December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: GPS and other Dual-use technologies
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:34 AM 9/29/96 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: >I used to be an avid RC modeler and have contemplated organizing an >on-going amateur cruise missile contest. The object would be to accurately >deliver various payload weights over courses of various terrain and >distances (perhaps out to a hundred miles or more in the case of Giant >Scale craft). Judging would be based on speed, stealth (noise, IR >emissions and radar cross section) and accuracy. > >Craft are free to use any navigational technology, but must be autonomous >from launch to delivery. To aid navigation I was considering the design of >a substitute differential GPS beacon functionally interchangable with those >offered by the USCG. My device would work on a different frequency, >possibly using very wideband direct sequence spread spectrum (for low >probability of intercept/detection) and be actuated by the missile as it >neared the target in order to refine its position. The data standard for differential corrections is called "RTCM-104", and it's the signal you input into differential-capable GPS receivers. Boxes to generate RTCM-104 are probably relatively cheap, primarily needing a multi-channel GPS receiver and another processor for coding. Differential corrections can, of course, be transmitted on any frequency you'd like, including frequency-hopping if you're really concerned about intercept. (which you won't be...) Incidentally, GPS receivers are getting REALLY small these days, particularly for just the module-level products. A size like about 1 inch by 2-inches is pretty close to state-of-the-art. Power consumption is about 3/4 watt. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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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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EFF Distributes Terrorist Information On Internet - Wiretaps Needed!! :-)
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The recent electronic newsletter of that suspicious organization calling itself the EFF contains terrorist material: > Received: (from daemon@localhost) by eff.org (8.7.5/8.6.6) id QAA17422 for > effector-comc-exploder; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:57:26 -0700 (PDT) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Comic exploders? How totally un-American. They must be stopped! Because a MIME is a terrible thing to waste.... # 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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[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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Crypto and six yr old sex perverts: Project Electric Potatoes [CRYPTO]
by Scottauge＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Using crypto may be required to keep ya outta jail, given the guberment has gone so far low as to "route out this six year old sex pervert busy kissing the girls." (Quoted for emphasis.) I wonder when sexual harassment will become a sex offence. Are the red sashed sex cores of Orwell's 1984 around the corner? I wonder if he will need to register with the sheriffs office in any towns he moves into as a sex offender - or has that law not passed yet? Soon I believe our communications will be turned against us - as I am sure I will hear about this one in the future.... Crypto can help us from the all intrusive guberment - it is far to big. Hence a new project for us all: Multicast Crypto referred to as Electric Potatoes as mashed up potatoes are hard to put back together. Purpose: Already we are seeing problems for speech on the internet (see radikal postings - though they are a bit fruity IMHO.) And it sounds like the law in one country is going to be very interested in arresting people in another. Hence, perhaps we need a crypto system (including human procedures and fail safes) for community discussions. Crypto is very much one to one right now, but can we implement a crypto for wide distribution to a very defined set of people? This should be useful in commerce too... like CC of mail to others, etc. Problem Definition Time: Who will be responsible for allowing a member into the community? (And all the other trust issues...) The software to implement the community must be available on multiple platforms like UNIX, Windoze, Macintosh, NeXT, etc. How do we over come the problems of storage - should the messages remain encyphered at all times in local storage of a member in case of a knock on the door, requiring the user to use the software to read, write, store, and organize messages. Is it even possible to overcome the human turncoat factor? Can we protect them as well as us from coercian, black mail, seizure, or defection? Is this even possible, because we are looking for the freedom to speak, yet nobody will be able to hear us!!! ********** Method of discussion: Since we will all hopefully have many ideas and comments on this exercise,may I provide a protocal: Please have Project Electric Potatoes in the subject heading - some of us use the delete key quite freely and don't want to accidently remove your valued comments and ideas. Should the message contain a problem definition, please have Problem in the subject. Should the message contain an answer please have Answer in the subject. Should the message contain a rant, please have Rant in the subject. I leave it to the writer to include [CRYPTO] in the header.... Thank You All, and I hope we get a great discussion going on here.

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