December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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CDT complains to my editors after post to cypherpunks
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[CDT's Jonah Seiger copied this message to my editors. I'm still waiting for him to answer my questions. --Declan] --- Subject: Re: The Commerce committee votes are up at crypto.com Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:29:17 -0400 From: Jonah Seiger <jseiger(a)cdt.org> To: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> Declan -- If you are curious about what it is about your style that bothers CDT so much, start with this hostile, accusitory message posted to a public list (in this case, cypherpunks). This message is not a question -- it's an attack. It assumes the answer before it's asked, and it's nothing more than read meat thrown to a hungry crowd. If you have questions about how we set up the site, or how we feel about the results of Wednesday's Commerce Committee vote, all you have to do is contact us. We will be happy to talk to you. This is the way every other journalist we work with operates. Unfortunately, your pattern is different. I would have thought that after last week's unfortunate incident you would have learned something. Perhaps I was assuming too much. Jonah At 11:19 PM -0400 9/25/97, Declan McCullagh wrote: >Thanks, Shabbir, for putting this vital information online. But I'm a >little puzzled. I fear the CDT/VTW crypto.com web site may be misleading. > >You say, for instance, that opposing SAFE yesterday was a vote "against >Internet privacy" and "against passing the SAFE bill out of committee." >That's not true. The Markey-White-amended bill the committee approved >yesterday was not the SAFE bill. It was a deviant version with important >differences from SAFE. > >The Markey-White amendment includes: the doubled crypto-in-a-crime >penalties (10-20 years!), the sop to eventual mandatory key recovery by >including liability immunity for turning over keys to the Feds or the >sheriff of Podunk County, the bogus NETcenter that effectively gives the >NSA a statutory basis for domestic evildoing, etc. (Markey wanted to take >credit for killing the original SAFE. He told the Washington Post "after >the vote" that the original, better, Goodlatte SAFE "no longer exists as a >political option." That's right -- thanks to his own amendment...) > >The second and third votes are essentially the same: should the above >provisions be in the Commerce committee of the bill. But why do you avoid >taking a position on whether the second vote on Markey-White was good or >bad? > >If the second description was to avoid taking a position on Markey-White, >it doesn't work. You say in your third description that a vote for the >amended Markey-White bill was a good one. Why would CDT/VTW endorse such >disturbing legislation? (And not admit it?) To what extent was CDT/VTW >involved in drafting Markey-White and to what extent did you encourage >committee members to vote for it? > >Also, the description for the third vote is misleading by itself. It just >says "report SAFE" when it should say "report SAFE with Markey-White >provisions" out of committee. > >And, given these problems with Markey-White, why is the CDT/VTW crypto.com >site counting a vote for the Markey-White-amended bill as a vote for >"Internet privacy?" I should think that given the problems -- such as >doubling of crypto-in-a-crime and sop towards mandatory key recovery -- >that a vote against the Markey-White-amended bill is a //good// vote, not >one against Net-privacy. > >If a legislator wanted to vote for Internet freedom and reject deviant >bills, he should have voted against Oxley, Markey-White, and against >passing the bill with Markey-White out of committee yesterday. (That would >have left the cleaner Judiciary committee version of SAFE as a more likely >option.) Rep. Brown, for instance, did just that -- yet you tar him as >against Internet freedoms. > >Go figure. > >-Declan > > >crypto.com says: > >>Voted in favor of Internet privacy at the full >>Commerce committee vote on Sep 24 1997. This vote was >>against attaching the Oxley-Manton 'Big Brother' >>amendment to SAFE. >> >>Voted against the Markey-White amendment at the full >>Commerce committee vote on Sep 24 1997. The vote was >>against attaching the Markey-White amendment to SAFE. >> >>Voted against Internet privacy at the full Commerce >>committee vote on Sep 24 1997. The vote was against >>passing the SAFE bill out of committee. > > > >At 17:56 -0400 9/25/97, Shabbir J. Safdar wrote: >>Last night's votes on SAFE in the Commerce committee are in place at >>http://www.crypto.com/member/ >> >>Simply select the member of Congress you're curious about, either by zip code >>or by state, and you can see how they voted in the three Commerce votes >>last night. Then, you can call and yell or send kudos. * Value Your Privacy? The Government Doesn't. Say 'No' to Key Escrow! * Adopt Your Legislator - http://www.crypto.com/adopt -- Jonah Seiger, Communications Director (v) +1.202.637.9800 Center for Democracy and Technology pager +1.202.859.2151 <jseiger(a)cdt.org> PGP Key via finger http://www.cdt.org http://www.cdt.org/homes/jseiger

