December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: rant on the morality of confidentiality (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: rant on the morality of confidentiality (fwd) > From: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) > Date: Sun, 11 Jan 98 09:51:22 EST > You don't seem to realize that the likelyhood of someone independently > rediscovering a "lost" math result is much less than the likelyhood of > two people independently creating substantially similar works of art. Malarky, the history of science (and of human civilizations) is replete with example after example of idividuals discovering the same basic theme and its proof. Just the three examples we have been using (Newton, Gauss, Fermat) are filled with comments about contemporaries discovering the same result. Review Darwin for a moment, he chose to share the fame for evolutionary theory with Wallace because he had reached the same conclusion. Had either Darwin or Wallace not chose to publish the result would still have been found and shared. > For example, all of T.S.Elliot's poetry is substantially similar to > Walt Whitman's poetry. They are, for most intents and purposes, mutually > interchangeable. (Emily "lick my bud" Dickinson is almost interchangeable.) Only in the context that they are both poets who write poetry. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ 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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Eternity Services (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 09:39:00 -0800 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Eternity Services > under privacy laws, the ECPA, etc. We have not seen any major court orders > directed at remailers, but I expect them soon. Tell that to Julf. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ 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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by steve＠playgal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Congratulations!
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 02:06 01/11/98 -0800, WebSoft Associates, wrote: > We at WebSoft Associates (http://www.websoftassoc.com) would like to > congratulate you on your recent selection by Inc. Magazine as > one of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the United States. Wow! The cypherpunks are a fucking business? Am I a stock holder? Ha-fucking-ha! Is this line supposed to convince us that this was a targeted e-mail and *not* spam! <LOL> Normally I just trash this stuff, but I really got a kick out of that. I hope we can get to top 100 by the fall '98 <bg>

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Dimitry Vulis need attention again
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Received: by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; > id AA29722 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 98 10:24:07 -0500 > Received: by bwalk.dm.com (1.65/waf) > via UUCP; Sat, 10 Jan 98 10:03:36 EST > for cypherpunks(a)toad.com > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Re: your mail > From: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) > > Anonymous <nobody(a)REPLAY.COM> writes: > > > >On Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:54:41 -0700 (MST) Graham-John Bullers > > ><real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes: > > >>On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Mix wrote: > > >> > > >>I think Vulis needs each of us to send ten copies of this back to him. > > > > > >I think so too what's his email address????? > > > > > > > > > > > >Anonymous304 > > > > Uh, you subscribe to the list but you can't find Vulis' address? Just how > > stupid are you? > > Guy Polis is indeed very stupid. His former colleagues at J.P.Morgan > and Salomon bros, where he used to be a consultant, remember him as > a very stupid guy. "Polis" is an arcane Scandanavian (sic) word for "Police". That's as creative as Ukranian-Romainian-Gypsie Vulis can do. Vulis couldn't even hack it in Manhatten, and had to leave. His brother, Michael, said the family disowns Dimitry as the asshole of the family line. ---- Regarding emailing Vulis to show him some appreciation: as you can see from the headers, he is so disliked that he needs to connect to the Net using UUCP! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA And so, he has to download his mail before filtering/reading it, and domain 'dm.com' is MX wild-carded to accept all references. So, wouldn't it be funny if people started signed _him_ up for Eureka, Russian Jewish Singles dating, etc? Also, simply sending him largish missives will tie up his poor UUCP link. So, if it doesn't violate your local TOS, I think all of us should let Dr. Dim hear about it until he cleans up his act. ---guy fool(a)dm.com fool(a)bwalk.dm.com gypsie(a)bwalk.dm.com MaysRevenge(a)bwalk.dm.com

