December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Some IDIOT called CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL
by VME Encryption 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please forward to this coward that have no balls to put his real email address on his emails (I using you guys as he put CC to you guys in his letter, but by no means does this reffer to you). Dear CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL Idiot, usually we ignore people at your level, but we'll try our best for you, as it might be just temorary insanity. 1) The million dollars challenge have ended at May 15,1997. The current challenge have NO monetary prize. 2) VME flowchart, algorithms and the VME application itself is already in the hands of the large 250 sotware corporations for evaluation. If any of them will prove otherwise, then you might be able to jump and make an idiot of yourself as you did now. 3) We beleive they might like what they saw, as we currently have them lined up to license the technology. 4) Try to keep your pathetic self away from the court room, as next time around you will face legal steps for alleging "fraud". Maybe you really should try and develop some future encryption algorithm instead of mumbling with envy showing your stupidity and ignorance, But on the other hand you're probably not capable of - you're too narrow minded and busy sticking your long nose where it does not belong. Do us and you a favour, keep yourself in your pathetic hole and shut your mouth up. Thanks and worst regards, (we won't bother putting our name on the same email with your name). At 11:06 PM 11/8/97 -0600, you wrote: >CCI: > CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES UNBREAKABLE CRYPTO CHALLENGE > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > >Crypto Czar International would like to announce the development of the >fastest and most secure encryption product on the market today. >We plan to develop this product early next week, as our employee has >already finished the first two chapters of 'Applied Cryptography.' > >We are so confident of our future product that we are challenging >MagNuts, Micro$oft, Nut$crape and everyone else to break it. We are >willing to pay out a $10,000,0000 prize to anyone willing to give us a >$1,000 good-faith deposit, which will be returned upon completion of our >open-ended Crypto Challenge. > >Please send ten copies of this to your friends and to your business >associates. > > The address to send the good-faith deposit to: > Crypto Czar International > c/o Electronic Fraud Foundation > Box 281, > Bienfait, Saskatchewan > CANADA S0C 0M0 > >

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Re: Some IDIOT called CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

VME Encryption wrote: > Please forward to this coward that have no balls to put his real email > address on his emails (I using you guys as he put CC to you guys in his > letter, but by no means does this reffer to you). Obviously, no one has informed the night janitor at VME that regular list subscribers generally just put Toto's email address in replies to particularly cowardly and/or stupid anonymous posts, since we then have a 90% chance of having sent it to the right person. As an act of mercy toward Toto, I will personally correct the spelling and grammar in the night-janitor's post and forward it to the madman at 'Che(z) Sympatico.' > Dear CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL Idiot, > 1) The million dollars challenge have ended at May 15,1997. The current > challenge have NO monetary prize. ... > 4) Try to keep your pathetic self away from the court room, as next time > around you will face legal steps for alleging "fraud". According to a claim by TruthMonger, Dr. Vulis found the backdoor in VME's encryption program, and the test message contained a plea for donations from the Georgia Cracker remailer operators. I was originally skeptical about this claim, until sources at C2Nut confirmed it. Sincerely, Ura Fishpal, Flounder and Comptroller Electronic Fraud Foundation

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Re: 1st Ammendment Tossed in Paladin Case
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >But in many ways, this is good news. The war is coming faster than I thought. WSJ reports today on the increasing conservatism of the military and disputes about the pretense of civilian control, with some officers calling for responsible action to compensate for societal breakdown. It cites several examples of military members preparing for war at home, as mentioned here earlier by Attila and others, with two Marine writers claiming that the next Somolia will be here. This, coupled with reports on LEA inheritance of military equipment and lavish civilian funding to fight terrorism, portends more than Jim Bell (Tim May?) -type sniper takeouts. Free fire zones may be in the offing, or surgical wasting of underground bunkers and germmakers (troublemakers). Wrathful Mars sees no innocents, so preaches the terrorist freedom warfighters pursuing a dream of winner take all, so sorry constitutional fundies, we're the warmonger biz.

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by brian＠firstgear.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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[URGENT] ZKP
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim C. Maypole, a product of anal birth, appeared with a coathanger through his head. (_) _____ (_) /O O\ Tim C. Maypole ! I ! ! \___/ ! \_____/

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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
by nobody＠neva.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> wrote: >There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following >code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no >MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard >reboot the only cure): > >char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 }; > >main () >{ > void (*f)() = x; > f(); >} > >This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with >average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works. >Demand a new CPU from Intel. This didn't crash my Pentium. Hoax?

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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> wrote: >>There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following >>code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no >>MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard >>reboot the only cure): >> >>char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 }; >> >>main () >>{ >> void (*f)() = x; >> f(); >>} >> >>This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with >>average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works. >>Demand a new CPU from Intel. > >This didn't crash my Pentium. Hoax? Absolutely not. It crashed mine and is a major bug. It doesn't seem to affect the PPro, though, and not the P2 due to its relation to the PPro. It might be fixed in later Pentiums, which begs the question of why Intel didn't issue a recall back then. Supposidly they were informed about it months ago. Read comp.sys.intel.

