December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

1998 EPIC Crypto Conference - Last week for Reduced Registration
by Dave Banisar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Top Government Officials, Industry Leaders, Cryptography Experts and Public Interest Advocates to Discuss Encryption Policy *** Last week for Early Registration *** *** CLE Credit Application Filed *** Washington, DC Monday, June 8, 1998 http://www.epic.org/events/crypto98/ Top government officials -- including Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO), William Reinsch (Undersecretary of Commerce for Export Administration) and Robert Litt (Principal Associate Attorney General) -- will discuss current U.S. encryption policy at the largest policy conference on cryptography ever held in Washington, D.C. Other leading experts from government, industry, the public interest community and academia will also debate important legal, political and technical issues. If you are interested in cryptography policy, this is the one meeting you must attend! The 1998 EPIC Cryptography and Privacy Conference is organized by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, in cooperation with the Harvard University Information Infrastructure Project and the Technology Policy Research Group of the London School of Economics. - THE 1998 EPIC CRYPTOGRAPHY AND PRIVACY CONFERENCE - HIGHLIGHTS o Meet the technical experts, industry leaders, litigators, and policy makers who are shaping the global debate over encryption and privacy. o Get the latest news, reports, legislative information, and technical results. o Receive the 1998 edition of the highly-acclaimed EPIC Cryptography and Privacy Sourcebook. o Receive Continuing Legal Education Credits (CLE). THE PANELS o Top U.S. government officials will debate top industry representatives on current U.S. policy on domestic restrictions, export controls, and pending legislation. o A panel of senior government officials from France, England, Canada, Germany and the European Union will describe encryption policies in their countries and future trends. o Leading cryptographers and technical experts will discuss the dangers and benefits of key escrow and key recovery systems and other important technical issues. o Attorneys representing the plaintiffs and the U.S. Government in the pending legal challenges to the constitutionality of export controls will discuss and debate the cases and their outcomes. FEES: Register before May 15 for reduced fee. Standard o $300.00 (before May 15) / $400.00 (after May 15) Academic/Govt/501(c)(3) o $150.00 (before May 15) / $200.00 (after May 15) MORE INFORMATION, FULL AGENDA AND ONLINE REGISTRATION: http://www.epic.org/events/crypto98/ ------- David Banisar (Banisar(a)epic.org) * 202-544-9240 (tel) Electronic Privacy Information Center * 202-547-5482 (fax) 666 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Suite 301 * HTTP://www.epic.org Washington, DC 20003 * PGP Key http://www.epic.org/staff/banisar/key.html

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Re:A 'Nobody' Out From 'Obscura'
by StanSqncrs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 5/14/98 1:28:03 AM Central Daylight Time, tcmay(a)got.net writes: << > Bad beginning, Sir Will. The willingness to pass along material of dubious > authenticity is not a good sign in my book. As Mr. Natural would say, "Check > your source." So, what *IS* your source? This qualifies as an Official News Story Quote under the guidelines released by 'True Lies On The InterNet Coommiittee' which was formed on Oct. 3, 1954. >> Maybe so, but does something 4 years old qualify as "news"? Only to a victim(/perpertrator) of a anti-reality campaign. Stan

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Public Key Royalties
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a recent GAO report on governmental funding of university research there is this note: In fiscal year 1996, the commercialization of the public key encryption method, which was developed under grants from the Navy and NSF, resulted in $271,875 in royalties to MIT. Does this refer to RSA or PGP? Did the Navy underwrite RSA's PK work? If so does the USG have a secret stake in PGP, Network Associates and RSA? More: did the Navy guide PK researchers based on the secret UK PK work before Diffie-Hellman? The full report: http://jya.com/rced-98-126.txt (184K)

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Chaffing and winnowing
by Mark Rosen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have just been notified that chaffing and winnowing does, indeed, violate the export regulations. You can read them for yourself at http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/encreg.htm, but here are a few parts a. Designed or modified to use ``cryptography'' employing digital techniques to ensure ``information security''; b. Designed or modified to perform cryptanalytic functions; c. Designed or modified to use ``cryptography'' employing analog techniques to ensure ``information security''; ... Note: 5A002 does not control the following: b. Equipment containing ``fixed'' data compression or coding techniques; ... g. Data authentication equipment that calculates a Message Authentication Code (MAC) or similar result to ensure no alteration of text has taken place, or to authenticate users, but does not allow for encryption of data, text or other media other than that needed for the authentication; So it seems 5A002.a and 5A002.g cover such encryption technologies as chaffing and winnowing. Interestingly enough, 5A002.b allows such functions as the package transform (keyless coding), even though it uses encryption algorithms. - Mark Rosen http://www.mach5.com/

