December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Herr Schmidt
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:07 AM 9/5/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >By the way, I used the name "Schmidt" in my satire post, sent out earlier >this morning. I picked that name randomly, being a common German name >(cognate to Smith, I believe), and meant nothing with regard to Stephan. > >(I also don't dislike Germans in general. I studied some German in high >school--don't ask me to use it, though!--and have visited Germany. They >just have a certain well-known tendency to take the authoritarian path at >times.) >--Tim "Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again. We taught them a lesson in 1918... And they've hardly bothered us since then!" Tom Lehrer, "MLF Lullaby" Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: 2^1,257,787-1
by Richard Stiennon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:54 AM 9/4/96 -0700, John F. Fricker wrote: >Ok so maybe here in Organ we are a little behind the times but I just heard >about this 378,632 digit prime. Grab your HP11C's and crank out >2^1,257,787-1 courtesy of David Slowinski at Cray. Is there a URL for the entire number? Or could someone post it to the list? <grin> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Stiennon richards(a)netrex.com Director, Business Development http://www.netrex.com Netrex, Inc. Voice: 810-352-9643 Southfield, Michigan Fax: 810-352-2375 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Providing businesses and organizations with secure Internet solutions.

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Re: rc2 export limits..
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:23 AM 9/5/96 -0400, P. J. Ponder wrote: >The FIPS Pub (?180? ?181?) for the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) states in >the fine print at the beginning that SHA is export controlled. I don't >have the document to refer to right now, but it plainly states that SHA >falls under ITAR. As a cryptographic hash function, why would it be >controlled in this way? > >How can I use SHA to encrypt something for someone else to decrypt? I >know how to use it for authentication; am I missing something here? Any secure hash can be used as a stream cypher. Concatenate your key and a block serial number (never to be reused) to get a number to exclusive or with the plain text. When you need a new block, use the next sequential serial number. (See Applied Cryptography) Raw SHA probably isn't exportable because people can use it for crypto. If your use of SHA was bundled into a OS password scheme, you could probably get a CJ on it and export it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | "Lone Star" - My personal | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | choice for best movie of | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | 1996 | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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NYT on penet closure
by Rick Campbell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/0905remail.html September 5, 1996 Scientology Case and Finnish Law Blamed for Demise of Remail Service By PAMELA MENDELS The issue, Johan M. Helsingius insists, was not pornography but privacy. Helsingius, the Finnish volunteer who shook the online community last week with the announcement that he was closing his popular anonymous remailer service, said in an interview on Wednesday that he had acted because he believes that Finland today offers inadequate privacy protection to Internet users. The only thing I am concerned with is that the threshold of protection for the Internet should be the same as for ordinary postal mail or phone calls. Johan M. Helsingius [ I've deleted the rest of the article. See the URL above for the full text. -Rick ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMi7aJhj0UvMeUesFAQHEHwP+N+MB+YrO1HfxXJx5v+z6PCMcwCREpvYN /HZGzdlvh4z1A0viQluGjkhDe0Xo/gLfiCxzsVM92zWEBhzh5cYiWDO0gj5tJklc nU/WPVOpz7+W/JR495NwcDFKiHUQU/nInq26ixVTPi+56YHG2cTl61iHc7b1Pnt0 jBVa+8V9WTM= =kigF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SNAKEOIL ALLERT: FUCKHEAD ;-)
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> SK> I am currently not releasing the source code.Here is a copy of the zip > SK> file if you get hold of a pc. Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Last week is was " The Knapsack TM " with a "proprietary algorithm" now it`s Secureit for windows! It`s a veritable flood of snakeoil..... lets start a drunroll: fuckhead Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Http://www.fatmans.demon.co.uk/crypt/ "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey" -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAjH9j+cAAAEEAMBvREiQR0ot9dFCO0TiSCSunAYLv2g1Bc6I3bz8FzKXNH53 6mieJf/W4rD+CxJpT0q9RQaaoRtkHJLwbjfK2il3D7mEahMAyqvF/xRJNqkXfhM3 sRJM0Jh43l+W0M5vwokbEbk25/bxWWGspTsLD3YHbzKnG6pOcL5OPIRbv66xAAUR tCdQYXVsIEJyYWRsZXkgPHBhdWxAZmF0bWFucy5kZW1vbi5jby51az4= =riHc -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: Steganography -- Tell-tale signs?
by makof＠alias.cyberpass.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi there! I'd appreciate some help from you experts in steganography. 1) If I hide some PGP encrypted data in a gif, jpg or wav file will there be any tell tale signs to the naked eye of an expert? If yes, what are they? 2) Would it better to hide the data in a jpg with black and white image rather than a color one? 3) Are there any tools at the moment to expose (not crack) the hidden encrypted data? If none. are there tools in development? If this appears twice please accept my apologies. I didn't see the first posting and so I assumed it was lost in transit. Please email replies to me directly if this is off-topic. Thank you. Makofi

