December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Dr. Dobbs Cryptography and Security CD-ROM
by Wesley Felter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 7/2/1997 10:10 AM, Paul Bradley said: >> A simpler solution (which I believe was used for Unix distribution >> CD's) would be to encrypt the naughty bits using a strong algorithm, >> say 56 bit DES :-), but only distribute the decryption key to >> USA/Canadian citizens. If you could get this past the Export people, >> you could make a single CD available world-wide. Don't forget to >> escrow the key with the French authorities. > >If someone made such a CD, then someone who obtained it within the US >posted the key so people outside US/Canada could decrypt the data, who >would be charged with exporting the software? Could there even be a case >for charging anyone, after all, keys are not covered in the export regs???? >It`s probably a moot point anyway as I doubt such a CD would be given an >export licence. Which reminds me of... Netscape can export 40-bit versions of Communicator, and according to one of their own employees (search back in the archives if you don't believe me) the only difference between the 40-bit version and the 128-bit version is a license file. Now license files aren't covered in export regulations, are they? So it's legal to export the 40-bit version of Communicator (which contains disabled 128-bit crypto) and it's legal to export the license file. Sounds like it's either not true or the government is stupider than I thought or the government is tired of trying to enforce such futile laws. Wesley Felter - wesley(a)binarycompass.com - Binary Compass Enterprises In BizRate we trust - <http://www.bizrate.com/> Disclaimer: My employer knows I'm crazy.

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Cooper/Birman message service / IBM's anonymous remailer
by ulf＠fitug.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have been pointed to a paper that addresses the problem of receiving messages anonymously without using a return path: David A. Cooper, Kenneth P. Birman: Preserving Privacy in a Network of Mobile Computers. IEEE symposium on Security and Privacy, May 1995. http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu/TR/CORNELLCS:TR95-1490 Their solution is similar to the one recently described by Matt Ghio on cypherpunks. Many of you sure are aware of the BABEL anonymous remailer developed by Ceki Gülcü and Gene Tsudik of IBM Zurich, but I have not seen it mentioned here. Their proposal for return paths is a significant improvement over cypherpunk-style reply blocks, but I still think that return addresses should be provided via message pools or similar means, while the mix net is used only to send messages anonymously. The paper, which is cited in the papers on Crowds and Onion Routing, contains a well thought-out section motivatiting the use of anonymous e-mail. Ceki Gülcü, Gene Tsudik: Mixing Email with BABEL. Proceedings of the Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (SNDSS '96). http://http://www.isi.edu/~gts/paps/gt95.ps.gz

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Interesting anonymous off-shore banking ad
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just came across the following ad on Usenet. For all I know this could be an El Federales troll. I'm reposting it because I thought it might be of interest. I know nothing more about it. From: OMG-OFFSHORE <omg(a)theoffice.net> Newsgroups: alt.business.home.pc,alt.business.offshore,alt.business.import-exp xt,alt.business.misc,misc.entrepreneurs,can.atlantic.biz,misc.forsale.non-comp xtr,biz.next.newprod,biz.marketplace.non-computer,biz.americast,biz.comp,biz.c xt.misc,biz.marketplace.international,biz.marketplace,biz.misc,biz.newgroup,bi xtomp.services,can.atlantic.forsale,can.atlantic.general,can.com.misc,misc.inv xt.marketplace,alt.internet.commerce,biz.univel.misc Subject: ANONYMOUS BANKING! Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 21:37:52 +0200 http://www.theoffice.net/omg We have updated our site! START YOUR OWN OFFSHORE BANK! Unlimited possibilities! Visit our site for more info. You will be able to set up your offshore bank for less than $10.000. The bank is registered in a major European country. No additional capital or qualification requirements. OFFSHORE BANKACCOUNT & CREDITCARD *No bank reference required *No minimum opening deposit *No creditchecks TOTALLY ANONYMOUS BANKACCOUNTS *Not even the bank will know who you are *No ID required for cash withdrawals TOTALLY ANONYMOUS COMPANIES & CORPORATE BANKACCOUNTS *Your name will not show up anywhere *Complete with corporate bankaccount ACCEPT CREDITCARDS *No Business history required *No monthly minimum *Not restricted to the United States *Mail order & Internet businesses accepted Visit our site at http://www.theoffice.net/omg -- ******************************************************************** OMG-OFFSHORE INC. Offshore bank accounts * Offshore company formations * 2nd Passports http://www.theoffice.net/omg mailto:omg@theoffice.net ******************************************************************** (As our Okrainian colleagues put it, "Za sho kupyv, za to prodav". -DV) --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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They want your keys
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A former federal organized-crime prosecutor in Los angeles has pleaded guilty to three felony charges in a scandal involving death threats, hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of fraud and the acceptance of cash payments from defendants. The former prosecutor, Andrew Pitt, 39, faces between 24 and 30 months in a federal prison. Last month Pitt filed a sworn statement admitting, among other things, that he had taken $98,000 from one infrmer facing criminal charges and $35,000 from another. He said he then recommended probation, instead of a prison sentence, for the first informer and repeatedly asked that the second informer be given additional time at large before reporting to prison. In addition Pitt admitted taking $33,000 from an illegal stock deal and transferr it to his own account. But Securities and Exchanges commission charged that Pitt also obtained at least $400,000 in illegal profits by manipulating stock in a company he controlled while serving as a prosecutor. And federal officials also charged that Pitt was associated with a group of stock swindlers who went to Montreal in 1995 with $350,000 to bribe people described in an indictment as "belived to be" Quebec government officials. A former assistant Los Angeles district attorney, Pitt was hired in 1988 as a prosecutor with a federal organized-crime task force The task force was merged the following year with the U.S. attorney's office. Pitt was the lead prosecutor in a high-profile case lining organized crime to the recording business. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Japanese Balloon Bomb Special - Info
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, During the discussion of the Japanese Balloon Bomb's and their history I mentioned a special on the Discovery Channel (TDC). That show is 'Discover Magazine'. Jim Choate TAG ravage(a)ssz.com

