December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Contractual ownership of ideas and products
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 10:58:11 -0600 > From: TruthMonger <tm(a)dev.null> > Subject: GAT & GAB > Anyone notice the court ruling in regard to the company that sued > to retrieve information that was inside an employee's head, claiming > that his employment agreement made *all* of his ideas the property > of the company. > Anyone notice that the Thought Judge ruled that the Thought Laws > required the individual to divulge said ideas, or be imprisoned by > the Thought Police? IBM has such a non-disclosure agreement that apparently signs over to them any and all work I may do while employeed by them. Fortunately I had other pre-existing agreements and when I signed the paper as a function of employment I added a proviso that I had a consultancy as well as pre-existing non-disclosures that limited their rights to my work to only that performed while on-the-clock. Two years later they have never contacted me regarding this so I assume they accepted it. I know of another engineer here who said that such proviso's didn't apply to him because he was under pre-existing contracts with the government (in various ways) that prevented that sort of contract with him. They didn't refuse him employment either... Contracts are contracts, if you don't like a part of it then mark it out and put your own proviso's in their. If they accept it, by paying you wages for work, then you are pretty much done with such broad intellectual property issues. That's the nice thing about contracts, as a signatory you have a right to review and modify the contract. Use that right. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | 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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Numbers Stations
by Irdial-Discs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Numbers Stations: One Time Pad crypto in use over shortwave for at least 30 years. See: http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~irdial/conet.htm and http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~irdial/crackhome.htm All comments/feedback welcome; we also need some qualified judges for the second URL, so email us if you want to have some fun. thanks Akin Fernandez Irdial-Discs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNEpQ+4BwiB5FzDvpAQFdlQP/YsOVevse7fUUgSU+DKI5nWLQrirbNrsE SVjnZzJDKYxgmIcuov2bJ95vcamPrrJduiuJMlA3/YARb56NlroFhqgSaa9KQ+S3 EMXxYbrv9qaDcIou6CalFsgYL+4qWtPwwskCgGENWMtRw9+OpXVoIOG+fV0N40rW V2bA/jzLxz4= =S+4s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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No Subject
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Throw Misty From The Train

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Re: Revealing individual messages.
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill Stewart wrote: > If you're concerned about Bad Cops planting forged messages on people, > this won't help - it's easy for them to forge unsigned information also. > After all, the PGP source code is open, so Bad Cops can add code to > set the timestamp/sender/etc themselves. Or they can ignore code, > and just set their system clock appropriately. BC's can also plant secret keys on your machine, along with messages forged using those keys. It is a good idea to keep badly forged messages on your machine, as well as badly forged keys. There are many ways to manipulate files and emails so that discrepancies exist. e.g. - messages with a time-stamp later than the file date; replies with an earlier time-stamp than the original message; changing fingerprint on the same key.

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A Math problem related to cryptography
by Jeffery Walker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have been working on some math and C++ code to implement it. The problem relates to a possible new means of factoring. However, I have run into a problem which I cannot solve. Indeed it maybe impossible. The problem is this: Find and equation using only multiplication, division, GCD, LCM and powers (not addition or subtraction) in terms of a and b which is equal to a+b for all Integers. If so desired it can be assumed that a and b are relative primes with a>b. Note that equivalent problems include but aren't limited to finding a similar equation for a+1. If other functions such as logs are required they may be allowed but I would have to look into it. To encourage people to answer I am offering $20 for a solution and $10 for a proof that it is impossible. I will judge all answers as to the validity both in terms of actually being correct (or in the case of a proof a valid argument) and in that they do not use functions such as addition or subtraction which are not allowed. Thanks, Jeff P.S. I am very interested in joining the coderpunks list as I do program and am interested in cryptography as related to programming. If someone would be kind enough to recommend me I thank you. +____________________________+ | Jeffery Walker | | E-mail: jeff(a)beol.net | | http://web.beol.net/jeff | +____________________________+