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Re: FWD: Another try to kill democracy
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:53 PM 9/2/96 +0000, SPG wrote: > I just got wind that the German government is planning to force german > ISP's to shut off access to my ISP, XS4ALL, because the german magazine >'Radikal' has a web page on xs4all. A few more details please: What german agency is taking what action. Has any access been shut off yet, or is it just some two bit asshole fascist with delusions of grandeur? > Please considder mirroring or linking to this site. Linking is pointless if the site is cut off or access seriously threatened. Mirroring is appropriate only if access is seriously threatened. How serious is this threat? --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Re: DON'T Nuke Singapore Back into the Stone Age
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:13 PM 9/2/96 -0400, you wrote: >> (This was done by many of us during the Karla Homulka and Teale trial in ... >There is a big difference between the Canada situation and the Singapore >situation. In Canada the restrictions are temporary and stem from making >the right to a fair trial a higher priority than the right to free >speech. >It is a conflict of two competing individual liberties. No observer of ..... >The situation in Sigapore is simply a corrupt government trying to >supress >legitimate democratic discussion. The intention is not to protect an >individuals right to a fair trial, the intention is to restrict argument >permanently. The Karla Homulka case and other criminal trials aren't the only censorship in Canada - there are far more serious problems. Zundel's problems (his legal ones, not just his moral ones) are well-known, as are the Dworkin/MacKinnon-inspired anti-pornography laws which Canada uses to censor lesbian bookstores and gay magazines. For the most part, other than sex and drugs, Canada's censorship is the pro-human-rights-politically-correct-liberal-hypocritical variety rather than the Singapore-style anti-human-rights-order-enforcing- politically-correct-dictatorship variety. But it's not only illegal to sell unapproved drugs in Canada, it's illegal to sell materials advocating drugs or their legalization, or of course information on how to make or grow drugs as well. (This helped Mark Emery get the capital to start his Hemp store in Vancouver by selling Cannabis magazines door-to-door :-) (It turns out that, since hemp seeds don't contain THC, they're not illegal in Canada, and hemp stores he's started or encouraged have sold enough seeds to grow more dope than Canada's police have confiscated in the last year or two. Mark openly violates the censorship laws, and his shop occasionally gets raided, and after the last bust they've decided he's a co-conspirator with everybody who's grown drugs using seeds or light bulbs bought from him, and they're playing a FUD game about whether to charge him with 8 life sentences, in under-5-year pieces....) Vancouver newspaper columnist Doug Collins gave a talk on censorship at an international libertarian conf. in BC recently, which Emery also spoke at. He knows the subject fairly well, since some of BC's censorship laws were written just for him. He's one of those anti-immigrant anti-Semitic* WW2-veteran curmudgeons who's got an editor who lets him write whatever he wants, and he offends a lot of people. In BC, and to some extent in the rest of Canada, you can be charged with human rights violations for disparaging ethnic and religious groups, and he's been tried and defended himself successfully for that, because Canada does have some limited protections for free speech in their Charter. So BC wrote a law that allows the BC human rights commission to fine people for human rights violations with just an administrative proceeding, not requiring a full-scale trial, and you generally can't get a jury in Canada for crimes with punishment less than 5 years in jail anyway. He hasn't been busted under the new law yet, but his publisher has spent about $30K in legal costs trying to make sure it doesn't happen. [*He knew better than to specifically say anything anti-Semitic while he was talking to us, but he referred to Jewish groups that oppose him in ways that implied he probably was.] And of course Canada has broadcasting licensing requirements that prevent people from starting radio and TV stations whenever they want to, plus a huge government broadcasting company, but they're not as limited as Singapore on that, and there are other countries with that problem. And of course they have silly language laws in Quebec, but they don't really limit what you can say as long as you say it in French (or Chinese or Vietnamese or just about anything except English and maybe Native languages.) # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> # You can get PGP software outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto

