December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

DCSB: Online Government & Electronic Commerce - Legislation andPublic Sector Initiatives
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Daniel Greenwood, Esq. Deputy General Counsel Information Technology Division Commonwealth of Massachusetts "Online Government & Electronic Commerce - Legislation and Public Sector Initiatives" Tuesday, March 4, 1997 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Dan will give us an update on recent information age legislative and operational developments in the public sector. Special attention will be paid to: Electronic Signature and Record Legislation; Joint Government/Private Sector Attempts to Set Certification Authority Standards; Cutting Edge Public Sector PKI Projects; Recent Coordinated State-Federal-Foreign Electronic Commerce Policy Initiatives; and much, much more . . . Speaker: Daniel Greenwood, Esq. Information Technology Division, Deputy General Counsel Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office: http://www.state.ma.us/itd/legal home: http://www.tiac.net/biz/danielg Mr. Greenwood practices information technology law for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Recent relevant activities include: * Co-Author of the Draft 1997 Mass. Electronic Records and Signature Act * Chairman of the Commonwealth of Mass. PKI Task Force * Chairman of the ABA Info. Security Comm., Legislative Sub-Committee * Co-Chair of the ABA Cyberspace Law Comm., Legislative Work Group * Contributing Author: ABA Digital Signature Guidelines * Negotiator of Contracts for Internet Security and Payment Systems * Board Member of SigNet.Org and Chair of Legal Special Interest Group * Director of the Virtual State House Project (MIT/Stanford Law School) * Faculty Member: MCLE Health Care & Info. Technology Program * Guest Lecturer for Suffolk Law School High Tech. Symposium * Selection Board Chairman for First Commonwealth of Mass. C/A Business This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, March 4, 1997 from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $27.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men, and "appropriate business attire" for women. We will attempt to record this meeting and put it on the web in RealAudio format at some future date We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, March 1, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston". If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Planned speakers for DCSB are: March Daniel Greenwood The Role of State Government in Digital Commerce April Stewart Baker Encryption Policy and Digital Commerce We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com> . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu> . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu> . Looking forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMwB+VvgyLN8bw6ZVAQEsRAQAiInZXDXlzdMn0B+b9A6zgWHH5POJku5v k9HIZK286Paw1KWKYsw8VyYjUoG4vq/LAh1CagWkwL4EN9Ysg7kbU+LP0W4u04vb /QoKk5rWpmXuplXx1Fp9IhIe2O6oV0vTInJqPV3zkXk4qGzYUrQ0bqLbQn769iMO 7pwwVbkioSc= =m5Pz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- 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: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, You have probably just read John's post. I truly hope YOU (each and every one of you) can rise to his challenge. If you have offered nothing in the past but criticism, it's now time to get a bit more real. What will it be, your money, time, equipment? I would hope that the loudest advocates of "free speech" turn out to be the most generous, but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe the solution(s) will come from you lurkers. I hope you can put down your beer long enough to get involved. Finally, if anyone wants to discuss why the Cypherpunk list has come to this, or what I did right or wrong as a moderator, let's talk about--on the new list(s) YOU create. For now, though, it's off-topic. We have work to do. S a n d y P.S. To all those people who privately supported me in my attempt to help the list deal with its problems, thank you. I wouldn't have come back without your and John's encouragement. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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The Konformist: Viewer Mail
by Robalini＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Note: Either you requested to receive a subscription to this e-mail, or someone else recommended you to be placed on this list. If you are interested in a free subscription, please e-mail Robalini(a)aol.com with the subject: I NEED TO KONFORM. (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a cool catch phrase.) Please e-mail me back with subject: CANCEL KONFORMIST if you're not interested in receiving this. Thanks, Robert Sterling. The following comments are from Alex Constantine. Subj: Jon Rappaport's Frauds Date: 97-01-27 14:29:28 EST From: alex(a)mach1.directnet.com (Alex Constantine) I want you to know I have no faith whatsoever in Rappaport. His "book" on the CIA and mind control is actually a file of transcripts compiled by Valerie Wolf, a New Orleans therapist. Rappaport wrote a five-page introduction, and he has since claimed ad nauseum that he is the "author" of the book. He is not. He did not even edit it. The material was used to advance his own career, and published as is. Yet he still claims he is the book's "author," and never corrects the many introductions in which he is credited with having "written" the thing. This is a fraud. His book on the OK bombing has its own problems, among them a reliance on General Partin of the Birch Society, discussed in my story on Calspan & McVeigh, and other dubious sources. This is not to say the book is totally false, but