December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

[NEWS]
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

American Banker, 9/17/96 CHASE TO OFFER DEALERSHIPS AUTO LOAN DECISIONS OVER INTERNET Chase Manhattan Corp.'s auto financing division has begun using the Internet to provide dealerships with loan-approval decisions. The bank is the first of eight financial institutions that have committed to using the system, developed by IBM Corp. By computerizing loan applications and sending data electronically, Chase officials said the bank can grant approvals in as few as two minutes. Up to 50% of the division's auto loans will be running through the system within the next 18 months. Chase, the largest car lender not affiliated with a car company, is connected to six dealerships currently using the system and will establish connections to 100 dealers with the official introduction in October. Other financial institutions planning to use the on-line system include NationsBank Corp., G.E. Capital Auto Financial Services Inc., Regions Financial Corp., and Citibank Puerto Rico. The dealer's computer is connected to the Internet through the IBM Globa l Network, which is also used to retrieve an encrypted report from a credit bureau. The dealer's pre-established "key" decodes the report and causes the screen to display one, two, or three stars -- representing poor, fair, or good credit. This gives the dealer an idea of which financial institutions are most likely to approve the loan. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: 56 kbps modems
by declan＠well.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From "Technical Aspects of Data Communications" by John E. McNamara: BAUD: A unit of signaling speed equal to the number of discrete conditions or signal events per second. In asynchronous transmission, the unit of signaling speed corresponding to one unit interval per second; that is, if the duration of the unit interval is 20 milliseconds, the signaling speed is 50 baud. Baud is the same as "bits per second" only if each signal event represents exactly one bit. A baud is the reciprocal of the unit interval. In other words, McNamara says (p148), in common 2400 bps modems, the "baud rate" is 1200 baud. -Declan Chris writes: >On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:16:08 +0200, Gary Howland wrote: > >>craigw(a)dg.ce.com.au wrote: >>> well here in Australia Telstra our national carrier only "garantees" >>> 2400 baud to work. >>As I am sure has been discussed at length before, baud does not equal >>bps. AFAIK, V32bis is only 2400baud. >This is correct. The difference is in the number of values for each of the >2400 signals sent per second. > ># Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | >http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp ># cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 >"I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to play games on >a computer in any case when the whole system is a game. Word processing, >spreadsheets, telecoms -- it's all a game. And they pay you to play it." > -- Duncan Frissell

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Interesting article in Upside ...
by Ernest Hua 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Article on the political side of crypto with respect to this year's election: http://www.upside.com/print/oct96/election.html Ern

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Re: Fuckhead
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From varange(a)crl.com Wed Sep 18 10:09:35 1996 Received: by bwalk.dm.com (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Wed, 18 Sep 96 11:07:01 EDT for dlv Received: from mail.crl.com by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via SMTP; id AA17484 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com; Wed, 18 Sep 96 10:09:35 -0400 Received: from crl11.crl.com by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA03230 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for <dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com>); Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:10:02 -0700 Received: by crl11.crl.com id AA21359 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com) Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:08:08 -0700 From: Troy Varange <varange(a)crl.com> Message-Id: <199609181408.AA21359(a)crl11.crl.com> Subject: Fuckhead To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:08:08 -0700 (PDT) Priority: Fuckhead Precedence: Fuckhead Reply-To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com In-Reply-To: <Fuckhead> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 10 Fuckhead.

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Re: Spam blacklist project
by craigw＠dg.ce.com.au 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What...only half ;) > Half the population doesn't care who their masters are, as long as they > have masters that tell them what to do. > > --Lucky > ,'~``. \|/ ,'``~. (-o=o-) (@ @) ,(-o=o-), +--.oooO--(_)--Ooo-----oOO-(_)-OOo-------oooO--(_)--Oooo.------+ | | | Soon, we may all be staring at our computers, wondering | | whether they're staring back. | | | | [Network Admin For WPA Business Products. aka doshai >;-) ] | | .oooO http://pip.com.au/~doshai/ Oooo. | | ( ) Oooo. .oooO ( ) | +-----\ (----( )-------oooO-Oooo--------( )--- ) /---------+ \_) ) / \ ( (_/ (_/ \_) Key fingerprint = 2D F4 54 BB B4 EA F1 E7 B6 DE 48 92 FC 8D FF 49 Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key. (if I want to give it to you)

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Re: Fuckhead
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From xreznorx(a)ix.netcom.com Wed Sep 18 21:32:01 1996 Received: by bwalk.dm.com (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Wed, 18 Sep 96 22:11:56 EDT for dlv Received: from dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via SMTP; id AA27000 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com; Wed, 18 Sep 96 21:32:01 -0400 Received: from (xreznorx(a)dby-ct1-15.ix.netcom.com [205.186.164.47]) by dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA12134 for <dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com>; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:31:52 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:31:52 -0700 Message-Id: <199609190131.SAA12134(a)dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com> From: xreznorx(a)ix.netcom.com (The ReznoR) Subject: Re: Fuckhead To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) uh, who the fuck r u? You wrote: > >>From varange(a)crl.com Wed Sep 18 10:09:35 1996 >Received: by bwalk.dm.com (1.65/waf) > via UUCP; Wed, 18 Sep 96 11:07:01 EDT > for dlv >Received: from mail.crl.com by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via SMTP; > id AA17484 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com; Wed, 18 Sep 96 10:09:35 -0400 >Received: from crl11.crl.com by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA03230 > (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for <dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com>); Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:10:02 -0700 >Received: by crl11.crl.com id AA21359 > (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com) Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:08:08 -0700 >From: Troy Varange <varange(a)crl.com> >Message-Id: <199609181408.AA21359(a)crl11.crl.com> >Subject: Fuckhead >To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) >Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:08:08 -0700 (PDT) >Priority: Fuckhead >Precedence: Fuckhead >Reply-To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com >In-Reply-To: <Fuckhead> >X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Length: 10 > >Fuckhead. >

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The daily warning about Timothy May, the ignorant buffoon
by /dev/null＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy May is widely recognized on the net, because of his frequent vitriolic postings, as someone/thing ready to cut off his own penis to spite the testicles, although his few real-world friends recognize him better from the rear.

