December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"c2"} = "<remail(a)c2.org> eric pgp hash reord"; $remailer{"penet"} = "<anon(a)anon.penet.fi> penet post"; $remailer{"flame"} = "<remailer(a)flame.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash latent cut post reord"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"ecafe"} = "<cpunk(a)remail.ecafe.org> cpunk mix"; $remailer{"amnesia"} = "<amnesia(a)chardos.connix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ksub"; $remailer{'alpha'} = '<alias(a)alpha.c2.org> alpha pgp'; $remailer{'nymrod'} = '<nymrod(a)nym.jpunix.com> alpha pgp'; $remailer{"lead"} = "<mix(a)zifi.genetics.utah.edu> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"nemesis"} = "<remailer(a)meaning.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer(a)remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"vegas"} = "<remailer(a)vegas.gateway.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack(a)holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"ncognito"} = "<ncognito(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> mix cpunk pgp hash latent"; $remailer{"lucifer"} = "<lucifer(a)dhp.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock(a)c2.org> cpunk pgp hash cut ksub reord"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config(a)nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"balls"} = "<remailer(a)huge.cajones.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"middle"} = "<middleman(a)jpunix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{"dustbin"} = "<dustman(a)athensnet.com> cpunk pgp hash ksub latent cut ek mix reord"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix) The alpha and nymrod nymservers are down due to abuse. However, you can use the cyber nymserver. The nym.alias.net server will be listed soon. See http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/n.a.n.html for details. 403 Permission denied errors have been caused by a flaky disk on the Berkeley WWW server. Hopefully, this is fixed by now. The penet remailer is closed. Last update: Mon 23 Sep 96 6:46:13 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de ++++.+---++ 2:19:14 99.99% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca ************ 16:28 99.98% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com ++--.+-++++- 1:07:11 99.98% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net +*+ -*-***** 29:26 99.86% exon remailer(a)remailer.nl.com #****# #*+## 1:12 99.84% replay remailer(a)replay.com *********+** 4:14 99.55% dustbin dustman(a)athensnet.com ------+++-+ 1:01:14 99.54% winsock winsock(a)c2.org --++.------- 3:29:10 99.49% lead mix(a)zifi.genetics.utah.edu ++++++-+ ++* 35:32 99.43% extropia remail(a)miron.vip.best.com --.-.------ 8:25:42 98.99% middle middleman(a)jpunix.com - --- -- - 2:14:50 97.72% balls remailer(a)huge.cajones.com * * ******* 5:01 97.12% haystack haystack(a)holy.cow.net ####### #--# 55:47 96.49% amnesia amnesia(a)chardos.connix.com ----.- ---- 4:41:47 94.33% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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Re: Public Schools
by DMiskell＠envirolink.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>An awful lot of accomplished persons grew up in isolated areas, on small >farms, and were educated in very small classrooms (or at home). I can speak of this from experience. I (currently) live in the near vacinity of a town we amiably named "cowtown", and used to go to a small ton high school. As it turns out, one of the graduates before me at that school went on to become an astronaut -- after living in almost-vacant "cowtown" all his life. Makes /me/ proud to be a citizen of such lightly populated areas. Besides that, it's quieter, safer, and if the government comes for me, I have a kill zone of at least 5 miles. Woohoo! Daniel. -- If in fact we are the only intelligent life on this planet, why the fuck are we in this goddamn mess? -- Find my public key on the World Wide Web -- point your browser at: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html

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RE: USA_exe
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:27 AM 9/23/96 -0700, Brian D Williams wrote: > > >John (jya(a)pipeline.com) posts: > >>The Washington Post reports at length today on the Defense >>Department's disclosure yesterday of heretofore classified >>training manuals used in the School of the Americas to instruct >>Latino troops on killing a wide range of civilians for political >>purposes. > >This is not particularly new news, I have a copy at home of one of >these manuals, it was put out by a humans rights group that got >their hands on it during all the El Salvador business. > >It's as nasty as it sounds... I don't suppose we need ask the question about whether such manuals were classified to keep their contents away from the enemy...or the American people. Ooops, same thing I guess. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Snooping ISP admin??
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:15 AM 9/23/96 -0700, "Michael E. Carboy" <carboy(a)hooked.net> wrote: >Question for the group: I have encountered a situation that causes me >to believe an ISP is snoopingthrough encrytped mail. It seems that >PGP'd mail has aroused the curiosity of an ISP (not hooked.net) Well, if it's encrypted, it shouldn't matter much if they're snooping :-) >I have >encountered "POP3 account in use by another user" several times in the >past few days and I am the only user... wondering if that "in use" >messsage is the result of a clumsy sysadmin being caught with his hand >in the cookie jar. Three possibilities 1) The sysadmin (unlikely). Aside from the fact that most sysadmins know better, it's easier for them to just copy your mailbox to /tmp and read it with emacs instead of using the POP handler to read it. 2) Crackers, especially if you've got a wimpy password 3) System problems - I use Eudora with my Netcom account, and sometimes I'll have bad modem connections or Windoze crashes that will hang my computer or connection in the middle of fetching mail. This leads to that kind of symptom - the server doesn't quite realize that I've hung up. Usually this times out in an hour or two, but your mileage may vary, especially depending on you're ISP's POP server. Start by assuming it's a computer problem, then try attributing stupidity, and only then go for malice. :-) And if they are snooping, asking them about the "technical" problems you're having would at least let them know to stop it. # 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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List participation
by Eric Hughes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have been informed that Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM <dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com> wrote: > [...] Tim's off-topic spews have driven Eric Hughes, John Gilmore, > Rich Salz, and many other former valuable contributors off the > mailing list [...] As for me, I stopped having time to read cypherpunks a year and a half ago. Tim had nothing to do with it. The cypherpunks list has changed and I have changed; so be it. Eric

