December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Please post Eudora PGP plugin URL
by camcc＠abraxis.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:57 PM 12/6/96 -0800, you wrote: :Or Email it to me : : :Thanks in advance : You're welcome ----------------------------------------------------- Eudora/PGP Plug-In Download version 0.20 from the Web: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt6525c/eppi/epp16_02.zip (for 16-bit version of Eudora 3.0 for Windows 3.1) http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt6525c/eppi/epp32_02.zip (for 32-bit version of Eudora 3.0 for Windows NT/95) If you don't have Web access, but have FTP access, try the following sites. Note that if the version you are trying to get was released today or just a few days ago, it may not have shown up at the sites below yet, so give it a few days: papa.indstate.edu: /pub/winsock-l/mail/epp16_02.zip /pub/winsock-l/Windows95/mail/epp32_02.zip /pub/winsock-l/WindowsNT/mail/epp32_02.zip ftp.winsite.com: /pub/pc/win3/winsock/epp16_02.zip /pub/pc/win95/winsock/epp32_02.zip If you want to be automatically notified of new versions, send e-mail to gt6525c(a)prism.gatech.edu with the subject of "eppi news", and the following message body: join stop You will not be able to post to this list. It is merely a convenient way to receive notification of new updates to EPPI. Send comments to: gt6525c(a)prism.gatech.edu What is EPPI? EPPI is the acronym for Eudora/PGP Plug-In. It is a "Plug-In" module for Eudora for Windows. Eudora Plug-Ins are simply programs that utilize the new Extended Messaging Services API (EMSAPI) that were introduced with Eudora 3.0. EPPI makes it easier to use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) with e-mail via Eudora. Note that EPPI does not contain any encryption/decryption routines, so it should not violate anybody's export/import restrictions. It simply calls the PGP executable with the appropriate command-line options in order to perform the requested functions. It's also 100% free! Get a copy, give it to your friends, spread it around...

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Re: Laptops and TEMPEST
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Sorry, I don't have the attribution for the fist quote. The remainder of the post was authored by a friend of mine who retired from decades in military SIGINT. He allowed me to forward it to the list.] >>> don't emit enough radiation for Bad Guys to read it. CRTs are well known >>> as emitters of easily decoded signal, but people have occasionally >suggested >>> on this list that laptop LCD screens are much quieter. I now have a data >>> point on this one, and basically, it ain't so. Look - if it uses electricity; if there is an oscillator anywhere innit; if there is a ground loop in the circuit design, if there are make/break contacts anywhere - It will radiate, and the amount it radiates is directly proportional to the basic power source ... And circuit board traces are getting so damned close that engineers I know/knew were worried about friggin' arc-over at 3 volts. By now, may be even closer and voltage worries lower... So we have a problem. The only computer I know of that is (at this date) leak-proof is the biological one 'twixt one's ears. And soon, maybe not even that. Those who laugh at the paranoiacs who wear aluminum helmets and wear shoes with a static strap to the sidewalk may be laughing out the other side of their moufs too soon... As for any government directives requiring companies to make computers leak, I know of none, but CAVEAT: I've been retired from source info since '91, and most of my friends/fellow engrs who occasionally got together for a few brewskis and BS sessions over in Mt. View have either gone to better jobs (more $$$), transferred back east, or inconsiderately died. So, who knows? And of course, the ability to detect this RF/RFI/EMI leakage from your information processor is similarly dependent on the sensitivity of the equipment you're using for detection. I've seen absolute magic performed using a Wullenweber antenna, and that is NOT state-of-the-art equipment any more (ca. 1965-70), even tho the DoD keeps throwing money at it in upgrades (affectionately called 'the elephant's cage' by those who worked with it). If you really need to keep your information processing "private", then you can either isolate yourself inside a double-shielded room of solid copper; power everything with batteries; have no wires leading out of that room; make damned sure the door has the nice secure wiping strips to complete the shield when you close it -- or move your information processor into the middle of a whole bunch of the same or worse RF/RFI/EMI emitters, and just _maybe_ your data will get lost or become inaccessible because of the overload of the detection equipment by much larger interference fields. Or use paper, pencil, and one-time pads and burn everything that's done "in the clear" and really scrunch the ashes into dust. [Again, I am not the author of the above post.] -- 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://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/justforfun/prime.htm

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[Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]
by Rosario Family 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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wealth and property rights
by varange＠crl.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If the free market is a good thing, that it's a democratic way of getting the best to the top of the economic ladder, then I see no reason why this should not also apply to politics. The people have every right to use democracy to establish a non-democratic system re: abolishment of the wealthy as a class and sentencing the entire Forbes 400 and their underlings to 25 years at forced labor, say 16 hour days at picking vegetables under the pain of the knouted whip. No Libertarian could oppose the use of the political free market of democracy for undemocratic ends; that would violate the spirit of liberty! -- Cheers!

