December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [PGP-USERS] BestCryp NP
by Alec 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: GWNapier(a)aol.com >Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:11:41 -0400 (EDT) >To: pgp-users(a)rivertown.net >Resent-Message-ID: <"h3W-hD.A.rVC.jmUTz"@rivertown> >Reply-To: pgp-users(a)rivertown.net > >To Fred and His Question About BestCrypt NP. I received this today and >thought it might be of interest. > >>Someone asked on the list about the possibility to transparently access >>encrypted data on a CD. SFS doesn't allow this, but I yesterday found >>a software for Windows 95 that does. > >>BestCrypt NP costs $115, the home page is www.jetico.sci.fi. >>They even have our Mr Peter Gutmann on their credits list. BestCrypt >>supports BlowFish, DES (boo) and GOST, a russian standard with >>256bit key. It supports all fixed, removable or networked media, >>allowing upto 6 "containers" be open simultaneously. > >>Although the company seems like Finnish, they don't speak Finnish and >>I don't get even a discount for telling you this :) Just thought some >>of you might be interested. > >>Jyrki Petsalo

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Pilots saw missile over NY
by Alec 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- April 10, 1997 Web posted at: 9:22 a.m. EDT (1322 GMT) ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) -- Northwest Airlines pilots reported that they saw what appeared to be a missile or a rocket over the New York area the evening of March 17, the Saint Paul Pioneer Press reported Thursday. In a copyrighted story, the Pioneer Press reported that investigators are piecing together tapes of air traffic control radar recorded the night of the sightings.... http://cnn.com/US/9704/10/missile.reut/index.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQCVAgUBM01ZgiKJGkNBIH7lAQFH2QP+LolytyAkNpiKHD5bQgnOdDjnX7U2tV9f bKuCrbUQyppV58YslT7c0o72NmcSwB7TFll+F9gCsPKmpPjHkPc7ZTaWo/nIxrs1 YwRxqta1EKIlM4KtccMAh2XJezw9wNTtPUcStp8fH9EJYG/0kCyhjjE5J4xS5/KD BR1C0pLjZ1Y= =nd+d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Cato Institute report on Clinton's sad constitutional record
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:57:56 -0400 >To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu >From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> >Subject: Cato Institute report on Clinton's sad constitutional record >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >In yesterday's mail I found a copy of a Cato Institute policy analysis by >Tim Lynch called "Dereliction of Duty: The Constitutional Record of >President Clinton." It's damming. Lynch lays bare Clinton's two-faced, >arrogant, downright hostile attitude towards civil liberties and, in a >word, freedom. > >Lynch concludes: "If constitutional report cards were handed out to >presidents, Bill Clinton would certainly receive an F--an appalling grade >for any president--let alone a former professor of constitutional law." >I've attached a few excerpts below. > >Also, in today's mail came a new book put out by Cato, "The Future of >Money in the Information Age," edited by James Dorn. I haven't read it >yet, but it looks promising. > >-Declan > >----------------------------- > >http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-271es.html > >DERELICTION OF DUTY >The Constitutional Record of President Clinton > >by Timothy Lynch > >Timothy Lynch is assistant director of the Cato >Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies. > >********* > >Executive Summary > >President Clinton recently put his hand on the Bible >and swore an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the >Constitution of the United States." He took the same >oath in January 1993. As the president embarks on his >second term in office, it is an appropriate time to >review his record thus far to see how well he has >defended our Constitution. > >Although President Clinton has expressed support for >an "expansive" view of the Constitution and the Bill >of Rights, he has actually weakened a number of >fundamental guarantees, including those of free speech >and the right to trial by jury and that against double >jeopardy. He has also supported retroactive taxes, gun >control, and warrantless searches and seizures. The >president's legal team is constantly pushing for >judicial rulings that will sanction expansions of >federal power. The Clinton White House has, for >example, supported the federalization of health care, >crime fighting, environmental protection, and >education. Clinton also claims constitutional >authority to order military attacks against other >countries whenever he deems it appropriate. President >Clinton's record is, in a word, deplorable. If >constitutional report cards were handed out to >presidents, he would receive an F. > >It is to be hoped that President Clinton will resolve >to be more conscientious about his constitutional >responsibilities in his second term. But should his >dereliction of duty continue, Congress and the Supreme >Court should stand fast against any constitutional >transgression. In the present climate, it is vitally >important for all Americans to understand that the >Constitution is incapable of enforcing itself. That >task ultimately rests with the citizenry. If the >American people demand adherence to the