December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

FCC Access Charge Proceeding
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 10:19:56 -0600 >Reply-To: telecomreg(a)relay.doit.wisc.edu >Originator: telecomreg(a)relay.doit.wisc.edu >Sender: telecomreg(a)relay.doit.wisc.edu >Precedence: bulk >From: NJF <NJF(a)commlaw.com> >To: Multiple recipients of list <telecomreg(a)relay.doit.wisc.edu> >Subject: FCC Access Charge Proceeding >X-Comment: Requests (UNSUBSCRIBE/HELP) to: listserver(a)relay.doit.wisc.edu >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Status: U > > I have placed on our Web site at: > > http://www.commlaw.com/pepper/Memos/InfoLaw/access.html > >an analysis of the FCC's Notice of Inquiry on whether ISPs should be >required to pay access charges. We also have available the full text of >the NOI (long) for downloading in Word and WordPerfect formats. > > This is an extremely important proceeding for anyone doing business >online. If the RBOCs get their way, the cost of connecting to the Net >could go through the roof. Pepper & Corazzini is preparing to file >comments and reply comments on behalf of interested parties. This will >be a very time-consuming effort as we anticipate voluminous comments to >be filed by a large number of companies. We are prepared to file joint >comments and replies on behalf of companies supporting the present >policy of exempting ISPs from access charges. This will enable a large >number of firms to participate at a nominal cost. Please contact me if >you are interested. And please feel free to circulate this to any list >that may be relevant. > >Neal J. Friedman >Telecommunications and Information Law >Pepper & Corazzini, L.L.P. >1776 K St., N.W. >Washington, DC 20006 >njf(a)commlaw.com >Voice: 202-296-0600 Fax: 202-296-0600 >Web Site: http://www.commlaw.com >> >

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Random ITAR violations
by Blake Coverett 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I was looking through the current rfc index for something else a few minutes ago when I noticed rfc2040 from the end of October. Machine readable C code for several modes of RC5.

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Re: "Structuring" of Communications a Felony?
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>At 10:57 PM -0800 12/28/96, Lucky Green wrote: > >>IMHO, this closes the door on the foreign contracting loophole used by C2 >>and others. It is now illegal for US persons to finance or contract out >>overseas crypto development, since doing so will obviously assist in >>proliferation. While not unexpected (I offered a bet on Cypherpunks that >>this would happen. Nobody took the bet.), this provision sets a dangerous >>precedence. The technical assistance prohibitions of the past have been >>transformed into general prohibitions against "financing, contracting, >>service, support, transportation, freight forwarding, or employment". >> >>Again, IANAL. > >Nor am I, but I have a "prediction" to make in the spirit of Lucky's types >of predictions of doom. > >I predict that we will see within two years a law making it illegal to >"structure communications" with the intent to avoid traceability, >accountability, etc. > >This would be along the lines of the laws making it illegal to "structure" >financial transactions with the (apparent) intent to avoid or evade certain >laws about reporting of income, reporting of transactions, etc. > [snip] > >How long before the U.S. Code declares "attempting to obscure or hide the >origin of a communication" to be a felony? That would rule out orninary >mail without return adresses, but I think there are ample signs we're >already moving toward this situation (packages that could be bombs >putatively require ID, talk of the Postal Service handling the citizen-unit >authentication/signature system, etc.). > [snip] >You heard it here. > >--Tim May Tim, I think that this is highly unlikely. The SC has ruled repeatedly that anonymous speech is a foundation of American politics (e.g., the Federalist Papers). Care to make this prediction a bet? -- Steve

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VIB
by roland＠internetfleamarket.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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cypherpunks suggestion
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John -- Just got back after vacation... It is my understanding that cpunks list has been attacked by several clever tricks. I have a couple of suggestions on how to improve protection of this list: # Use the following recipe in .procmailrc for cypherpunks (or majordomo) # account: :0 * ^TOcypherpunks * !^X-Loop: * !^FROM_MAILER * !^FROM_DAEMON * !^X-Mailing-List: { # get rid of duplicates :0 Wh: msgid.lock | formail -D 65524 msgid.cache # add X-Loop:, etc :0 fhw | formail -I "X-Loop: cypherpunks(a)toad.com" \ -I "X-Mailing-List: cypherpunks(a)toad.com" \ -I "Precedence: list" \ -I "Errors-To: cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com" # this recipe finally passes the submission to majordomo :0 | majordomo .... } The rest is not really anything for cypherpunks, and should go to /dev/null. - Igor.