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Re: cypher-PUNKS...
by David E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Sun Dec 08 12:22:55 1996 > Timmy posted a series of message via anonymous remailers > praising himself and calling himself "a genius among geniuses" or some > such. That charge is every bit as foundless as the charges that you are responsible for the "A Daily Warning Regarding Tim May" posts of a while back, or the current round of remailed messages featuring the sickeningly cutesy ASCII graphics at the bottom. OTOH, if you've discovered a way to gain access to the remailers in such a fashion as to prove those messages originated from Tim May, please share. (It just might be crypto-relevant, which would be a small miracle on the cypherpunks list these days :) > What a moron. I'm not even touching that sentence. It's just too tempting. - ----- David Smith, Thinker of Deep Thoughts :) http://www.prairienet.org/bureau42/library.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMqsHlnEZTZHwCEpFAQF7iwf9Ers31ZMzVyKglW2DON71s/x9w9iqPlzV ISWZLyJPNjzUkrhg67XGAuumaJB+gmSYmnnn4xVfW1bmBHD2r3p+d0zG7sE0vc/e M2YlMq7b3oUv7XcRRRwAycasboqidpsNoQUq3eiwcraHessYIKSm6PezOgjB+DOG rC9u+zirILrjmS7F6wizHB5Eex/VnK9kwbBmpOmGVPuS+muxeEF1GONeuRI+cibD Q0M8PqTyPuSA/T2AD6IIH51hAf0+nTxrxUzfioK8/OAMYnk3gdhJzsi7SfK8fzdJ SjqdqI5fJ4RGVy7p3GHthnS8d70VMcoTwaWAeETQvsuugd24bLowYg== =yaDS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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cause for alarm
by Rich Burroughs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The dec96 issue of _cause for alarm_ has hit the web. You can get to it via the home page, at: http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause/ _cause for alarm_ is a zine which explores threats to freedom of speech, as well as other online freedoms. This month's features focus on the persecution of Bernie S, and the landmark Bernstein v US Department of State crypto case. Past topics have included a primer on starting local activist groups, Intel's hosing of Perl wizard Randal Schwartz, and the Church of Scientology. Also, interviews with prominent Net activists. I'm seeking contributions for future issues. If you'd like more info, point your web browser at: http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause/submit.html Or send email to richieb(a)teleport.com with the words "submission guidelines" (without the quotes) in the subject line of your message. Rich Burroughs Editor and Publisher, cause for alarm http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause/

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Re: PICS is not censorship
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:02 PM 12/7/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote: >So, as long as PICS is fully voluntary, and I mean _fully_ voluntary, civil >libertarians will likely not object. After all, it's just a system _some_ >other people (maybe even most) are voluntarily adhering to. However, the >pressure to stop "rogues" from "subverting" the PICS system by either not >using it, or by deliberately monkeywrenching it, will be enormous. The last time I looked at PICS, there was a mode where sites were checked against a third party "PICS server", and a mode which used signed ratings. Now I am not saying these modes can't be hacked. I don't remember the details well enough. But they should be somewhat resistant to problems with false self-rating. (How these "PICS servers" and "Rating signers" keep up with the number of sites and the growth of web page publishing is not at all clear. It would seem to me that it would require many people. Perhaps the Christian Coalition can put together a cooperative effort among their members.) Note that the "PICS server" approach has major privacy problems. However, I don't think that many censors are interested in privacy, so they may not be a barrier to censorious parents. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | I still read when I should | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | be doing something else. | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | It's a vice. - R. Heinlein | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Re: What's a "fingerprint" ?
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Subject: Re: What's a "fingerprint" ? Sorry punks, my mailer somehow posted my reply to this question 5 or 6 times, the spam was not intentional... 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: "Family Channel" of the Internet?
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> inspected and approved. He said that they were going to do this, again I > quote, "using the same encryption that Visa and Mastercard use." The > last statment pegged my bogometer, of course. Sounds distinctly bogus to me... > 1) Is it technically possible for them to limit access to only approved > IP addresses? If so, how can they do this, and is it possible to get > around these measures. Yes, there are a number of ways probably the easiest of which would be a proxy server. A number of corporations have these set up so their employees spend more time looking at relevant information and less looking at porn sites ;-) > 3) In general, how would you use crypto to ensure that your users only > connected to approved sites, regardless of the platform or browser > software they were using? I assume here he means that the pages will be encrypted at the ISP end and the browser will only decrypt the pages the user logged on at that time has access to. This all sounds very confused to me, he is talking bollocks I would wager. > I asked the guy to send me some technical details. If I receive them, > I'll share unless he makes me sign an NDA. I would be interested to see them but would guess at this point he doesn`t quite understand what he`s talking about himself... 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: cypher-PUNKS...
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

More fan mail from John Gilmore and his friends: >Received: from random.sp.org (deviant(a)random.sp.org [152.52.195.2]) by random.sp.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id FAA08153 for <dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com>; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 05:39:40 GMT >Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 05:38:57 +0000 (GMT) >From: The Deviant <deviant(a)pooh-corner.com> >X-Sender: deviant(a)random.sp.org >To: "Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com> >Subject: Re: cypher-PUNKS... >In-Reply-To: <gTykyD29w165w(a)bwalk.dm.com> >Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.3.94.961208053743.8090B-100000(a)random.sp.org> >Organization: The Silicon Pirates >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: > >> "Timothy C. May" <tcmay(a)got.net> writes: >> > I've initiated more threads on crypto-related and politico-crypto topics >> > than nearly anyone else. >> >> Ritalin, attacks on Mormons, assault rifles, attacks on "crazy Russians"... >> >> Crackpot spammer Timmy May (fart) lies again. > >Dimitri, just go away. Tim _has_ initiated more crypto-relivant >discussions on this list than anybody else I can think of, and the only >thing I've seen you initiating around here is spam wars. Just go the hell >away. > > --Deviant Silly Deviant, How could Timmy May initiate a crypto-relevant thread if he knows nothing about crypto? Timmy posted a series of message via anonymous remailers praising himself and calling himself "a genius among geniuses" or some such. What a moron.

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