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No Subject
by Mike Ronn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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encryption key expiry in pgp5.x
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What happens in this scenario with pgp5.0, or pgp5.5: - You have a signature key which you'll keep for say 2 years before creating a new one. - You have a policy of generating new encryption keys every 6 months. - Your email archives are stored as received still encrypted to your public encryption key (I think you have no choice but to do this with some of the pgp5.x plugins). - You expire the key, and securely wipe the private half of the key. (An advantage of rekeying in this way is to gain forward secrecy: messages gathered by an attacker can no longer be decrypted with information you have, but to get the forward secrecy you must literally securely wipe the private key). If you do this, you won't be able to read your old mail folder, because you no longer have the key it was encrypted to. Does this imply that you must keep the private key for perpetuity? (Or at least as long as you want to read old mail archives). One presumes the same problem applies to CMR recovery keys, they must also be kept as long as recovery is required, if the user forgets the password. Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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Re: Security flaws introduced by "other readers" in CMR
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Fabrice Planchon <fabrice(a)math.Princeton.EDU> To: Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> Cc: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net Subject: Re: Security flaws introduced by "other readers" in CMR >They do: the title is "Le programme PGP se range", which I unfortunatly > have know idea of how to translate. It can be translated by "PGP gets into the groove" it "behave itself". It finally obtemperate (wether prompted or not). It grow's up and become reasonable. "se ranger" is what you do with your car when a cop car pulls you on the side. it gets in line There is an ambiguity in this expression. "Se ranger" is usually used for a transition to an unusual or not approved behaviour to a accepted or acceptable behaviour. It entails a "higher" authority or standard. This is why I use a much more americanized language when I speak in french about civil liberties and related subjects. The french language almost equate government intentions with fatherly love... :-) Over the years, I found that most French peoples have a feodal attitude with a tendency to almost blind veneration of hierarchy. (flames to dev(a)nul.con) I suppose it comes from their History. In general, if a govt said it, it *has* to be good. It is as if they were trained since young age to surrender their capacity for independent judgment and reason. And quite distressingly, it happens even with extremely intelligent individuals. OTOH, the uncommon ones that do not exhibit such psycho-epistemological trait tend to be real hot shots, independent type. I am not French, but Canadian (french) and we often have scrapes with French on this topic. They tend to trust their govt, unless somethings warrant otherwise. Here in french Canada, we are much more American in that sense. Notwithstanding what trumped-up polls say, we have a much more american-styled opinion. Ciao JFA

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Re: Security flaws introduced by "other readers" in CMR
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jean-Francois Avon wrote: > From: Fabrice Planchon <fabrice(a)math.Princeton.EDU> > >They do: the title is "Le programme PGP se range", which I unfortunatly > > have know idea of how to translate. > > It can be translated by > "PGP gets into the groove" "falls in line" > it "behave itself". "obeys" > It finally obtemperate (wether prompted or not). "self-restrained" > It grow's up and become reasonable. "matures" and "conforms" > "se ranger" is what you do with your car when a cop car pulls > you on the side. it gets in line "Habeus Automobileus Recovery" > There is an ambiguity in this expression. "Se ranger" is > usually used for a transition to an unusual or not approved > behaviour to a accepted or acceptable behaviour. > It entails a "higher" authority or standard. Such as Hitler, or Freeh, or DeGaulle. There is a lot of truth to the "loose shoes, tight pussy, and a warm place to shit" school of dictatorship. As long as your butt is warm, do you really care whether 'they' are burning Jews or Jesuits to supply you with heat? Has PGP scored Joe 'White Shoes' Jackson as their SpokesPerson? VeriteMonger

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your MIS email address (cosmos) may be deleted if you do not respond
by MicroServe's HELPDESK 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear MicroServe Subscriber, The MIS accounting department is in the process of upgrading it's software. Unfortunately, they found some information missing from your account. So, we're going to need your help. Please go to the following URL (web address) with your WWW browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc) and follow the online instructions. You should not have to anything except click CONTINUE once you arrive at the page. WEB URL: http://2009263:cosmos@mismail.microserve.net:235/ ACCOUNT ID: 2009263 MAILBOX: cosmos Login name: cosmos In real life: Daniel Leeds Directory: /usr5/accts/c/cosmos Shell: /usr/bin/ksh Last login Fri Jun 20 12:46 on pts001 from unknown-2-66.ra New mail received Wed Oct 15 17:05:23 1997; unread since Thu Oct 16 19:27:50 1997 PLEASE NOTE: This must be done from YOUR ppp (dial-up) account. The system will not work if you try to do this from a friend's (or any other) dial-up account. UNIX Shell customers should call (717)821-5964 extension 3 to speak with a technical support representative. Any account which still has info missing as of November 1, 1997 will be suspended (and will be deleted on November 8, 1997), as we will have to assume that the email box belongs to no one. If you have any questions, please email helpdesk(a)microserve.net. Thank You, MicroServe Engineering Department ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MicroServe Information Systems 100 North Wilkes Barre Blvd Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702

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