December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Invitation To The Electronic Academy Of Law
by lawchek＠softcell.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Electronic Academy of Law INVITATION TO THE ELECTRONIC ACADEMY OF LAW //HTTP://www.Lawchek.com/academy.htm You are cordially invited to be inducted into the electronic Academy of Law (eAL), developed for lawyers who recognize the value of legal electronic media. In addition to your personal profile listing, free legal software and web site information is included in your membership. Further information can be found at our web site located at http://www.Lawchek.com/academy.htm

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Re: Steak Knife Decryption (Gun control comment)
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 6/7/97 Lucky Green wrote: >Had the victim carried a firearm, his chances of survival would have >improved dramatically. Statistical fact: armed private citizens caputre and/or kill more criminals in the US than all LEAs combined. Of course, armed criminals also kill more private citizens than all LEAs combined. >Gun control kills kids (and adults), "For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead to the future." --- Adolf Hitler

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Stats on the lists
by nobody＠hidden.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Someone said a while ago that they were working on a list stats generator that makes a summary of what messages were on one feed and not another, how fast each feed ran, and so on. Is there any news on this? thanks

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Re: [CRYPTO] ElGamal
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Warning: if you fuck Timmy Mayflower in the ass, a rabid tapeworm might bite your penis. ///// [ o o ] Timmy Mayflower \_=_/ _| |_ / \_/ \ _oOOO___OOOo_

