December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: "the world is half women..."
by Jazzmin Belle Sommers 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Dale Thorn and Tim May mutually blundered: >>Ya' know, guys, the world is half women, even though they're not on >>the c-punks list. Get in touch with them. They're fun people. >Ah, it's been a while since we had the "why aren't more women on the list?" >discussion. Frankly, women are of course welcome. If the list interests them, they are >welcome to subscribe. As it has always been. Oh, THANK YOU SO MUCH for discussing us in the third person. Guess what. There ARE women on the list (myself being one of them). (I thought that the men/women ratio was more like 46/54.) >That so few women are subscribers, or remain subscribers, or attend >Cypherpunks physical meetings....well, that's a larger issue involving >familiar issues: (chop -- those issues being libertarianism and other political nonsequiters.) (FYI: I'm a political science major and the secretary of the OU College Libertarians, neener neener.) >(I've explained crypto anarchy to many men and women over the past 6-8 >years. I've seen the guy's get agitated, or bothered, but usually >_interested_. I've seen eyes light up as they understand the likely >implications of untraceable payments, anonymous communications, avoidance >of Big Brother, etc. (CHOP CHOP) I think it's why we seem to have at most a couple of active women subscribers at any given moment.) This particular woman says that it's sooooo tiresome to wade through a lot of posturing and (even worse) the "me-toos" wherein people quote the entire post and then say, oh, yeah, I agree with that also. It's soooo easy to quit even reading the threads and just delete the whole thing. SUBTLE HINT MODE ON (Ah, so what do you propose, then, Miss Smartypants?) (AHEM! It's my brain that's smart, you lecher!) I'm on other lists and I've noticed that when they go to digest form much of the me-too-ness drops out. Is it that important to get 100 emails a day, if 80% of it is crap? Now, this part might sound more "womanish" -- it's nice to get an idea of the people posting, and have PRIVATE conversations. Most people don't care to see blanc and dale bash it out over fifteen posts. It's junk mail littering our in boxes! It's TASTELESS! ...furthermore, it's not cool. [Rabid soapboxing about what is and isn't cool omitted.] >So, Dale, feel free to recruit more women to this and other lists. But >don't presume from the traffic you see here--or from comments about the >utter stupidity of little Jessica Dubroff, her pilot, her parents, and the >complicitous news media--that we need a lecture on getting in touch with >women. Oh, yes you do. Consider yourself lectured. Stick to the topics, or stray on a RELATED subject. Jess Dubroff ISN'T. Complicitous news media IS. ENOUGH! No followup posts! Take my advice and smoke it! Er, wait. That doesn't sound right. And for those of you who are just WAITING to flame me, don't bother. I'm not a feminazi, not an "uppity woman", just a chick who'll {spontaneous hot-tempered threats deleted upon second thought}. Email privately if you care to respond. Jazz Sommers

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Certified primes
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timmy `C' May is a certified sexual pervert who wears women's underwear. \\\ (0 0) _ooO_(_)_Ooo____ Timmy `C' May

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Re: [NOT NOISE] Microsoft Crypto Service Provider API
by geeman＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Software that is imported becomes subject to ITAR with respect to re-exportation, of course (but of course IANALetc.) If you can't demonstrate to MSFT that you are playing by the rules --such that you have the proper export papers for your code if you plan to export it, for example-- they won't sign, even if developed outside US. So: you develop a CSP outside US ... you have to IMPORT it to get it signed. It becomes subject at that point to ITAR export regs. Unless you demonstrate that you fulfull those requirements, no signature. So there's no relief by looking at just exporting the signature. ? At 07:21 PM 12/22/96 -0800, you wrote: >At 07:36 AM 12/18/96 -0800, geeman(a)best.com wrote: >> >>Microsoft had to agree to validate crypto binaries against >>a signature to make sure they weren't tampered with, in >>exchange for shipping crypto-with-a-hole. They will >>sign anything (theoretically) if it has the export >>papers and all. Or without, if you affadavit it is not >>for export. >> >>They do not themselves impose any restrictions on crypto >>strength. >>I'm not expressing political position here, just conveying facts .... > >What if the software involved was IMPORTED? Moreover, is legal to export >just the signature? > >Jim Bell >jimbell(a)pacifier.com > >

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RE: The Ebonic Plague
by James Bugden 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

blancw(a)cnw.com wrote: >From: Timothy C. May > >Democracy has run amok in this country. There is no hope for reforming >at the ballot box, as democracy only makes things worse. Only a crypto >reign of terror can purge this land of the scum. >...................................................... > >Just how would this take shape in "real life" - what would constitute this >reign of terror; how do you envision such an event in action? > >And which are the scum who would be purged? > >Blanc Scum - you know - it's like crap - it's the stuff that floats to the top. Or is that the cream? Sucks Syntax! Anarchy Rules! Merry Christmas! James jbugden(a)alis.com "pride and selfishness, when combined with mental power, never want for a theory to justify them-and when men oppress their fellow-men, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression." Frederick Douglass, 1854

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Super Crypto
by Erase56＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Can someone help me on finding a program with super crypto. E-mail me back at Erase56(a)aol.com with the program attatched or e-mail me on where can I find it. On the internet of where ever. Thanks.

