December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: e$ plug, Moderation, Cypherpunks as a bird in the bush
by Bryce 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Greg Broiles <gbroiles(a)netbox.com>" typed: > > I think that Bob's e$ list should be considered a viable alternative to the > other two filtered cpunks lists; I recommend it to people looking for a > moderated alternative to the list. I like "e$", although I seem to be too busy to contribute regularly to _any_ forum recently. (I'm always available for Real Life Meetings in local bars, though... Anybody going to visit Amsterdam soon?) > I've been meaning to write up a long message explaining why I think I'm about > to drop off of the list. It's peculiar to spend a lot of time discussing > things with a group of people over the course of several years and then > disappear without saying why. But I'm having trouble coming up with anything > more profound than "it's not interesting any more." Hey, that's a sufficiently profound "death of cpunks" statement for me. I feel the same way-- though I've never been a very active participant, I really dropped out a few months ago. I feel like there is more to learn and discuss. _Much_ more. It keeps me awake at night sometimes, not knowing exactly what it is but waiting for it. But I've had my fill of cypherpunks, and my Objectivist newsgroup (humanities.philosophy.objectivism), and simplistic libertarianism. Keep in touch. :-) Bryce Not speaking for DigiCash. PGP sig follows -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMvpXvUjbHy8sKZitAQGJ4gL+LClz+b4VwAQdFra5GowzNDOqKEqnhpib yri3mEEFKU9x35J9Dqu8XHu/TQOJuB5S8LdAmtesvLuKEGkjpVKPHXrSDik5efyp rWY9pJbjq/UBqYosCgx2PzHILTsh/UMw =ZVwu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Wimsey cryptography archive is moving to Mindlink
by markh＠wimsey.bc.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Subject: Wimsey cryptography archive is moving to Mindlink The Wimsey cryptography archive at ftp://ftp.wimsey.com/pub/crypto is moving to MIND LINK (http://www.mindlink.net) You can now access the contents of the cryptography archive at its new location ftp://ftp.mindlink.net/pub/crypto The archive has been at Wimsey for about five years. I'd like to thank the folks at Wimsey for providing disk space, bandwidth, technical expertise, and for supporting the distribution of ~140MB of cryptography papers and software on the Internet. As with Wimsey, MIND LINK is providing disk space and bandwidth for the archive at no charge to me or the users of the archive. Thanks should go to MIND LINK for providing this as a service to the Internet community. Two small notes: 1. I assume sole responsibility for the contents of the archive. The folks at MIND LINK are generously providing facilties at no charge above their usual access fees, but they are not necessarily even aware of the exact contents of the archive. My only connection with MIND LINK is as a customer. 2. Please do not attempt to use the MIND LINK crypto archive to violate the laws of the U.S. or Canada. Distribution of cryptographic software is limited to U.S./Canadian persons in the U.S./Canada. All access to the site is logged. Any problems or questions? Please feel free to contact me at mark_henderson(a)mindlink.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMvptauI11LPFgBXjAQGw7AQAgYTIUjU/6O40gTgFvhtDrBMc+TEaWW2x 2sHdk0QYRPJ2uGwoQA7psbHh2r6eu/6NqKCmKALTnZ1caWDcZLKsiLyDHQKwSGQV EK/+xnXqnb87MJfCGL5deDLCUOIo2UupFttCxd6EAdD8Dt670WT+Oe3Q9acrnmIM Lr+wyuw8WS8= =NilL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Mark Henderson -- markh(a)wimsey.bc.ca, mark_henderson(a)mindlink.net PGP Key Fingerprint: 21 F6 AF 2B 6A 8A 0B E1 A1 2A 2A 06 4A D5 92 46 http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/ - change-sun-hostid, unstrip for Solaris, computer security, TECO, FGMP, Sun NVRAM/hostid FAQ, MIND LINK crypto archive