Constitution, >government officials, including President Clinton, >will respect the limitations that were wisely placed >on their power. > >********* > > >The Free Speech Clause > >The free speech clause of the First Amendment is, >without a doubt, the most famous provision of the >American Constitution. Its simple, yet profound, >command provides: "Congress shall pass no law . . . >abridging the freedom of speech." The underlying >principle of the free speech clause is that "each >person should decide for him or herself the ideas and >beliefs deserving of expression, consideration, and >adherence." [9] That principle has been recognized as >"one of the preeminent rights of Western democratic >theory, the touchstone of individual liberty." [10] >The invocation of the free speech guarantee, however, >is often controversial because it requires the >government and the citizenry to tolerate the speech >and writings of unpopular, crude, ignorant, and >malicious people. Civil libertarians must often remind >government officials (and others) that if the First >Amendment only protected the expression of popular and >agreeable ideas, it would be totally unnecessary since >those ideas would never be threatened by our >democratic form of government. Our society's >commitment to free speech is tested when we encounter >the expression of ideas that are disagreeable--or even >offensive. > >One would think that President Clinton, a former >professor of constitutional law, would have a deep >appreciation for the principle of freedom of speech, >but his official actions in office show just the >opposite. The Clinton Justice Department has attempted >to censor (a) the rights of peaceful protesters; (b) >the views of priests and doctors; (c) radio, >television, and the Internet; and (d) truthful >advertisements for lawful products. > >[...] > >The Ex Post Facto Clause > >The Framers of the Constitution detested the idea of >retroactive legislation. The Constitution contains two >specific prohibitions against ex post facto laws: >Article I, section 9, addresses Congress: "No . . . ex >post facto Law shall be passed." Article I, section >10, addresses state officials: "No State shall pass >any ex post facto Law." The Constitution contains no >exception to either prohibition. As Professor William >Winslow Crosskey of the University of Chicago once >observed, it is evident that ex post facto laws "were >thoroughly disapproved by the framers of the >Constitution and intended by them to be completely >impossible under our system." [44] > >Not only has President Clinton failed to defend the >prohibition of ex post facto laws; he encouraged the >103rd Congress to violate the prohibition. In the >summer of 1993 he urged Congress to levy a retroactive >tax on the American people. Under the president's >initial budget plan, income, corporate, gift, and >estate taxes were to be increased retroactively to >January 1, 1993--20 days before the president assumed >office. Never before in American history had a tax >been made retroactive to the time of a prior >administration. > >[...] > >The Warrant Clause > >The warrant clause of the Fourth Amendment, specifying >the conditions that must be met before officials may >search a person's home or seize papers and effects, >provides: "no [search] Warrants shall issue, but upon >probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and >particularly describing the place to be searched, and >the person or things to be seized." The warrant clause >protects the citizenry from arbitrary searches by >requiring law enforcement personnel to obtain judicial >authorization before they demand entrance to any >person's home. The Supreme Court described the >constitutional importance of the warrant application >process in McDonald v. United States (1948). > >The presence of a search warrant serves a high >function. Absent some grave emergency, the Fourth >Amendment has interposed a magistrate between the >citizen and the police. This was done not to shield >criminals nor to make the home a safe haven for >illegal activities. It was done so that an objective >mind might weigh the need to invade that privacy in >order to enforce the law. The right of privacy was >deemed too precious to entrust to the discretion of >those whose job is the detection and the arrest of >criminals. Power is a heady thing; and history shows >that the police acting on their own cannot be trusted. >And so the Constitution requires a magistrate to pass >on the desires of the police before they violate the >privacy of the home. [50] > >The Clinton administration has repeatedly attempted to >play down the significance of the warrant clause. In >fact, President Clinton has asserted the power to >conduct warrantless searches, warrantless drug testing >of public school students, and warrantless >wiretapping. > >Warrantless "National Security" Searches > >The Clinton administration claims that it can bypass >the warrant clause for "national security" purposes. >In July 1994 Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick >told the House Select Committee on Intelligence that >the president "has inherent authority to conduct >warrantless searches for foreign intelligence >purposes." [51] According to Gorelick, the president >(or his attorney general) need only satisfy himself >that an American is working in conjunction with a >foreign