December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

SET and dual use
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Sender: e$(a)thumper.vmeng.com Reply-To: ptharrison <ptharrison(a)delphi.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Precedence: Bulk Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 23:01:00 -0400 From: ptharrison <ptharrison(a)delphi.com> To: Multiple recipients of <e$(a)thumper.vmeng.com> Subject: SET and dual use -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Worldwide Conspiracy of International Bankers is now engaged in an unprecedented attack on the Nation State. Last month, a so-called consortium of very large banks and their lackies the branded credit card companies issued a detailed plan to put strong cryptography into the hands of every statistically creditworthy human being on the planet. In issuing the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol, this cabal of transnational, stateless seekers of interest income and acquisition discounts have detailed a plan by which every merchant which accepts credit cards, every institution which issues them, and incredibly every individual who posesses them would be able to register and share public keys. Going far beyond the puny efforts of the "cypherpunks" who established primitive pretty good privacy key servers and built a web of trust over the past several years, the International Banking Conspiracy is attempting to set up a gargantuan web of certificate authorities to support individuals and corporations in the publication of their cryptographic identities. The unpatriotic stools of this conspiracy within our own US government are expected to legitimize this unholy plan by permitting the wholesale export of SET-related products under the guise that SET is purely a financial transaction processing system. However, over time it will become clear that this was the beginning of the end. The SET co-conspirators have made it abundantly clear in their specification that the financial security and viability of their entire initiative relies on the absolute privacy of each individual's personal keys. This explicit rejection of the sharing of keys effectively rules out key escrow schemes for SET. After an unprecedented global training excercise, in which the Banking Conspiracy will inculcate the imperative that private keys must NEVER be shared with anyone (or else your credit cards will be cancelled or your merchant status revoked), and after worldwide rollout of products intended to allow secret communications over any network connection including the backbone internet, the public telephone system, radio channels, through corporate and national firewalls, and even by "carrier pigeon" the "consortium" will exend the SET protocol to allow the sending of so-called EDI messages (communications which can be effectively on any topic between any two parties) over the established global secret network. An age of secure private communications will be ushered in. And then...separate SET-protocol webs will be established where the "CAs", "merchants" and "cardholders" are simply pseudonyms for...revolutionary forces intent on trafficing in guns, laundering money and replacing world governments with child pornographers, drugs lords and terrorists. Seemingly innocent browser software installed everywhere will become the tool of evildoers to invisibly conduct their own global conspiracies. Only then, too late, will the Banking Conspiracy realize that they no longer control the planet and that in true Hegelian fashion their great idea contained the seeds of its own destruction. Don't say I didn't warn you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQCVAgUBM7xnY0Ce79c5xtT7AQHyGgP+OyOzslpIbd98Nx5NyiGmoMpE3DjdZhtT T+MOAx6CLVEd8Bm5xJKEN2v/fZ1QrZeNfOxl1pA5rxXV5bzAFs16nTKIvxFU6iI3 vP2/x7BIW0P75SuCqftCnOotISaN02gvO3Xn+1L3LEJepQ6Aj9C2DoSKE1uzjEy8 WKdfqrG3r5g= =zdfI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------- The e$ lists are brought to you by: Intertrader Ltd: "Digital Money Online" <http://www.intertrader.com/library/DigitalMoneyOnline> Where people, networks and money come together: Consult Hyperion http://www.hyperion.co.uk info(a)hyperion.co.uk Like e$? Help pay for it! <http://www.shipwright.com/beg.html> For e$/e$pam sponsorship, mail Bob: <mailto:rah@shipwright.com> Thanks to the e$ e$lves: Of Counsel: Vinnie Moscaritolo <mailto:vinnie@webstuff.apple.com> (Majordomo)^2: Rachel Willmer<mailto:rachel@intertrader.com> Commermeister: Anthony Templer <mailto:anthony@atanda.com> Interturge: Rodney Thayer <mailto:rodney@sabletech.com> --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 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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e$: $MTP?