much of it does not check out. Rappaport also fawns over Bo Gritz. Need I say more? Robalini's Note: My sole experiences with Jon Rappaport is interviewing him on the phone and through my work with Jack Herer and the Hemp Legalization movement. Thief or not, Rappaport has a good collection of interesting info he's written about. As for General Partin and Bo Gritz, I take their information for what it is worth, and often it is worth a lot. Also from big Al: >>1) Alex Constantine, in his piece, has, to a degree, implied that McVeigh is >>guilty as charged but was brainwashed. > > I said specifically he was "monitored." I don't know if he was >brainwashed, and neither do you, but there is some evidence to support his >claim that he was implanted. Other killers in the article were NOT >brainwashed, and I did NOT "imply" that they were. Sweeny, the killer of >Allard Lowenstein, was ANGRY, not "brainwashed." The freeway killer in San >Francisco was NOT brainwashed, but ANGRY. The only brainwashed figure in >the story was Dan White. McVeigh was ANGRY, not BRAINWASHED. > >> Personally, I have some very serious >>doubts of his guilt, to say the least. I suspect McVeigh, though involved >>with the people who did the bombing, had no fucking clue what was going on. >> In fact, if you check out some other sites (including Tony Sgarlatti's web >>page at http://www.future.net/~thetruth/okc.html and the always stupendous >>Ian Goddard's http://www.erols.com/igoddard/facts.htm) you will soon discover >>that the evidence really leans to there being two bombs, and that neither of >>them actually came from the truck itself. > > I've talked to Scarlatti. He posted bogus information, and an >equally dubious explanation for the bogus information. I know there are >others involved, and possibly more than one bomb. Your view on the case >agrees with the militias, who I found to be lying on numerous occasions. >What I posted was an extract from a much longer story that answers many of >your questions, and clarifies some of the hazy areas and your >speculations. McVeigh is no innocent, but your analysis agrees with >Rappaport, whose book is totally made up of militia postings on the >Internet. Robalini's Note: Scarlatti's site, whatever the flaws are to it, is a mindblower, and should be read for that reason alone. I may add he's been very encouraging to The Konformist, and I'm certainly going to burn my bridges with him. Still, if you, or anyone else, has any specific criticisms of his (or other) sites, please let me know and I will forward it. As for the militas, well, I've never been into running around in the forest with guns (though it sounds kind of fun), and I suspect much of that crowd would hate my guts, but I believe they speak a lot of truth, and that their opinion needs to be heard. On the OK Bombing, in particular, they have been admirable in bringing forth evidence that the corporate media has pretended doesn't exist. In fact, if I fault militas members for anything, it is that they don't go far enough in their condemnation of society, and I think it is odd that a group which is very much anti-government could fawn over the military (the most powerful arm of the government) so pathetically. And, lets face it, racism and homophobia is quite rampant in the milta crowd (as it is in the rest of society), so I think there is quite a bit of fraudulence in many members claims of wanting "less government" and being for "freedom". But, hey, if I was going to cut off people who's opinion I disagreed with, I'd be living in a cave. Subj: Re: The Konformist - The Kempler Film Date: Sat, 08 Feb, 1997 06:11 PM EDT From: density4(a)cts.com Greetings Brother Bob, >> RABIN ASSASSINATION FILM REVEALS CONSPIRACY >> by Barry Chamish You're aware, I take it, that Brother Barry Chamish is also fond of writing articles about UFOs and little grey space aliens. Don't believe me, check it out: http://www.cco.net/~trufax/ufo/angel.html -Brother Blue, B:.B:., 33x Sacerdotal Knight of National Security, etc. http://www.users.cts.com/sd/d/density4/index.html E Pluribus Caeruleus -- "Out of many, THAT WHICH IS BLUE" Robalini's Note: That's fine by me. I hope to get some UFO articles and the like out on this list, for, as I've stated before, I think so far The Konformist has been a little too politically oriented. I have been told by many people that that's a bad idea, that I should stick to this niche, but screw it, if UFO articles bug you, you can kiss my ass. ************************************************************ The Konformist is interested in accepting articles, opinions, free subscriptions, and advertising. E-mail us at Robalini(a)aol.com, or call (310) 967-4195. The Konformist is a subsidiary of Sterling Operation Solutions, the trouble-shooting problem-solvers for all business needs. We charge on a sliding scale based on the difficulty (and legality) of the proposed solution. Call (310) 967-4195 for further information. Hey kids, don't forget to enter the "Rockin' To Armageddon Sweepstakes", sponsored by The Konformist, the Official Internet Investigative Journal of the 1997 Academy Awards. (Okay, it's not official, but we're anti-authority anyways.) Right down the day, month, year, and time of the end of the world, and, as a tie-breaker, your nominee for the anti-Christ. The winner will receive a t-shirt stating, "I CameClosest To Predicting The Apocalypse, And All I Got Was This Crummy T-Shirt." You will also receive a free one year supply of Twix candy bars. Also, this is a free magazine, but we'll still take your money if you want. Please send cash, check, money orders, and credit card numbers (Visa, Master Card, American Express, or Discover) to: Robert Sterling Post Office Box 24825 Los Angeles, California 90024-0825

