December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have your GAK. Mail me your CAK and we'll trade.

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Re: Govt. key escrow justification
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam Back wrote: > This is scary stuff... Clipper VI (or whatever number we're up to) in > the making. Expect a fresh onslaught of government master key > attempts from the US government based on this info war initiative. > Michael Wilson <0005514706(a)MCIMAIL.COM> forwards: > > In its formal recommendations, the commission urged the government to > > speed up pilot programs on key recovery, promote efforts to plan for > > implementing large-scale key recovery systems and encourage > > private-sector key recovery efforts. > And there it is, they now want to encourage private sector key > recovery. Now why would they want to do that, if they don't plan to > use it as an infrastructure. > Building central control in _anything_ is asking for trouble > in info war terms. Everything should be as distributed as possible, > to minimise scope of an attacker who compromises keys. InfoWar goes on all the time amongst the Heavy Hitters in governement and commerce. It's called politics and money. Scenario I: Bill Gate$ reads an article where US Federal LEA's are bragging to insider politicians about their history of using their snooping and InfoWar capacities to financially disrupt 'bad' governments and corporations. Bill Gate$ then hands his company's secret keys over to the government because he trusts them to settle their dispute with him in court, instead of just 'grabbing' his money via his secret keys. Scenario II: Bill Gate$ gives his company's secret keys to Lucky Green, who runs toward the site of the Cypherpunks physical meeting, shouting, "Party time! Party time!" BillyG walks back to the limo, muttering, "That Lucky sure has a good sense of humor...I hope!" > Law enforcement with the master keys to the whole country is a huge > risk. Some law enforcement key custodian will simply be bribed or > coerced for the key, and then they really will have an info war risk. The only thing security levels do is determine the end cost of compromising security. Do you have to bribe/coerce a janitor or an executive? > > Asked by the subcommittee's chairman, Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, > > if those controls should be mandated, Marsh responded: "We think > > businessmen will find it in their best interest to incorporate these > > controls. ... Of course, in due time, that may be an option if they > > are not willing to accept them." Voluntary-Mandatory == Volmundatory ? GAK, GMR, ATP (Access to Toilet Plungers)...Cookies, Identity Tracking... What is going on is quite simply a battle for access to information. InoWar! Everybody wants access to the information of others, and to deny others access to their own information. Information is power, and power is kept by keeping the keys to that information. Corporations want to play footsie with the Government when it comes to getting access to all information and communications that pass through the self-defined borders of the Corporate Electromagnetic Curtain, but want to avoid being subject to total control within the borders of the Government's own self-defined ElectroMagnetic Curtain. The issues of power and control are the same as they have always been, but the Battle of the Bulge is now the Battle of the Byte. Government, Corporations, Organizations, Individuals...the players will be the same as in MeatSpace, and so will the issues and underlying concepts and ideals. Those seeking power and control will use the same tried-and-true methods, such as Divide and Conquer. "We don't want no 'nigger' data passing through our website. <---> We don't want no 'racist' data passing through our website." Chorus: <everybody sings together> "THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW!" The Government wants to seize contol of ElectroMagnetic Reality by appointing themselves as our Electronic Protectors. Corporations are fighting to use the new technologies to protect themselves, cutting the Government out of the power loop. Individuals _should_ be trying to do the same. Government has declared Crypto munitions for the same reason they increasingly declare Guns to be 'government-munitions'. Those who have no power to protect themselves are vulnerable to those who have _reserved_ that power for themselves. Crypto or Guns...it's all about power and control of CyberSpace and MeatSpace. MunitionsMonger