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Money Laundering Nonsense.
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Note- cypherpunks: reply by mail, I'm not on the list any longer. Chicago Tribune Monday, November 10, 1997 Money Laundering law netting more small fry. Prosecutors putting new tool to work. A sentencing weapon Congress intended for use against drug lords is being wielded against other defendants. Judges and others say this has diminished legal fairness. By Jan Crawford Greenburg Washington Bureau Washington- Jose Caba considered himself a hardworking, law-abiding man, and immigrant who built a business selling groceries in a poor Brooklyn neighborhood. But when he started illegally redeeming food stamps and depositing the proceeds into a bank account, prosecutors thought otherwise. They accused him of money laundering and sought a harsh sentence. Caba, who thought he was only bending administrative rules, isn't the kind of criminal Congress had in mind when it decided to give prosecutors a weapon to bring down powerful drug lords. Nevertheless, he is one of a growing number of defendants who commit routine fraud and find themselves facing big-time charges of money laundering. [...] More and more prosecutors are invoking [money laundering statutes] in simple fraud, bribery and embezzlement cases, a trend that doesn't sit well with many federal judges or the U.S. Sentencing Commission. In a strongly worded report, the commission... is recommending that the sentences for money laundering be reworked. The penalties are unfair, the commission said, because they often vastly exceed the seriousness of the crime. Caba would have faced 2 to 2 1/2 years in prison for food stamp fraud, but because he deposited the funds in a bank- thereby meeting the definition of laundering the money- he was looking at 10 to 12 years. [...] Nationally, statistics show a marked increase in money laundering cases. In 1995 prosecutors charged 1700 people with money laundering, up from 250 in 1990. More than half of the defendants charged in 1995 were involved in non-drug related crimes. Critics say the charged is used even more than the figures show because prosecutors threaten defendants with the charge to get them to plead guilty to the underlying crime. "It has tremendous implications in the criminal justice system because prosecutors can use it as a tremendous bargaining stick..." said Gordon Greenberg, a defense attorney and an expert on money laundering. "Every single crime, theoretically, can be converted into money laundering because the statute is that broad." What's more, prosecutors in some areas routinely file the charge, while others decline to do so. As a result, "proportionality is lost and appropriate uniformity is lost," said Jonathan Wroblewski, director of legislative and public affairs for the sentencing commission. [] stiff sentences also apply to defendants who make no attempt to cover up their proceeds. Caba laundered money by depositing it into a bank, even though his deposits were by check and he paid taxes on his proceeds. "For all intents and purposes, if you use your ill-gotten gains, it's money laundering." said Alan Chaset, a lawyer who chairs the American Bar Association's committee on sentencing guidelines. "If you take money and put it in a bank and then withdraw it and buy a stick of gum, it's money laundering." Some judges refuse to impose the sentence in cases where there was no elaborate scheme to conceal the money, such as a 1994 case in which prosecutors charged a defendant with money laundering when he put cash from drug sales into a shoe box. [...]

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Re: Freeware SET?
by Donald E. Eastlake 3rd 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The SET reference implementation was written only with a concern for protocol correctness and essentially no concern for operational usability. It is not clear to me that a product could be based on it without a lot of additonal work. But I suppose it might be useful for hacking... Donald On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote: > Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:12:49 -0500 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > > > Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 04:49:34 +0100 (CET) > From: Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> > To: cypherpunks-announce(a)toad.com, cypherpunks(a)algebra.com, > cryptography(a)c2.net, andrada(a)earthlink.net, andrea.liles(a)nike.com > Subject: Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting announcement > Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tomorrow's Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting will be held at the offices of > C2Net Software in Oakland. > > Agenda: > o Andrea Liles will present some cool new ideas about virtual CA's. > > o Lucky Green will demonstrate the Dumb Mouse, a universal chipcard > reader, and associated analysis/manipulation software. If you are at all > interested in smartcards, especially smartcards for crypto and > authentication purposes, you don't want to miss this one. If there aren't > too many attendees, we will host a workshop. Attendees are encouraged to > bring any smartcards in their possession and discover what is /really/ > happening on the card. The Cypherpunks Smartcard Developers Association > will accept smartcard donations after the workshop. > > o Cypherpunks Tonga will announce the release of BSAFEeay, a BSAFE 3.0 API > compatible crypto library based on SSLeay. > > o Cypherpunks Tonga will then combine BSAFEeay with the freeware SETref > (which requires BSAFE for the underlying crypto) and demonstrate the first > ever globally available *freeware* SET solution. > > Location: > C2Net Software > 1440 Broadway > 7th Floor > Oakland, CA > > Date/time: > Saturday, 11/8, noon > > Directions: > By BART: > Exit the system at 12th Street Oakland. Walk north on Broadway one block. > 1440 is on the right side of the street. > > By car: > http://www.mapquest.com/ > Choose "Trip Quest" from the menu. > > - -- Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. > "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?" > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 5.0i > Charset: noconv > > iQA/AwUBNGPhYvXUPTw3WtkkEQKztACeIQwx4voyUVIP6u1HmosCWklX7osAnROD > TTJn3K2jCIrKUQtOc5Z3oW1P > =byR/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --- 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/ > Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/> ===================================================================== Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1 978-287-4877(tel) dee(a)cybercash.com 318 Acton Street +1 978-371-7148(fax) dee(a)world.std.com Carlisle, MA 01741 USA +1 703-620-4200(main office, Reston, VA) http://www.cybercash.com http://www.privacy.org/ipc

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