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

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: Remailer latencies (fwd) > Date: Sat, 27 Sep 97 10:17:52 -0400 > From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr(a)together.net> > I am incline to think that as the traffic goes up the need to > generate 'n' mails for each 'real' inbound/outbound goes down. In effect as you get more popular your traffic becomes easier to track. I don't think I would use a remailer that advertised this 'feature'. Traffic analysis is something that is easily automated so the measure of success (to my mind anyway) is what sort of resources would a mallet need to get a solution versus the time frame that solution might we relevant. Admittedly this is a very sloppy area of remailers, I am not aware of any analysis with anon. remailers in mind. If anyone does know of a source please cough it up... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | 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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cypherpunks in my doctoral research
by David J. Phillips 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've been writing a doctoral dissertation in which cypherpunks play a prominent role. The research focuses on the negotiations by which standards of identification are incorporated into new consumer payment systems. In particular, I am looking at how issues of privacy, anonymity, and identification are woven into public discussions of these systems. I have identified three systems (Ecash, Mondex, and Citibank's EMS), and I've analyzed talk about these systems in three sites - press articles, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the cypherpunks mailing list. If you're interested, I'd appreciate any comments on this work. I've posted a draft of the cypherpunks section on my web site: <http://www.asc.upenn.edu/USR/sphill/punks.htm>. I'm especially interested in knowing if you believe that my analysis is accurate and complete, and if you believe its publication might effect cypherpunks themselves, or the social and political projects which cypherpunks share. I would like to add one caveat. I had to limit my analysis to a particular time period. Neither the discussion, nor the list, nor the entity of cypherpunks is the same now as then. Please bear this in mind as you read. And please forward this note to anyone who may be interested, but is no longer part of the cypherpunks list. Thanks. David J. Phillips Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania

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No Subject
by Martin Minow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From <http://www.scripting.com/davenet/stories/BillGatesonPrivacy.html> (an e-mail from Bill Gates to Dave Winer) Bill Gates on Privacy >From Bill Gates, billg(a)microsoft.com: Since I last sent you email on this topic things have gotten a lot worse. The FBI and the Administration have bills in both the Congress and the Senate that would force all software sold in the United State by 1999 to allow the government to get at the keys without the user knowing. Besides the issues of this making it very difficult for us to sell software to countries like Germany and Canada who want strong encryption without any backdoor and the issue of how to have the old software work with the new, there is a huge issue of privacy here. The backdoors that the government is requiring would create a huge security hole that could be misused. I am spending a lot of time on this - calling Congressman and Senators. However the FBI and the administration are suggesting that restricting the software industry is key to fighting criminals. Of course they don't say that criminals will still find it very easy to pre-encrypt the information they send. For some reason the public isn't hearing about this issue at all. I can't believe there isn't more of an outcry. When it went from an export restriction to a restriction on sofware in the US there should have been a lot of headlines.