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Adding SSL to things
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:11 AM 1/11/98 -0500, Ryan Lackey wrote: >Does anyone know of a way I can take a web server, say AOLserver, which >does not support useful SSL, and also does not distribute source, and >retrofit a useful 128-bit SSL implementation to it? It has a C API, but >I haven't looked at the API enough to see if I could do it within the API. >Are there any proxies which could be stuck between the insecure server >and the user (preferably with an ssh link between the servers) which could >provide SSL proxy service? It seems like this should be trivial to do, >but I haven't tried yet, and I want to have some reedeming value for this >post.] Why not just get a server that _does_ have useful SSL support, like Apache-SSL (for non-US freeware) or Stronghold (for US commercial use)? There are workarounds out there for undersecure clients, like SafePassage and some German Java applet, but that's the easy side. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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GPS Jamming [FWD]
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think this might have been mentioned in a CP thread sometime back. At least it should have ;-) --------------- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 22:29:14 +0000 From: "Marcus L. Rowland" <mrowland(a)ffutures.demon.co.uk> Subject: GPS Jamming *New Scientist* (8 Jan 1998, http://www.newscientist.com) included an article saying that a Russian company called Aviaconversia was offering a 4-watt GPS/Glonass jammer for less than $4000 at the September Moscow Air Show. It says that it could stop civilian aircraft locking onto GPS signals over a 200 Km radius; military aircraft would be harder to jam, but a more powerful unit could be built. The risks (terrorism etc.) are fairly obvious, and it's mentioned that it would probably be easy to build one even if this company's product is somehow removed from the market. Marcus L. Rowland http://www.ffutures.demon.co.uk/ ------------- GPS uses a wideband Direct Sequence Spread Rectum technology. DSSS, as implemented in GSP, is excellent for distance an direction finding due to its inherent, very accurate, time base. In order to conserve satellite power and provide a reasonable signal level at small (e.g., handheld) receivers, it spreads a low data rate signal over wide band, achieving a 63dB 'process gain' (equivalent to about a 2 million fold increase in receive signal level). DSSS signals (in general) can be jammed by very narrow (e.g., CW or continuous wave) carriers, especially pulsed, with relatively modest power. GPS includes significant provisions for anti-jam and although I haven't done a detailed analysis, I'd be surprised if a 4-watt transmitter would render a 200 km radius unfit for GPS navigation. See "Spread Spectrum Communications Handbook," ISBN 0-07-057629-7. --Steve PGP mail preferred, see http://www.pgp.com and http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html RSA fingerprint: FE90 1A95 9DEA 8D61 812E CCA9 A44A FBA9 RSA key: http://keys.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x55C78B0D --------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Schear | tel: (702) 658-2654 CEO | fax: (702) 658-2673 Lammar Laboratories | 7075 West Gowan Road | Suite 2148 | Las Vegas, NV 89129 | Internet: schear(a)lvdi.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: (eternity) mailing list and activity
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[I've Cc'ed this to cypherpunks from discussion on eternity(a)internexus.net] Jeff Knox <trax(a)ix.netcom.com> writes: > I do have a few questions. I am curios as to how i would go about > creating a domain service. If i wanted to start a domain service to > server a domain i create like test.dom, how would i run a server to > processes the request, and how would all the other servers around > the world cooperate? Firstly note that there are 3 (three) systems going by the name of eternity service at present. Ross Anderson coined the term, and his paper which describes his eternity service, you should be able to find somewhere on: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/ Next, my eternity prototype which I put a bit of time into hammering out last year in perl, borrows Ross's name of "eternity service", but differs in design, simplifying the design by using USENET as the distributed database / distribution mechanism rather than constructing one with purpose designed protocols: http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/eternity/ And there is Ryan Lackey's Eternity DDS (where DDS stands for I presume Distributed Data Store?). I am not sure of the details of his design beyond that he is building a market for CPU and disk space, and building on top of a an existing database to create a distributed data base accessible as a virtual web space (amongst other `views'). He gave this URL in his post earlier today: http://sof.mit.edu/eternity/ To answer your question as applied to my eternity design, I will describe how virtual domains are handled in my eternity server design which is based on USENET as a distributed distribution medium. A proto-type implementation, and several operational servers are pointed to at: http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/eternity/ In this design the virtual eternity domains are not based on DNS. They are based on hash functions. Really because it is a new mechanism for accessing information URLs should perhaps have the form: eternity://test.dom/ Where a separate distributed domain name lookup database is defined, and a distributed service is utilised to host the document space. However because it is more difficult to update browsers to cope with new services (as far as I know, if anyone knows otherwise, I'd like pointers on how to do this), I have represented URLs of this form with: http://test.dom.eternity/ This would enable you to implement a local, or remote proxy which fetched eternity web pages, because you can (with netscape at least) direct proxying on a per domain basis. Using the non-existant top level domain .eternity, you can therefore redirect all traffic for that `domain' to a local (or remote) proxy which implements the distributed database lookup based on URL, and have normal web access continue to function. My current implementation is based on CGI binaries, so does not work directly as an eternity proxy. Rather lookups are of the form: http://foo.com/cgi-bin/eternity.cgi?url=http://test.dom.eternity/ The virtual eternity URLs (URLs of the form http://*.eternity/*) are converted into database index values internally by computing the SHA1 hash the URL, for example: SHA1( http://test.dom.eternity/ ) = d7fa999054ba70e1ed28665938299061b519a4f7 The database is USENET news, and a distributed archive of it; the database index is stored in the Subject field of the news post. The implementation optionally keeps a cache of news articles indexed by this value on eternity servers. If the required article is not in the cache it is searched for in the news spool. Currently this is where it stops, so articles would have to be reposted periodically to remain available if articles are either not being cached, or are flushed from the cache. However the cache is never flushed, because the cache replacement policy is not currently implemented. An improvement over this would be to add a random cache flushing policy and have servers serve the contents of their cache to each other forming a distributed USENET news article cache. Another option would be to search public access USENET archives such as dejanews.com for the requested article. The problem is really that we would prefer not to keep archives of articles directly on an open access server, because the server's disks could be seized, and the operator could be held liable for the presence of controversial materials. Wei Dai suggested that documents should be secret split in a redundant fashion so that say 2 of 5 shares are required to reconstruct the document. If the shares are distributed across different servers, this ensures that one server does not directly hold the information. Ross describes ideas on how to ensure that a server would not know what shares it is holding in his paper which can be found on his web pages, the url being linked from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/ Adam

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