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Bernstein Case in "The Recorder", SF Law newspaper
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I didn't have 4 quarters handy to feed the newspaper machine, but "The Recorder", a San Francisco law newspaper, has a headline today about "Feds On The Ropes In Export Law Suit", about the Bernstein case. # 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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A daily word of caution in reference Tim C[unt] May
by Dustbin Freedom Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim C[unt] May is not only as queer as a three dollar bill, but he is also into having sex with children.

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BAA, BAA, SAY THE SHEEPLE
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:24:36 -0700 To: <other people>, rah(a)shipwright.com From: <somebody> Subject: BAA, BAA, SAY THE SHEEPLE COLORADO SENATOR CHARLES DUKE ON THE LOSS OF LIBERTY By Senator Charles R. Duke, September 16, 1996 Colorado District 9, (719) 481-9289 BAA, BAA, SAY THE SHEEPLE Who would have thought America would be where it is today? Earlier in the week, news stories appeared announcing that a proposal to do background checks on regular passengers came from a commission studying terrorism. This, of course, would do absolutely nothing to stop terrorism. Any decent terrorist knows enough to not travel under a real name. In any case, most airline terrorist incidents will likely be caused by someone who doesn't fly on the same plane for which the incident is planned. Since these ideas are patently obvious to the most casual observers, what, then, is the purpose of this tyranny? Is it simply to get the American sheeple so accustomed to government spying that we don't mind? To do this would require some sort of identification number and what better number to use than the Social Security number? Having the SSN flying around all these databases would also allow those who have access to such numbers to examine our bank records and credit history, along with many other records. Oh, nuts, I say. This proposal is just too depressing. So I pick up the Wall Street Journal for Friday the Thirteenth of September. Might as well read a little financial news to get in a better mood. I mean, our economy is really doing okay, or at least so the government would have us believe. I never got to the stock tables. There, on the front page, is a story from San Mateo, California, where den mothers, coaches, and other volunteers who work with children will now be subjected to fingerprinting and background checks. The idea, you see, is to keep our children safe from child abuse. Don't look now, Toto, but this doesn't feel like Kansas, anymore. This will be totally ineffective at curbing child abuse, but you probably already knew that. This writer knows something about child abuse and can assure everyone that the overwhelming majority of child molesters become neither den mothers nor coaches. We have a Fourth Amendment to our U.S. Constitution that flatly prohibits these unreasonable searches and seizures. Specifically, the Amendment states, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized." It means that our private effects and our private lives are none of any civil authority's business, unless they have probable cause, and can obtain a warrant, sworn to by an oath or affirmation before a judge. The only way any nosy government gets away with this open and flagrant violation of constitutional rights is if the sheeple allow it. Where is the hue and cry from everyone about these measures? Have we become so conditioned to prying eyes that we have forgotten what privacy is about? Why are you, who have the courage to read this column, just standing idly by and letting our God-given rights be stripped from us on a daily basis? Where are the letters to the editor and civil demonstrations about this blatant tyranny? Our forefathers paid for these rights with their lives and their blood. They must be churning in their graves with the lackadaisical attitude we have today about our Constitution. They fought a War for Independence because King George was allowing warrantless searches and incarcerations. It was considered by our Founding Fathers to be a sacrilegious violation of rights granted to us by our Creator and not subject to the rule of Man. Somehow, in 1996, we have been lulled into complacency and apathy by a government totally dedicated to the absolute subjugation of our free will. Most of us have never really been free. We have been enslaved so long it is not clear we would know how to behave if by some process we had our real freedom restored. It is possible the American people actually deserve what is about to happen to us. We deserve it because of our collective inaction, our collective morals, our collective set of values, and our collective embrace of a failed political process. There are many examples in history where societies created and led by moral and just people have lasted for long periods. Almost without exception, the collapse of these societies were preceded by a loss of character in the people governed. Where would you put America today? --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "'Bart Bucks' are not legal tender." -- Punishment, 100 times on a chalkboard, for Bart Simpson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/

