December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: FWD: Another try to kill democracy
by SPG 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

James A. Donald wrote: > > A few more details please: What german agency is taking what action. Oke, taken from: http://www.anwalt.de/ictf/p960901e.htm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Internet Content Task Force (ICTF), Press Release of Sep. 03, 1996 RA Michael Schneider, eco e.V. A telefax was received by us from the Public Prosecutor General on August 30 in which eco e.V. is informed of an on-going investigatory procedure. We have been requested in this context to inform all Internet service providers affiliated with ICTF (Internet Content Task Force) the following in writing: "Under the following addresses in Internet: http://www.serve.com/spg/154/ http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/radikal//154/ and using the link on page http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/angela1/radilink.htm one can call up the entire edition of the pamphlet entitled radikal Nr. 154". Parts of this pamphlet justify preliminary suspicion of promoting a terrorist organization under § 129a, Par.3 of the German Criminal Code, public condoning of criminal activities penalizable under § 140 no.2 of the German Criminal Code and preliminary suspicion of inciting to criminal activity under § 130a Par.1 of the German Criminal Code. The Public Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice has therefore initiated a criminal investigatory procedure against the parties disseminating this pamphlet. You are herewith informed that you may possibly make yourself subject to criminal prosecution for aiding and abetting criminal activities if you continue to allow these pages to be called up via your access points and network crosspoints" +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Please considder mirroring or linking to this site. As of today: http://burn.ucsd.edu/%7Eats/RADIKAL/ http://www.jca.or.jp/~taratta/mirror/radikal/ http://www.serve.com/~spg/ http://huizen.dds.nl/~radikal http://www.canucksoup.net/radikal/index.html http://www.ecn.org/radikal http://www.well.com/~declan/mirrors/ http://www.connix.com/~harry/radikal/index.htm http://www.connix.com/~harry > 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? Serious enough i think. henk (SPG)

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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 P. J. Ponder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

keywords: ITAR, SHA, beneficial and innocuous crypto The persistent reputation known as Bill Stewart wrote: >Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 23:09:17 -0700 >From: Bill Stewart <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com> >To: Kent Briggs <72124.3234(a)compuserve.com> >Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >Subject: Re: rc2 export limits.. > >I'm afraid my source is "Read it on the net and was surprised to hear it". >My assumption is that the limit is for software that implements >both signature and verification, since ITAR doesn't ban export of >pure-authentication software. 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? ANFSCD: I tried that OnNet32 e-mail software from FTP software. It runs under Windows95. It is a lot of material to download, and way too intrusive to install. It wants to metastasize itself into the innards of Microsoft Exchange and Inboxes, etc. What is it with all this complexity anyway? Why not just have a POP client that will check mail on the server? It also wants you to store your mailbox password in it, as opposed to letting you enter it on a session-by-session basis. I don't like that. sticking with PINE, PGP, and Xywrite II for now....

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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: German prosecutors redouble attack on Net, subversive leftists
by Stephan Schmidt 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > You're not talking about http://www.anwalt.de/ictf/p960901e.htm, are you? > I'm talking about this link (you mentioned earlier). Maybe I can translate it (or I can summarize it). (tomorrow :) -stephan

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Herr Schmidt
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:20 PM 9/5/96, Stephan Schmidt wrote: >Definetly not. >There is an advisory from the Generalbundesanwaltschaft and >the ICTF that ISPs should ('have to') restrict the access to >those urls. > >But so far nothing happend. I asked some people >to try the urls and there where no restrictions. >(I encounterd no restrictions myself.) 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 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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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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