December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: WEB: Yahoo/Firefly Website recommendation service
by Alexander Chislenko 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:52 PM 12/11/96 -0800, Dale Thorn wrote: >Alexander Chislenko wrote: >> Firefly Network Inc. has just launched a public beta of our website >> recommendation service on My Yahoo! This service is the result of a >> partnership between Yahoo! Inc. and Firefly Network, Inc. in application >> of Automated Collaborative Filtering (ACF) technology to the Web. >> It allows users to find interesting websites interest and like-minded >> people, and otherwise help the user navigate the vast domain of sites >> and people in an intelligent and personalized way. > >I tried Firefly. What a waste. Unless your tastes in most things >entertainment-wise are pretty mundane (music=Pearl Jam, Prince, >other mainstream drek), they won't be able to find a match at all, >no matter how much information you give them! > You are talking about our first site, with music and movie recommendations. I personally rated not-at-all-mainstream movies by Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and got a similar advice. Though, I agree, the recommendations are not perfect. Partly, because the most of the audience are mainstream. Partly, because the site <www.ffly.com> runs the first version of our ACF software server. The website recommendation uses the feature-guided ACF server that I hoped would solve most of the algorithmic problems we encountered in the music and movie domains. I'd be interested to know what you think of it. Also: I created a group profile, name: cypherpunk, password: group that people on this list might use together as a common interest view, or a joint bookmark list. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Chislenko <sasha1(a)netcom.com> www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html Firefly Network, Inc.: <alexc(a)firefly.net> www.ffly.com 617-234-5452 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Incredibly Off-topic] Re: (Fwd) Books for Children's Hospitals
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:45 AM 12/12/96 -0500, pjb(a)ny.ubs.com wrote: >i know that this is WAY off topic, and that we never post off-topic mail here, >but, this seems worthwhile, so please excuse, (maybe flames for off-topic posts >will count ) [Mail bomb Hough Miflon spam deleted] Sorry. This was true one. Evidently it blew up their mail server. (As it should. Damn stupid idea.) Unfortunatly the Shergold Effect will keep it in propagation for centuries... --- | "Spam is the Devil's toothpaste!" - stuart(a)teleport.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com|

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Re: (Fwd) Books for Children's Hospitals
by camcc＠abraxis.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:45 AM 12/12/96 -0500, you wrote: :i know that this is WAY off topic, and that we never post off-topic mail here, :but, this seems worthwhile, so please excuse, (maybe flames for off-topic posts :> [snip] :>All that you have to do is email share(a)hmco.com. :> :>I hope that you can spare the seconds...and let your friends know. So far :>they only have 3,401 messages...last year they reached 23,000. :>[snip] Sounds like a great way to mailbomb someone. Discretion invited. Cordially, Alec PGP Fingerprint: Type bits/keyID Date User ID pub 1024/41207EE5 1996/04/08 Alec McCrackin <camcc(a)abraxis.com> Key fingerprint = 09 13 E1 CB B3 0C 88 D9 D7 D4 10 F0 06 7D DF 31

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Re: take me off the list
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bryondp(a)aol.com spewed forth as follows: > take me off the list Why did you not follow the instructions I have sent to you no less than 5 times? - they follow, for fucks sake do as they say this time. To unsubscribe from the cypherpunks mailing list: Send a message to majordomo(a)toad.com with the *MESSAGE BODY* reading exactly as follows: unsubscribe cypherpunks you(a)your.domain.com Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul(a)crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul(a)cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"

