December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

SSZ status
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, SSZ seems to be stable since the power was restored where my ISP was located. There should be no further service interruptions expected. Jim Choate CyberTects ravage(a)ssz.com

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US grants export license for PGP
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,11048,00.html?ticker.ms.ie40 PGP crypto approved for export By Tim Clark and Alex Lash May 28, 1997, 7 p.m. PTThe U.S. government has granted an encryption export license to one of the biggest thorns in its side. Pretty Good Privacy says it has won approval to export strong encryption technology overseas. The license allows PGP to export technology up to 128 bits; the government's regular licenses only allow up to 56 bits. To date, the government has only approved 128-bit encryption exports for technology that protects financial transactions but PGP technology can encrypt any kind of digital communication. PGP was founded by cryptographer Phil Zimmermann. Zimmerman became something of a cause celebre when he posted his PGP technology on the Net in defiance of laws prohibiting international distribution of encryption technology. Zimmermann came close to going to jail before the government dropped its case against him. The company said tonight that it counts more than half of Fortune 100 companies use its email software. PGP still has another old foe to worry about. Encryption software giant RSA Data Security earlier this month filed a patent infringement lawsuit against PGP. The suit alleged that PGP is unlawfully using RSA technology licensed to Lemcom before its merger with PGP in 1996. PGP officials say RSA's claims are without merit. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred

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motherboards with multiple CPUs
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am looking for a place to purchase a motherboard with several cpu slots and a lot of memory. does any one know where one can find a good deal?

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Forward: Tim McVeigh trial info from RISKS DIGEST 19.19 (fwd)
by Paul Bradley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The following may be of interest to those following the Tim McVeigh OKC trial, it relates to technical flaws in the evidence relating to the telephone debit card McVeigh allegedly used. Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul(a)crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul(a)cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 11:47:43 -0700 (PDT) From: hbaker(a)netcom.com (Henry G. Baker) Subject: Oklahoma bombing trial transcripts RISKS readers may find the following transcript from the OK bombing trial to be particularly interesting: http://www.cnn.com/US/9703/okc.trial/transcripts/may/050697.eve.txt (Note CNN's Y2K problem, but that's for another time!) This transcript was brought to the attention of another usenet group due to its details of how the debit-card business works. The bulk of this transcript deals with the testimony of a Mr. John Kane, an executive of the company that handled the telephone debit card that was allegedly used. Problems: There was no one computer that had all of the information necessary to connect a phone debit-card number, the phone number from which a call was made, and the phone number to which the call was made. 3 different logs from 3 different computer systems whose clocks were not synchronized must be related in order to determine this information. Therefore, it is difficult to relate the logs in an unambiguous manner. Furthermore, the logs indicate only a physical port number, and the only way to determine the correspondence is to _physically inspect_ the connectivity of the cables. Q. How often were the cables rearranged? Since the system would work fine with a different permutation of the cables, what assurance do we have that the cables had not been rearranged by a technician who many never have told anyone, or not even realized himself? Due to the large sizes of these files (2.5 billion calls!), the 'matching' process allowed for +/- 4 minutes 'slop' in comparing the clock times of the different logs. Q. Did they take into account Daylight Savings Time (especially given the problems we're recently been talking about)? Q. Did they take into account the fact that on different days the clocks may have had different discrepancies? There are key items missing from the most important transaction log. This is because this computer was _intentionally rebooted_ 3 times every day (perhaps at midnight, 8AM, 4PM, all Los Angeles time). Each time the computer was rebooted, some transactions were lost; whether from not having been saved from the write buffer, or not being logged during a length boot process, was not made clear. Apparently, a very critical phone call was one of the transactions that were not logged due to this rebooting. (What are the chances of this??) Why was this computer rebooted 3X per day? Because it had apparently been crashing of its own accord prior to this, and those crashes had been very inconvenient, so it was decided that purposely rebooting would result in fewer complaints. This rebooting may have resulted in a slight loss of revenue, as well, as the missing calls may never have been logged. There is a presumption that if a PIN (in this case a 14-digit PIN) is being used, that only one person could possibly have used it. However, apparently this system did not check to see that multiple people (perhaps in different parts of the country) were not using the same PIN number at the same time. (Unlike many prepaid phone cards in Europe, there is no physical card to plug into the phone -- the _only_ proof of identity is the PIN.) Henry Baker ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/home.html