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PGP 5.0 Beta
by Philip A. Mongelluzzo 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This may be the wrong forum for this question, if so then ignore me. I have posted this question to the folks at PGP... In the process of creating a set of keys with PGP 5.0 Beta an Access Violation took place (this is NT). The public key was sent to keys.pgp.com but the key ring was not created (or was corrupted). How does one go about getting a key revoked with a lost private key? Thanks, Phil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0 beta Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBM5qKS+S/ZBRgc6KnAQEXMQf/Y27LfZzhy9pePlemw5fteRox/ZfR7Eoj pcdBkJiFYgY+RXOqzmQAQFHfiA4pnGroYAokA3CjMmqIuWUskTl07sIZkRb3Jdf5 jJ6caoEXEwusVi4koViD1wTvjIb0/csh2ORqo9uZi861lwWRsPKfjEo1x5bTLtRQ 3MioVndws7cJVDpw/D0f3LVdomZNs0GLzhMPz5/FrmbWw0E+OdLV7lcNRWpo+y7E qGyciXbItpxpLIxV6r1cQgYVqKYwTQNZUZbWcmaIJNSpoYdG7F9BIQ/maFpKFR+2 ELsPdg9DfJYX7h/04O5HkO90cah2fjjyl036F+B0GHyT0t2L1Z+bKQ== =wJ4+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [CONTROVERSIAL]: A Defense of Terrorism
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.LNX.3.91.970607230450.11734A-100000(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk>, on 06/07/97 at 11:11 PM, Paul Bradley <paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk> said: >I live in mainland England. NI, although still violent, is now not the >only place bombed by the IRA, until a few years ago they mainly attacked >targets in NI, they now bomb all over the country. Well I can only see this as a good thing. :) It is the people of England that support that illegal occupation of Irish soil by Brittish troops. It is only right that they should have to suffer the consequences. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM5qhjY9Co1n+aLhhAQF2agQAh/6P7KFgZSmeHD1hgT0rHjWOfWArXe8g UQMTolwI9CzRL3V4HLpd7yBJQ5VwrtcZr4nrETmONnLSwDqf23b0CxIr3nV7OlUv FVkdz71Xz2c59MUjMXob4XTXEjtfe8/WRT3gajEAlrDQQF06lQEgCTjEtiBArAB4 Wfu/DCX18OI= =HmfP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Responses to "Spam costs and questions" (long)
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.GSO.3.95.970608053415.20770A-100000(a)well.com>, on 06/08/97 at 07:36 AM, Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> said: >I don't think commercial speech should be treated as second-class speech. >But my position is hardly surprising. Well I think that there are some that would confuse the issue between 1st Amendment free speech and the issues surrounding fraud. Especially those in government who write the laws that regulate commercial speech. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM5qsdY9Co1n+aLhhAQHXDQP/XXKYn5xkMENOzSe4/stMvo4TwSYgJvUm 7Z7j4Zb+lEj6+eag923IGI50q42D+uBrjEDeepvTv09GDxfyAWLjqdx9uwW56KOe Fo6vvyQ5Rx0rOGtLJs7Sy+XqWrzpHOZdA5Gj1KRdt8shmMuXocKT7/Fo8Czjv36J LqcbJ4BZZHc= =6Yqy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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show me the money
by show.me.the.money＠denmark.it.earthlink.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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CFP: 1998 Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 15:05:43 -0700 From: bishop(a)cs.ucdavis.edu (Matt Bishop) To: ipsec(a)ans.net Subject: CFP: 1998 Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security Sender: owner-ipsec(a)ex.tis.com Precedence: bulk CALL FOR PAPERS The Internet Society Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security Where: San Diego, California When: March 1998 GOAL: The symposium will foster information exchange between hardware and software developers of network and distributed system security services. The intended audience is those who are interested in the practical aspects of network and distributed system security, focusing on actual system design and implementation, rather than theory. Encouraging and enabling the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technology is the major focus of symposium. Symposium proceedings will be published by the Internet Society. Topics for the symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: * Architectures for large-scale, heterogeneous distributed systems * Security in malleable systems: mobile code, mobile agents, dynamic policy updates, etc. * Special problems: e.g. interplay between security goals and other goals -- efficiency, reliability, interoperability, resource sharing, and cost. * Integrating security services with system and application security facilities and with application protocols, including message handling, file transport, remote file access, directories, time synchronization, data base management, routing, voice and video multicast, network management, boot services, and mobile computing. * Fundamental services: authentication, integrity, confidentiality, authorization, non-repudiation, and availability. * Supporting mechanisms and APIs: key management and certification infrastructures, audit, and intrusion detection. * Telecommunications security, especially for emerging technologies -- very large systems like the Internet, high-speed systems like the gigabit testbeds, wireless systems, and personal communication systems. * Controls: firewalls, packet filters, application gateways * Object security and security objects * Network information resources and tools such as World Wide Web (WWW), Gopher, Archie, and WAIS. * Electronic commerce: payment services, fee-for-access, EDI, notary; endorsement, licensing, bonding, and other forms of assurance; intellectual property protections GENERAL CHAIR: David Balenson, Trusted Information Systems PROGRAM CHAIRS: Matt Bishop, University of California at Davis Steve Kent, BBN PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Steve Bellovin, AT&T Labs -- Research Doug Engert, Argonne National Laboratories Warwick Ford, VeriSign Li Gong, JavaSoft Rich Graveman, Bellcore Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories Tom Longstaff, CERT/CC Doug Maughan, National Security Agency Dan Nessett, 3Com Corporation Rich Parker, NATO Michael Roe, Cambridge University Rob Rosenthal, DARPA Wolfgang Schneider, GMD Darmstadt Christoph Schuba, Purdue University Win Treese, Open Market, Inc. Jonathan Trostle, Novell Gene Tsudik, USC/Information Sciences Institute Steve Welke, Institute for Defense Analyses LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR: Thomas Hutton, San Diego Supercomputer Center PUBLICATIONS CHAIR: Steve Welke, Institute for Defense Analyses LOGISTICS CHAIR: Torryn Brazell, Internet Society SUBMISSIONS: The committee invites technical papers and panel proposals, for topics of technical and general interest. Technical papers should be 10-20 pages in length. Panel proposals should be two pages and should describe the topic, identify the panel chair, explain the format of the panel, and list three to four potential panelists. Technical papers will appear in the proceedings. A description of each panel will appear in the proceedings, and may at the discretion of the panel chair, include written position statements from each panelist. Each submission must contain a separate title page with the type of submission (paper or panel), the title or topic, the names of the author(s), organizational affiliation(s), telephone and FAX numbers, postal addresses, Internet electronic mail addresses, and must list a single point of contact if more than one author. The names of authors, affiliations, and other identifying information should appear only on the separate title page. Submissions must be received by 1 August 1997, and should be made via electronic mail in either PostScript or ASCII format. If the committee is unable to print a PostScript submission, it will be returned and hardcopy requested. Therefore, PostScript submissions should arrive well before 1 August. If electronic submission is difficult, submissions should be sent via postal mail. All submissions and program related correspondence (only) should be directed to the program chair: Matt Bishop, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Davis, Davis CA 95616-8562, Email: sndss98-submissions(a)cs.ucdavis.edu. Phone: +1 (916) 752-8060, FAX: +1 (916) 752-4767, Dates, final call for papers, advance program, and registration information will be available at the URL: http://www.isoc.org/conferences/ndss98. Each submission will be acknowledged by e-mail. If acknowledgment is not received within seven days, please contact the program chair as in- dicated above. Authors and panelists will be notified of acceptance by 1 October 1997. Instructions for preparing camera-ready copy for the proceedings will be sent at that time. The camera-ready copy must be received by 1 November 1997. --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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ethanol, which is a fuel made from a mixture of corn and your tax dollars
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

