December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: REM_ail
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:43 PM 10/2/96 GMT, John Young wrote: > 10-8-96. VV: > > "The Remailer Is Dead, Long Live the Remailer. Life After > Penet." By Dave Mandl (Excellent, Dave, yes!) > > By the strict standards of the cypherpunks, a loosely > knit affinity group of the Net's most radical and > technoliterate privacy advocates, Penet's security was > actually on the flimsy side. Its Achilles' heel was the > file -- just begging to be subpoenaed -- that linked > users' real names to their Penet pseudonyms. > Cypherpunk-run remailers, on the other hand, generally > leave no trace of the sender's true identity. In > addition, cypherpunk remailers can be "chained" -- > messages can be routed through several far-flung > remailers before reaching their final destination, making > message tracing all but impossible, even for the remailer > operators. > http://jya.com/remail.txt > ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/remail.txt REM_ail Now that Helsingius has shut down Penet, what's to stop him from simply LYING about the source of the messages in question, maybe claiming that they came from the output of a cypherpunks remailer and are thus permanently untraceable? (one feature it might have been useful for him to have included in Penet is the ability of the user to re-address a return address, which would presumably erase the original address in the records. Just sending email and some particular password would do it...) Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Clipper III on the table
by dustman＠athensnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ernest Hua <hua(a)chromatic.com> wrote: > I predict, therefore, Netscape and RSA would NOT capitulate to this > latest bitter carrot. Huh? RSA has already gone over to the dark side. According to http://www.rsa.com/PRESSBOX/releases/keyrecov.htm: "The recently announced Key Recovery Alliance, of which RSA is a part, ..."

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Re: Flood Warning
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:47 PM 10/3/96 GMT, John Young wrote: > High-Tech Leaders Join Forces to Enable International > Strong Encryption > > See: http://www.ibm.com/news/alliance2.htm This is apparently no longer valid. Is there a new one? Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
by watson＠tds.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Joe Shea, Editor-in-Chief of The American Reporter, said: > Declan, how does your list work? Do you only publish comments that agree with you? I didn't see my first two, and this one only came with your response. Is this your version of freedom of the press, or what? - Maybe Joe would agree to publish everything we send him if we agree to publish everything he sends us. Dave Love to get published

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paging nets
by Jeff Ubois 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Interesting recycled bits from Newsbytes concerning a BBC story drawn from Usenet: BBC Blows Radiopager Security Systems Wide Open LONDON, ENGLAND, 1996 OCT 2 (NB) -- By Steve Gold. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that radiopaging messages on the UK's paging networks can be read by anyone with a radio scanner and suitable PC software. In addition, the British TV company claims that it is also possible to insert bogus messages onto the paging networks using instructions on the Internet. ... BBC journalists, meanwhile, said that UK radiopaging transmissions were unencrypted and, as such, were insecure when viewed alongside digital cellular phones, where signals are encrypted. ...the BBC claimed it had been shown messages reporting on the activities of Tony Blair, the head of the British Labor Party, along with a message referring to a residence of a member of Royalty. Newsbytes noted that the same system is used in the US.

