December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

No Subject
by Bovine Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The arrival of warm weather is heralded by the pig shit (or whatever kind of shit Intel swines have for brains) getting soft in Timothy C[rook] May's mini-cranium and the resulting green slime seeping through key cocaine- and syphilis- damaged nose and onto his keyboard.

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UNSUBCRIBE CENSORSHIP
by Pos Indonesia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

UNSUBCRIBE CENSORSHIP

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SEC_ure
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

11-04-96. "Web security threat grows" With a variety of new technologies like stronger encryption, smart cards and digital signatures and envelopes emerging to tighten Web security, experts working on various aspects of the problem agree the goal of end-to-end security on the Web will remain elusive as long as insecure operating systems dominate the commercial market. "You can't build security on top of insecurity," said Netscape's Jim Roskind, who spent much of a session on Webware fending off criticism of Java security flaws. "We have to assume that the [security] problems will be pervasive forever," warned Peter Neumann. "This is a holistic problem, and we have to deal with it in a global way." "Protection sought for U.S. systems" The initiative will be led by the Pentagon's Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University and the Energy Department's Computer Incident Advisory Capability. "Motorola unveils chip for contactless smart card" One chip designing a contactless card that meets all frequencies of a proposed standard while the other adds cryptography to a single-chip solution. The other card incorporates a 1,024-bit modular encryption processor that is reportedly one of the fastest in the industry. "U.S.Joint Venture to Market Acoustic Smart Card Technology" NeTegrity also announced it has invested $1 million in Encotone, Ltd., for a 10% equity interest in the Israeli company. Other Encotone, Ltd. investors include ECI Telecom, a $500 million Israeli telecommunications firm, and Professor Michal Ben Or, Head of the Department of Computer Science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a worldwide authority on cryptology. "Microchip Technology launches highly secure smart card family with KEELOQ code hopping technology" The SCS152 provides a programmable 64-bit cryptographic key used to create a digital signature unique to each card, which reduces the possibility of unwanted access to card information and the "cloning" of these cards for unauthorized payments. Other features include programmable user memory and "anti-tearing," which prevents the information in the card from being corrupted if the supply voltage is interrupted. "EEMA Lobbies Over Limiting US Encryption Controls" EEMA recognizes that the principal reasons for this is the disparate European legislation that surrounds the use of encryption, and the fact that inter-working with dominant US-based computer software -- operating system and application software -- is subject to US legislation and restrictions. "Putting EDI to the test" Security continues to be the main sticking point for using the Net as a vehicle for EDI. Vendors that will demonstrate secure E-mail messages transporting EDI documents over the Web. The technology used is S/MIME, an encrypted version of the popular MIME protocol. "V-One Secures New Clients" NSA runs the nation's code-breaking operations, and DISA is supposed to keep the nation's networks secure, so there is not much chance of finding out what they do with the software they have bought from V-One. ----- http://jya.com/secure.txt (28 kb) SEC_ure

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Mixmaster Test
by The Black Knight 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry for the spam, folks ... just looking for a mixmaster that puts the Subject: line into cypherpunk messages. Name-Withheld-By-Request Editor in Chief, Cypherpunk Enquirer

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Re: Censorship on cypherpunks
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:51 AM 11/6/96 -0800, Dale Thorn wrote: >As I've said before, all forums on the net can be arranged at some point in the future >to be "privately" owned, and the question is, can there be a free speech forum where >you won't be arbitrarily banned? > We call it Usenet.

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RE: Protecting Your Data With Crypto
by John Fricker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Windows 95 and Windows NT users: after a couple sleepless nights I have created a mini-front end for ciphering files with Blowfish. This is an alpha version so I'm looking for bugs, feedbacks and feature creep. Read all about it at http://www.program.com/FileCipher/ and let me know what you think! thanks etc, and happy encipheration! --j >John Young (jya(a)pipeline.com) said something about Protecting Your Data With Crypto on or about 11/5/96 1:45 AM >We have put the November UNIX Review article Peter cited >in his letter to the editor, "Protecting Your Data With Cryptography," >at: > > http://jya.com/protect.htm > > --j ----------------------------------- | John Fricker (jfricker(a)vertexgroup.com) | -random notes- | My PGP public key is available by sending mail with subject "send pgp key". | www.Program.com is a good programmer web site. -----------------------------------

