December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Looking for Qualified Individual/Firm to Contract for Cryptanalysis
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Julian Assange <proff(a)suburbia.net> writes: > > I am looking for one or more people (or firms) who are qualified to perform > > world class cryptanalysis work. Please send mail to me at joswald1(a)msn.com > > call in the U.S. at +1 408.479.7874 > > > > Jack Oswald > > > > Find your father's little black book under the couch? Well, I dialed the number out of curisotity (it's in San Diego). The answering machine says "This is Jack Oswald with R.P.K." Sounds gay. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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[CRYPTO] Labeling messages
by nobody＠cypherpunks.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Fart fart fart fart TWA 800 fart fart fart. Tim May fart fart AP fart Taxes fart fart fart. Fart.

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What about making re-mailers automatically chain?
by Geoffrey C. Grabow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Would it be a good idea to have a re-mailer "randomly" decide whether to send the mail to the destination or to another re-mailer. If all re-mailers performed this way, not even the sender would know the path. The chain could be short sometimes and long others. Granted, there is a possibility that every mailer decides to chain instead of sending the message to the recip, but some clever counter tag could keep the number of links to a certain maximum. The "randomness" of this would aid in traffic analysis, and of course each mailer that decides to chain the mail would encrypt under the next mailer's pub key. Any thoughts? G.C.G. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Geoffrey C. Grabow | Great people talk about ideas. | | Oyster Bay, New York | Average people talk about things. | | gcg(a)pb.net | Small people talk about people. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | PGP 2.6.2 public key available at http://www.pb.net/~wizard | | and on a plethora of key servers around the world. | | Key ID = 0E818EC1 | | Fingerprint = A6 7B 67 D7 E9 96 37 7D E7 16 BD 5E F4 5A B2 E4 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | That which does not kill us, makes us stranger. - Trevor Goodchild | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Public Schools [NOISE]
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

attila: >= .> a very unusual situation --but I live in rural southern >= .> utah where the regional middle school of 1200 can support 4 >= .> bands, the top 2 being very impressive, and provide full AP >= .> classes, and ACT Tim: >= .Wow! Utah is teaching AP? Is Jim Bell being brought in as a >= .Special Lecturer? attilla > come on, Tim... you are not that old. AP has three meanings > (at least): > 1. Associated Press (news gathering) > 2. Advanced Placement (as in college credit for HS classes) > 3. not widely known: Jim Bell's Assassination Political Hey, if a high school can teach kids to read the Associated Press critically and think about what it's saying and means, they're doing a really fine job! For that matter, if they can teach kids to just read the news at all, they're accomplishing something. I was surprised by the idea of teaching Advanced Placement classes in a middle school - in the reasonably high-quality public school I went to, most of the AP classes were taken by 12th graders and a few by 11th-graders, though this was partly because that's when we started getting slack in our schedules after taking the regular courses. # 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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No Subject
by backdraft＠earthlink.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

desubscribe

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Igor Chudov's cypherpunks felony admission turned over to the appropriate authorities
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Yo C'punks, check this out: >Path: ...!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!netnews.worldnet.att.net!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!news1.gte.net!usenet >From: netscum(a)gte.net >Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc,soc.culture.russian >Subject: Chudov's published felony admission turned over to Commerce >Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 03:16:06 GMT >Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS >Sender: netscum(a)gte.net >Distribution: Worldwide Net Scum >Message-ID: <324b43fa.476946222(a)news.gte.net> >Reply-To: yourself(a)netscum.org > >Igor Chudov's published admission of his willful and purposeful violation >of ITAR laws (a criminal felony offense according the United States Code) >has been turned over to the appropriate investigators at the Department of >Commerce in Washington, D.C., who expressed interest in this incident, >particularly because of the additional contributing factor of Chudov's visa >status being under active investigation by the Department of Justice, >Immigration and Naturalization Service. Chudov's very bad example serves >notice on the many netscum reading this article that "crime does not pay." Also check out NetScum's home page at http://home1.gte.net/netscum.