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Remailers and ecash
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Just out of a curiousity, why is it that no remailers accept ecash? (This is not a jibe at remailer operators or authors of remailer software. I am really curious if this is a "didn't get to it yet" sort of thing, or if there's something hard about it.) The brutally simple way to do this would be to generate an ecash certificate, made out to cash, and tack it at the beginning of a message which is then encrypted for the remailer. The modifications to the remailer software seem (to me) to be slight since you just call the Digicash application and ask it to try depositing the payment. If it works, the message is handled. Since everybody is in the habit of not paying, you could just give priority to paying customers. People who don't want to pay get their mail delayed by four hours. Some people may pay to expedite some messages but not others. There are probably better ways to do it, but that would get it up and running. What aspects of this problem am I missing? Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNCyV7JaWtjSmRH/5AQEdDAf+L/8KmV2fTeRPtkD2mSRcyLoyJh0pj8lc KSkXfFeQyTleiw7iPaF02PgNWgEXuFF5np02Qksz9LvcdWJR8Al6WyyiyOdGOo0S lCuguS1CPGYhfJktvyvWLMkWlimICGfy6G7I3vkzIdRsS1tsCTCEHq8XM1/u8RuU GBejo9ZUYu5CR4BzlbG/eJqUhQMgQkzOE9pifQGFGkEAX7cKxL/DImlIEpcSYavj OncVb808gd746bS53fg6X6U7U5G1GFhL0CAP1Vk0HBDU+a3UdDue29Sn40Dugw2m g8qkIYGQGvZxCJK5u6FcMaN7b7WyjjZTqSC5/nTDO5yAPbZqppuKhQ== =2b7M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RETURN OF THE BUFFALO -AMERINDIAN GREENWIND
by United Eco-action Fund 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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John Muir We must triple the pace of environmental protection to prevent catastrophic events. Misinformation disseminated by vested interests, ignorance, and apathy are our greatest enemies. The task is so immense that everyone is duty-bound to help with money, time, or both. "If nothing else can unite us, the ecological crisis will." Joseph Campbell The dimensions of this planetary emergency are truly frightening. We are at the turning point. To leave the problem to the next generation would be criminal. We must not condemn posterity to irretrievable desolation and suffering. Everyone must learn the facts ASAP so that united we can restore balance. REFUTING A THEOLOGICAL ERROR THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN BIBLE DOES NOT ISSUE A LICENSE TO DESTROY THE EARTH; "DOMINION" OF GOD'S CREATION MEANS RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP. The duty to care for the earth is rooted in the fundamental relationship between God, creation, and humankind. In the Book of Genesis, Judaism first taught that after God created the earth, He "saw that it was good." In the Twenty-fourth Psalm, we learn that "the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." How can one glorify the Creator while heaping contempt on the creation? THE BIBLE SHOWS GOD'S CONCERN FOR BIODIVERSITY "But with thee I will establish my covenant... of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive" Genesis 6:18-20. Therefore, all Christians are duty-bound to actively help restore God's creation. WHERE THERE IS POVERTY, LAND DEGRADATION FOLLOWS, CAUSING MORE POVERTY--A VICIOUS CYCLE Poverty and land degradation are curable in a well-governed technological world. 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Re: Why the White amendment is a good idea
by Jim Gillogly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan wrote: > First, the NETcenter was sold to the Commerce cmte yesterday as a way to > perform successful cryptanalysis on enciphered documents. The rhetoric was > all about keeping codebreakers up to date with codemakers. To anyone with > a glimmering of a clue about modern cryptography, this is complete > bullshit. Industry lobbyists on Monday also tried to push this line at a > press conference; I called them on it and they said, no, I was wrong, this > center would let the FBI keep up with the times. Yeah right. While a cryppie center wouldn't help the FBI keep up with strong cryptography used well, they would find it very useful in dealing with weak cryptography and with strong cryptography used bozotically. The recent Denning and Baugh study on how much harm crypto has done to law enforcement investigations points this out strongly. They found that crypto has not in fact prevented successful investigation and prosecution. They did encounter crypto, and in each case they were either able to break it (because it's cheesy McCrypto Wordmaster kid crypto), or they were able to find the keywords or plaintext somewhere in the perp's house or computers. Until we have serious seamless apps, there will be plenty of chances for law enforcement to get at the plaintext one way or another. Do you use your super-4096-bit-RSA-key-international PGP under Windows? If so, do you disable and wipe your swap file? Do you use it under Linux? If so, do you even know where your swap file is? The FBI with a competent cryppie center would. Just because they couldn't break the good stuff doesn't mean they couldn't successfully support the vast majority of law enforcement investigations. Whether this means it should or shouldn't be implemented is another question -- perhaps it would serve as a spur to people to use their tools more sensibly, as well as giving the FBI something more useful to do than spending public money lobbying Congress. -- Jim Gillogly Mersday, 6 Winterfilth S.R. 1997, 18:45 12.19.4.9.14, 2 Ix 12 Chen, Fifth Lord of Night

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T-shirts (was Re: D.A.R.E.--Drugs Are Reality Enhancers)
by Sandy Harris 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Many of you have seen my "D.A.R.E." t-shirt that I wear occasionally to Bay > Area parties and events. For those who haven't: > > > (in large red letters) D.A.R.E. > > I turned in my parents > and all I got was this > stupid t-shirt > ROFL! Burroughs suggested "Drug hysteria: just say no!" Anyone care to make some up with: Escrowed encryption: just say no!