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update.328 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From physnews(a)aip.org Wed Jul 2 19:12:35 1997 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 97 11:02:31 EDT From: physnews(a)aip.org (AIP listserver) Message-Id: <9707021502.AA12498(a)aip.org> To: physnews-mailing(a)aip.org Subject: update.328 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 328 July 2, 1997 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE MARS PATHFINDER spacecraft arrives July 4 at its destination where, after firing retrorockets and deploying a parachute and numerous airbags, it will bounce to a halt on what was probably an ancient floodplain. After this, its missionary rover will venture forth to taste rocks and make movies. The local weather forecast calls for blue skies and wispy clouds with a small chance of a dust storm (currently 600 miles to the south), in which case the sky will be pink. In September another craft, the Mars Global Surveyor, will take up orbit around Mars. (For the latest update, view the JPL website: mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/) STORING AN OPTIMUM AMOUNT OF INFORMATION IN A PHOTON or any other quantum particle is possible even in the presence of noise, researchers have concluded (B. Schumacher et al., Physical Review A, July 1997; A.S. Holevo, upcoming in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory). A photon has many different quantum states, each of which can be made to represent a different digit. Furthermore, one can store many digits simultaneously in a single photon by putting it into a combination or "superposition" of many states. However, quantum mechanics prevents a measuring device from perfectly distinguishing between all these different states. Previously, physicists discovered that the maximum amount of information that can be read from a photon can be no greater than the amount of entropy, or disorder, it acquires when a range of quantum states is created to represent different digits. Now, the researchers show that this upper limit can be reached, even in a noisy environment, by utilizing several strategies, such as employing only those quantum states that are most distinguishable. These findings provide insights into how little energy is required to store a message. (For more details, go to www.aip.org/physnews/preview; Ben Schumacher, Kenyon College, 614-427-5832) HOLLOW NANOPARTICLE LUBRICANTS, consisting of fullerene-like tungsten disulfide balls, have performed well in friction and durability tests, and may be superior to other solid-state lubricants, which usually come in powdered form. The 100-nm WS2 balls (much smaller than conventional powder grains, microns across) are nested like some carbon nanotubes, but flexible. This, their chemical inertness, and the tendency to roll rather than slide when pushed, should make the nanoparticles a good lubricant at the micron scale, or as an additive in other lubricants. Scientists working at the Weizmann Institute and at the Center for Technological Education in Israel are now able to make gram amounts of the lubricant. (L. Rapoport et al., Nature, 19 June 1997.) ONE MEASURE OF A NATION'S SCIENTIFIC STRENGTH is the number of papers it generates and the citations those papers receive. For the period 1992-96, these were the top producers of papers in a select set of journals: US (1.3 million), UK (300,000), Japan (281,000), and Germany (259,000). Ranked according to citations per paper, the order becomes Switzerland (5.66), US (5.03), Netherlands (4.46), Sweden (4.38), and UK (4.19). The EU nations lumped together and the US each have a 36% share of total citations. The general trend these past 15 years has been for the US citation rate to remain high but for its citation share to give ground to the EU and to Asian/Pacific nations. (ISI ScienceWatch, May/June; also Nature, 5 June 1997.)

