December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: PICS is not censorship
by thad＠hammerhead.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

tcmay(a)got.net ("Timothy C. May") sez > This is why I fear PICS. Democracy has run amok in the Western world, and > the various "herds" will vote to constrain the freedoms of other members of > the herd. > > My Prediction: If PICS is used voluntarily by more than 80% of Net users to > label their Web pages and their writings, etc., then less than 3 years > later PICS will be mandated in the United States and other such countries. PICS, or something like it, is the absolutely right response to calls for true Internet censorship. People agreeing to a language, a way of communicating, is a good thing. Did you object to HTML? TCP/IP? Other agreements that limited the way that people communicate? I don't think that PICS will be mandated any more than those two standards are mandated, perhaps I'm naive, but I think that the social conventions will work in this case. I suppose the a better solution would have been to have many competing private rating services, but PICS will work well, not put much load on the net, and is transparent and simple. I like it. thad -- Thaddeus Beier thad(a)hammerhead.com Visual Effects Supervisor 408) 287-6770 Hammerhead Productions http://www.got.net/people/thad

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RealAudio 3.0 ships! Download it now, for free.
by Progressive Networks 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Paradise
by ChrisMSW1＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Crypto continues to go mainstream
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: hoffman(a)seas.gwu.edu (Lance J. Hoffman) >Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security,comp.security.misc,alt.security.pgp >Subject: Re: University courses on cryptography and security >Date: 4 Dec 1996 22:17:20 -0500 >Organization: George Washington University >Message-ID: <585es0$gac(a)felix.seas.gwu.edu> >References: <57v5k0$8ql(a)news.eecs.umich.edu> > >The George Washington University >GRADUATE DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE >Specialization in Computer Security > > The George Washington University Department of Electrical >Engineering and Computer Science >offers a traditional graduate program with a few twists. One of the >twists is that we now have four >graduate courses related to computer security, and an area of >specialization (within computer science) in >it. In addition, the opportunities to pursue dissertation work and >special projects are "real world" since >many government administrative agencies, laboratories, and Congress >are usually just a metro ride away. >=46or those who wish to combine technology and public policy, excellent >contacts are maintained with the >law and medical schools and with key congressional and administration >offices. > >DESCRIPTIONS OF COMPUTER SECURITY RELATED COURSES > >CS 229. Computer Security Systems I. Techniques for security in >computer systems. Authentication, >logging, authorization, encryption. International criteria.ia s. >Effects of operating systems and >machine architecture, countermeasures, risk-analysis systems. >Companion course to EE 250. >Prerequisite: CSci 144 (Concepts of Programming Languages) or >equivalent. > >CS 329. Computer Security Systems II. Advanced topics in information >system security. Intrusion detection. Viruses, worms, and trojan >horses, and other rogue programs. Advanced risk analysis methodologies, >developing international standards, computer security models. Network >security. Protection against statistical inference. Prerequisite CS229. >B >s >EE250. Telecommunications Security Systems. Cryptography. Speech >and data scrambling. Nonlinear >transformations. Block and stream ciphers. DES algorithm and public >key cryptography. Key >management, digital signatures, and authentication. Data >communication security protocols. Secure voice >communications. The CLIPPER initiative and escrowed-key schemes. >Companion course to CS 229. >Prerequisite EE 204 (Stochastic signals and noise) or equivalent. > >CS 230. Information Policy. Issues related to computers and privacy, >equity, freedom of speech, search >and seizure, access to personal and governmental information, >professional responsibilities, ethics, >criminality, and law enforcement. This course examines these policy >issues using the current literature >and written, electronic, and videotape proceedings of recent major >conferences and government hearings. >Prerequiste CS 131 (Programming and Data Structures) or equivalent. > > FOR FURTHER INFORMATION > >Administrative: Contact the Department of Electrical Engineering and >Computer Science, (202) 994-6083. >About courses: Contact Prof. Lance J. Hoffman, (202) 994-4955 or >hoffman(a)seas.gwu.edu. > > > >December 4, 1996 >-- >Professor Lance J. Hoffman >Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science >The George Washington University (202) 994-4955 Fax: (202) 994-0227 >Washington, D. C. 20052 hoffman(a)seas.gwu.edu > >-- >Professor Lance J. Hoffman >Dept of Elec Eng and Comp Sci, The Geo Washington U, 801 22nd St NW >Wash DC 20052 (202) 994-5513 Fax: (202) 994-0227 = >hoffman(a)seas.gwu.edu >See also info on the Cyberspace Policy Institute: >http://www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu/

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PICS is not censorship
by Robin Whittle 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I do not believe that PICS is a form of censorship, except for those people - children and employees - whose computing environment is beyone their direct control and who have to live with a browser that filters based on PICS labels. For much, much more on the Internet content regulation debate, see my WWW site. PICS is basically an excellent idea in my view. It provides a means of child protection which is not censorship of the net or censorship of sources of information. It is also useful for other things. However I don't beleive it is practical or desirable to insist that all people use PICS and a particular value system to label their WWW material - there is likely to be no suitable value system which is adequate in all situations. - Robin > From: stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com > Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 22:23:04 -0800 > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: W3C Picks PICS for Censorship > >> W3C ISSUES PICS AS A RECOMMENDATION; PICS READY FOR WIDESPREAD > ADOPTION; ENABLING USERS TO FILTER INTERNET CONTENT WITHOUT > CENSORSHIP - The World Wide Web Consortium today endorsed the > Platform for Internet Content Selection specifications as a W3C > Recommendation. This Recommendation represents the W3C's highest > "Stamp of Approval." It signifies that PICS specifications are stable > ... [Business Wire, 854 words] > > # 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 > # (If this is posted to cypherpunks, I'm currently lurking from fcpunx, > # so please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.) . Robin Whittle . . http://www.ozemail.com.au/~firstpr firstpr(a)ozemail.com.au . . 11 Miller St. Heidelberg Heights 3081 Melbourne Australia . . Ph +61-3-9459-2889 Fax +61-3-9458-1736 . . Consumer advocacy in telecommunications, especially privacy . . . . First Principles - Research and expression - music, . . music industry, telecommunications . . human factors in technology adoption. . . . Real World Interfaces - Hardware and software, especially . . for music .