power before a search can take place. > >[...] > >Constitutional Federalism > >President Clinton is the first president in American >history to deny that the Constitution limits the >powers of the federal government. The Clinton White >House has sought to federalize health care, crime >fighting, environmental protection, and education. It >has also tried to thwart any effort to downsize >federal agencies and programs. Although the Washington >press corps has dutifully scrutinized the fledgling >efforts of the 104th Congress to breathe life into the >Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, which affirms >that the federal government has only limited powers, >the president's efforts to expand federal power have >received scant attention from a Tenth Amendment >perspective. By his official conduct as president, >Clinton has made it clear that he believes there is no >area of human activity that is beyond the >redistributive or regulatory reach of the federal >government and that the state governments essentially >operate at the sufferance of the national government. >Such a view contravenes the text, history, and >structure of our Constitution. > >[...] > >Conclusion > >As his first term of office drew to a close, Bill >Clinton proclaimed, "One of my highest goals as >President has been . . . to protect and uphold the >Constitution." [161] In light of the evidence set >forth in this study, it seems obvious that that >statement was simply a platitudinous throwaway line >that was completely devoid of substance. > >Supporters of the Clinton White House can point with >pride to a handful of presidential actions in defense >of constitutional rights--such as the signing of the >Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Justice >Department's lawsuit against the Virginia Military >Institute on behalf of gender equality [162]--but >those acts were exceptions to the rule. Indeed, some >constitutionalists and civil liberties attorneys might >very well claim that this study does not go far enough >in its criticisms of the Clinton record. [163] >Although this study is not an exhaustive account of >every presidential action over the last four years, it >does present overwhelming evidence that Clinton has >been derelict in his duty to "protect and preserve" >our Constitution. If constitutional report cards were >handed out to presidents, Bill Clinton would certainly >receive an F--an appalling grade for any >president--let alone a former professor of >constitutional law. > >Perhaps Clinton will resolve to be more conscientious >about his constitutional responsibilities in his >second term. One can only hope that he will. But >should his dereliction of duty continue, Congress and >the Supreme Court should stand fast against any >constitutional transgression. > >All three branches of government--executive, >legislative, and judicial--should strive to be more >conscientious about meeting the responsibilities that >have been assigned to them under the Constitution. >Constitutional violations are frequently temporary, >isolated events. The most serious constitutional >violations occur when all three branches conspire to >expand the bounds of government power. When that >happens, it becomes very difficult to right the wrong. >Precedents are extremely important. That is why any >constitutional transgression by any branch is >alarming. > >The American people should jealously guard their >liberty and hold all government officials accountable >when they neglect or disregard the Constitution. Its >Framers were keenly aware that the ultimate source of >the Constitution's authority is the consent of the >people. If the American electorate demands adherence >to the Bill of Rights and the other provisions of our >Constitution, government officials will respect the >constitutional limitations on their power. But, as >Judge Learned Hand warned many years ago, "Liberty >lies in the hearts of men and women; [if] it dies >there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." >[164] > >### > >

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Wassenaar Arrangement and public domain software
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The courier showed up, and I'm now at home changing in preparation for a soccer game (I'm part of a libertarian soccer team), but thought I'd post a brief note about the W.A. It says: "The Lists do not control 'software' which is either generally available to the public... or in the public domain." So what's the fuss about? Hmm.... -Declan

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Re: Reactionaries