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Re: Slaughter
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:12 AM 12/22/96 -0800, Dale Thorn wrote: >Carl Johnson wrote: >> Dale Thorn wrote: > >> Thanks, I love the quote but can't find it or it's source. Perhaps I >> can put it all together in bits and pieces. > >As long as we're getting closer on that one, I thought I'd add my own >twist on another famous (but obnoxious) quote: > >The standard version: >God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; >The courage to change the things I can; >And the wisdom to know the difference. (quote not necessarily exact). > >My version: >God grant me the wisdom to know the difference between right and wrong; >The courage to support those who I feel are doing the right things, > and to oppose those who are doing the wrong things; >And the serenity to do so as peacefully as possible. Another, increasingly popular, variety of the AA "prayer" is: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; The courage to change the things I can; And the firepower that makes the difference. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred Make your mark in the history of mathematics. Use the spare cycles of your PC/PPC/UNIX box to help find a new prime. http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm

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Re: the word is "NIGGAZ"
by aga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: > >From cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Sun Dec 22 18:36:40 1996 > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Re: the word is "NIGGAZ" > Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Precedence: bulk > > > Actually the word is "niggus." "Niggaz" is the white man's nasal rendition > of this term. Nope, that is from the black man. In JET Magazine, they say "NIGGAZ," and they are the nationwide authority on the black subculture. If you do not read JET, you do not know anything about the blacks, unless you live next to them like we do in the city here. "Soul Brothers" hate "niggers," because a "nigger" is defined as somebody who: 1) lies, 2) cheats, 3) steals, 4) stinks, or 5) fucks with your woman. There are good blacks and bad niggers, good jews and bad kikes good dagos and bad wops good gay boys and bad faggots good ladies and bad cunts good and bad of all kind...

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Re: Blowfish Performance
by edgarswank＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- David Stoler recently commented: >I ftp'd the Blowfish implementation from ftp.ox.ac.uk and ran some >benchmarks. > >Encryption and decryption are faster than the fastest DES implementation >I've found, but the key expansion (subkey generation) is slow. > >On a 100 Mhz PowerPC I get the following results: > >Key expansion: >350 keys per second = 3.33 milliseconds per key > >Encryption/Decryption: >190,000 8 byte blocks per second = 5.26 microseconds per block > >This is 40% faster (encryption/decryption) than the best DES I have. > >Questions: >... >3. Is there a way to improve key expansion performance for applications >that change keys frequently? (Other than caching expanded keys...) Actually this (slow key expansion) is a feature. It limits the speed of a brute-force attack, since each new key to be tried must be expanded. What applications need to change keys more than once a second? I'd also be interested in comparisons of Blowfish to IDEA. Edgar W. Swank <EdgarSwank(a)Juno.com> (preferred) Edgar W. Swank <Edgar_W._Swank(a)ilanet.org> Edgar W. Swank <EdgarSwank(a)Freemark.com> Home Page: http://members.tripod.com/~EdgarS/index.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMr4fSt4nNf3ah8DHAQHycwP7BWTgyHVVZrtEhlMQKmSFFQGcMKqxaa5V y7D0OSVGTuddkwFDsVR7Qt3YGV0q3sMWbXFbicn2R/25rBbFNzA8d2rdgIxJVEzZ 0uKb1xdWkVR7GLIlQDciQW/zdQxdXjkiQ9sVbUJtPwYzUdZt6us3Izac1FZ4fKAX mvlqa4yWG58= =Tmc6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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HIH_and
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

12-21-96: "In Encryption Politics, Some Good News for Bankers" "Everyone knows that DES is not enough," said Perry Metzger. This dispute places the banking and financial services community squarely in opposition to government intelligence agencies with which it has historically worked hand in hand on security matters. "The Feds won't realize export controls don't work even after the dried, strangled corpse of the U.S. security software industry is laid before the Congress," Mr. Metzger said. "They will leave the manacles on the corpse long after it is obvious that the body isn't going anywhere." "Central Banks' Task Force Sees No Need for Alarm" While the security architectures of most electronic money systems share many design features, a wide range of options is available to product developers in terms of specific chip-card security measures, cryptographic algorithms, key lengths, and transaction monitoring. "SPA Voices Concerns Over Clinton Encryption Policy" In a letter last week to Vice President Al Gore, SPA raised several concerns that the software industry has with the administration's interim rules on encryption policy. "NSA/ On The Costs of Anonymity" "How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash" has been making the rounds of the electronic money community. It raises security and law enforcement concerns about anonymous systems designed like Digicash Inc.'s Ecash. ----- HIH_and (25 kb)

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MERRY CHRISTMAS
by BJORN2LUZE＠prodigy.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

cypherpunks(a)toad.com I am getting into the HOLIDAY SPIRIT with MY WEB PAGE: http://pages. prodigy.com/VT/hackersguide Enjoy! Fifthnail

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