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Re: Remailers and ecash
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >At 03:18 AM 9/27/97 -0400, Anonymous (Monty Cantsin) wrote: >>Just out of a curiousity, why is it that no remailers accept ecash? >> >>The brutally simple way to do this would be to generate an ecash >>certificate, made out to cash, and tack it at the beginning of a >>message which is then encrypted for the remailer. > >The answer to your question may be to first recast your questions and >ask why would someone want to attach ecash? I assume you are trying >to "pay" for the email you send. This goes against the general model >of the internet. We are solving a different problem. The reason I want to attach ecash is to get good reliable service and to encourage many other people to offer good high quality remailing services. Let's a remailer operator can make $200/month by handling messages at 25 cents each. (That's 800 messages a month, hardly overwhelming.) You might not go public on that much revenue, but you might use your desktop machine as a remailer. >Unlike the phone company, the net peers freely with no >interconnection charges, so inter lata charges do not have to be >tracked and collected. This allows for a flat rate pricing scheme. >For remailers, this flat rate is generally zero dollars, i.e. free. Free usually doesn't work very well, and it isn't working well now. Use of ecash in the remailer network means there is no tracking and collecting or a final bill. This would somewhat defeat the purpose of using remailers, would it not? >There are remailers of various types who offer services for a charge >of some sort. This is generally a flat rate fee, either per month, >or per year. Really? How does this work? (And which remailers offer these services?) If implemented naively, each message must carry some sort of identifier. Even if the owner of the account isn't known, all of his messages are easily linked. This is undesirable. A more sophisticated implementation would use something like blinded credentials. But, that's the functionality ecash provides anwyay, right now, this day, without any work. So why not leverage off it and take advantage of the payment features as well? >There is likely no desire to price on a per item basis. If there >were, I would think it would be in the millicent range of pricing. Given the existing infrastructure, per item pricing is the easiest to implement while retaining full anonymity. Digicash and Mark Twain Bank already did the hard work! They already have a bank set up! All we have to do is make use of it. As for millicent pricing, we'll see. Once things get rolling, the price should fall below a quarter. But it will have to be high enough to make running a remailer worth the trouble. There also seems to be an idea that there is some big R&D investment in adapting a remailer to use e-cash. There isn't. You have to open an account at Mark Twain Bank. You have to figure out how to call the Digicash executable from within a Perl script. (Since nobody has corrected me on this, I am becoming confident that it is really as easy as I think.) Why not try it? Worst case, you lose a little time. Best case, you get rich and the remailer network takes off. Here's another reason why this is important to cypherpunks. We would really like to see wider use of e-cash. It is a great product and it respects our privacy. The way ecash will catch on is that a small group of people will start using it regularly for services and trade within their loosely defined community. Once things start rolling, more people and services can be added. Once things catch on, they will snowball. The place to start is in this group with the remailers. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNC1w2JaWtjSmRH/5AQEppQf+NeHEHtJhcGy3qov3yO4VHoDzzxAfHbkL VtSoww8x/+EDoEFGzXqKCN9z7IpLTLsT7402zorawWUaQsrvhfC8y1h7emCidEPz XF41pIG0RbXY2ht23CfRrh14c+u9SxUzqZg61WsSb3w9BceZuv5dPGha+eyIg7eU LyyIPzgISB4EdR5uijTPMTsQaYwbqW/3ieuWrCe1jrGyemgTtZCmYg3R+zKn/0kH Gwu/AYjkDPh7y66kTUfgtcdLZDV3rnCC1z/Nb/XN/9AMpt264XCTgS6hZ+WWFEoj Ep+RLV2OP6uGtrU9vD3lw7B72e5lJYkemWLwIz3u+Ak1cYmRll/Cuw== =8F9p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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