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Re: WANTED: Tolerant, anonymity-friendly news admins
by Lance Cottrell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I would be happy to provide access to news.cyberpass.net (its good to be the King). Just let me know the machine name and IP. -Lance At 2:17 PM -0800 2/6/97, lcs Remailer Administrator wrote: >Because of recent attacks on the remailer network and mail2news >gateways, I may loose access to at least one of the news servers I >currently feed news to from my mail2news gateway. > >If you are a news administrator, believe in free speech and anonymity, >and you would like to help the cause, please consider giving transfer >(aka "IHAVE" or "hosts.nntp") privileges to this machine. You will >not be the only server, and so do not need to worry about being the >point of entrance of mail2news articles to Usenet. > >Please contact me if you can help. Thank you. > >For those who oppose the existence of mail2news gateways, you should >know that we are taking steps to limit the abuse. However, doing so >without in any way limiting articles that abide by the usage policy is >tricky, and must be done carefully. Please be patient. ---------------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell loki(a)obscura.com PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. http://www.obscura.com/~loki/ "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche ----------------------------------------------------------

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Re: 40-bit RC5 crack meaningless??
by Mark M. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Vin McLellan wrote: > >Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 20:10:36 -0500 > >To: "Wright Larry" <Wright_Larry(a)bah.com> > >From: "Paul A. Strassmann" <paul(a)strassmann.com> > >Subject: Further to Goldberg's Cracking Accomplishments > >Gentlemen: > > > >As I suspected (see earlier private comment), the > >highly promoted RSA cracking contest offered > >a number of clues that ordinarly would not be > >volunteered by info-terrorists or info-criminals to > >IW Defense teams. > > > >These clues made the cracking significantly easier, > >because it made it possible to eliminate an enormous > >range of possible searches. Hmm..., word size, number of rounds, and key size are "clues"? At least he won't be able to make this claim when DES is cracked. OTOH, he might consider a known IV to be information not available under "infowar conditions." Apparently, "Info Warriors" aren't supposed to be familiar with open standards. > >Clue #3: (a giveway!) > > > > " ... For each contest, the unknown plaintext message is preceded by three > > known blocks of text that contain the 24-character phrase "The > > unknown message is: .....". He considers a known-plaintext attack to be "a giveway![sic]"? It seems that this guy could use a few clues himself. Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMvpmNCzIPc7jvyFpAQFr1wgAv9qRp1JEDe6qMLGcgs/4rJnPmUkSIDoM u769VJRO3XHYS+gIEu/A/f/jS9Mr7inqkaM/E5BhQeD2NuzSgI7IWENqvshlgeFF DrSdKqDkvwTNjaPeLvb3WoFMMSuvlVj78pYawDEFwEmhQkccE/h+I1obgCE3juk9 lw/Lto7qdA+nVnyQ0PuICbIV6lksbVTcfBG/UF5MD7HsnJzPUKReFuyPrWo6S5+4 kc1/yUjq5ABL79gNxEZmUTA6zdjwjj11x2vL1cvQP8t3PZ1K5V/bay2FlSrXvNF9 +h0GvYpPQ/0rd6whYcgCbls/5KB+GYxaCXPWvh8sFYZZBP0IFYBjiw== =ltSt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Wimsey cryptography archive is moving to Mindlink
by Mark C. Henderson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Subject: Wimsey cryptography archive is moving to Mindlink The Wimsey cryptography archive at ftp://ftp.wimsey.com/pub/crypto is moving to MIND LINK (http://www.mindlink.net) You can now access the contents of the cryptography archive at its new location ftp://ftp.mindlink.net/pub/crypto The archive has been at Wimsey for about five years. I'd like to thank the folks at Wimsey for providing disk space, bandwidth, technical expertise, and for supporting the distribution of ~140MB of cryptography papers and software on the Internet. As with Wimsey, MIND LINK is providing disk space and bandwidth for the archive at no charge to me or the users of the archive. Thanks should go to MIND LINK for providing this as a service to the Internet community. Two small notes: 1. I assume sole responsibility for the contents of the archive. The folks at MIND LINK are generously providing facilties at no charge above their usual access fees, but they are not necessarily even aware of the exact contents of the archive. My only connection with MIND LINK is as a customer. 2. Please do not attempt to use the MIND LINK crypto archive to violate the laws of the U.S. or Canada. Distribution of cryptographic software is limited to U.S./Canadian persons in the U.S./Canada. All access to the site is logged. Any problems or questions? Please feel free to contact me at mark_henderson(a)mindlink.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMvptauI11LPFgBXjAQGw7AQAgYTIUjU/6O40gTgFvhtDrBMc+TEaWW2x 2sHdk0QYRPJ2uGwoQA7psbHh2r6eu/6NqKCmKALTnZ1caWDcZLKsiLyDHQKwSGQV EK/+xnXqnb87MJfCGL5deDLCUOIo2UupFttCxd6EAdD8Dt670WT+Oe3Q9acrnmIM Lr+wyuw8WS8= =NilL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Mark Henderson -- markh(a)wimsey.bc.ca, mark_henderson(a)mindlink.net PGP Key Fingerprint: 21 F6 AF 2B 6A 8A 0B E1 A1 2A 2A 06 4A D5 92 46 http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/ - change-sun-hostid, unstrip for Solaris, computer security, TECO, FGMP, Sun NVRAM/hostid FAQ, MIND LINK crypto archive