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Sender: e$(a)thumper.vmeng.com Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: Bulk Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 09:21:12 -0400 From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> To: Multiple recipients of <e$(a)thumper.vmeng.com> Subject: e$: $MTP? They've been talking on cypherpunks about various ideas for authenticating the sender of mail, and it brings up something I've been increasing my agit-prop efforts on lately. Unfortunately, the ultimate way for any e-mail authentication scheme to work is for the *whole* message to be signed, headers and all, and then for the sending SMTP server to sign the message passes it on, headers and all, and so forth. The consequences of this approach, in terms of machine resources, not to mention privacy (plus or minus how close you can get to perfect pseudonymity), will probably be excessive. The solution, here, I think, is economic, since this is, at root, an economic problem. It's also one we've talked about here at length on e$. That solution is postage. If you use some kind of hash-collision microcoin protocol like Rivest/Shamir's MicroMint, or the "hash-cash" stuff people have been talking about on cypherpunks, you end up with a completely off-line, extremely small value digital cash system which could be used to pay for stuff like e-mail postage. The only thing you need to do is to encrypt the payment to the $MTP (:-)) machine, which then sends your mail. The only overhead is in handling the money, and, since it's handled offline anyway, the overhead is going to be much less than authenticating signatures either with an internal table, or, worse, in an on-line scheme of some kind. However you do the protocol, you probably want to run it on a sender-pays basis, as that's where all the economic incentive to spam comes from. Actually, now that I think about it, a truly sender-pays system would mean that receiver-collects, and so the *receiving* $MTP machine would be the one which should actually get the money. This is not too far from the idea of getting paid to read mail, which has also been discussed on cypherpunks before. The receiving $MTP machine could even raise or lower its postage price depending on the load at the time, thus auctioning its processing resources to the highest bidder. People like e-mail spammers, needing to send messages to you very cheaply would have to wait until the price comes down. Some of them could wait a very long time. :-). Frankly, I see no other solution to this problem in the long run except for postage, which means it's probably time to start figuring out, in earnest, how to make it all work. Whoever becomes the lowest cost producer of this kind of software stands to make a whole *bunch* of money. Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 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/ ---------- The e$ lists are brought to you by: Intertrader Ltd: "Digital Money Online" <http://www.intertrader.com/library/DigitalMoneyOnline> Where people, networks and money come together: Consult Hyperion http://www.hyperion.co.uk info(a)hyperion.co.uk Like e$? Help pay for it! <http://www.shipwright.com/beg.html> For e$/e$pam sponsorship, mail Bob: <mailto:rah@shipwright.com> Thanks to the e$ e$lves: Of Counsel: Vinnie Moscaritolo <mailto:vinnie@webstuff.apple.com> (Majordomo)^2: Rachel Willmer<mailto:rachel@intertrader.com> Commermeister: Anthony Templer <mailto:anthony@atanda.com> Interturge: Rodney Thayer <mailto:rodney@sabletech.com> --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 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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index.html
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN logo US navbar Infoseek/Big Yellow Pathfinder/Warner Bros Main banner If it's in your head, Okidata puts it on paper. rule GOP: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD 'SHOCK' FOUNDING FATHERS July 5, 1997 Web posted at: 3:46 p.m. EDT (1946 GMT) Solomon graphic WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The federal government is just too big, taking on things "that would have shocked" the nation's founding fathers, New York Congressman Gerald Solomon said Saturday in the Republican weekly radio address. "The Founding Fathers designed a government with limited and defined powers," Solomon said. "But that idea has been turned on its head." Chief among the government offenses, the congressman said, is an exorbitant tax bill. "What the founding fathers could not even comprehend is the idea of Americans paying more in takes than they do for food and shelter," Solomon said. "Our Republican philosophy is different," he said. "We'd rather shrink the welfare class and put the American dream of financial security and independence within the reach of as many middle class people as possible." The recently passed budget, Solomon said, will accomplish that by offering tax relief to families with children, and those with "oppressive capital gains taxes." "We're not talking millionaires here," he said. "We're talking about people like grandparents who owned a house for years, reared their children in that house and then decades later they want to sell it when it becomes too much of burden." The GOP Tax Relief Act, Solomon said, "will help 2 million older Americans." Other aspects of the tax relief plan will help small business owners -- who may want to pass on the family business to sons and daughters -- by increasing an exemption on estate taxes. Solomon compared the current Republican tax cut to the birth of the United States 221 years ago. "Yes, on July 4, 1776, we won the battle of independence from oppressive taxation and today ... the Republican Congress has just won another battle to restore a larger chunk of that freedom from taxation to you," he said. rule Transcript: * Transcript of Republican weekly radio address - July 5, 1997 Related site: Note: Page will open in a new browser window * House RepublicanLeadership External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. Search for related CNN stories: ________________________________________ ______ [Help] Tip: You can restrict your search to the title of a document. Infoseek grfk Example: title:New Year's Resolutions rule Message Boards Sound off on our message boards Tell us what you think! You said it... [INLINE] If it's in your head, Okidata puts it on paper. rule To the top © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.