by Cynthia H. Brown 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Timothy C. May wrote: > At 5:55 PM -0400 4/9/97, Alec wrote: > > >At 01:32 PM 4/9/97 -0600, you wrote: > >|Timothy C. May wrote: > >| > >|> Let's not make the Cypherpunks firing squad a circle. > >| > >| Although Tim has been on the rag lately, perhaps this bit > >|of humor is a sign that his period (pardon the pun) of male > >|menopause is over. > > > >This sort of snide sexist humor has no place here. > > Agreed. Any neutral observer of the Cypherpunks list would have to conclude > there's a lot of _something_ going on here. Certain posters, whose names > are well known, seem infatuated with sexual innuendo. Assuming the source doesn't appear to *believe* that a particular group is inferior / superior by virtue of genitalia, race, etc.: if ($humour eq "distasteful") { cat $humour | in_one_ear | out_the_other; } get_on_with_life; > (And their innuendo is more often than not centered around homosexual themes.) > > Draw your own conclusions. "TruthMonger," for example, seems hung up on--no > pun intended--frequent repetitions of "bum buddies." Vulis is similarly > focussed on cocksuckers. Toto, who may or may not be Bubba Rom Dos, > TruthMonger, etc., based on style, is centered on many of these homosexual > themes. Just like pre-schoolers are hung up on bathroom jokes <grin>. Cynthia =============================================================== Cynthia H. Brown, P.Eng. E-mail: cynthb(a)iosphere.net | PGP Key: See Home Page Home Page: http://www.iosphere.net/~cynthb/ Junk mail will be ignored in the order in which it is received. Klein bottle for rent; enquire within.

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Japan E-Commerce Promotion Council on CAs
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 11:44:59 -0700 From: jmuller(a)brobeck.com (John D. Muller) Subject: Japan E-Commerce Promotion Council on CAs To: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: jmuller(a)brobeck.com (John D. Muller) Press release Announcement of Certification Authority Guidelines in Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Full Document 7th, April, 1997 Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 1. Background The Electronic Commerce Promotion Project partially funded by the Japanese government was started In late 1995 . The project consists of 19 test-bed projects which experimentally provide various kinds of electronic commerce between consumers and businesses. Currently over 350 companies participate in the projects and more than 500,000 consumers are presumed to have join. To foster Electronic Commerce(EC) in Japan, and also to support and coordinate these projects, the Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan (ECOM) was established in early 1996. ECOM has set up 14 Working Groups to study a wide range of EC related issues. One of these Working Groups is the Certification Authority(CA) Working Group which focuses on the technology, practice, and legal environment of CA. One of objectives of this CA Working Group is to develop the CA Guidelines. The primary draft of the Guidelines was made public in the December 1996. 2. Objectives of the CA Guidelines CA Guidelines provide the foundation for the operation of CAs which issue digital certificates. A digital certificate, which electronically verifies the identity of business parties during network transactions, will play an important role in electronic commerce conducted via open networks. Digital certification guarantees the security of transaction information transmitted through networks, and information transmitted between organizations, within organizations and between individuals, by eliminating problems such as wiretapping, tampering or repudiation. This fosters the reliance and trust required to conduct business. 3. Structure of the CA Guidelines(Alpha Version) (1) Introduction This section first defines the basic terminology related to CAs, such as public keys, certificates, and revocation of certificates, etc. The section then deals with the following subjects concerning public key infrastructure, which can be regarded as the technological foundation of the guidelines: (1) certificate management service for issuance, publication, and storage of certificates, services relating to the registration and management of personal information, and electronic notary, etc. (2) hierarchical structure of CAs; (3) purpose of use and format of certificates. (2) Management requirements As management requirements are important for increasing the reliability of CAs, establishment and publication of policies relating to certification, requirements needed by organizations, operational security requirements, and information disclosure requirements are stipulated. Within the policy arena the establishment and presentation of provisions concerning the requirements for secure operation of equipment and facilities, and of provisions concerning standards for issuance of certificates are discussed. This section also stipulates that organizational requirements must specify independence, third party character and specialization. (3) Service requirements This section specifies requirements for guaranteeing security relating to five services that constitute the certificate management service, which is the basic service of CAs: management of the keys of CAs, issuance of certificates, registration and publicizing of certificates, storage and management of certificates, and revocation of certificates. For example, in view of the serious consequences of leakage or theft, private keys of CAs must be stored in an independent special module with high storage capacity, and in an environment that does not allow illegal removal of the storage module. Auditing of certificate issuance are also discussed. The personal verification of the applicant must be divided into three levels and that personal verifications should be conducted according to these levels. (4) Facilities and system requirements This section specifies that requirements conform to measures classified under group A of the "Information Systems Security Measures Standards," which were announced by MITI in August 1995 and the instruction manual was published by the Information Service Industry Association in October 1996. Group A requirements relate to information systems that affect people's lives, the property of others, privacy and other social elements. 