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OECD policy: constructive comments?
by Robin Whittle 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The US, French and UK government policies on crypto control are stupid. The OECD has a group of so-called experts who are likely to reach the same conclusion about how governements "must" have access to the content of criminal communications. For a commented version of a leaked draft the OECD crypto guidelines, see my WWW site. Recently I got some email from someone at the OECD who is on the secretariat working on this. The didn't seem to mind me publishing the draft and they seemed to appreciate my comments. These people seem to be in their own government circle - but if you can get through to them, at least some of them will listen. They are likely to be intelligent, concerned people, but due to their lack of wide perspective (something they really should be working harder on, for sure) they may come up with some totally unrealistic policies. In fact, most of the draft seems to be really good - it is only the last bit on law-enforcement access which is crook and this seems to be at odds with the rest of the draft. It is no good complaining about them sitting in their bunker if we won't crawl out of ours. If you have some constructive comments on the draft, let me know and I will put you in touch with the OECD secretariat. - Robin > Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 08:00:32 -0500 > From: C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin(a)research.megasoft.com> > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Encryption policy challenged > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,5909,00.html?dtn.head > > "The Business Software Alliance, a powerful Washington trade > organization, warned the White House that its encryption policy will > fail if the government does not turn to the industry for guidance." > > blah blah blah ... > > Interesting how these polite requests from the SBA, et al, are going > for such ridiculously low goals. Being able to export 56-bit symmetric > cipher products... Why in the world go for such a low number when that > is the absolute *best* that you can possibly get? And with such a > small difference between 56 and 40 bits, there isn't really any room > to haggle. > > Duh. > > -- > Matt Curtin cmcurtin(a)research.megasoft.com Megasoft, Inc Chief Scientist > http://www.research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/ I speak only for myself. > Hacker Security Firewall Crypto PGP Privacy Unix Perl Java Internet Intranet . Robin Whittle . . http://www.ozemail.com.au/~firstpr firstpr(a)ozemail.com.au . . 11 Miller St. Heidelberg Heights 3081 Melbourne Australia . . Ph +61-3-9459-2889 Fax +61-3-9458-1736 . . Consumer advocacy in telecommunications, especially privacy . . . . First Principles - Research and expression - music, . . music industry, telecommunications . . human factors in technology adoption. . . . Real World Interfaces - Hardware and software, especially . . for music .

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Re: Mondex
by David J. Phillips 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:02 AM 12/6/96 -0500, you wrote: >Can anyone briefly discuss the anonymity features (or lack thereof) for >Mondex? The following information is gleaned from Seth Grodin's "Presenting Digital Cash" (Sams.net Publishing 1995), the British Environmental Health and Trading Standards' response to Simon Davies' false advertising claim against Mondex, The FAQ page of Mondex's web site, and Tim Jones' testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives. Each card is uniquely identified, and the id of the card is linked at the issuing bank with the identity of the card holder. According to Grodin, each card has 3 logs, the transaction log (recording the recipient, date, and amount of the last ten transactions), a pending log of current transaction process, and an exception log recording "unsuccessful transactions". When the exception log is filled, card is disabled. Traders' tills retain the last 300 transactions as card number, value and date. (Presumably this log info can be offloaded to another devise after every 300 transactions, so the merchant's log can be limitless in size.) Tills record the card's identity, not the user's identity. However, banks have access (I'm not sure by what mechanism) to the till logs, and can then link transactions to card holders (or at least to the individual to whom they have issued the card - whether or not this is the person actually using the card.) Mondex touts their system's ability to monitor aggregate monetary flow, presumably through monitoring merchants' tills. (Jones to House of Reps: "Retailer's terminals and bank cashpoints provide many opportunities for Mondex to capture transaction data and patterns of behaviour which can be analysed to give warning of suspicious circumstances.") In addition to aggregate data, there is also some mechanism for isolating unusual activity on a particular card. (Jones to House of Reps: "In addition, Mondex transactions can be assessed automatically against threshold parameters, derived from past experience. Discovery that a transaction exceeded such thresholds can raise a warning, which can enable a member bank to disable or lock the card if desired.") I don't know how this is supposed to work, but I suppose it could be linked to the exception log on each card, which may record anomalous transactions as well as unsuccessful ones. Banks have the option of issuing cards which require on-line authorization for transactions (or, I imagine, for transactions above a certain threshold or meeting some other sort of criteria.) Much of the monitoring capacity seems to depend on communication between merchant tills and banks, or through auditing of individual deposits and withdrawals at the bank. (Jones to House of Reps: "Suspicions can be aroused, for instance, by regular or frequent value redemption from particular 'unexplained' sources, by a high average of redemptions relative to the card limit (for example, an individual's card behaving as if it was handling the amounts appropriate to a shopkeeper's card) or single large redemptions from an unusual location.") But apparently value can also be transferred between consumer wallets, and I don't know how that is monitored. I'm eager to learn anything more about this. djp

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[STEGO] Firewalls
by nobody＠replay.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim C[retin] Mayflower's wee-wee is so tiny that only his mommy is allowed to touch it. |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ __ | \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | O~-_ Tim C[retin] Mayflower | >----|-|-|-|-|-|-|--| __/ | / / / / / / / / |__\ |/ / / / / / / /

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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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