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Crypto Risks and Rewards
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Senators Lott, Burns and Ashcroft discussed encryption policy reform on June 27. The Deschall crack is cited as a risk posed by Admin-McCain-Kerrey limitations. Ashcroft stated: I am privileged to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee where we will address this issue after the July recess. I pledge to work with members on that Committee and with other interested Senators and the leader to try to move a bill in that committee that will capture the essence of Burns substitute. No nationwide key recovery system, or a new licensing requirement for certificate authorities should be brought to the floor without thorough examination, analysis and understanding. We must further study the impact of these provisions well before this bill is brought to the Senate floor. For full report: http://jya.com/crypto-pr.txt (14K) ---------- The Law Society of England and Wales has published a response to the March DTI risky biz for Trusted Third Parties: http://jya.com/ttp-lawsoc.htm ---------- For the article Robert Hettinga cited by Thomas Vartanian on the risks offering CA services: http://jya.com/ca-risks.htm Recall that Mr. Vartanian provided the NSA paper, "How to Make a Mint, the Cryptography of Electronic Money:" http://jya.com/nsamint.htm

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Re: e$: $MTP? (fwd)
by Ryan Anderson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 15:45:24 -0400 (edt) From: Ryan Anderson <randerso(a)ece.eng.wayne.edu> To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: Re: e$: $MTP? > Frankly, I see no other solution to this problem in the long run except for > postage, which means it's probably time to start figuring out, in earnest, > how to make it all work. Whoever becomes the lowest cost producer of this > kind of software stands to make a whole *bunch* of money. We still need to work out how to fit mailing lists fit into this without eliminating them entirely. Chargebacks to the subscribers? If this list will work in a proposed plan, I think all the others probably would as well.. :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan Anderson - <Pug Majere> "Who knows, even the horse might sing" Wayne State University - CULMA "May you live in interesting times.." randerso(a)ece.eng.wayne.edu Ohio = VYI of the USA PGP Fingerprint - 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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The walsh report
by Jason William RENNIE 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To all aussie cypherpunks out there, I was leafing through the walsh report. I dont follow it all very well. could someone please answer one simple question. The Walsh Report is good for cryptography and its ilk in Australia ?? Yes/No ?? I got the impression it was a yes, but i could be qrong i was just readiong throught the conclusions Jason

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index.html
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN logo navigation Infoseek/Big Yellow Pathfinder/Warner Bros Tech banner Serving up Internet solutions @ www.wimbledon.org rule GERMANY PASSES WORLD'S FIRST CYBERSPACE LAW graphic July 4, 1997 Web posted at: 4:10 p.m. EDT (2010 GMT) BONN, Germany (AP) -- Germany on Friday became the first country to pass a law regulating the free-wheeling global electronic space of the Internet. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government says the so-called multimedia law creates legal clarity that will help boost commercialization of cyberspace and combats illegal uses of the Internet such as for pornography. Critics say the law is an example of Germany's urge to regulate and may in fact deter investors in Internet services because it does not state clearly to what extent the providers would be liable for content they don't control. The law gained final approval in the upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, an unusually swift six months after the government proposed it. It takes effect August 1. "We are entering uncharted territory," said Joerg Appelhans, spokesman for Germany's research and technology ministry. Controversially, the law says online providers can be prosecuted for offering a venue for illegal content if they do so knowingly and it is "technically possible and reasonable" to prevent it. This could apply to forums and similar exchanges offered by online services without direct control over their content. However, "the liability provisions for providers are a big unknown," said Christopher Kuner, an Frankfurt attorney specializing in cyberspace issues. "It leaves a lot of things open." The American Chamber of Commerce in Germany says liability for Internet services will have to be tested by court rulings, which "may cause prudent investors to hesitate." But research and technology minister Juergen Ruettgers said a law was needed, partly to protect German children. "That applies even to a network that knows no national borders," he said. "The Internet is not outside the reach of the law." Copyright 1997 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. rule Related stories: * Countries face cyber-control in their own ways - July 1, 1997 * Supreme Court strikes down Internet smut law - June 26, 1997 Search for related CNN stories: ________________________________________ ______ [Help] Tip: You can restrict your search to the title of a document. Infoseek grfk Example: title:New Year's Resolutions rule Watch these shows on CNN for more sci-tech stories: CNN Computer Connection | Future Watch | Science & Technology Week rule Message Boards Sound off on our message boards Tell us what you think! You said it... [INLINE] Serving up Internet solutions @ www.wimbledon.org rule To the top © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.