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Re: Redlining
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:20 PM 12/11/1996, Matthew J. Miszewski wrote: >>(Let me add that remailers are great. I would be reluctant to express >>these ideas in any other way for professional reasons.) > >hehehe. Actually, there's nothing funny about the suppression of free speech. What I fear is being dragged into a baseless "discrimination" lawsuit if I should ever hire somebody from a "protected class" and find that their employment needs to be terminated. Note that the "protected classes" constitute the overwhelming majority of the US population. >>(Those who don't believe me should get "Love Supreme" by John >>Coltrane and listen to it carefully about 20 times. There are >>layers and > >And what was it that Bird's contemporary society called him? Was it >crazy? This is one of the social ills potentially caused by >discrimination. Far more important to me than the politics of any >time is the music that a time period presents. But this visionary >jazz musician was all but discredited by the musical environment of >the times. Thankfully, it survived on its merits. But imagine if >the campaign to discredit Coltrane had been successful and my young >ears never experienced that beauty. That is part of the potential >harm I am talking about. Is this a joke? How can we pass a law telling people to like somebody's music? Respect cannot be legislated. It must be earned. Red Rackham

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Re: Draft of Commerce Department Crypto Regs
by Peter D. Junger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cindy Cohn writes: : Steptoe and Johnson have kindly posted the draft Commerce Department : regulations on encryption exports at http://www.steptoe.com/commerce.htm. Thanks. Since it took a long time to download them from Steptoe and Johnson's web site, I have taken the liberty of mirroring them at http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/comp_law/commerce.proposed.regs.html on my web server. -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH Internet: junger(a)pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger(a)samsara.law.cwru.edu URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu

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[OFF-TOPIC] RE: (Fwd) Books for Children's Hospitals
by James A. Tunnicliffe 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Paul writes: >i know that this is WAY off topic, and that we never post off-topic mail >here, >but, this seems worthwhile, so please excuse, (maybe flames for off-topic >posts >will count ) > >cheers, > -paul >>"The Houghton-Mifflin publishing co. is giving books to children's >>hospitals; how many books they give depends on how many emails they >>receive from people around the world. for every 25 emails they receive, >>they give one book--it seems like a great way to help a good cause. >> >>All that you have to do is email share(a)hmco.com. >> >>I hope that you can spare the seconds...and let your friends know. So far >>they only have 3,401 messages...last year they reached 23,000. >> >>This seems like an easy and simple thing to do -- please take the time!" My "urban legend detector" pegged when I saw this, but it turns out to be on the level. See http://www.hmco.com/hmco/trade/hmi/polar/ for more info. Tunny ====================================================================== James A. Tunnicliffe | WWWeb: http://www.inference.com/~tunny Inference Corporation | PGP Fingerprint: CA 23 E2 F3 AC 2D 0C 77 tunny(a)Inference.com | 36 07 D9 33 3D 32 53 9C ======================================================================

