December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Charles Platt on wiretaps, government abuse of power
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Charles is an author, a Wired contributor, and a friend. --Declan] ------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:28:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Platt <cp(a)panix.com> On 26 Sep 1997, Nathaniel Daw wrote: > > Indeed, state and local law enforcement authorities account for > > 50% of all the electronic surveillance court orders in the United > > States. > > Does anyone else find this statistic profoundly shocking, and for > reasons opposite from Herr Freeh's intent? 50% of surveillance court > orders come from the Feds? When I visited EPIC in DC I was told (reliably, I think) that wiretaps are not in fact a widely used technique in federal law enforcement--at least, not wiretaps that are done via correct legal procedure, with a court order. Subsequently I spoke to a friend whose father is an officer in Indiana state police; and he was of the opinion that "unofficial" wiretaps at the local level are relatively common as a means of confirming police suspicions prior to a fullscale investigation to obtain evidence admissible in court. (Obviously an illegal wiretap is not admissible.) Of course this is anecdotal, but it looks to me as if the real use for wiretaps--in today's society, at least--is as an informal timesaver. Tap someone's phone for a few days, see if there's anything interesting, and if there is, THEN pursue a formal investigation. Of course, Freeh may have ambitions extending far beyond this relatively trivial, low-level stuff. Even if he didn't, though, you could see that law enforcement would feel pissed about being deprived (potentially) of a convenient labor-saving tool. Since it costs Freeh nothing to agitate in favor of Total Access, why not give it a try? Demand something unreasonable, then settle for whatever he can get. As for the Constitution ... this of course is merely an archaic concept to which officials pay occasional lip service, like lapsed Catholics who still take communion once in a while, just to keep up appearances. The one positive aspect of all this is that officials and appointees are exposing themselves--proudly, without apology--as the unprincipled, corrupt opportunists we always suspected they were. As the radical British Member of Parliament Ken Livingstone once remarked (in a public speech): "When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible." ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Plea from a parent who wants to keep their kid free of SSNs
by Syniker＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

yes dec -- but is Jane using PGP??? Larry.

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Re: Remailer Attack (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:31:48 -0700 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Re: Remailer Attack > Generally, a bunch of things would be nice to have: > [several original examples deleted] - some sort of legal protection and recognition for the remailer operators - some mechanism for them to operate as a business entity with a clear profit. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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PARTY!
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, Like Barbie says, "Math is hard!" Below, is an invitation to my next and best costume party of all time. It even has the correct date and everything. Do come if you can. It will be a doozie. S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AREA 51+ PARTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Pleasure of Your Company is Cordially Requested at the: Third Occasional Anarcho-Dilettante Pick-Your-Own-Damned-There, Masquerade Ball, Talent Show And Halloween Rehearsal 7:00pm Saturday October 18--3:00am Sunday October 19 650 Kenwyn Road (at McKinley) Oakland, California Loads of things happened on October 18. We're not going to tell you which one to commemorate. That's up to you. Check out the birthdays and historical events listed below. Pick one or go with something else. Your call. But no matter what theme you pick, it IS a masquerade ball, so you MUST wear a costume (or at least a mask). NO EXCEPTIONS. (Please, adults only. We regret that our house is very unsuitable for children.) THE ENTERTAINMENT At 8:00pm there will be a Dance Recital featuring Rainbeau, Gracie, Tish and Blythe. You DO NOT want to miss this. At 9:00pm there will be a Guest Talent Show. If you can sing, dance, tell a joke or pull a rabbit out of a hat, we IMPLORE you to sign up for this featured event. There will be prizes! CALL FOR TAPES If you did not like the music at the previous parties, we encourage you to bring a tape. We will play them for thirty minutes or until those actually dancing revolt. The default music will be Digital Music Express Dance Music Channel (or 70's disco by dance floor request). DOOR PRIZES Around Midnight, there will be a drawing for valuable and/or unique Door Prizes. (You must be present to win.) COMESTIBLES There will be some snacks and soft drinks, but if you are really hungry, it might be a good idea to eat before you come. B.Y.O.B. (Smoke'em if ya got'em, but outside, please. the house is a smoke-free zone.) RSVP Whether or not you are planning to attend, we want to hear from you. Please give the hosts a call so we can plan on your presence OR absence. Invited guests may bring additional celebrants WITH PRIOR PERMISSION OF THE HOSTS. This means you must call a host and get permission for EACH of the people you intend to bring. The house is big, but it is possible to have too many attendees. YOUR HOSTS Head Anarchist in Charge, Sandy Sandfort 510-839-3441/sandfort(a)crl.com House Hosts with the Most, Gracie & Zarkov 510-832-2044/emyrt(a)aol.com Web page host Sameer Parekh and C2Net Software 510-547-3617/sameer(a)c2.net P.S. THERE WILL BE A LATE FEE OF 10 CENTS PER MINUTE FOR EACH MINUTE YOU ARRIVE AFTER 8:00PM. The party starts at 7:00, so you get an our for free. Late fees will be used to defray costs. (This is no joke. More than $100 was collected at each of the last two parties.) Pictures from the 2nd Occasional Masquerade Ball may be found at: http://www.c2.net/~sandy/web.htm OCTOBER 18 IN HISTORY This is "Any Way You Look at It" Day! On this day in 1961, Henri Matisse's painting, "Le Bateau" went on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. For six days, nobody realized it was hanging upside down. 1842 - Samuel Finley Breese Morse, laid his first telegraph cable in New York Harbor between the Battery and Governor's Island. 