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Re: sci.crypt archive?
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Paul Rubin <phr(a)netcom.com> writes: > Is anyone on cypherpunks archiving sci.crypt? I'd be interested > in getting hold of some articles from some years back... thanks There is some one who archives it, it's up for ftp. Look in the sci.crypt FAQ, or do a web search to find the URL. I grabbed a copy for Remo Pini for the crypto CD, but I've lost the URL. The Crypto CD (I have one) has Jan 92 to Sep 94 (articles 6871 to 32742) on it. See http://www.rpini.com/ if you're interested. Adam -- print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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Re: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
by Brad Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

How do you encourage people to use resources more-or-less wisely? 1. The socialist/nanny model - take charge and give 'em orders We've tried that and it apparently didn't work out. 2. The market model - charge people for what they use A while back, omebody suggested a system which would be self-funding, by charging people for each post they made. Maybe we should try it? If each little piece of ASCII art cost a poster a buck or two to send, he might send fewer. On the other hand, we don't want to discourage interesting posters, so I think some system to reimburse interesting posters would be useful. I'm not the guy to set up the system, but I'll happily buy a modest amount of "posting tickets." Brad On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, John Gilmore wrote: > Sandy hit a pothole in the moderation experiment when Mr. Nemesis > submitted a posting containing nothing but libelous statements about > Sandy's employer. He never anticipated that he wouldn't be able to > follow his announced "post it to one list or the other" policy because > to do so would make him legally liable (in his opinion; he's a lawyer, > I'm not). His gears jammed, and the whole machine came to a halt for > a few days. > > Sandy has agreed to continue moderation through the end of the > original 1-month experiment (through Feb 19). And it's a good thing, > too, because the "cypherpunks community" had better get off its > whining butt in the next ten days, or it will no longer exist. > > I've come to the conclusion that I'm not willing to host the > cypherpunks list any more. It's not the true assholes that brought me > to this decision; it's the reaction from the bulk of people on the > list: suspicion, flamage, and criticism with every attempt to improve > things. I noticed few people volunteering some of their own time, > money, or machines to help out. Almost all the suggestions were > advice for *other* people to implement: > ...

