December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

HIC_rim
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

2-10-97 NYT has Page One lead on high resolution commercial "spy satellites," and the welter of political, social, economic and national security consequences as foreign governments, corporations and individuals hire them to invade privacy, secret sites and labs. A nearby story reports on organized crime's shift to new industries, especially those reliant on high technology: calling cards, stock offerings and health care. ----- HIC_rim

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Ken Bass Interview Schedule Corrections
by ISP-TV Main Contact 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

*** ISP-TV Schedule Correction *** Ken Bass (counsel for Phil Karn) interviewed live on "Real Time" *** >> *** Monday, Feb. 10 *** << Note the date correction *** 9:00 PM ET *** Ken Bass is a partner in the firm of Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti, LLP, and is the head of that firm's Appellate Practice Group. Recently Venable served as counsel to Phil Karn during his dispute with the Department of State concerning export of a diskette containing the source code for cryptographic algorithms published in the book _Applied_ _Cryptography_, having already received permission to export the book. See http://isptv.digex.net/real.time.html for more information about "Real Time" Call-in questions will be taken during the show at (301) 847-6571. **** This video interview can be viewed on the ISP-TV main CU-SeeMe reflector at IP 205.197.248.54, or other ISP-TV affiliate reflectors listed at http://isptv.digex.net/members.html. See URL http://isptv.digex.net for more information about the ISP-TV Network To get email about future programming on ISP-TV, email the word "subscribe" to isptv-prog-request(a)isptv.digex.net. To obtain Enhanced CU-SeeMe software, go to: http://goliath.wpine.com/cudownload.htm

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Who's Censoring Who?
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sandy's e-mailed several of us who've sent messages about Vulis's ploy to put Sandy in a conflict-of-interest bind -- a well-known attack on moderators of all kinds, not just on the net. What's worth admiring is how Vulis has adeptly managed to get others -- targets and witting and unwitting cohorts -- to go along with his attack, attack, attack, by opposing or supporting it. A useful lesson. Smart dude, that Vulis, but no more so than others on the Net, say, Tim May, and in the world who've done the same elsewhere, maybe by even smarter dude(s) who provoked, angered, insulted, an unwitting Vulis, or May, to attack on behalf of ... But such deception is to be expected, along with feigned suprise and outrage at the unfairness of opponents fighting as dirty as one's own pure-blackhearts. Sandy's not censoring cypherpunks, nor is Vulis or May or any single person alone. As Pogo said, it's all of us, posters and lurkers and spooks, each trying to get one's way to prevail, under guise of a high principle not easily honored when the squeeze is on alone in a dark cell. Come on out Sandy, it was just a drill. It's probably worth saving accusations of censorship for the real thing, after trial usage here for what is truly nasty high-stakes global info-war gaming.

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sandy who??
by anand abhyankar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hi guys, i am a new addition on the mailing list. i am amazed to find that half the mails talk about "sandy (god knows who he is) and he censoring mails" rather than crypto stuff. somebody please let me know who sandy is and what exactly is this censoring issue. anand....

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RE: remailer-operators DEA agents?
by Butler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >Again, I am only on the Flames list. So why was this message sent to the >Flames list? Because someone responded to a Vulis post? Is a response to a >Banned Message now grounds for rejection? > After whinghing about Dimitri and about people sending flames to the list, you only subscribe to the flames-list.... you just don't make sense Timmy. Scott

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Ann: Encrypted disks for Windows NT (fwd)
by Rich Burroughs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anyone seen this here? I wasn't sure if it had been posted, so I thought I'd pass it on. I have not looked at the software yet... Rich ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 03:18:03 +0200 (IST) From: softwinter(a)post1.com To: richieb(a)teleport.com Subject: Ann: Encrypted disks for Windows NT Soft Winter Corporation, February 10, 1997 released: Shade - strong encryption software for Windows NT. Shade allows you to create encrypted disk device inside a file. Such a device can then be formatted using any file system (like NTFS or FAT) and used as a regular disk. The only difference is that Shade will encrypt the data on every write operation and decrypt it on every read operation. To download go to: http://softwinter.bitbucket.co.il Soft Winter Corporation, softwinter(a)post1.com