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BXA mtg in DC, 12/9/97
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In late September, I attended a meeting of the BXA's Regulations & Procedures Technical Advisory Committee in Portland (OR), where there was some discussion of crypto export control regulations, plans for changes to those regs, etc. There will be another meeting of that group on 12/9/97 at 9 AM in the (Herbert C., not J. Edgar) Hoover Building, Room 3884, between Pennsylvania & Constitution Avenues, NW, in Washington DC. The agenda is: 1. Opening remarks by the Chairperson. 2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public. 3. Update on the encryption regulation. 4. Update on the Wassenaar Arrangement implementation regulation. 5. Discussion on the "deemed export" issue. 6. Discussion on the Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative and the continued publication of Entities of Concern. 7. Update on the Automated Export System. 8. Discussion on efforts to conform the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations on export clearance requirements. [Closed session] 9. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order 19958, dealing with U.S. export control program and strategic criteria related thereto. -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles(a)netbox.com | Export jobs, not crypto. http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | http://www.parrhesia.com

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[Fwd: Re: [RePol] Donations Received]
by Six 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was sent through EFGA's Georgia Cracker Remailer, but seems to have gotten 'lost' in the remail. Go figure... To: remailer(a)anon.efga.org Subject: Re: [RePol] Donations Received From: TruthMonger <tm(a)dev.null> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 22:24:00 -0600 Organization: "It's not FUD until *I* say it's FUD!" References: <3.0.3.32.19971105220233.03538154(a)rboc.net> Reply-To: tm(a)dev.null :: Anon-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Robert A. Costner wrote: > > This week Electronic Frontiers Georgia (EFGA) found donations in our > mailbox for the first time. I'd like to thank those of you who have sent > us your support. As you know, EFGA has no endowment or source of income. I was rather surprised when I received a plea for donations from these people via my subscription to a suicide survivors mailing list. Likewise when my 10 year old daughter mentioned receiving one through her 4H Club mailing list. Upon asking others at work, I found that these people have been sending their requests to millions of people, through every conceivable internet forum, and that quite a few of the recipients had been taken in, and sent them donations. In the interests of stopping this obvious scam, I have founded a group dedicated to wiping out this kind of fraud on the internet, starting with the scum at the EFGA. If you are interested in contributing to our effort, send donations to: Electronic Fraud Fighters (EFF) Box 281, Bienfait, Saskatchewan CANADA S0C 0M0 or email me at: TruthMistress <tm(a)dev.null> > If we raise $2,000 we will be getting a new > server. If we raise $900, we will be doing upgrades on the current machine. > The address again is > > Electronic Frontiers Georgia > Suite A-205 > 4780 Ashford Dunwoody Road > Atlanta, GA 30338 > > For membership info, http://www.efga.org/about/membership.html

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FTC Making It's Move / FTC, Canada, Mexico officials launch "health claim surf day"
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan McCullagh wrote: > [From Nov 5 Natural Healthline. --Declan] > by Michael Evers > The Federal Trade Commission recently joined with public health and > consumer protection and information agencies from the United States, > Canada, and Mexico to "surf" the Internet for potentially false or > deceptive advertising claims concerning treatments or cures for heart > disease, cancer, AIDS, diabetes, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis. TruthMonger Terrestrial Translation: The FTC, fearing loss of its dictatorial powers over the information that citizens are allowed and not allowed to access, wants the citizens to do its legwork for them so that they can step forward to 'save' us all from people who use herbs instead of nuclear radiation to maintain their health. You remember the FTC, don't you? They are those wonderfolks who gave us the 'mainstream media' that used the citizen's airwaves to read us the spoon-fed government propaganda during the Gulf War. In other news: That pesky Sadaam Hussein is acting up again, as he always does during US elections. Funny how the Democrats always come out of wars with Sadaam looking bad, and CIA-backed Republicans always come out looking good. Note to Clinton: You're a Democrat. If you try to show-off in the Gulf, all of your helicopters are going to crash. TruthMonger

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Re: [SURVEY try again] pgp5.x / pgp2.x users
by ulf＠fitug.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