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OTP seed solution? - strong, tried before???
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A very simple idea came to me today that I`m sure has been done before and I wanted to find out if it has any problems I haven`t seen: A strong random generator (ie. a BBS) is seeded with a true random seed (derived possibly from keyboard latency) and used each time a message is send to create a message length randon string. This string is XOR`d or added to the message creating a OTP. The recipient has previously been sent a seed value for the generator encrypted under say RSA and signed to prevent a man in the middle attack. Each set of recipient<->sender pairs has a seed unique to them. This seems good to me but the key distribution mess (ie. hundreds of keys about) is the big problem, has anyone done any research into possible solutions to this??? 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: 2.6.3ia mQCNAjH9j+cAAAEEAMBvREiQR0ot9dFCO0TiSCSunAYLv2g1Bc6I3bz8FzKXNH53 6mieJf/W4rD+CxJpT0q9RQaaoRtkHJLwbjfK2il3D7mEahMAyqvF/xRJNqkXfhM3 sRJM0Jh43l+W0M5vwokbEbk25/bxWWGspTsLD3YHbzKnG6pOcL5OPIRbv66xAAUR tCdQYXVsIEJyYWRsZXkgPHBhdWxAZmF0bWFucy5kZW1vbi5jby51az6JAJUDBRAy NwfvNkCBjDT0xHEBATQPA/9TORmN/UjNecj03q4anpvdyCLiez5sKuNbnYK50RiP Jj4QpWWvST3smyQ0A86DrZY/re056MXwQmARESx0rFZxdnD0oORICl5r8dJLIy3b j8rbA5olXwZwKz73/X5s13v/pvHYX4cIsbVK8NHXqh5llSKt6TBAuGgkIGF29z5k C4kAlQMFEDI3B9mdtf/umVkv7QEBcRYD/1FBteLqsUmr81euxqqnnrpLlyHb58B/ 9sdATuua4uSjX46hXDZ264YozspNrzSB4NEdrmXOWVX3fiE0ga6XkSSkIeF23V90 En37Z0BdbFzgF00FRYTFyTq8eezQrdg/+rBPUsZUmG5wpq3e12FKHQsX01i+1mB2 YmqqwCV5e95eiQCVAgUQMh8uSb5OPIRbv66xAQEqJwP/fxQyiCasjFcbDpsFfsYp put5cCC/9pOx6X3DlbKShPMpUOS+A9HsTEmJQN8Iawv1nSwPdtc2cR/GhW6ilVjW LSloGdMVLabm9pGpZZMkRaZlXFUkOv7VhfgsUiL+vIDryBCAwUZCzQiWycjt/cPi mUqFH41Z7NkyO8ZFdi5GGX0= =CMZA -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: XPA_nix
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:22:10 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >> > Cheswick opines,"This is the first major attack of a kind that I believe to >> > be the final Internet security problem." >> Harrumph. We should only BE so lucky. >I don't remember if Ches was quoted correctly, but its more or less >true -- we know how to deal with most classes of major problems, but >denial of service is still a major question mark. I suspect its the >last big frontier. Hopefully it will die out if things ever switch over to a digicash payment scheme. Then only the big guys would mess with it... # Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 "I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to play games on a computer in any case when the whole system is a game. Word processing, spreadsheets, telecoms -- it's all a game. And they pay you to play it." -- Duncan Frissell

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Re: Bernstein hearing reminder: [..]
by barrk＠alias.cyberpass.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Part 1 The Batman part On Sep 19, 9:24am, Batman wrote: > Subject: RE: Bernstein hearing reminder: THIS Friday 11:45AM, SF Federal B >For the 200th time, unsubscrive me of your fucked mail lists. > >-- End of excerpt from Batman Part 2 James wrote: >Apologies if you receive more than one copy of this message, but >I'm auto-replying to your message to handle the flood: I had only one copy, James, but it was good. >Redistribution to the list from which you originally received >the problem message is kindly requested. Which list was that, James? >Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. The email >or posting you have seen falsely represents Smith Barney and its >employees. These are erroneous postings that did not originate >from anyone employed by our firm, and therefore we cannot >directly stop them from occurring. However we have advised the >companies we believe to have serviced the originator of these >messages and we are pursuing all possible steps to end this >fraud. Unfortunately some people abuse the Internet and we >regret any inconvenience they may have caused you. Thats good, James. As the FBI man said: I smelled a rat and I nipped it in the bud. >There are currently no mailing lists maintained in the smb.com >domain, so you were not subscribed to any list. If you receive >any further messages of this nature, they are the product of the >same spurious source. Thats the word. Spuvious. >We're sorry for any inconvenience you may have experienced as a >result of this unfortunate abuse of the 'Net. No inconvenience, James. No inconvenience, at all. >Further queries via email to postmaster(a)smb.com please. Direct your replies to: cypherpunks-announce(a)toad.com This list is a must for all people in the Arctic, the plains of Mongolia and the North West territories, who want to be kept "ajour" of the dressinghabits of the natives in California. Barry

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