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by starr＠lakes.ring.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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DCSB: Applying PGP To Digital Commerce
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Rodney Thayer Sable Technology Corporation "Applying PGP To Digital Commerce" Tuesday, January 7, 1997 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Rodney Thayer has 20 years experience in the software development business. For the past 10 years he has been designing, implementing, deploying, and troubleshooting networking software. He currently is the Principal of a consulting firm based in Newton, Massachusetts where he is involved in the implementation of communications products for a variety of customers, including software vendors, major end-user organizations, and several governmental organizations both foreign and domestic. He also writes and lectures on the deployment, troubleshooting, and implementation of data communications networks. Mr. Thayer will talk about how PGP can be used in the business world today, for exchange of information, digitally identifying documents, and other commerce applications. In this presentation, we will discuss the application of PGP, including mechanics, the cryptographic and legal issues, and the infrastructure requirements for it's use. The state of the art in digital message encryption is now at the point where it has become practical to use encrypted and digitally signed email for digital commerce. Recently, one scheme, PGP, has emerged from the realm of the cyberpunk as a legitimate tool for business. Commercial products are now available that support PGP encryption in electronic mail and for documents and digital storage. PGP is no longer a cult tool for computer junkies and cyberpunks. It is a legitimate, sound cryptographic technology that can be used, today, for digital commerce. As an increasingly crypto-aware business community searches for solutions, the question of how to use message encryption tools such as PGP becomes germaine to the business community. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, January 7, 1997 from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $27.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men, and "appropriate business attire" for women. We will attempt to record this meeting and put it on the web in RealAudio format at some future date We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, January 4, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston". If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Planned speakers for DCSB are: February David Kaufman 1996 in Review / Predictions for 1997 March TBA April Stewart Baker Encryption Policy and Digital Commerce We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, rah(a)shipwright.com . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu . Looking forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: SafeMail 1.0b6 e32 iQCVAwUBMsb+IvgyLN8bw6ZVAQEhRgP/b5Q5u83gIUAqJYPHp6J/BxKUrFjy/fYH J4EqvEvjKrdWE0jcwE34ISf+qUmBS+rZZRYVMsQ8jiVa/uF8TwNNTEEe5kMUPpne UtKvuJOEosFURwGfR4OLoYu1NsqPNuzAD40dwfQDQGVcmTqNlivhikZByE4MTNVz bUlII450N/8= =IS1x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox, e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/

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Re: New crypto regs outlaw financing non-US development
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Lucky Green writes: [snip] >Finally, to the big one: >>Sec. 736.2 General prohibitions and determination of applicability. >> >>* * * * * >> (7) General Prohibition Seven--Support of Certain Activities by >>U.S. persons--(i) Support of Proliferation Activities (U.S. Person >>Proliferation Activity). If you are a U.S. Person as that term is >>defined in Sec. 744.6(c) of the EAR, you may not engage in any >>activities prohibited by Sec. 744.6 (a) or (b) of the EAR which >>prohibits the performance, without a license from BXA, of certain >>financing, contracting, service, support, transportation, freight >>forwarding, or employment that you know will assist in certain >>proliferation activities described further in part 744 of the EAR. >>There are no License Exceptions to this General Prohibition Seven in >>part 740 of the EAR unless specifically authorized in that part. > >IMHO, this closes the door on the foreign contracting loophole used by C2 >and others. It is now illegal for US persons to finance or contract out >overseas crypto development, since doing so will obviously assist in >proliferation. While not unexpected (I offered a bet on Cypherpunks that >this would happen. Nobody took the bet.), this provision sets a dangerous >precedence. The technical assistance prohibitions of the past have been >transformed into general prohibitions against "financing, contracting, >service, support, transportation, freight forwarding, or employment". > >Again, IANAL. > If they have not already done so, those currently doing work for/with C2 can form an off-shore company to manage and develop the crypto work. This off-shore company can then sell shares (private/public) to citizens and companies (both foreign and domestic) and use the proceeds to develop the software. Some of the investors (e.g., C2) could be offered the opportunity to become distributors and support the products in their respective countries. I doubt the Executive order can be interpreted to mean U.S. citizens cannot purchase stocks of foreign companies engaged in crypto. There are many companies (e.g., NEC, Siemans, Philips, ect.) which engage in development of crypto equipment which would not be exportable if they were produced in the U.S. Can the gov't deny us the right to invest in these and other offshore companies? Since those working for C2 are already doing so offshore (e.g., Australia and England, I believe) these parties would only need to separately incorporate an entity to conduct that portion of their current business now under contract to C2. --Steve

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New crypto regulations
by gt＠kdn0.attnet.or.jp 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Concerning the new crypto regulations: " Note to paragraphs (b)(2) and (b)(3) of this section: A printed book or other printed material setting forth encryption source code is not itself subject to the EAR (see Sec. 734.3(b)(2)). However, notwithstanding Sec. 734.3(b)(2), encryption source code in electronic form or media (e.g., computer diskette or CD ROM) remains subject to the EAR (see Sec. 734.3(b)(3))." This is a big question for me. How does the fact that the same exact information, when stored on magnetic media, cause it to lose its freedom of press protection? Has magnetic media never been tested in court for freedom of press applicability? What are the laws that outline the differences between magnetic media and printed media? Specifically, the one(s) that permit the non-protection of magnetic media? Does this mean that if a journal published an article on some strong non-key escrow encryption algorithm that included source code, it could not later offer that same article on a CD-ROM collection? or provide that same source code online?

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Cryptanalysis Trainer
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We've transcribed from PDF to ASCII the cryptanalysis program in Appendix F of the US Army's Field Manual FM 34-40-2, Basic Cryptanalysis, September, 1990. http://jya.com/appf.htm Manual quote: "This program gives the capability to encipher and decipher messages in monoalphabetic and polyalphabetic substitution systems, produce a variety of statistical data about the encrypted messages, and print the results or save them to disk. Because of its limited purpose, the program does not support on-screen analysis. The printed results can be used off-line to aid in analysis, however. The program should be particularly useful in preparing examples and exercises for training cryptanalytic techniques."

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