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Re: FinCEN hates cybercash, who 'da thunk it...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:47 pm -0500 2/6/97, Duncan Frissell wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>But Stanley Morris of the United States Treasury, who chaired a FAFT >>working group which drafted the report, told a news conference that >>law enforcement agencies would face 'very major new challenges' if new >>technology moves the world "to a cashless society, beyond banks, cash >>and borders." > >Oh No! First they told us that they were all in favor of a cashless society >because they could track all the transactions. It was their Orwellian >Dream. Now Nirvana has almost arrived and they're afraid of it. Can't >they make up their minds? > >I noticed the problem long about 1975 when I noticed that the spread of >ATM cards was actually the spread of a bearer instrument and would >not satisfy the control needs of the regulatory types. In a geodesic network, any node which tries to process all the traffic chokes. The network then routes, to paraphrase Gilmore, around it. :-). I remember this pravda chart at CFP a year ago, where FinCEN was "demonstrating" (in a chart with no Y-axis) their "increased supervisory load" due to the exponentiating use of point to point electronic transaction settlement. Be careful whatcha wish for fellas. An old Texas A&M Aggie joke about a poor monkey trying to put the cork back into a pig's butt comes to mind... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by stupidity." -- Jerry Pournelle The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/rah/ FC97: Anguilla, anyone? http://www.ai/fc97/

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Re: WANTED: Tolerant, anonymity-friendly news admins
by ISP_Ratings 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

lcs Remailer Administrator wrote: > > Because of recent attacks on the remailer network and mail2news > gateways, I may loose access to at least one of the news servers I > currently feed news to from my mail2news gateway. > > If you are a news administrator, believe in free speech and anonymity, > and you would like to help the cause, please consider giving transfer > (aka "IHAVE" or "hosts.nntp") privileges to this machine. You will > not be the only server, and so do not need to worry about being the > point of entrance of mail2news articles to Usenet. > > Please contact me if you can help. Thank you. > > For those who oppose the existence of mail2news gateways, you should > know that we are taking steps to limit the abuse. However, doing so > without in any way limiting articles that abide by the usage policy is > tricky, and must be done carefully. Please be patient. I'm writing from the Freedom Knights list but am in no way representing them. What exactly do you mean by 'taking steps to limit the abuse'? Personally I think much of what is called abuse is nonsense and that all posts, with the exception of cancels/NoCems should be propogated regardless of content (including what is currently referred to as spam). Also--could you forward to the Freedom Knights list a copy of your 'usage policy' and impressions on the Freedom Knights two FAQs. Thanks, Steve