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Interesting Web Site for Data Protection
by Robert A. Hayden 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I happened across this web site today. I was kind of impressed with its innovative approach, although I doubt I'd need these services. http://www.atrieva.com/ Just FYI, in no way an endorsement or anything. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: PGP Signed with PineSign 2.2 iQCVAwUBM4zm+TokqlyVGmCFAQEnxwQAh/GfjR4lGi2rzFiJCj2dgpWtbYbXhf2O 7yAGdWt9d819xhOlLC7Zmcq3QS7WJhJOYuGyPEYZRX5hCR8cgoBo9cul9+tFyvVZ KfQCUUV/rCVPEYBzLyDYrbPT8/IGbCGogvSqKKVlVKHGM8yscdf5Z/aC+nyEUGd4 WsivjiDVzMg= =XqwC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Robert A. Hayden hayden(a)krypton.mankato.msus.edu __ -=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=- \/_ http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~hayden/Welcome.html \/

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EXTRO-3: Extropy Institute's Third Conference on the Future (fwd)
by Igor Chudov ＠ home 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----- Forwarded message from Alexander 'Sasha' Chislenko ----- >From cpunks(a)manifold.algebra.com Sun Jun 1 02:24:20 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970601030136.016359d0(a)netcom.com> X-Sender: sasha1(a)netcom.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 03:01:36 -0400 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: "Alexander 'Sasha' Chislenko" <sasha1(a)netcom.com> Subject: EXTRO-3: Extropy Institute's Third Conference on the Future Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Precedence: bulk Hope you may be interested... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- E X T R O 3: Extropy Institute's Third Conference on the Future August 9-10 1997, Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, CA Saturday (Aug 9) theme: The Future of the Body and Brain. Sunday (Aug 10) theme: Future Infrastructure. The conference will include presentations by Eric Drexler - nanotechnology pioneer and chairman of the Foresight Institute, Gregory Stock - Author of "Metaman", Kevin Kelly - executive editor of Wired, Max More - President of the Extropy Institute, Mark Miller - founder of Agorics, Inc., Chris Peterson, Sharon Presley, Sasha Chislenko, Robin Hanson, Anders Sandberg, and others, as well as panel sessions devoted to progress in Artificial Intelligence, Investing in the Future, and Future of Gender and Sexuality. Extropy Institute functions as a networking organization bringing together scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, philosophers, and artists who share certain general interests including: extending life span, augmenting intelligence (both cognitive and emotional), gaining access to space, and achieving control over our own biology through genetic engineering, bioengineering, neural-computer interfaces, and molecular nanotechnology. We welcome all interested members of the public to attend and participate. Past speakers have included Marvin Minsky of MIT, Bart Kosko - fuzzy logic and neural network pioneer at USC, Roy Walford - leading gerontologist at UCLA, Hans Moravec - Director of Carnegie-Mellons Mobile Robotics Lab, Michael Rothschild - author of Bionomics, and Ralph Merkle - nanotechnologist at Xerox Parc. For more information, please visit <http://www.extropy.org/extro3.htm> or call (310) 398-0375 and leave your mailing address or email address, or send email to more(a)extropy.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Chislenko <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html> Great Thinkers page: <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/thinkers.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End of forwarded message from Alexander 'Sasha' Chislenko -----

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by glendale＠clear.net.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: OECD attacks one of the Four Horsemen
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

TruthMonger wrote: >There will be a "War on Porn" on the internet that will mirror the >"War on Drugs" currently taking place. In financial, as well as freedoms, cost. >All that the government wants is their piece of the action. Like >drugs, the porn will always be available, but the price will >fluctuate according to the level of government control and/or >illegality. Yup. Like drugs, "intelligence" agencies will also get <ahem> intimately involved, and then deny it, in a romantic tradition dating back before language. >The "War on Porn" will turn into another essential national industry >which will become part of the GNP. A negative part. Tax-spend. Spend-tax. >The "winners" in this war will be the journalists who have covered >the "War on Drugs" as they will merely have to dust off old stories >and substitute "Porn" for "Drugs" wherever it occurs. The real winners will also be in a strange quarter. The Playboys and Penthouses of this world are concerned about profit, not morality, but they will be perfectly willing to surreptitiously line up with the Christian Coalition on this one. Strange bedfellows. >The "loser" will be the Hoover Vacume Cleaner Company, whose development >of Virtual Cathouse technology will fall victim to new legislation. Old Woody Allen movies, anyone? om

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by PROKILL＠axp.cmpu.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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[CRYPTO] Zero-knowledge commit
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timmy `C' May proves that the Midwestern gene pool needs some chlorine in it. <<<< o(0-0)o -ooO-(_) Ooo-- Timmy `C' May

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