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[NOT NOISE] Jena Remailer
by mixmaster＠remail.obscura.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

wmono(a)Direct.CA wrote to All: w> My appologies in advance to the list for this noise. Dear Anonymous, w> if there is another way to contact you, please let it be known so that w> this need not involve the 1500 others on the list. Noise? Are you on drugs? This is one of the relatively few _on-topic_ threads on this damned list these days! If 1500 other folks can be made to give a try to the Jenaer Remailer then this thread has served a very useful and salutary purpose. >> 4: Account is automatically established and should work >> immediately. w> As soon as the mail arrives, that is correct. If it was lost by using w> a non-operational remailer, or by sending a misformatted mail, then it w> will not. I believe this was the problem; several of the remailers were choking right when I was doing this experiment. Indeed, I had to post my reply to you here FOUR times through otherwise reliable remailers before it ever showed up. w> It may be lag, it may not be. I recommend that you create a test nym, w> with minimal anonymity (no remailers, send everything directly to w> jena) and, after waiting several hours to ensure that the key was w> added, send a mail from your nym to your own account. If you get no w> mail after several hours, something is wrong. This is mechanically a sound suggestion, but I believe that it is a primary security measure to avoid any direct contact with fresh remailer, even using a waste account. >> w> - Never request a delivery to your real Email address. >> So here's what I really want to know: When/if the new account is up >> and running, how _does_ one discreetly retrieve his mail? I don't >> see how, other than to have it sent to alt.anonymous.messages via a >> mail2news netmail address such as >> alt.anonymous.messages(a)news.demon.co.uk and then pick through the >> mess there until some cyphertext message responds to his right key. w> That's exactly right. We need better message pools. Actually, what w> is needed is a email message pool, because of the lag and uncertainly w> of Usenet. But that's a project for another day. >From a security standpoint, to say nothing of the netmail load, I should prefer not to use an e-mail pool, but the daunting load of spam and clueless messages in a.a.m is a nuisance, and you are surely right about the vagaries of Usenet connectivity. My first thought was to have them sent to a non-autopinging *.test ng via a well-tested parsing mail2news gate, but some autopingers ping ALL *.test traffic passing through a site. If these ping messages didn't get automatically bitbucketed at the remailer site, this could be a problem for the operator. Anyway, let's see what happens with today's tests...

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Re: Mousepad RNG's?
by David E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jamesd(a)echeque.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Sat Sep 28 20:04:39 1996 > Netscape was broken through weakness in the source of > truly random numbers. No, it wasn't. Netscape was broken because their random numbers (really pseudorandom) were chosen from very poor sources (on Unix boxes, pid and ppid, maybe even the system clock :) dave - ----- David E. Smith, P O Box 324, Cape Girardeau MO USA 63702 dsmith(a)prairienet.org http://www.prairienet.org/~dsmith send mail with subject of "send pgp-key" for my PGP public key "Madness takes its toll . . . please have exact change ready." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMk3LMTVTwUKWHSsJAQEWbQf9H2+cssRqpNLBa2HTL7cDPbE8dOQaWN5Q MicZPXU8ynZ4T1cw8YWHkJKsyHBR7JmAnor8dMkweAqGqu7OlGUZUTsBCoylUxjk onpCFDfHBZk+87Kdcy4JIBeuWQZjsHelk38zS4wlmcDRjeS+yXCd86UhL1jK34Z2 PTrs9Xz2LMLuyIxLwLmVZofcgtXkbWnYS0wJ8QoEjgLLMS5SsMT5g11dPMARxHYY J2XApz2fb1+CTErhaMx657+UK1ToYnbnU8ehpBSAHlOPqTIsYUOryjkAL6R+bgTo MG/ZMKCuSOvvgASPBM00fcc0SUQqxICCNz7KX+GjgHvoNCuUy1IMmA== =vgpk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [NOT NOISE] Jena Remailer
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:10 PM 9/28/96 -0700, anonymous wrote: >My first thought was to have them sent to a non-autopinging *.test ng >via a well-tested parsing mail2news gate, but some autopingers ping ALL >*.test traffic passing through a site. If these ping messages didn't >get automatically bitbucketed at the remailer site, this could be a >problem for the operator. Most of the autopingers will ignore messages with "ignore" in the Subject: line. # 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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sophie germain primes
by Serge E. Hallyn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Could anyone direct me to an online list of small (less than 800-digit) Sophie Germain primes? (actually any list would do) many thanks, -serge hallyn(a)cs.wm.edu

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