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Snake Oil Lists, Blacklists, and Anonymity
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:16 PM 9/23/96, Mark Rogaski wrote: >An entity claiming to be Lance Cottrell wrote: >: I agree in principle, but for the foreseeable future I think the list will >: be a "good thing". >: > >As long as the descriptions of the products are comprehensive. Concern >about legal issues has been expressed from the beginning. But, I don't >think that libel/slander laws will be a stumbling block, as long as >the publication is similar in nature to "Consumer Reports" or somesuch. I have to agree with Lance that the "ratings list" is more important and more useful than the "FAQ." (My comments about the "Snake Oil FAQ" were directed towards the _educational_ aspects of the FAQ, which I believe are covering territory already well-covered by good books and existing FAQs. A list of thumbs ups and thumbs downs, dynamically changing, is another matter--it is _not_ something covered in published books, due to the time factor, and would be a contribution.) However, bear in mind that such a list of products could involve legal battles. The mention of "Consumer Reports" is apropos of this. CR has been sued many times, and has a staff of lawyers both reviewing all articles they post for any hint of litigatable (?) reviews, and for dealing with the corporate lawyers of companies whose products did not fare well in the CR reviews. (Recall certain high-profile cases such as the sport utility vehicle "roll-over" tests.) Also, one of the audio magazines (or possibly even CR itself...my memory has faded) was sued in the 1970s by Bose Corporation for an unflattering review of Bose's flagship loudspeakers, the Bose 901s. The magazine basically said Bose's "direct-reflecting" multipattern array of small cones was "snake oil." (I don't know if the mag used this term, but this is what they said. And "snake oil" is a term used a _lot_ in the audio community, where snake oil salesmen sell things like the "Tice Clock," an ordinary LED clock ($7 at Radio Shack) which has been "cryogenically processed" and which, Tice claims, when plugged in to any wall outlet in the listening room will improve the soundstage, improve the sound by interpolating bits into the harsh digital stream, blah blah blah. Of course, Tice charges $200 for their special snake oil clock.) Back to the list of products. It would be best to handle it through an anonymous remailer...what others do with it, in terms of reposting it to public newsgroups (where Deja News, Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc. could find it), is their business. Reviews should be digitally-signed, probably by pseudonyms. The "anonymous reviewers" would actually be pseudonymous, and reputations would develop over time. (TANSTAAFL) The BlackNet model (message pools) could be used to get responses (letters to the editor?) back from customers, so that one might see messages like: "My company bought 5 copies of the SnakeTronics ScrambleMatic product, and found the key is stored in plaintext in the scramble.config file! Needless to say, we have stopped using ScrambleMatic and have asked SnakeTronics for our money back! signed, DisgruntledUser." (In other words, a formal rating or evaluation, perhaps from A to F, or 10 to -10, etc., could be supplemented with "blurbs," both positive and negative, from users.) The reason I recommend anonymous remailer distribution, and pseudonyms, is because of the litigation issue. Even if reviewers are not sued often, the threat of a suit influences reviews, which is why most reviews in most mags are puff pieces (glowing reviews, often strongly correlated with who is advertising in the mag). One can imagine Matt Blaze, for example, choosing to say _nothing_ about SnakeTronics' ScrambleMatic, for fear (justified) that he might get letters from their lawyers, thus taking up his time and even eventually landing him in court. Also, this sort of "blacklist" paves the way for similar anonymously-situated blacklists of doctors, lawyers, etc., and you can bet your last dollar that a list of "bad doctors" would be aggressively pursued in the courts of all major countries! Hence the use of remailers and BlackNet-style message pools will be paramount for such things. --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, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Live Cybercast of GA lawsuit press conference
by camcc＠abraxis.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>X-Sender: rcostner(a)intergate.net >Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:48:46 -0400 >To: efg-action(a)ninja.techwood.org >Reply-To: efg-action(a)ninja.techwood.org > >Live Cybercast of HB1630 lawsuit press conference > >The ACLU, Electronic Frontiers Georgia, Mitchell Kaye (Georgia State >Representative), and others will hold a press conference on their lawsuit >against the State of Georgia, concerning HB1630, which is now law. The joint >press conference will be broacast live on the internet at 10:30 am on Tuesday >September 24, 1996. To listen to the press conference, see > > http://www.efga.org/realaudio/hb1630.htm > >A note about EFGA: Electronic Frontiers Georgia has a new website ><http://www.efga.org/>. We are now referring to ourselves as EFGA, rather >than EFG. Please update your websites accordingly. > > -- Robert Costner (770) 512-8746 > Electronic Frontiers Georgia > rcostner(a)intergate.net > http://www.efga.org/

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