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Fuck the Fourth (and the First, Second....)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vin Suprynowicz wrote: > Most Americans should be ashamed to celebrate the Fourth > Recently, President Clinton's then-Drug Czar, Lee Brown, told me the role > of government is to protect the people from dangers, such as drugs. I > corrected him, saying, "No, the role of government is to protect our > liberties." > > "We'll just have to disagree on that," the president's appointee said. Since the government was incapable of protecting either the people at Waco or those at OKC, then who exactly are they protecting? > The War for American Independence began over unregistered, untaxed guns, > when British forces attempted to seize arsenals of rifles, powder and ball > from the hands of ill-organized Patriot militias in Lexington and Concord. > American civilians shot and killed scores of these government agents as > they marched back to Boston. Are those Minutemen still our heroes? Or do we > now consider them "dangerous terrorists" and "depraved government-haters"? We consider them Branch Davadians. > In "The Federalist" No. 46, James Madison told us we need have no fear of > any federal tyranny ever taking away our rights, arguing that under his > proposed Constitution "the ultimate authority ... resides in the people > alone," and predicting that any usurpation of powers not specifically > delegated would lead to "plans of resistance" and "appeal to a trial of > force." This was before Dan Rather and Kookie Roberts became "the ultimate authority." Since they have to compete with Bart Simpson for ratings, their primary interest is in making sure that the citizens don't "have a cow" during their broadcast. {"Today, all rights and freedoms of the citizens were suspended by Executive Order. And, in the lighter side of the news..." <cut to "cute puppy" story>} > Another prominent federalist, Noah Webster, wrote in 1787: "Before a > standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost > every kingdom in Europe." Adolph Hitler obviously understood what Noah Webster was writing about. If we could get the writings made into a TV movie (or a cartoon), there might be a minute chance to get the American public to understand, as well. > In Phoenix last week, an air conditioner repairman and former Military > Policeman named Chuck Knight was convicted by jurors -- some tearful -- who > said they "had no choice" under the judge's instructions, on a single > federal "conspiracy" count of associating with others who owned automatic > rifles on which they had failed to pay a $200 "transfer tax" -- after a > trial in which defense attorney Ivan Abrams says he was forbidden to bring > up the Second Amendment as a defense. > > Were the Viper Militia readying "plans of resistance," as recommended by > Mr. Madison? Would the Constitution ever have been ratified, had Mr. > Madison and his fellow federalists warned the citizens that such > non-violent preparations would get their weapons seized, and land them in > jail for decades? > > Happy Fourth of July. > > Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas > Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin(a)lvrj.com. The web > site for the Suprynowicz column is at http://www.nguworld.com/vindex/. Is it still legal to say this stuff? Perhaps we need a new law that... TruthMonger

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Key Recovery Policy in Japan
by Joichi Ito 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi folks. I'm on a Japanese National Police Agency study group board working on proposals for Key Recovery policy in Japan. The only documents that are currently being reviewed are rather official OECD type documents from the US and I am trying to find other opinions (technical, legal, political) which I can add to the reports/documents being reviewed by the panel. Any pointers or opinions would be greatly appreciated. My deadline for submitting materials is 7/11 and I will be giving my verbal opinions on 7/28. Thanks in advance. - Joi P.S. I am also working with politicians, the Ministry of Posts and Telecom, The Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and several other ministries as well in similar policy areas. So even after 7/11, please point me at anything (or point anything at me) that you would like the Japanese policy makers to consider. Lots of stuff is currently being reviewed in Japan in this area in the wake of the stuff going on the US. -- home page: http://domino.garage.co.jp/jito/joihome.nsf bithaus: http://www.bithaus.co.jp/

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Re: Key Recovery Policy in Japan