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[CRYPTO] Classic Cryptography
by Brian D Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6 February 1997 Aegean Park Press proudly announces publication of CLASSICAL CRYPTOGRAPHY COURSE - VOLUME II by Randall K. Nichols [LANAKI]. [ISBN: 0-89412-264-9, 1997, 464 pages, $US 40.80 ] Volume II presents Lectures 11 - 22 (of a total of twenty five) from his successful course in Classical Cryptography taught in 1995 and 1996 to 391 students via the Internet and an additional 65 via regular mail. Volume II covers polyalphabetic substitutions ciphers in the Vigenere family (Viggy, Variant, Beaufort, Porta, Gronsfeld, Portax, Gromark), decimation, principles of symmetry, isologs and superimposition solution techniques. Volume II describes the difficult aperiodic cipher systems (Interrupted key, Autoclave, Progressive, Running Key used in cipher machines) and their analysis by isomorphs, and repetitions. Cryptarithm solutions for extended bases are presented. The theory of coincidences and statistical attacks (Kappa, Chi, Phi) derived from this important theory are detailed. Transposition theory and a variety of transposition ciphers are solved (Columnar, Amsco, Myszkowski, Cadenus, Grille, Swagman, Auto-Transposition). Volume II has two chapters on the difficult cipher systems invented by the famous French cryptographer Delastelle: Foursquare, Bifid and Trifid. Volume II presents a detailed chapter on passwords, law and data protection. Volume II ends with a historical look at codes, commercial code systems, and famous cipher machines. Volume II is a potpourri of advanced topics in classical cryptography. The Cryptographic Resources and References section has been expanded to cover all phases of involvement with cryptography: cryptanalysis, history, legal, social, classical, modern, NSA, mathematical techniques, recreational, intelligence, tactical, strategic, National Defense, INFOSEC: offensive and defensive, hardware, software, standards, public key cryptography, web sources, and applicable Senate and House bills. Readers are encouraged to expand their knowledge in the many directions possible to them through this section. For orders or Information Contact: Aegean Park Press, P.O. Box 2837, Laguna Hills, Ca. 92654. Telephone: 1-800-736-3587; Fax: 1-714-586-8269. Group discounts available. REVIEW OF CLASSICAL CRYPTOGRAPHY COURSE, VOLUME I By the Honorable David Kennedy, Director of Research, NCSA. Classical Cryptography Course, Volume I. By Randall K. Nichols; published by Aegean Park Press, (714) 586-8811 (phone) (714) 586-8269 (fax); (800) 736 - 3587; 301 pages (with index); $34.80 (American Cryptogram Association members receive a 20% discount through ACA or NCSA Members receive a 10% discount if purchased from the NCSA Bookstore) In Classical Cryptography Course, Volume I, author Randall K. Nichols has created a benchmark for serious students of the science of cryptography. This is a text. It is for learning, and with it one cannot help but learn about the foundations of the science. An outgrowth of Nichols' admitted "labor of love" in the online Cryptography Courses he teaches over the Internet, Volume I creates the foundation for understanding the development of the science. The ten chapters of this volume lead the student through simple substitutions, substitutions with variants, multiliteral substitutions, xenocrypts (foreign language substitutions), cryptarithms, the Enigma machine (separate Enigma95 program disk available direct from the author) and finally to polyalphabetic substitutions. Seven chapters conclude with problems; solutions and discussions are provided in an appendix. The text is indexed with twenty-four pages of references for further study. I found Nichols' sense of the history of cryptography particularly noteworthy. The volume is liberally salted with citations from history with applications of the methods developed in the text. From Revolutionary France through the American Civil War, the Tammany Hall scandal, Revolutionary Soviet ciphers and Japanese successes against Chinese codes prior to Pearl Harbor, the text provides touchstones for student to understand and relate to. Phil Zimmermann observed in the documentation to his Pretty Good Privacy Program to "Beware of Snake Oil." Among his arguments is this anecdote: I remember a conversation with Brian Snow, a highly placed senior cryptographer with the NSA. He said he would never trust an encryption algorithm designed by someone who had not "earned their bones" by first spending a lot of time cracking codes. Where Schneier's Applied Cryptography is a crash course in some encryption protocols and algorithms in use today, Nichols' text begins the teaching of Snake Oil detection and prevention. Learning the fundamentals, developed throughout the text, brings a richer understanding of the science, it's history and insight into it's possibilities and some vulnerabilities lurking for the unwary. Nichols plans for release Volume II in the series with advanced material on from the online course which includes statistical attacks and transposition in February, 1997. Reviewer: Dave Kennedy, CISSP, is Director of Research for the National Computer Security Association, Carlisle, PA. He is a retired Army military police officer and member of NCSA, ASIS, ISSA and the Computer Security Institute.

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STE_pup
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

2-10-97: "Euro's creation raises money laundering fears" OECD task force report(*) identifies perils of a single currency and suggests Russian crime groups are linking up with the Mafia and Colombian drug cartels for laundering the new currency. Warns of other e-cash hazards. "Visa to Test Cards For Possible Use On the Internet" E-cash cards to be manufactured by Schlumberger and will use "virtually unbreakable" public-key cryptography. "Computer Security Becomes Biometric With Print Matching" Oracle's new fingerprint checking device to assure bona fide log-on privileges. Covers other such devices, quotes a maker: "if criminals or hackers get through these, industry will step up one more level." ----- STE_pup * A search is on for the report. Leads welcomed. The task force met last week in Paris.

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Digital Signature Legislation (MN)
by Kevin L Prigge 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Minnesota Legislature has a bill pending in both houses regarding digital signatures, defines certification authorities, and provides for licensing of authorities. http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/bldbill.pl?bill=H0056.0&session=… http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/bldbill.pl?bill=S0173.0&session=… A quick read looks good, although I am not a lawyer. This only affects digital signatures used in financial transactions, AFAIK, and does not prohibit non-licensed cert authorities. -- Kevin L. Prigge | Some mornings, it's just not worth Systems Software Programmer | chewing through the leather straps. Internet Enterprise - OIT | - Emo Phillips University of Minnesota |

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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: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Brad Dolan wrote: > How do you encourage people to use resources more-or-less wisely? > 1. The socialist/nanny model - take charge and give 'em orders > We've tried that and it apparently didn't work out. > 2. The market model - charge people for what they use > A while back, omebody suggested a system which would be self-funding, by > charging people for each post they made. Maybe we should try it? If > each little piece of ASCII art cost a poster a buck or two to send, he > might send fewer. On the other hand, we don't want to discourage > interesting posters, so I think some system to reimburse interesting > posters would be useful. > I'm not the guy to set up the system, but I'll happily buy a modest amount > of "posting tickets." When you're a spy, you usually pay for info. In John's case, he's been getting the info for free. Now you're suggestion he charge people for providing him the info. This is not the direction John wants to go. He just wants cleaner info, that's all.

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