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What are the available anonymous remailers?
by Alan Tu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, I saw the address for this list in Jeff Licquia's PGP FAQ. I haven't subscribed to it heard, as the FAQ said traffic on this list could be 30-40 messages a day. As I'm attempting to cut down the time I spend on CompuServe... Unfortunately, that means if you want to get a message to me, you'll have to send it to me directly, you can't send it to the list. My address is atu5713(a)compuserve.com My public key is included in this message. Anyway, here comes my real question. I am interested in finding an easy-to-use no-nonsense anonymous remailer. But anon.penet.fi seems to have shut down. I sent mail to ping(a)anon.penet.fi and help(a)anon.penet.fi and I got a undeliverable message. Could someone point me to a remailer? Sincerely, Alan Tu Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024/E5D915E1 1997/04/27 Alan Tu <atu5713(a)compuserve.com> Alan Tu <102534.2165(a)compuserve.com> -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3i Comment: Requires PGP version 2.6 or later. mQCNAzNivkwAAAEEALdGUXD3j+RioIirVG46N6LaGD3YMMVVT5Mjwr5JojQsDICy 856I06Ugo/Fqid2A/os7v/gwE+Sj/WhMERgTsTejUZtsucTpS9sae+cc27Fjjq1l hOnqcLZqnHDDNyn3+jesVFPLnRlSoHbmcBK1XDW/SJT1anZz55ezmBrl2RXhAAUR tCBBbGFuIFR1IDxhdHU1NzEzQGNvbXB1c2VydmUuY29tPokAlQIFEDOguk6Xs5ga 5dkV4QEBBF8D/1B0ePqlMavWEUMP0uTmyvWFI7jooAcih6uHZFo2u+u3EzE2Is8X EoLHg39DhjleTHPu6TnGsWIiwDYEslzYeVw/Cglx6eliYIr/qs7peEywuhtZsEFH ln6yR9IE6rX3b3GCvPSQ5uPhXWrd2kWaZvG4rQ4Oj1m3yTrFaPRqCBPvtCRBbGFu IFR1IDwxMDI1MzQuMjE2NUBjb21wdXNlcnZlLmNvbT4= =fwyg -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Test 3
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Test name/spaces no quotes

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Test 4
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Test / multiple posts Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 2 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 03:33:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)basement.replay.com> To: <wombat(a)bc.sympatico.ca> The original message was received at Thu, 3 Jul 1997 03:33:42 +0200 (MET DST) from wombat.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.5.136] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/usr/home/replay/.mixmaster/mixmaster -R | /usr/home/replay/.remailer/remailer || exit 75" (expanded from: <remailer(a)REPLAY.COM>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Cannot fork 554 "|/usr/home/replay/.mixmaster/mixmaster -R | /usr/home/replay/.remailer/remailer || exit 75"... unknown mailer error 2 Cannot fork ----- Original message follows ----- Return-Path: <wombat(a)bc.sympatico.ca> Received: from wombat.sk.sympatico.ca (wombat.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.5.136]) by basement.replay.com (8.8.5/RePlay, Inc.) with ESMTP id DAA15223 for <remailer(a)REPLAY.COM>; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 03:33:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from default (lohner31.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.98.31]) by wombat.sk.sympatico.ca with SMTP (8.7.1/8.7.1) id TAA13669 for <remailer(a)REPLAY.COM>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 19:30:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <33BB013D.1242(a)sk.sympatico.ca> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 19:32:45 -0600 From: Rabid Wombat <wombat(a)bc.sympatico.ca> Reply-To: wombat(a)bc.sympatico.ca X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-SYMPA (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: remailer(a)REPLAY.COM Subject: Kent finally comes around / Re: NRA and National Online Records Check bullshit References: <v03102805afdee15fe080(a)[207.167.93.63]> <3.0.2.32.19970702205025.03d40f54(a)panix.com> <19970702180331.11847(a)bywater.songbird.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ;; Anon-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Kent Crispin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 1997 at 08:50:25PM -0400, frissell(a)panix.com wrote: > >Quite simple. Eliminate prison, encourage everyone to carry weapons, wait 6 > >months, then well behaved people will predominate and many of the maladjusted > >will find themselves well-adjusted or dead. > > Along with a far larger number of well-adjusted innocents. And the > maladjusted who aren't dead will be in power. I believe you meant to say "will _remain_ in power." > No question about it, the only hope for the human race is wide > dispersal. Everybody should join the L5 society, if it still exists, > or become a terrorist Luddite, and bomb us back to the stone age. Are you finally coming around to a cypherpunk frame of mind, Kent, or is this a cheap political ploy to get the "Cypherpunk of the Year" award? > But the Earth is doomed, anyway, in 5 billion years. And we have > either the grand crunch or the heat death of the universe to contend > with after that. Hopeless. The religious right is working to get a law passed to prevent this from happening, since it is evolutionary hocus-pocus that goes against belief in God as the Creator. The law will no doubt be nullified by the Supreme Court as violating the separation of church and state. > Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", > kent(a)songbird.com Tim May, he kindly spoke... TruthMonger

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Re: Liberating the Bits
by dshipman＠ewol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:59 PM 7/2/97 -0500, you wrote: >On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Tim May wrote: > >> Hey! I got mine and I'm keeping it! >> Just because a bunch of gullible people believed my company's claim >> that we owned the results of our creative ideas doesn't mean that I >> have to be a sucker, too. >> > >If you're willing to admit you got yours under false pretenses, >the rest of us would like to have it back. Now. > >MacN > Wow... and not on AOL. Come on guys, from now on would you attach a midi laugh track to your jokes so the humor deprived will know its a spoof? dLs -----------------------------------------------

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