1892 - The first long-distance telephone communication was established between the mayors of New York and Chicago. 1924 - The term "Four Horsemen" was used in a "New York Herald Tribune" article by columnist Grantland Rice. The referenced Four Horsemen were the backfield of the University of Notre Dame which had beaten Army, 13-7. 1935 - Victor record #25236 was recorded this day by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra. It would become one of the most familiar Big Band themes of all time: "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You". 1943 - The first broadcast of "Perry Mason" was presented on CBS Radio. In the 15-minute (Monday-Friday) shows, Perry was played by Barlett Robinson, Santos Ortega, Donald Briggs and John Larkin. Larkin played the role the longest and was reportedly very disappointed when Raymond Burr got the gig on TV (1957). 1944 - The epic book, "Forever Amber", was published. This historic-romance novel was written by Kathleen Windsor. Although the book was very popular among women between the ages of 12 and 24, it was considered scandalous to be seen reading it; a reaction that lasted at least another three decades. 1956 - Football commissioner Bert Bell turned thumbs down on the use of radio-equipped helmets by NFL quarterbacks. 1971 - The final issue of "Look" magazine was published. It had been a must-see publication every week for 34 years. 1977 - Reggie Jackson made history and earned the nickname, Mr. October. Regg-a-roo (as Howard Cosell called him) hit three home runs on three successive pitches leading the Yankees to an 8-4 thrashing of the LA Dodgers in Game 6 of the World Series. 1979 - Following extensive renovation to return Radio City Music Hall to the look and feel of its 1931 Art Deco glory, the venerable New York City theatre reopened. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was the first live presentation. 1983 - Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton received some gold to add to their collections --for their smash, "Islands in the Stream". OCTOBER 18 BIRTHDAYS 1854 - Salomon Andree (explorer: ill-fated North Pole expedition) 1859 - Henri Bergson (Nobel prize-winning philosopher, author: Creative Evolution) 1898 - Lotte Lenya (Karoline Blamauer) (Tony Award-winning singer, actress: Threepenny Opera; From Russia with Love, Semi-Tough, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone) 1902 - Miriam Hopkins (actress: The Children's Hour, The Chase, Carrie, Barbary Coast) 1906 - James Brooks (artist: Flight: 235 ft. mural at La Guardia National Airport, NY; abstract expressionist exhibit: Ninth Street Exhibition) 1918 - Bobby Troup (actor: Emergency; singer, musician, TV host: Stars of Jazz; married to singer, Julie London) 1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada) 1925 - Melina Mercouri (actress: Never on Sunday, Once is Not Enough, Topkapi; Greece's Minister of Culture) 1926 - Chuck (Charles Edward Anderson) Berry (singer: Lifetime Achievement Grammy; Maybellene, Roll Over Beethoven, School Day, Rock & Roll Music, Sweet Little Sixteen, Johnny B. Goode, My Ding-A-Ling; in film: Rock, Rock, Rock) 1927 - George C. Scott (Academy Award-winning actor: Patton; Anatomy of a Murder, The Day of the Dolphin, The Hanging Tree, Taps, Oklahoma Crude, The Prince and the Pauper, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Malice) 1928 - Keith Jackson (sportscaster: ABC Sports, Wide World of Sports) 1933 - Peter Boyle (Emmy Award-winning actor: The X-Files; Taxi Driver, While You were Sleeping, Young Frankenstein, Midnight Caller, From Here to Eternity [TV]) 1933 - Forrest Gregg (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Green Bay Packers offensive tackle: Super Bowl I, II; Dallas Cowboys: Super Bowl VI; head coach: Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals: AFC Coach of the Year [1981]: Super Bowl XVI; Green Bay Packers; Southern Methodist University Athletic Director) 1934 - Inger Stevens (Stensland) (actress: The Farmer's Daughter, Madigan, A Guide for the Married Man, Hang 'Em High) 1937 - Boyd Dowler (football: Green Bay Packers wide receiver: Super Bowl I, II) 1939 - Mike Ditka (Pro & College Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears Rookie of the Year; Philadelphia Eagles; Dallas Cowboys tight end: Super Bowl V, VI; Chicago Bears head coach: Super Bowl XX; TV sports analyst: NBC Sports) 1943 - Willie Horton (baseball: Detroit Tigers outfielder) 1947 - Laura Nyro (singer: Up on the Roof; songwriter: Wedding Bell Blues, Blowin' Away, And When I Die, Stoney End, Stoned Soul Picnic, Sweet Blindness, Eli's Coming, Time and Love, Save the Country) 1950 - Wendy Wasserstein (writer: The Heidi Chronicles, Bachelor Girls) 1951 - Pam Dawber (actress: Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam) 1952 - Jerry Royster (baseball: LA Dodgers pitcher) 1960 - Jean Claude Van Damme (actor: Kickboxer, Universal Soldier, Double Impact, Hard Target, Nowhere to Run, Predator II) 1961 - Erin Moran (actress: Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Don