December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Mondex
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Can anyone briefly discuss the anonymity features (or lack thereof) for Mondex? -- Forward complaints to : European Association of Envelope Manufactures Finger for Public Key Gutenbergstrasse 21;Postfach;CH-3001;Bern Vote Monarchist Switzerland

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Re: What's a "fingerprint" ?
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Speaking about PGP.. Guys... > Whats fingerprint is need for ? And how to create it ? A key fingerprint is a unique identifier for an individual PGP key, it is used for verifying that a recieved key is authentic before signing it, to generate a PGP key fingerprint use pgp -kvc <username> Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul(a)crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul(a)cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"

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UNR_avl
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

12-06-96, NYT: Compromise on Encryption Exports Seems to Unravel "We really feel that there has been a bait and switch situation and I'm not going to be silent about it," said Roel Pieper, chief executive and vice chairman of Tandem Computers. A Nov. 15 executive order that transferred export oversight to Commerce contained several new wrinkles that even previous industry supporters consider potential deal breakers. For one thing, the Justice Department would play a consulting role to the Commerce Department, which industry executives see as giving law-enforcement officials too big a role in the export process. And they contend that the order prescribes a system that might enable law-enforcement officials to unscramble messages while they are being transmitted, rather than after the fact, as the IBM compromise had seemed to specify. ----- http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/1206encrypt.html UNR_avl

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Apology
by jc105558＠spruce.hsu.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

- James - wrote: >I am writing this ... >Tim May, do >you have anything on subjest to discuss? I apologies publicly for this comment. I'm sorry Tim. My bad. - James -

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stop annoying me
by Perry E. Metzger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Someone is sending me lots of requests, with forged from addresses, asking that the cryptography mailing list sign up "cypherpunks(a)toad.com" for the cryptography mailing list. I'm obviously not going to do it. The only result repeated requests will have is that I'll put in a regexp to filter all the mail with these stupid requests. In other words, stop. There is no point. Perry

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Aghast..
by TQDB 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I couldn't believe my eyes when reading through Inter@ctive Week's "The Driving Forces of Cyberspace" Top 25 list I saw that Louis J. Freeh, Director of the FBI received an Honorable Mention because of him supposedly believing that "Encryption is an inalienable right." I suppose that isn't necessarily a lie, but it would need the word "Weak" added on to the front in order to qualify it. Anyway, I was quite disappointed in seeing their poor choice of this candidate. .TQDB -=| T.Q.D.B. - tqdb(a)wichita.fn.net - http://www.feist.com/~tqdb |=- "The term 'hacker' is not necessarily derogatory. A small percentage of them give the rest a bad name." --Special Agent Andrew Black, FBI SF Computer Crime Squad

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re: Gilmore / Logos
by nobody＠cypherpunks.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Heh. Think again. Logos is obviously someone who has a lot of time on his/her hands. Consider the volume of Gilmore over the last several months compared to the volume of Logos over the last several days. Gilmore has quite a bit more on his mind than how people behave on CP. Logos' identity is clearly not Gilmore. I doubt Gilmore even reads CP anymore. So who _is_ Logos. We know that Logos: 1)Tim May suspects who Logos is 2)Is a prolific poster 3)Intends to combat DLV/DT and other Detweilers The oddest tidbit yet is Tim May's posting to the *list* "P.S. I certainly hope this "Logos" nym is not who I suspect it is, as this will surely end our Real World friendship. A fucking bozo." This post clearly is an act of misdirection. If May had a personal bone to pick with someone he actually knows than what purpose does it serve to announce this to the list? Nothing less than to preempt the obvious assertation that Logos is Tim May. W.W. Brierson

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Re: The Science Generations
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:12 AM 12/6/96 -0800, Dale Thorn wrote: >I would guess that those who became and remained successful technically >(as opposed to becoming "business people") were using HP computers and >such in the 1970s. I for one was a heavy user then, and PETs, Apples, >Radio Shack, etc. computers weren't reliable enough for serious work. I guess those people using VisiCalc on the Apple ][ weren't doing serious work :-). (Also the many small businesses using these early machines for AR, Accounting etc.) Me, I was doing OS programming on IBM 370s. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The lottery is a tax on | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | those who can't do math. | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | - Who 1st said this? | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Re: Laptops and TEMPEST
by thad＠hammerhead.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'll bet that the laptop that was radiating stuff was doing it from the external VGA port that many laptops have, rather than from the LCD screen. thad -- Thaddeus Beier thad(a)hammerhead.com Visual Effects Supervisor 408) 287-6770 Hammerhead Productions http://www.got.net/people/thad

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Re: Systems with weak crypto, was: The House Rules At The Permanent VirtualCypherpunks Party
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:46 AM 12/6/96 -0500, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: >If an entrepreneur wants to sell a new electrical gizmo and wants an >independent review of its safety, he pays $$$ for it. Apparently one of the >functions of the new brand of "cypher punks" is to provide a similar service >for free. Sorry, I'm not a part of it, and I'm not *that* interested in Don's >proposal. I have better use for my time. However, I assume that you have no objection to others reviewing Don't proposal for free (Actually for reputation). > >I also don't think that the ease of breaking the code should be the only >consideration in evaluating a low-end cryptographic product. ... > >... If someone wants to market (and support) a crypto package for >the masses and gets the masses to deploy it, I take my hat off to them. It >doesn't matter if the code itself can be cracked as easily as the codes used >in PKZIP or MS Excel or MS Word (reportedly). If the users discover that the >code isn't strong enough for their needs, they'll upgrade to stronger codes. >The path from weak crypto to strong crypto is much shorter than the path from >no crypto to some crypto. > >If the user interface and [did you mean "is" - bf] logical and transparent >and provides hooks to >replace the weak (non-export-controlled) crypto being shipped with a stronger >one (say, by FTPing a DLL) then it's a Good Thing. Good interfaces are definitely something needed for the widespread adoption of crypto, either strong or weak. However, the general opinion I have heard is that UIs with easily replaced crypto are covered by ITAR. >Don is doing a Good Thing and the "cypher punks" are doing an evil thing. If Don is contributing to better interfaces, then I agree he is doing a good thing. If all he is doing is proposing a new algorithm and describing it with, to be charitable, non-standard uses of well defined terms, then I disagree. I strongly disagree that cypherpunks are doing an evil thing by exposing the weaknesses in anyone's (including Don's) crypto system. There are many ways to contribute, and publicizing the facts about a system are one of them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The lottery is a tax on | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | those who can't do math. | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | - Who 1st said this? | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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