June 6, 1997 Potomac Watch Guess Who's Trying To Save Corporate Welfare By PAUL A. GIGOT Let us now break this column's recent pattern and praise a Republican. He's Texan Bill Archer, who is taking a run at the federal government's worst case of corporate welfare. He has just one problem: Other Republicans, notably the speaker of the House. Mr. Archer wouldn't have sat in the minority for 24 years if he wasn't willing to tilt at windmills. But now that he's running the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, his tilting matters. So this year he's aiming at ethanol, which is a fuel made from a mixture of corn and your tax dollars. He has enough votes to get the bill through his committee, and it could pass Congress if the GOP leadership gave it a push. The entire corporate welfare debate is a good test of whether the GOP's ultimate loyalties lie with business, or with taxpayers. The ethanol savings would be only a couple of billion dollars, but in today's Washington we have to be grateful for small favors. By shutting down this corn sluice, Republicans would show they can ox their own political gore. They'd also create more space for tax cuts that'd help more Americans, such as for capital gains. ? The political timing won't get any better. When Mr. Archer first tried this in late 1995, Bob Dole, self-described Senator Ethanol, hadn't yet retired. The presidential caucuses in Iowa, ethanol's Elysian fields, were three months away, not three years as they are now. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., the political benefactor and ethanol beneficiary, hadn't yet pleaded guilty to price-fixing charges. Farm-state Republicans had more leverage over their leadership in 1995 because the GOP was trying to pass a budget with only GOP votes. Now in bipartisan mode, Republican leaders can pick up some Democrats to keep a majority. All of which puts the pressure squarely on Newt Gingrich, who has to decide if he again wants to rescue the ethanol subsidy at the House Rules Committee pass. That's what he did in 1995 after consulting Senator Ethanol. The speaker explained to some of us then that killing the subsidy was too politically risky while Republicans were trying to change so much of the rest of the government. But Republicans are now trying to change very little of the government, and Mr. Gingrich is still resisting. "I do not believe it is possible in this Congress to eliminate the ethanol tax break," the speaker told reporters this week. That's analysis masking incumbent protection. The speaker is fronting for members who don't want to cast any difficult votes this Congress. Those members include several ferocious Republican opponents of the welfare state, nonfarm version: Nebraska's Jon Christensen, erstwhile revolutionary; John Boehner, from the farm state of greater Cincinnati; Henry Hyde of the poverty-stricken Chicago suburbs; Michigan's Fred Upton, the renowned budget balancer; and Helen Chenoweth, Idaho's scourge of Big Government. Perhaps they were inspired to sign a letter embracing ethanol subsidies by another co-signer, the greatest class warrior in all of Congress, Michigan Democrat and man of the people, David Bonior. He's now earned the title of Congressman Ethanol. This crowd must have missed a recent General Accounting Office report, which found that the ethanol subsidy justifies none of its political boasts. It doesn't help air quality much, hardly reduces U.S. dependence on foreign oil and shovels much of its benefit to big ethanol producers. "Sixty-five percent of capacity is owned by the three largest firms, and the largest firm, Archer-Daniels-Midland, owns 50% of capacity," says the GAO study. Some things dubbed "corporate welfare" are arguably useful, but this isn't one of them. What's most notable, and depressing, about all of this is that it symbolizes the GOP Congress's change from reformers to incumbents. A majority Democratic coalition is naturally held together by its power to dispense government favors. But Republicans won their majority in 1994 running on ideas and reform. The danger for Republicans is that they are slowly evolving into a majority whose main rationale is keeping power. "That's what I fear more than anything," says Indiana Rep. David McIntosh, who voted against the budget deal for that reason. This may let Republicans keep their majority in 1998, but it hardly offers much reason to increase it, or much of an agenda. And sooner or later even House Democrats will figure out they can win back the House if they depict Republicans as the party of status quo government. All politicians claim to hate corporate welfare, but they vote for it when only the beneficiaries are watching. They could learn from T.J. Rodgers, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur, who has rounded up 61 fellow high-tech CEOs to say they support cutting corporate subsidies, even if it means giving up their own federal grants. Republicans are supposed to believe this too, as Bill Archer, to his credit, is reminding them. --from the Wall Street Urinal, used without permission, all rights ignored.

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