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Fw: Re: ITAR satellite provision
by Remo Pini 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Thu Oct 03 08:09:13 1996 - -----Begin Included Message ----- Date: From: To: jimbell(a)pacifier.com Cc: To: jimbell(a)pacifier.com Date: Thu Oct 03 08:08:42 1996 > >* A launch vehicle or payload shall not, by reason of the launching > >* of such vehicle, be considered an export for purposes of this > >* subchapter. > Okay, everybody, call Estes! We've got some crypto to export...er...laun > ch! If I get the above wording correctly (unicorn, help me!), it is sufficient to put the cryptostuff on a disc in a LAUNCHABLE device, it never says that the payload has to be delivered by air. So, just put that thing in a bag and get it through customs... (or does "by reason of ..." mean that the exclusive means of export allowed is launching ?) remo pini - ------< fate favors the prepared mind >------ Remo Pini rp(a)rpini.com PGP: http://www.rpini.com/crypto/crypto.html - ----< words are what reality is made of >---- - ---- End of forwarded message ---- - ------< fate favors the prepared mind >------ Remo Pini rp(a)rpini.com PGP: http://www.rpini.com/crypto/crypto.html - ----< words are what reality is made of >---- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv Comment: http://www.rpini.com/crypto/crypto.html iQEVAwUBMlNYihFhy5sz+bTpAQFnxwf/dvzBi/4wSb2IRUJfrpWGtIiHeq+BODKO p+4P1Lqqh5aPPyjI38I8M0d7/KBrpIHAveQ7UNo2W42WrDHgieFJV55c0H8Envj/ +FOJu9KLR9Z6bQ327jYjmKCTbfdveRiZQX++/4eSud+LMtkByCzLv8IsGPjvKeTw 6fBxH1Zq0EUJuOGNFUx8hCqe6IssYyrr99DLFisfxdAFBdo5lP0ujNzQ/ov4iqki qnFBugIViHikldzbq9e7KnASKP4RhkwAYpnJ85dlHCv8yJF3yjgItf6jSPG48/Xp PkNa4bfp3LhpCRD8AEus/RNxpds28mUIktDluWgHuqP9Gy0ZI9xmpw== =JOUm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Clipper spin [was Re:Flood Warning]
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:00 PM 10/3/96 -0800, Jim McCoy wrote: >[...] >> >> High-Tech Leaders Join Forces to Enable International >> Strong Encryption >> >> See: http://www.ibm.com/news/alliance2.htm > >The "International Strong Encryption" phrase is something that we >need to become active in stopping. Anything which responds to such >announcements should put a different spin on this phrase. If the >Clipper farce is accepted as "strong" encryption then the battle is >lost; maybe something like "it is _international_ strong encryption >because it is the strongest encryption people like Saddam Hussein [insert >bogeyman du jour] want Americans to have access to" Idea 1: It should be called "International Weakened Encryption." Idea 2: The "alliance" term above in the URL should be replaced with "Axis." Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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EzStego in Java!: Now Disappearing At A Site Near You
by romana＠glamazon.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

EzStego, my tool for "steganography made easy", now has its own web site at http://www.fqa.com/ezstego/ EzStego is currently alpha software. Use it at your own risk. It is a reimplementation in Java, with much improvement, of my notorious shareware product, Stego. EzStego is also shareware. I have made the source code available for peer review and verification. EzStego and EzSteggy are (C) Romana Machado 1996. All rights reserved. Romana Machado romana(a)fqa.com http://www.fqa.com/romana/ http://www.glamazon.com/

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Esther Dyson: Pro-crypto in Poland
by Joel McNamara 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm in Warsaw doing some consulting for a local ISP and got invited to an Internet conference last night targeted toward government ministry officials. Even though I speak no Polish, I decided to go because Esther Dyson was one of the keynotes. The three day conference is being held outside of Warsaw. The location has to be one of the most unique conference settings I've ever seen. How about in a classroom of what appeared to be the government police training barracks. Guarded gates, barking German shepherds in kennels, and armed, marching cops in camo fatigues. Interesting. Got to suggest it to the DefCon folks instead of Vegas. Anyway, not knowing what Esther was going to talk about, I started to smile when she launched into a very pro-crypto (as in anti-key escrow) presentation. Through a translator, she did a good job of covering most of the issues near and dear to Cypherpunks's hearts. She closed with urging the Polish officials to make their own decisions regarding privacy and crypto, and not be swayed by the actions of the US government. Someone in the audience asked what the average American thought of the ongoing crypto controversy. Esther answered correctly, that they're mostly clueless. Of course I had to stand up and mention the grassroots Cypherpunk efforts just to let folks know not everyone besides EFF is idly standing by (I think my host did a pretty good job of translating). Esther's comment was that Cypherpunks weren't average. You decide if that was a compliment or not. I don't know. Despite the bashing she got on the list about anonymity, I was impressed. Presenting the issues in a very logical and rational manner to government officials in "crypto-neutral" territory counts for something in my book. Anyway, based on all of the nonsense going on in the US, it's interesting to be in an environment where there are strong concerns about privacy and government abuses by the average citizen. I think Americans have taken for granted many things, that only living under a repressive regime would make them appreciate. Joel

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Cypherpunk forgery.
by scallon＠kiwi.pyrotechnics.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just got word from one of my buddies that someone has been forging my e-mail to cypherpunks talking about the pederast organization NAMBLA. The guys at Penn State where the forgery came from have started to investigate and will bring the perpetrators to a discip- linary hearing. Thank you for your co-operation. BTW: Below is my real .Sig -- Brendan John Francis Scallon When it comes to the net, I'm scallon(a)pyrotechnics.com similar to the thrilla in Manila DROP Squad - Pali-town http://www.pyrotechnics.com/~scallon GEORGE CLINTON for PREZ This country needs a BOOTSY COLLINS for VP Parliament, not a Congress

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