December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

CAVE Dig Out
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just re-read John Perry Barlow's 1992 article, "Decrypting the Puzzle Palace," and was knocked over by his attack on TIA's TR45.3 committee and the CAVE algorithm. If you've not seen it lately (and Whit Diffie's comments on CAVE), I've put it at: http://jya.com/puzzle.htm Inspired by this and John Gilmore's similar attack on TIA and the TR45.3 gang in a message to me, I've put notices on my Web site that I will provide the CAVE algorithm to anyone who asks (and the TR45.3 document): http://jya.com/cave.htm Analysis of it will determine whether CAVE is as deliberately NSA-crippled as Gilmore, Barlow and Diffie claim, and that the TIA and the TR45.3 "wannabe spooks" committee cravenly caved (but, hey, it's never too late to dig out). Thanks to those who upbraded me for caving too. Digging now.

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Test Only/6:37 AM
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: ssn hack
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:10 PM 12/28/96 -0600, Jazzmin Belle Sommers wrote: >heh. > >This was so simple, it still confounds me. > >I was asked for my social security number whilst writing a check last night >(my driver license doesn't have it on there). I just said, "oh, I don't >have one, I'm not a citizen." > >She bought it! I got asked where I belonged to, so I said Germany (not >actually a lie, it's my heritage). Next time I think I'll say Belgium. Those with straight American accents might like to claim to be Canadians. DCF

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WinSock temporarily going down
by Jim Ray 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: remailer-operators(a)c2.net, cypherpunks(a)toad.com, jgrasty(a)gate.net Date: Sun Dec 29 11:10:08 1996 Due to a glitch that could potentially open the way to serious abuse of the remailer, the WinSock remailer is temporarily ceasing operation. We will return to seminormal operation when Joey returns to town, probably in a day or two. My apologies if this inconveniences anyone. JMR WinSock admins Regards, Jim Ray <jmr(a)shopmiami.com> DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy "In local news, the city of Miami discovered that it was $68 million short and was forced to seriously consider cutting back such municipal operations as the City Hall Drive-Thru Bribe Window." -- Dave Barry, 12/29/96 PGP id.A7D63DA9 98 1F 39 BA 93 86 B4 F5 57 52 64 0E DA BA 2C 71 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEPAwUBMsaX5jUhsGSn1j2pAQHAcQfQxWeTzFsNBnzK3582Tz4Yopq4zzsTL4E2 BIYs0ipNDE9lXxx3ITpHswHJh6W5ueMFrUshGmu7dvkA/NVyib3RxMGZTQi6v3Wt qBb+89Q6pUJOi9PRC9cuBdHJ+jIP962klkGZ5ir19VWzQ2+R6tel7oMq0zlIJap1 U6bw0xQbxf9hg3RayFvISw0u0xWsHbj0d1oDhE7flihR/8CKAqgmRwtn/1h24EJY Tpxou04PWVgvDkuciIlYbEgyHtRA/qQj6BSTpa/uL8BfYYvhQ60ZZYDpStnN0FRo 6v92BW7ESvhDg9A3re6KHraMPWFkM8Yt2EO4NLw8ShE2Hg== =diu+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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www.af.mil
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Has been, um, revised. You can learn all about gov't corruption here. Learn the secrets that they don't know want you to know. Well not really, I don't have time for that. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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Re: John Gilmore, 58, dead of AIDS
by aga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Anonymous wrote: > John Gilmore died of AIDS today in his San Francisco bathhouse, Toad Hall. > He was 58. > Is this true, or just some bullshit?

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anon.penet.fi...
by jlucas4＠capital.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Can anyone tell me the story of the demise of penet.fi? I came on the scene right after it shutdown and never got to use the service, or see the site. oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo o )\ _. - ._.) = Jesse Lucas - jlucas4(a)capital.edu o 1 /. `- ' ( `--' : http://www.geocites.com/collegepark/7332 1 1 `- , ) - > ) \ : "I cut off their heads and, like heaps of grain,1 o (.' \) (.' -. = I piled them up." - Assyrian Ruler o oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo

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Re: Internal Passports
by drose＠AZStarNet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >At 6:09 PM -0700 12/29/96, drose(a)AZStarNet.com wrote: > >>"After Austria and Germany, Switzerland is my favourite country. I have >>spent the past 40 winters and 10 summers there. I love the place because >>it's clean, beautiful, very conservative and its people mind their own >>business." >> Taki, in today's _Sunday Times_(London). > >Yes, the same Germany that is restricting Internet access, that proposed to >jail Compuserve executives for allowing banned material on the Net, and >that has laws making various opinions illegal (specifically, the opinion >that the Holocaust never happened as the official version declares, or that >Aryans are superior to non-Aryans, etc.). > >I enjoy all three countries, as a tourist, but I strongly doubt the "its >people mind their own business" characterization, even for Switzerland >alone (and certainly not for Germany). Woops. Guess that I should elided the "After Austria and Germany" clause. Ob C-punks issues, I recall that Remo Pini, one of the Swiss on the list, was preparing a CD-ROM crypto compilation disc. He hasn't posted in some time, so perhaps the authorities have decided that such a project was in fact "their business." Seriously, I hope that Remo is able to give some information on the state of the current Swiss crypto regs.

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Re: Crypto Rules
by silly＠ugcs.caltech.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> writes: >Federal Register: December 30, 1996: >Page 68572-68587 >Bureau of Export Administration > >Encryption Items Transferred From the U.S. Munitions List >to the Commerce Control List >... >Note to paragraphs (b)(2) and (b)(3) of this section: A printed >book or other printed material setting forth encryption source code >is not itself subject to the EAR (see Sec. 734.3(b)(2)). However, >notwithstanding Sec. 734.3(b)(2), encryption source code in >electronic form or media (e.g., computer diskette or CD ROM) remains >subject to the EAR (see Sec. 734.3(b)(3)). >... It's curious that they're still making this distinction. I've got to wonder, if push came to shove, how they'd differentiate between, say, a book and a TeX document of the same book, on a CD. Unfortunately, the person testing this may go to prison for a long time. I saw no mention of prison time or fines for breaking these provisions -- I can only assume that the teeth are buried in other Commerce regulations. Does anyone know offhand what penalties are involved? Also, the choice of the Commerce Department to play gatekeeper is an interesting one, tactically. Is the addition of a few "or import" clauses likely? "One small step..." as they say. (me)

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by multi＠manybiz.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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