4. Forthcoming Schedule ECOM is requesting that member companies and other relevant parties offer their comments regarding this guidelines draft. At the same time, the guidelines will be applied to the electronic commerce test-bed projects sponsored by MITI ( Ministry of International Trade & Industry), with the results of these test operations to be incorporated in the guidelines. The final version, based on opinions obtained from various sectors, is scheduled to be prepared and announced by March 1998. More information E-mail: tawara(a)ecom.or.jp FAX : +81-3-5531-0068 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe from the dcsb list, send a letter to: Majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu In the body of the message, write: unsubscribe dcsb Or, to subscribe, write: subscribe dcsb If you have questions, write to me at Owner-DCSB(a)ai.mit.edu --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA Lesley Stahl: "You mean *anyone* can set up a web site and compete with the New York Times?" Andrew Kantor: "Yes." Stahl: "Isn't that dangerous?" The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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Re: Checkout the crypto in IE 4.0
by Phillip M. Hallam-Baker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Maybe people have already noticed but the pre-release IE 4.0 has >S/MIME encryption and signatures built in. I'm trying to set it up >as we speak. Just found an even more important cypherpunk feature. It has a kill file feature for both news and mail. Now if we could just get them to put Dimitri in as the default it would be fine. Phill

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security_1.html
by Lynx_User＠linux.nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Reuters New Media [ Yahoo | Write Us | Search | Info ] [ Index | News | World | Biz | Tech | Politic | Sport | Scoreboard | Entertain | Health ] _________________________________________________________________ Previous Story: Digital TV Sets Off High-Definition Race Next Story: NTT Data, MCI To Start Internet Roaming Service _________________________________________________________________ Thursday April 10 10:03 AM EDT Internet Security Code Said Vulnerable To Hackers By David Morgan ATLANTA - The new security protocol for safeguarding credit-card transactions on the Internet may have to change because the underlying cryptography is too easy to hack through and too difficult to upgrade, an expert says. Steve Mott, senior vice president of electronic commerce and new ventures for MasterCard International, said it could take hackers as little as a year to break the industry's standard encryption code, which is supposed to render credit-card numbers unreadable to outsiders on the Internet's World Wide Web. For that reason, the consortium of technology companies and creditors that has spent two years developing the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol may switch to a faster encryption system called Elliptic Curve, which is produced by Certicom Corp. The first complete version of SET, known as SET 1.0, will be available to software makers June 1 with core cryptography provided by RSA Data Security, a unit of Security Dynamics Technologies. "RSA is a very good starting point. But we suspect that in a year or two, the Kevin Mitnicks of the world will start to figure out ways to hack it," Mott said. Mitnick is one of the most notorious computer hackers. "The only way you scale an RSA is to add a lot more bits. You add a lot more bits and it becomes more complex software in terms of the interaction of the transaction messages. That's part of what's taken SET so long to start with." MasterCard has been helping put together merchants with its own member banks for SET pilot projects in Denmark, Japan, Taiwan, South Africa and the United States. Mott told a news conference at the Internet Commerce Expo that the Elliptic Curve encryption system would make a better encryption core. In fact, he said it would have been chosen in the first place if developers had been known about it. "It will fit on a chip card. I think its 160 bits equals security to 1,024 bits of RSA," the credit industry executive said. "We anticipate putting it into some SET 1.0 pilots in the very near future this year in the U.S." Copyright, Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved _________________________________________________________________ ________________________ ___________ Help _________________________________________________________________ Previous Story: Digital TV Sets Off High-Definition Race Next Story: NTT Data, MCI To Start Internet Roaming Service _________________________________________________________________ [ Index | News | World | Biz | Tech | Politic | Sport | Scoreboard | Entertain | Health ] _________________________________________________________________ Reuters Limited Questions or Comments

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EVENT! Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) holds online town hall meeting April 16!