Rickles Show, Daktari, Galaxy of Terror, Twirl, Watermelon Man, How Sweet It Is!) 1961 - Wynton Marsalis (Grammy Award-winning musician: jazz/ classical trumpet: Think of One [1983]; played on: Father & Sons; in orchestra: Sweeney Todd; composer: TV theme song for Shannon's Deal) OCTOBER 18 CHART TOPPERS 1957 Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley Be-Bop Baby/Have I Told You Lately That I Love You - Ricky Nelson Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers 1965 Yesterday - The Beatles Treat Her Right - Roy Head You've Got Your Troubles - The Fortunes Behind the Tear - Sonny James 1973 Half-Breed - Cher Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers Band Angie - The Rolling Stones Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez 1981 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do) - Christopher Cross For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton Private Eyes - Daryl Hall and John Oates Step by Step - Eddie Rabbitt THIRD SATURDAY IN OCTOBER Sweetest Day Frabjous Day Ironman Triathalon MISC. Persons Day (Canada) St. Luke's Day (patron of doctors, painters, glassmakers, artists, butchers, notaries, sculptors) Festival of Poetic Terrorism Alaska Day Pandrosos (Greek all-refreshing Goddess) Great Horn Fair (Kent, UK) National Chocolate Cupcake Day Chile Independence Day No Beard Day Lukesmas International Credit Union Day Ivory Soap invented 1st Art school opened Sandblasting patented BBC Radio established (1922) H.E.W. banned cyclamates Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth founded (1895) Puerto Rico became US Colony (1898) Lincoln shaved off his beard Hi and Lois comic strip began (1954) Water Pollution Control Act passed (1972) XYZ Affair Citroen 2CV automobile introduced (1948) Roseanne debuted (1988) 1st War Crimes trial began (1945) Disney's Jungle Book premiered John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrested for marijuana possession (London; 1968) Rules of American Football 1st formulated (1873) US attacked Iranian oil rig in retaliation for gunboat attacks (1987) International Court of Justice at the Hague announced (1907) UK declared Canadian women to be "persons" (1929) Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes forcing many protestants (aka Huguenots) to flee France (1685) Teddy Roosevelt is ridiculed in the press for inviting black leader Booker T. Washington to the White House (1901)

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Re: Remailer latency (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 18:42:45 -0400 > From: Joey Grasty <jgrasty(a)gate.net> > Subject: Re: Remailer latency > At 11:58 PM 9/25/97 +0200, Anonymous wrote: > >If you operate a remailer, please tell us what you need to make it > >really work well. Perhaps the rest of us can help make it happen. > > Sure. Send me $125 a month for a dedicated line, and I'll insure > that you get low latencies on winsock. Malarky. Some basic issues regarding the physical infrastructure (YMMV): - since the lines are answered by modem and not voice AND they are not answered as the business you can use residential lines which means a much lower cost of operation. - assuming 1 in-dial and 1 out-dial (needed for maximum throughput and minimum latency) you only need long-distance on the dial-out. - the pricing on the move of my 4 POTS broke down thus: Line # Install $ Monthly $ Function 1 38.35 16.63 dial-in, no ld 2 30.95 16.63 dial-in, no ld 3 16.35 16.63 dial-in, no ld 4 16.35 30.08 voice w/ ld, call notes, caller id - the pricing on my other aspects are: ISDN 0.00 w/ 2 yr. 80.00 main link to contract provider Electrcity 12.00 per machine Modem 200.00 per line ISP 0.00 w/ 2 yr. 400.00 backup DNS, contract 4-day mail cache, admin account, usenet server access, full C-class, backup dial-in, their ISDN costs - you should also arrange legal and financial support Maybe that will give you a Ctl. Texas base-line for estimating what it would take to do the job. I should have an estimate for T1 pricing and setups in a couple of weeks, say something and I'll post the current status. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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MISTY algorithm
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Future reading ??
by jason 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, can anybody suggest any good books on cryptanalysis (or papers etc). I've read most of Applied Cryptography. What would be a good next step, reading wise ?? Thanks Jason

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pna.show_story?p_art_id=347867&p_section_name=Sci-Tech
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Remailer latencies (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:32:14 -0600 > From: A Player To Be Named Later <aptbnl(a)dev.null> > Subject: Re: Remailer latencies > And, since you asked, would it not be in the interests of remailer > operators to have a script which would generate random text, encrypt > it to various remailers and send it out as 'cover traffic'? > It would seem to me that this would be particularly valuable for the > remailers that receive the least amount of traffic. This aspect of traffic cover is more complex than it at first seems. Take for example the second simplest model that I am aware of. For each email that comes in n bogus emails go out with one remailed copy. So for each email we receive we end up processing n+2 emails. Since to be useful n must be reasonably larger than 2 to be effective we are left with a quandry. As we process more traffic (ie become successful) we find our bandwidth need growing at a linear rate of n, unfortunately the skills and resources to support this increase also get larger as we become more successful. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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