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Re: mail-to-news fun
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:01 PM 2/6/97 -0500, Scott V. McGuire wrote: >On Wed, 5 Feb 1997 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com wrote: >> People don't read mail headers or disclaimers at the bottom, >> and putting disclaimers like that into message text for >> email exposes the message to traffic analysis.) >How does putting it in the message expose it to traffic analysis but not >putting it in a header? Suppose you're sending a message on a remailer chain of you -> Alice->Bob->Charlie->Dave->Eve->Fred--> target and Bob puts lots of disclaimers in his remailer's outgoing messages. Anything Bob puts in a header will get stripped out by Charlie, so it's no problem. However, if Bob tacks a disclaimer as the bottom text in the outgoing message, when Eve sends mail to Fred she'll also see the disclaimer that The message was sent by an anonymous user through the remailer at Bob's Remailer Shack. Bob doesn't know who sent it, and doesn't keep records, so he can't squash the user, but he can block mail to you if you don't want any more anonymous email. Don't believe everything you read! so she'll know to check the FBI Illegal Wiretap files for Bob. Some comments and backtracking 0) Of course, if you want to avoid traffic analysis, sending unencrypted email is pretty stupid, and only the next hop is going to see a disclaimer that you append after the encrypted part of the message. 1) Prepending the disclaimer to the message body is pretty unfriendly to the :: syntax, and not all that great for PGP encrypted messages either. Pretend I really just suggested appending it at the end, since that's what I would have said if I'd been thinking :-) On the other hand, I suppose that you can see whether the next hop is a Type I remailer by looking for the :: or ##. 2) Cutmarks would be a nice fix, but they require too much attention to detail to get right, in case the next hop is a remailer. So maybe you _should_ always put in the disclaimer, at the end, with a reminder to always encrypt your remailer-chain mail if you want to avoid traffic analysis :-) # 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/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Secure checksums
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy C[reep] May sits at his terminal dressed in five-inch stiletto heels, fishnet stockings, a gold-lame mini-skirt, a purple halter with girdle underneath to keep in his flabby gut, a Fredericks of Hollywood padded bra also underneath the halter, a cheap Naomi Sims pink afro wig, waiting to yank his crank whenever a black man responds to one of his inane rants. __ ___|[]| Timothy C[reep] May \__|______| /-(o_o_o_o)

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Transparent Cryptographic File System (fwd)
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Haven't seen this on cpunks. ----- Forwarded message from Kenneth Stailey ----- >From xtech-request(a)zephyr.ccrc.wustl.edu Thu Feb 6 18:26:49 1997 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:47:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199702062147.QAA29127(a)duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey(a)gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: tech(a)openbsd.org Subject: Transparent Cryptographic File System Sender: owner-tech(a)openbsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I thought that there might be some interest in looking at this: From: ermmau(a)ios.diaedu.unisa.it (Ermelindo Mauriello) Subject: New release of TCFS (Transparent Cryptographic File System) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 07:14:53 GMT Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.system Organization: Universita' di SALERNO - Dip. Informatica ed Appl. Path: ai-lab!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!zeke.ebtech.net!loki.tor.hookup.net!omega.metrics.com!liw.clinet.fi!not-for-mail Lines: 51 Approved: linux-announce(a)news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius) Message-ID: <pgpmoose.199701160914.15063(a)liw.clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Server-Date: 16 Jan 1997 07:15:02 GMT X-Original-Date: 15 Jan 1997 14:51:36 GMT X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.os.linux.announce iQBVAwUBMt3VcjiesvPHtqnBAQECXwH+PKb4gmvn2sSqa3caegRau0cHJ9Lx9hII YG0YmSbwPf+oFV4ie4omldPpTO3VjGXSkY11zIof6b3HzY3dNzajyQ== =aNko -- Start of PGP signed section. We are glad to announce that a new release of TCFS (Transparent Cryptographic File System) for Linux is now available. TCFS is a cryptographic filesystem developed at the Universita' di Salerno (Italy). It operates like NFS but allows users to use a new flag X to make the files secure (encrypted). In theis release files are encrypted using DES. The new release works in Linux kernel space, and may be linked as a module to Linux 2.0.x kernels. A mailing-list is available at tcfs-list(a)mikonos.dia.unisa.it. Documentation is available at http://mikonos.dia.unisa.it/tcfs. Here you can find instructions for installing TCFS and docs on how it works. Mirror sites are available at http://www.globenet.it/~ermmau/tcfs and http://www.inopera.it/~ermmau/tcfs \|||/ (o o) ----------------------ooO--O--Ooo------------------------------- ! //////// //// //// Ermelindo Mauriello ! ! // // /// // e-mail: ermmau(a)edu-gw.dia.unisa.it ! ! ///// // / // ermmau(a)pantelleria.dia.unisa.it ! ! // // // ermmau(a)globenet.it ! ! /////// // // ermmau(a)inopera.it ! !--------------------------------------------------------------! ! LINUX - The choice of a GNU generation !!! ! ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- End of PGP signed section. ----- End of forwarded message from Kenneth Stailey ----- -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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