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R3 ANNOUNCES SSL HTTP SOLUTION PROVIDING (fwd)
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----- Forwarded message from Strate Andreas E. ----- >From list(a)glacier.mcom.com Thu Dec 12 11:42:56 1996 Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 08:33:29 -0800 (PST) From: "Strate Andreas E." <strate(a)r3.ch> To: "'ssl-talk'" <ssl-talk(a)netscape.com> Subject: R3 ANNOUNCES SSL HTTP SOLUTION PROVIDING Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 17:32:00 +0100 Message-Id: <96Dec12.173217gmt+0100.41475(a)gateway.r3.ch> Encoding: 56 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Resent-Message-ID: <"IBQbP2.0.UY.MF3io"@glacier> Resent-From: ssl-talk(a)netscape.com X-Mailing-List: <ssl-talk(a)netscape.com> archive/latest/3087 X-Loop: ssl-talk(a)netscape.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: ssl-talk-request(a)netscape.com [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] R3 ANNOUNCES SSL HTTP SOLUTION PROVIDING STRONG CRYPTOGRAPHY Aathal, Switzerland, December 12, 1996 - r3 security engineering ag announces "r3 SSL HTTP Client" which provides strong cryptography to any browser which supports HTTP proxies. The product available on Win95/NT and Win3.1 is in final Beta state and will be available on these platforms by the end of this year. A beta version of "r3 SSL HTTP Client" can be downloaded from http://www.r3.ch/products/ssl/ The "r3 SSL HTTP Client" has been selected by the major Swiss Banks to enable their homebanking applications with their customers. The solution provides strong cryptography based on the 128 bit IDEA algorithm. Export security and smaller key lengths were ruled out as inacceptable for sensitive Internet homebanking services. Strong cryptography with 128 bit IDEA algorithm is a must for their homebanking Internet services. The "r3 SSL HTTP Client" is part of a suite of SSL products developed by r3 security engineering which consists of _ r3 SSL HTTP Server _ r3 SSL HTTP Proxy Server _ r3 SSL HTTP Gateway _ r3 SSL FTP Server _ r3 SSL FTP Gateway The r3 SSL server products will be available during the first quarter 97. r3 security engineering ag - located in Aathal/Zurich, Switzerland - is one of the major providers for security solutions in the area of EDIFACT and Internet applications. r3's activities in international standardization committees and in research projects guarantee state of the art products and solutions. "r3 SSL HTTP Server" and "r3 SSL HTTP Client" are trademarks of r3. r3 SSL products use software modules developed by Eric Young (eay(a)mincom.oz.au) Eric Young's SSLeay is used but the SSL layer has been completely reengineered to provide full control over the SSL handshake. For further information please contact : ---------------------------------------------------- Andreas E. Strate r3 security engineering ag Internet: strate(a)r3.ch Hofstrasse 98 Phone: +41 1 934 56 56 CH-8620 Wetzikon Direct: +41 1 934 56 72 Switzerland Fax: +41 1 934 56 79 http://www.r3.ch/ ---------------------------------------------------- ----- End of forwarded message from Strate Andreas E. ----- -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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Windows 95 Easter Egg
by Travis Ogden 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thought you all may find this entertaining... Regards, Travis --- ~Webmaster~ ~Tejedormaestro~ Travis Ogden SpiritOne, Inc. traviso(a)SpiritOne.com 7302 N Richmond Ave Phone: 503.240.8200 Portland OR 97203 Portland's Quality Fax: 503.240.8205 Public-Access Provider Web: http://www.SpiritOne.com Personal: http://www.SpiritOne.com/~traviso ~All opinions expressed herein are mine and not my employers~ --- ============================================================================== 1.Point the mouse at the desktop and click the right mouse button. Choose "New" from the resulting pop-up menu, and then choose "Folder." 2.A new folder will appear on the desktop, with the temporary name "New Folder." Change the folder's name by typing "and now, the moment you've all been waiting for" (do not type the quotation marks), and pressing the Enter key. 3.Point at the folder and click the right mouse button to display its pop-up context menu. Choose the Rename command, and type "we proudly present for your viewing pleasure" (again, without the quotation marks). Press the Enter key. 4.Once again, right-click the folder and choose the Rename command. This time, type "The Microsoft Windows 95 Product Team!" (again, without the quotation marks). Press the Enter key. 5.Double-click on the folder to open it. ==============================================================================

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RE: !! Point 'n Crypt -- Win95 Privacy for Everyone !!
by Walt Armour 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The focus for the current PnC offering is more privacy than security. To avoid any issues of ITAR and export we chose to make the first version weak. There will be future offerings that use stronger, non-exportable crypto. As for the posting, I have seen the occasional commercial post float through. This will be the only time that the post will show up on Cypherpunks. Now if we can keep any long threads from getting kicked off (an all too common occurrence). Perhaps replies could be taken to e-mail... walt ---------- From: Gabe Kostolny[SMTP:gabe@ixlabs.com] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 1996 2:45 AM To: Walt Armour Cc: coderpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: !! Point 'n Crypt -- Win95 Privacy for Everyone !! > > Point 'n Crypt uses 40-bit DES-CBC (exportable), salted SHA passphrases, > and conforms to PKCS #5 and PKCS #7. > It seems to me that anything that's exportable is pretty damn useless, if you really want to keep something secret. Also... I kinda got the impression that this list wasn't for silly commercial traffic? -gabe

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