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Re: Passphrase generation
by Jeremiah A Blatz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Internaut <unde0275(a)frank.mtsu.edu> writes: > Hi, > I am wanting to learn how to generate a passphrase that is at least as > strong as the IDEA algorithm. I have looked several other places on the > web for an answer to this, but they all had different things to say that > didn't add up (no pun intended :). Chech out the cannonical passphrase FAQ: http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/passphrase-faq.html This one has some quick reminders of what to do and not to do http://www.encryption.com/pphrase.htm Bottom line, totally random ASCII will have lots of bits per character, but english has about 1.2 bits per character. Misspellings can add to that, depending on the extent of mutillation . Combining certain words can make your passphrase weaker (such as "To be or not to be," "This is my passphrase," etc.). HTH, Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMv48Bskz/YzIV3P5AQGSaQMAjrTuhDUZ4THFFN9wgV8DhODJtHSGnmBM EPmo02rXsN4gslmVpV9+k7sRTOvuZ+vCYvNQL+knaMz4QiNsz8FUleUqo3v5Nx1w 7pJjcWK1wvKe9Y6ky6PXnAECRZ73gVuj =P1Zh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: POST: The Frightening Dangers of Moderation
by Jerry Basham 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- > From: Dale Thorn <dthorn(a)gte.net> > To: Jerry Basham <2ndSun(a)bigfoot.com> > Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com; freedom-knights(a)jetcafe.org > Subject: Re: POST: The Frightening Dangers of Moderation > Date: Saturday, February 08, 1997 7:48 PM > > Jerry Basham wrote: > > > Ok...this is the fourth junk e-mail I've received that I don't want. Your > > account is in jeapordy, and my advice is for you to just stop sending me > > this junk. Take me off your e-mail list, NOW. > > If this e-mail from me, being mad at you, is what makes you happy, and is > > how you have fun, then you just have a personal problem and I feel sorry > > for you. > > Do what you can to heal yourself...meanwhile, don't send me anymore...your > > isp provider is next on my e-mail list. > > Jerry, my provider is GTE, and if you think you can make a dent in > them, go ahead and butt your head against the wall. No sweat offa > my ass. > > OTOH, if you stop bitching and groaning long enough to figure out > who is doing the remailing etc., then you'll be miles ahead. I'm > not optimistic. >

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Re: question on setting up for ipsec/linux
by John Ioannidis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm away from Greece until the end of february. Some questions I may be able to answer, but I don't have the ipsec code with me, nor do I have a setup where I can test things. Here are some tips that may help you though. * The code has been tested under 2.0.27 and 2.0.28. It will probably run on kernels down to 2.0.24. It will not even load with 2.1.x. * Only "tunnel mode" works. I'm waiting for a few more chances to occur to the 2.1.x routing code before I move the IPSEC code to 2.1.x and implement transport mode. * While not reflectedected in the (excuse for) documentation, I *have* tested all the modes for all the transforms. Of course, I may have interpreted the I-Ds in the wrong way, but I don't think so. The following transforms are supported: ah md5 esp des (with 32 and 64 bit IVs) ah hmac-md5 ah hmac-sha-1 esp des-md5 esp 3des-md5 Please not that the des-md5 and 3des-md5 have this weird concept of the Initiator and Responder. Since we're still doing manual keying anyway, it doesn't matter much wich side is which, and it doesn't even matter which if both sides are Is or Rs. The information is onlyl used to derive the encryption and authentication keys, the IV and the counter, from the (hopefully) negotiated shared secret. If all else fails, set both sides to be Initiators, and this way you won't have to think about which "setsa" lines get an r and which get an i. I'll try to write up som e more docs when I'm back in Athens, but if someone else from Europe could do it, it would be good. /ji

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RE: MODERATION
by Butler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sandy writes: > >C'punks, > >I'm ending my participation in the moderation of the list. Well that was short and ..... errr bitter! > It would have been an interesting experiment if list members had >been open minded enough to give it a good faith effort. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There's a difference between being open minded and gullible Sandy. Nothing like ducking and running away when your little game didn't turn out the way that you wanted it to! This is not a flame, it is my opinion but none the less I'm sure that it will end up in the flames list or be conveniently lost in the masses of mail that John's majordomo receives every day. Scott. >

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