by Shabbir Safdar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

========================================================================= _ _ __| | ___ _ __ ___ ___ ___ _ __ __ _ ___ _ _ _ __ ___| |_ / _` |/ _ \ '_ ` _ \ / _ \ / __| '__/ _` |/ __| | | | | '_ \ / _ \ __| | (_| | __/ | | | | | (_) | (__| | | (_| | (__| |_| |_| | | | __/ |_ \__,_|\___|_| |_| |_|\___/ \___|_| \__,_|\___|\__, (_)_| |_|\___|\__| |___/ "Government Without Walls" _________________________________________________________________________ Update No.5 http://www.democracy.net/ April 10 1997 _________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents - Join Silicon Valley Internet Policy Leader Anna Eshoo (D-CA) Live April 16. - Background on Rep. Eshoo - democracy.net statistics - About democracy.net ___________________________________________________________________________ JOIN SILICON VALLEY INTERNET POLICY LEADER ANNA ESHOO (D-CA) Live ONLINE! Representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA), walks point for Silicon Valley on Internet policy issues. Her career has been marked by outspoken positive positions on Internet policy, but also for her groundbreaking work of making the Internet a tool for servicing her constituents better. Rep. Eshoo will hold a live online interactive 'town hall meeting' at democracy.net on Wednesday April 16 at 8:30 pm Eastern (5:30 pm Pacific). The town hall meeting, moderated by Wired Magazine's Todd Lappin, will be completely virtual. The discussion will be cybercast live via RealAudio, and listeners can join a simultaneous interactive chat discussion and pose questions to Rep. Eshoo. This is a unique opportunity for Internet users to discuss current Internet issues, including how Congress can better communicate with the public using the Internet, the chances for online speech legislation in the 105th Congress, Congress' agenda for encryption policy reform, and others. Details on the event, including instructions on how you can submit questions in advance, are attached below. ____________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PARTICIPATE * Interactive Town Hall Meeting with Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) * DATE: Wednesday, April 16, 1997 TIME: 5:30 pm Pacific / 8:30 pm Eastern LOCATION: http://www.democracy.net In advance of the town hall meeting, please visit http://www.democracy.net and fill out the form to ask Rep. Eshoo a question. We will collect the questions and forward them to the moderator on the day of the event, and will make every effort to ensure that questions from constituents are asked first. 1. Attend and ask Rep. Eshoo a question! Please mark this date in your calendar: Thursday April 16, 5:30PM Pacific at http://democracy.net/ 2. Get your friends and co-workers to join the discussion Members of Congress love to hear from their constituents. If you have friends that live in the district, please forward this invitation and encourage them to attend. 3. Make sure you have the right software To participate in the chat, you will need two pieces of software besides a Web browser. To listen to the _____________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND "We need to send a clear, unscrambled message to Washington that our nation's encryption policy needs to be reformed, and reformed now." -- Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), SAFE Forum, July 1, 1996 Given the 14th District's concentration of high-tech industries, it is not surprising that Rep. Eshoo serves on the House Committee on Commerce. Her subcommittee assignments on this committee include the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection, as well as the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. The Commerce Committee has policy making power over high technology, biotechnology, public health, and the environment. Through her seat on the Commerce Committee, Rep. Eshoo is well positioned to assist high technology interests in her district. She fought hard to ensure that securities litigation reform and telecommunications reform were signed into law. Rep. Eshoo has introduced the Online Parental Control Act to fight government censorship and encourage parents to use technology to control their children's access to online materials. She has led the fight to improve the Food and Drug Administration's product review process and played an instrumental role in securing the $238 million B Factory