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CLA_sh0
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vigorous Cypherpunk debate on its purpose and future may be a harbinger of global conflict. A book review today on global conflict and six related essays in November Foreign Affairs may provide illumination -- both for Cypherpunk's crypto-mission and for its intramural clashes. (See Lewis Koch's inquest of global CP disputes.) 11-6-96. NYP: "A Scholar's Prophecy: Global Cultural Conflict." Book review. With the end of the cold war, the division of the world into ideological camps and political networks has yielded to the basic human propensity to find meaning and identity in cultural commonality -- in blood, religion, heritage and birthright. After four centuries of Western domination, global politics will now become a complicated and deadly earnest contest among the world's major civilizations, mainly the Western one, the Islamic one, and the Sinic one deriving from China. Unless the West recognizes the power of cultural conflict, it could perish from ignorance, overconfidence and complacency. ----- http://jya.com/clash0.txt CLA_sh0 ---------- The Foreign Affairs essays: http://jya.com/clashidx.htm (The URL is the index of the six; Huntington's is ready; others follow.) Abstracts: The West: Unique, Not Universal, Samuel P. Huntington Many in the West believe the world is moving toward a single, global culture that is basically Western. This belief is arrogant, false, and dangerous. The spread of Western consumer goods is not the spread of Western culture. Drinking CocaCola makes a Russian no more Western than eating sushi makes an American Japanese. The essence of the West is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. As countries modernize, they may westernize in superficial ways, but not in the most important measures of culture language, religion, values. In fact, as countries modernize they seek refuge from the modern world in their traditional, parochial cultures and religions. Around the globe, education and democracy are leading to "indigenization." And as the power of the West ebbs, "the rest" will become more and more assertive. For the West to survive as a vibrant and powerful civilization, it must abandon the pretense of universality and close ranks. Its future depends on its unity. The peoples of the West must hang together, or they will hang separately. Democracy and the National Interest, Strobe Talbott Democracy makes good neighbors, and in an increasingly interconnected world the United States has both the means and the motive to promote the democratic process abroad. On the home front, Americans crave a foreign policy grounded, like their nation, in idealpolitik as well as realpolitik. The administration has made support of nascent democracies a priority of its diplomacy from Latin America to East Asia, and the returns from South Africa, Haiti, Russia, even Bosnia seem positive. But democratization is a long, hard journey in which elections are only the first step. The United States should encourage new democratic governments through their most fragile phase. Defense in an Age of Hope, William J. Perry Twice before, America had the opportunity to make the prevention of conflict its first line of defense. It must not lose this moment after the Cold War to foment a revolution in security strategy. Preventing proliferation is key, and U.S. programs help turn Soviet missile sites into sunflower fields. The American armed services the world's most emulated, show other militaries how to function in a civil society and conduct exchanges that head off misunderstandings. In Europe, George Marshall's fondest hopes are being realized through the Partnership for Peace which reverberates well beyond the security realm. Meanwhile, the United States leverages forces for maximum deterrence and invests in smart technology. But its best investment is in openness and trust, the essential tools of the art of peace. Germany's New Right, Jacob Heilbrunn Not skinheads in jackboots but journalists, novelists, professors, and young businessmen constitute the German new right. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, they have sought the "normalization" of German history, a revival of nationalism, and recognition that Germany is the most powerful country in Europe. When confronted with the Nazi past, they talk about Stalin's crimes and complain of an oppressive "political correctness." Violence against immigrants is answered with complaints of attacks against Germans. Though not a political movement, the new right is extending the boundaries of the politically acceptable. Banning Ballistic Missiles, Alton Frye Heady years for arms control make a superpower complacent. The structure of restraint accepted by Washington and Moscow could crack; meanwhile, proliferation continues apace and nuclear materials trickle onto the world market. The Clinton team has followed through on the work of past negotiators, but it is high time for a third START. The United States should propose the dramatic steps of placing nuclear warheads in "strategic escrow" and banning ballistic missiles. Advanced monitoring and inspection technologies make the plan practicable, and there will be security payoffs for all. Is the World Ready for Free Trade?, Charles R. Carlisle Though a leap to global free trade is a nice idea, the political support is just not there. Nor is any such earthshaking step necessary. The World Trade Organization has an extensive built-in agenda that should not be derailed. Fears of regionalism are greatly exaggerated, since regional trade has not increased much since the early 1970S and current plans for free trade in the Americas and the Pacific are unlikely to succeed. Few countries share the free-trade faith of the United States and Great Britain, and even in those places, economic anxiety threatens to push trade in the other direction. -----

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FW: Now we have it all
by Butler, Scott 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Abaddon wrote: >>susbscribe Surely we have seen it all now. I find it hard to believe that a word like suscribe....subsribe....subcribes.. SUBSCRIBE..is so difficult to spell correctly. :-) ScOtT

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Parents effectively lose their right
by kb4vwa＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Family Research Council Washington Watch News - October 25, 1996 - Vol. 8:1 "Parents effectively lose their right to direct the upbringing of their children when they drop them off at school, according to one federal court judge. Earlier this year, Judge Melinda Harmon, appointed by President Bush, ruled that Katy Independent School District in TX did not violate parents' rights by allowing Child Protective Services to interrogate a student without notifying his parents, nor by instructing him to lie to his parents about the incident."

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Censorship in Western Australia
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Headline: >> AUSTRALIA - CENSORS STRIKE AT INTERNET, LANS - Western Australia's State Government says it will seek to censor all computer transmissions of offensive material after its censorship act came into force last Friday. [Newsbytes, 67 words] Probably not as competent as Singapore at enforcement, but what do people know about it? # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk # Nov. 5 is Guy Fawkes Day - Vote Early and Often, and create Fireworks!

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