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Re: A 'Nobody' Out From 'Obscura'
by StanSqncrs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 5/14/98 11:07:23 AM Central Daylight Time, tcmay(a)got.net writes: << At 1:12 AM -0700 5/14/98, StanSqncrs wrote: >In a message dated 5/14/98 1:28:03 AM Central Daylight Time, tcmay(a)got.net >writes: > ><< > Bad beginning, Sir Will. The willingness to pass along material of >dubious > > authenticity is not a good sign in my book. As Mr. Natural would say, >"Check > > your source." So, what *IS* your source? > > This qualifies as an Official News Story Quote under the guidelines > released by 'True Lies On The InterNet Coommiittee' which was formed > on Oct. 3, 1954. >> Stan ("and the Sequencers") quotes me as saying things I never said. >> Look, nobody (IMHO), I quoted another FreeGroupie. Then I quoted YOU involved in a 'red-herring' (unless someone forged your address) - "This qualifies as an Official News Story Quote under the guidelines released by 'True Lies On The InterNet Coommiittee' which was formed on Oct. 3, 1954." Keep it up, Tim. Stan

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Re: A 'Nobody' Out From 'Obscura'
by StanSqncrs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Obviously, this is a forgery, it isn't me, my guess is, it's our 'nobody' - << Boy, do I feel like an idiot!!! I got my head out of my ass and checked out the headers on some of the messages coming from the list and discovered that many of them, including the one I am referring to above, are forgeries by Ulf Moller (who has those two 'eyes' over the 'o' in his name, just like the eye in the pyramid on the US dollar-bill, which means he must be a Bavarian Illuminati shill). Received: (from cpunks@localhost) by einstein.ssz.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA02347 for cypherpunks(a)algebra.com; Wed, 13 May 1998 20:33:59 -0500 Received: from public.uni-hamburg.de (public.uni-hamburg.de [134.100.41.1]) by einstein.ssz.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA02311 for <cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com>; Wed, 13 May 1998 20:33:32 -0500 Received: from paris.public.uni-hamburg.de (max2-145.public.uni-hamburg.de [134.100.45.145]) Received: by ulf.mali.sub.org (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) Message-Id: <m0yZmcP-0003bcC(a)ulf.mali.sub.org> Date: Thu, 14 May 98 03:15 +0200 From: ulf(a)fitug.de (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=) To: cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com, mix-l(a)jpunix.com Subject: Re: "... would cause us to look at this person as a threat" I would like to apologize to Tim, and to all of the other cypherpunks that I have offended by my stupid, ignorant posts and attitude on the list. I'm not really a CypherPunk. I don't even suck cock! (OK, I sucked my brother's cock a little, when I was younger, but that was just 'experimentation', OK? By the time I was nine, I had started fucking my little sister, so that *proves* I'm straight, eh?) Anyway, I don't think we should put up with this shit from Ulf (DoubleEye Illuminati) Moller. Let's all spam him. Stan Guildenstern http://A(h)OL(e).commie/Boy_Am_I_Stupid!!!.html >>

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EPIC Crypto Conference - last week for reduced registration (fwd)
by K. M. Ellis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Top Government Officials, Industry Leaders, Cryptography Experts and Public Interest Advocates to Discuss Encryption Policy *** Last week for Early Registration *** *** CLE Credit Application Filed *** Washington, DC Monday, June 8, 1998 http://www.epic.org/events/crypto98/ Top government officials -- including Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO), William Reinsch (Undersecretary of Commerce for Export Administration) and Robert Litt (Principal Associate Attorney General) -- will discuss current U.S. encryption policy at the largest policy conference on cryptography ever held in Washington, D.C. Other leading experts from government, industry, the public interest community and academia will also debate important legal, political and technical issues. If you are interested in cryptography policy, this is the one meeting you must attend! The 1998 EPIC Cryptography and Privacy Conference is organized by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, in cooperation with the Harvard University Information Infrastructure Project and the Technology Policy Research Group of the London School of Economics. - THE 1998 EPIC CRYPTOGRAPHY AND PRIVACY CONFERENCE - HIGHLIGHTS o Meet the technical experts, industry leaders, litigators, and policy makers who are shaping the global debate over encryption and privacy. o Get the latest news, reports, legislative information, and technical results. o Receive the 1998 edition of the highly-acclaimed EPIC Cryptography and Privacy Sourcebook. o Receive Continuing Legal Education Credits (CLE). THE PANELS o Top U.S. government officials will debate top industry representatives on current U.S. policy on domestic restrictions, export controls, and pending legislation. o A panel of senior government officials from France, England, Canada, Germany and the European Union will describe encryption policies in their countries and future trends. o Leading cryptographers and technical experts will discuss the dangers and benefits of key escrow and key recovery systems and other important technical issues. o Attorneys representing the plaintiffs and the U.S. Government in the pending legal challenges to the constitutionality of export controls will discuss and debate the cases and their outcomes. FEES: Register before May 15 for reduced fee. Standard o $300.00 (before May 15) / $400.00 (after May 15) Academic/Govt/501(c)(3) o $150.00 (before May 15) / $200.00 (after May 15) MORE INFORMATION, FULL AGENDA AND ONLINE REGISTRATION: http://www.epic.org/events/crypto98/ ------- David Banisar (Banisar(a)epic.org) * 202-544-9240 (tel) Electronic Privacy Information Center * 202-547-5482 (fax) 666 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Suite 301 * HTTP://www.epic.org Washington, DC 20003 * PGP Key http://www.epic.org/staff/banisar/key.html