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Joichi Ito wrote: > > Hi folks. I'm on a Japanese National Police Agency study group board working > on proposals for Key Recovery policy in Japan. The only documents that > are currently being reviewed are rather official OECD type documents > from the US and I am trying to find other opinions (technical, legal, > political) which I can add to the reports/documents being reviewed by > the panel. {Excerpt from "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" (c) 1989, Pearl Publishing} http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix We now live in an age where, in between the slumber of the soap operas and the bewitchment of 'prime time,' we are fed our opinions and our world-views in catch-phrases and ten second sound-bytes. At the same time, Gomez sees to it that there is enough trouble and turmoil in the world that the World Leaders, even in democracies, can chip away at human and individual rights under the guise of dealing with various 'threats' that they, themselves, have concocted as a means of retaining power over the masses. Even as the governments of the world strive to bring everyone and everything, however minute, under tight control and regulation, Gomez and the Dark Allies are behind the scenes, helping to guide the development of a technology that will, along with television, be the ultimate weapon in their struggle for the domination of all mankind--the Computer. The rich and powerful have managed to lull us to sleep with the hypnotizing power of television---stealing our thoughts and our reasoning processes in our slumber, feeding us our reality via the airwaves...according to the 'official' party line. The government and the media have placed us on neat little shelves where we are numbered and labeled according to their own wants and needs. We are allowed the illusion of freedom of thought, and individual choice, as long as we have our 'Freedom of Thought Permit 1136.51.709' and don't stray too far from the permitted paths. In the great battles of the past the Dark Forces have always been beaten by the individuals scattered in the secret places, living unnoticed in obscurity. Living quietly and unobtrusively, forgotten about in the madness storming the land, they have kept alive the spark of Thought and Reason. They were able to go quietly about their work, making contact with the individuals who were ready to escape the madness and work towards restoring Sanity in the land. This time there will be no escape. Every man, woman and child on the face of the earth will have a dossier documenting their life from the time of their arrival on the face of the planet. Information gleaned from the Department of Motor Vehicles, their Social Security Number, banks, credit cards, magazine subscriptions, charitable and political contributions. When Gomez removes the masks of his human allies, revealing them as dark agents who have been rewarded with wealth and power for doing the bidding of the Evil One, the names of the misfits and wrong-thinkers will be spit out of the computers at the speed of light---to be rounded up and disposed of in the opening salvo of the new Holocaust. Only then will the final Battle of Armageddon begin, ravaging the face of the earth and devouring humanity; bringing total control of humankind under the Dominion of the Evil One, with nobody but the Waking Dead left to carry on the human race. *** *** *** {Excerpt from "Webworld" (c) 1997, Pearl Publishing} http://bureau42.base.org/public/webworld Prologue to 'WebWorld & The Mythical Circle of Eunuchs' The great tragedy of it, is that it didn't have to happen. Not at all...we were warned. And yet, still, it has come to this. I don't know why I feel this overwhelming compulsion to go on and on about it. I could have done something. We all could have done something. Perhaps the final epitaph on the gravestone of Freedom will be, "Why didn't somebody _do_ something?" That seems to be the common battle-cry of the legions of humanity that have been sucked into the vortex of the New World Order. None of the imprisoned seem to know that the very phrase itself is reflective of the source of their imprisonment...that this desperate cry of anguish is in no way an antidote for the terrible disease that has afflicted 'Liberty and Justice', and that it is, rather, merely the final symptom of the cursed blight itself. I can hear the rumbling of the trucks as they come up the street, and soon I will be hearing the thumping of the jackboots storming up the staircase, as I have heard them so many times before. But I suspect that this time, the sound will be different, that it will have an ethereal quality about it, one which conveys greater personal meaning than it did when I heard it on previous occasions. This time, they are coming for me. My only hope, is that I can find the strength of character somewhere inside myself to ask the question which lies at the heart of why there is a 'they' to come for me at all...why, in the end, it has finally come to this for me, as for countless others. The question is, in retrospect, as simple and basic as it is essential for any who still espouse the concepts of freedom and liberty to ask themselves upon finding themselves marveling at the outrageousness being perpetrated upon their neighbors by 'them'...by 'others'...by 'Friends of the Destroyer.' The question is: "Why didn't _I_ do something?"

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