all our eggs in one basket? And that basket being >based on hardware? IMHO I don't see Intell standing up to the government any >more than Netscape, Mircosoft, IBM, or Lotus has. I have serious doubts that >our "beloved" goverment will alow any standard to be adopted that does not >allow them access whenever they please. I personally do not run any security >code on my machines that I do not have the >source for & have instpected. The one kind of standardization in the crypto market that we truly need, NOW, is a standard format/protocol so that crypto telephones from all manufacturers can talk to each other. The last thing we need is a tower-of-Babel situation, which would be even worse than the VHS/Beta wars of 20-10 years ago. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Win95 HD encryption?
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

My main machine is in the shop and with it are the recently posted instructions how to do file system encryption under Win95. Somebody please email them to me. TIA, --Lucky

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Exploring (RSA (001)
by Scottauge＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Exploring Rivest, Shamir, Adelman algorithm, but hoping someone out there is interested in very large number manipulations. RSA suggests choosing two prime 100 digit numbers p and q for beginning of key generation. These numbers are obviously beyond the long type of a C program. Other than using Mathematica or Maple, I would like to use C or perferrably C++. Just some basics such as multiplication, addition, subtraction, division, mod, etc over the Z set.

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Re: www.anonymizer.com
by bf578＠scn.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >www.anonymizer.com got a nice plug in David Plotnikoff's column in today's >San Jose Mercury News. He quotes Community ConneXion's motto, "Because on >today's Internet, people do know you're a dog." He also mentions its >similarity to anonymous remailers. His capsule review: > >"On the upside, it's very easy to use and it supports gopher and FTP >transfers as well as Web pages. On the downside, it's predictable slow and >pages, bracketed top and bottom with Anonymizer banners, often don't >display quite right." mailto: links take you to a anonymous remailer web page that lets you choose among remailers. news: can be read anonymously but posting doesn't seem to work yet. If converts all links in a page to use the service. Some info does get through , such as your broswer type. Soon, i guess browsers programmers will start passing info there! Don't know what happens with shttp:? anybody tried? Slowness is probably because the "service" is free and they don't have the funds for more horsepower. They do claim that they cache documents, so if one person gets a page from a slow server then everyone else can get it faster. (of course they'd have to be faster!) -- ------------------------------------------ There are no facts, only interpretations. I always wanted to be somebody,

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