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Announcing the Call for Papers - USENIX 1999 Annual Conference
by Jackson Dodd 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Program Chair, Avi Rubin of AT&T Labs - Research, and the Program Committee announce the availability of the Call for Papers for: 1999 USENIX ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE June 7-11, 1999 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association ================================================ Call for Papers at http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/cfp.html Paper submissions due: December 2, 1998 ================================================ The Program Committee seeks original and innovative papers on the applications, architecture, implementation, and performance of modern computing systems. Papers that analyze problem areas and draw important conclusions from practical experience are especially welcome. Some particularly interesting application topics are: Availability Distributed caching and replication Embedded systems Extensible operating systems File systems and storage systems Interoperability of heterogeneous systems Mobile code Mobile computing Multimedia New algorithms and applications Personal digital assistants Quality of service Reliability Security and privacy Ubiquitous computing and messaging Web technologies Invited Talk and tutorial suggestions and proposals are also very welcome. ==================================================================== USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association. Its members are the computer technologists responsible for many of the innovations in computing we enjoy today. To find out more about USENIX, visit its web site: http://www.usenix.org.

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ANNOUNCE: FreeS/WAN IPSEC & IKE version 0.8 released & useful!
by Hugh Daniel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I would like to announce for the FreeS/WAN software team that they now have a freeswan-0.8 release available for download from the FreeS/WAN home page at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan The 0.8 (and target 1.0 in June) runs only in a VPN (tunnel) mode, protecting and encrypting net traffic for a subnet behind the SG. This setup is called a SG for Security Gateway. We plan on implementing the rest of the IPSEC and IKE draft standards in our 2.0 release later this summer for the 2.1.xxx and 2.2.xx series Linux kernels. There is some useful documentation for the current FreeS/WAN done by Kai Martius at: http://www.imib.med.tu-dresden.de/imib/Internet/index.html The 0.8 release has been tested extensively in the hand keyed ESP-3DES-HMAC-MD5-96 tunnel mode and is quite robust. On a 150Mhz 586 Clone PC TCP throughput is over 320 Kbytes/second sustained as measured by netperf. The IKE daemon pluto has been tested only a very little and sometimes works and sometimes does not. It will work for the simple VPN case before 1.0. Feedback, new features, documentation, scripts and bug fixes & reports are especially useful in the next few weeks before we start in on the 0.9x series of release working up to a stable 1.0 release in June. Don't wait for the last minute to submit that neat feature or bug fix, as we might not have time to include it! If you have questions about the project please see our home page where you will find a mail list, list archives, FTP directory's etc. Thanks to everyone who made this release possible, but mostly the people who coded it up! Please post all bugs, fixes, code etc. to the public email list at <linux-ipsec(a)clinet.fi>. ||ugh Daniel hugh(a)toad.com Systems Testing & Project mis-Management The Linux FreeS/WAN Project http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan

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SecureOffice Challenge
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Kathleen Ellis has announced on Cryptography that she has put a copy of SecureOffice on her Web site in support of Charles Boother and against the BXA subponea of his records concerning export of his 168-bit encryption program: http://www.filesafety.com/ We are pleased to join Kathleen by putting SecureOffice on our site, with the thread on civil disobedience at: http://jya.com/bxa-syncsys.htm

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