20 % of the users who have posted digitally signed messages that are available in my news spool (international and local newsgroups and mailing lists) use PGP 5. The sample contains 545 unique e-mail addresses. YMMV. S/MIME Cryptographic Signature 10 Version: 2.3a 1 Version: 2.6.1 1 Version: 2.6.2 68 Version: 2.6.2, by FileCrypt 1.0 2 Version: 2.6.2i 5 Version: 2.6.3 4 Version: 2.6.3a 8 Version: 2.6.3i 37 Version: 2.6.3ia 278 Version: 2.6.3ig 1 Version: 2.6.3in 9 Version: 2.7.1 2 Version: 4.5 6 Version: Cryptix 2.2.2 2 Version: Cryptix 2.21 3 Version: Cryptix 2.3.0 1 Version: PGP 5.0i 1 Version: PGP for Business Security 5.5 12 Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 86 Version: PGPfreeware 5.0 Charset: noconv 1 Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use 7

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Ooops....!
by Dirko 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

That should have been cypherpunks-request(a)toad.com ... SH** sorry ... It's coffee buzz... *shake* ---------------------------------- Dirko van Schalkwyk Dead Engineers Society E-Mail: meddle(a)adept.co.za Date: 11/07/97 Time: 01:28:37 ----------------------- Movie Quotes for Willow (1988) ----------------------- Sorsha: What are you looking at? Madmartigan: Your leg. I'd like to break it. ------------- All of the following stolen from selected poeple mailing to the AfterStep mailing list ----------------------- Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly.It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. ----------------------- Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition

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plugin to sell digital files in cyberspace announced!!
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

wow, I have been thinking that netscape/microsoft would put something like this in their browser and that this would kickstart the microcurrency market. however, it sounds like someone has preempted them for the moment and built a plugin. this is an extremely significant development imho. I don't know how credible they are (the notice was spam) but it's a step in the right direction, and the creation of a whole new market I predict. Date: Thu, 06 Nov 97 06:28:47 EST To: InternetUser(a)The.Net Subject: Turn your web-site into a pay-per-view site free in 10min! Reply-To: powerit(a)venus.t-1net.com I-vendor is offering a freeware version of a software plug-in that allows anyone to sell digital files such as photos, programs, text based information etc. from any web site. You don't have to be a company, you don't have to have credit card facilities, you don't have to do anything fancy with your web site - just convert your files, put them on your site and wait for the monthly checks. The software works with Window 3.x & 95 and current versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer - full instructions for use are provided. - - --- Visit http://members.aol.com/ivendor/index.htm to download the freeware plug-in and information pack. - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Re: [Fwd: Re: [RePol] Donations Received]
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Six wrote: > This was sent through EFGA's Georgia Cracker Remailer, but seems to > have gotten 'lost' in the remail. > Go figure... Perhaps they objected to you not using your Government approved 'Prisoner of Citizenship' name.

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new lanl patent?
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Authentication-Warning: blacklodge.c2.net: majordom set sender to owner-cryptography(a)c2.org using -f From: proff(a)iq.org Date: 6 Nov 1997 06:35:37 -0000 To: cryptography(a)c2.net Subject: new lanl patent? Sender: owner-cryptography(a)c2.net From: "Jongsma, Ken (NM75)" <ken.jongsma(a)das.honeywell.com> Date: 24 Oct 1997 10:32:24 -0600 Subject: Hiding In Plain Sight from the Oct 20 Aviation Week: "Researchers at Los ALimos National Laboratory have patented a new software technique that can hide secret information in the electronic "noise" associated with the transmission of data and electronic images. Called "data embedding," the method allows classified data to be stored and transferred in open transmissions and can serve as an "electronic watermark" to prevent unauthorized manipulation of digital images and other information, according to Ted Handel, project leader. The software can be used on a desktop personal computer and consumes only 512 kilobytes of memory, less than most word processing programs. It is written in "C" computer language which conforms to virtually any digital storage medium. Overall document length can remain the same." Aside from the obvious errors in the story, do you suppose that someone ought to clue the patent office in that steganography has existed for quite a while now? If anyone would like to research the patent and report back, it would be interesting to see what is so unique that the could get a patent on it. -- ken.jongsma(a)das.honeywell.com 505 828-5876 Voice 505 828-5500 Fax --- 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/>

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