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Internet blamed in shoe-cam crimes, assailant free on $750 bail
by declan＠well.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Toronto Sun, 04sep96 Sneaky photographer charged ... by Tom Godfrey A retired high school shop teacher has been charged after a man allegedly used a camera hidden in his size 12 shoe to secretly videotape up the skirts of young women at the CNE. Det. Mike Beauparlant said a man photographed up to 20 women with his "shoe cam," which contained about seven hours of footage when he was arrested at the CNE last Saturday night. Beauparlant said investigators believe he got the idea from surfing a voyeur news group on the Internet. He ordered a $400 fibre optic lens and fastened it in a brogue shoe, police allege. The Oxford-style footwear contained a false front and two small screws on the sole to which a bracket and lens were affixed. "I've never seen anything like this in my 21 years on the force," Beauparlant said. "This was ingenious." Beauparlant said the body of the camera was hidden in a waist pouch and connected to the lens on the shoe with wires that ran under a man's pants and through his sock. "He always photographed very attractive women in their 20s with short skirts," added Det. Const. Mike Dicosola. He said the man was detected by two couples who noticed him moving his foot under the skirt of a woman. They followed the man, held him and called police. Police ask women who feel they've been victimized to call 808-5289. George Walter Campbell, 62, of Cornwall, has been charged with sexual assault and mischief. He returns to College Park court on Sept. 10. He was released on $750 cash bail yesterday. -30-

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Re: Race Bit: C
by nobody＠zifi.genetics.utah.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>At 02:47 AM 9/4/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >>At 3:02 AM 9/4/96, James A. Donald wrote: >>>At 10:33 PM 9/3/96 -0800, jim bell wrote: <...> [I am unsure just *who* wrote:] >>As the recent discussion of knives, switchblades, and throwing stars >>showed, such ambiguous laws are often used to keep the coloreds down. Gunlaws and druglaws have deep roots in racism, but it is politically incorrect to say, even if I can find it in the congressional record. [and I can.] But then it was certainly Jim Bell who wrote: >Perhaps the most ominous part of making "use of encryption to thwart an >investigation" illegal is _not_ that remailer operators might be prosecuted, >but that they might NOT be prosecuted in a deal where (in exchange for not >being prosecuted) they continue to operate the remailer, "cracked" or >sabotaged so that they share all the info with the cops. While even that >won't make chained remailers totally useless, eventually suspicions of such >a crack will surface, which will help sabotage the credibility of all >remailers, not just the ones that have been "stung." If someone tried a scheme involving violence such as A. P. through a remailer I was involved in, the feds would not have to threaten me with prosecution to get me to cooperate with them. I may not keep any logs right now, Jim, but if your little scheme gets underway I will cooperate willingly as long as I don't compromise the privacy of non- violent people such as drug users & sellers. For them, I would go to jail; for you, I would even cooperate with the BATF (which should be defunded 100%, IMO). Violence begats violence which begats even larger government, don't start us on that road -- leave me in peace.

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