for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. In addition, Rep. Eshoo has pushed to loosen costly export controls on high technology products, make NASA contractors more liable for the costs of failing to comply with their contract requirements, and prevent government laboratories from competing with private industry. She also played a key role in stopping the Financial Accounting Standards Board from adopting a rule requiring businesses to charge stock options against earnings, a move which could have seriously curtailed the growth of small firms and start-up businesses, particularly in the high technology industry. Additional Information can be found at the following locations: * Rep. Anna Eshoo's Home Page -- http://www-eshoo.house.gov/ * democracy.net Page -- http://www.democracy.net/ _______________________________________________________________________________ DEMOCRACY.NET STATISTICS In the two weeks following the original Pro-CODE cybercast hearing, over eight times as many people (804) listened to the RealAudio archive than could have fit into the room at the hearing itself! The hearing transcript continues to be extremely popular, with the testimony of Jim Barksdale (CEO, Netscape) and Louis Freeh (Director, FBI) counting as the two most popular hearing witnesses to listen to. Over a quarter of our visitors to the hearing archives stop to listen to Barksdale and Freeh's takes on the encryption debate. Whether you're a concerned citizen who can't get to Washington, a student researching the topic of privacy, or a reporter just following the debate, these archives are here for you. You can experience Government Without Walls at the March 19th hearing cybercast archive at http://www.democracy.net/. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT DEMOCRACY.NET The democracy.net is a joint project of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Voters Telecommunications Watch (VTW) to explore ways of enhancing citizen participation in the democratic process via the Internet. To this end, democracy.net will host live, interactive cybercasts of Congressional Hearings and online town hall meetings with key policy makers. democracy.net is made possible through the generous support of WebActive, Public Access Networks, the Democracy Network, and DIGEX Internet. More information about the project and its sponsors can be found at http://www.democracy.net/about/ To receive democracy.net announcements automatically, please visit our signup form at http://www.democracy.net/ _____________________________________________________________________________ End update no.5 04/10/1997 =============================================================================

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Re: store your private ke
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- -=> Quoting In:bryce@digicash.com to Harka <=- In> The non-cpunks that I talk to frequently say that "no bad guys In> would bother to read my e-mail". This is a pretty good assumption, In> because it takes into account (as the cpunks themselves frequently In> fail to do) that there is a _cost_ to illicitly reading e-mail, and In> that as long as the value of reading your private e-mail is less than In> the cost of reading it, you can consider yourself safe. Another point, that most PGP-"uninitiated" (challenged? :)) people fail to realize is the non-individual-based approach to e-mail snooping. Commonly people think, that first they have to be specifically targeted by a "bad guy". But in the times of Echelon and generic key-word-based filtering of _all_ e-mails, that go through certain points (Satellite-Links etc.), nobody has to be specifically targeted anymore, because _everybody's_ e-mail is potentially read. All other things you mentioned are of course valid too besides that. Ciao Harka ... Microsoft - "Where do you want to crash today?" ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAgUBM02gpjltEBIEF0MBAQFy4wf/QIx7s1iRBDIW7VXYFWN6T5xlO2stm7QI +Cl8dz7ZL24nMazVUA+I0GqJjpjEOY7bK5oZwbELTaaD6g6unjoZLb6n5/fiXeaN Dd7LdJ989oqmUxO2fm6F/81OqPIGHQl5UwqOj0hII4AndaIwMJB/kSENXXJXXupI 7G/HWWddSnCzeuTfAzYBUeo1cpAgsBP7zTqyQsVUtoGVhgwbRsdUBX1kqcR7cEsv SX+TZZJZAs9AxTlIoQBuP4hb5/aEZnahb8myomKVY9XbMLBRdFzw6YlF2u/hHyit OqMzn12QVKkflxbMQWj3qCLARuT2wKEg6TeHUFAReSgIV1YSNV2Xsw== =Au+6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...

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