December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Sacremento Sheriff's deputies get M-16's
by Jonathan Wienke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On the news tonight, channel 3 and 31 both featured stories about Sacramento sheriff deputy supervisors getting "semi-automatic AR-15" rifles. It was hilarious. Channel 3 showed a close-up of the receiver, which was clearly marked with "M16A1". I got this funny feeling that them thar AR-15's will rock 'n roll if the deputy supervisor finds himself in a North Hollywood style situation...can you say Disinformation, boys and girls? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Business Security 5.5 iQA/AwUBNMg/88JF0kXqpw3MEQIAigCg/bXFrIS02GRZW65e10uZrh8QGSEAoLv2 2xmcXhKUBvrWN1Lm7CtE1PhQ =P5v5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Jonathan Wienke PGP Key Fingerprints: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams "Stupidity is the one arena of of human achievement where most people fulfill their potential." -- Jonathan Wienke Never sign a contract that contains the phrase "first-born child." When the government fears the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. RSA export-o-matic: 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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Announcement: RPK InvisiMail released on 12 Jan, 1998
by RPK New Zealand Ltd 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You have received this message because at some time during the past two years you have requested to be put on the RPK New Zealand Ltd. company mailing list. (We're the Fast Public Key Encryption company). If you wish to be removed from the list, please forward this message to remove(a)rpkusa.com -------------------------------- RPK New Zealand Ltd. in a joint venture with Virtually Online Ltd. has released RPK InvisiMail, a standards-based e-mail security application for use with Internet mail software (SMTP/POP3). The product offers the strongest encryption available anywhere in the world. Since it was built outside the United States, it is also available all over the world with strong encryption. RPK InvisiMail is also the easiest product of its type to setup and use which makes it quite unique. You can learn more about this product by reading the press release below or by visiting the web site at www.InvisiMail.com. We are also offering FREE downloads of the RPK InvisiMail Intro product. Please give it a try and pass it along to anyone you like. -------------------------------- For Immediate Release Contact: Sal Cataldi, Cataldi PR +1 212.941.9464, scataldi(a)earthlink.net, www.InvisiMail.com RPK InvisiMail(tm), secure Internet e-mail with globally available strong encryption for Microsoft, Netscape platforms SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12, 1998 - InvisiMail Ltd (www.InvisiMail.com) announced today immediate worldwide availability of RPK(tm) InvisiMail(tm), a standards-based e-mail security add-in for Microsoft, Netscape and other POP3/SMTP Internet e-mail clients and gateway servers. Tested and certified by the International Computer Security Association (www.ncsa.com) RPK InvisiMail automatically and transparently encrypts e-mail messages and attachments, authenticates the sender and verifies the contents of each message have not been changed in transit. RPK InvisiMail is globally available with high strength encryption. InvisiMail and the underlying RPK encryption algorithm were developed outside the United States. Therefore, InvisiMail is not subject to restrictive U.S. export policies. RPK InvisiMail is as easy to set up and use as anti-virus software, and just as important. While Microsoft and Netscape battle each other with incompatible and difficult to use security offerings, InvisiMail seamlessly integrates with ALL popular POP3/SMTP e-mail products including Netscape, Microsoft, Eudora, Pegasus, Calypso -- more than any other solution available today -- making it the preferred e-mail security product for multi-platform use, worldwide. All InvisiMail users can send the FREE InvisiMail Intro version to anyone worldwide, providing compatibility without requiring others to purchase anything, making InvisiMail unique among e-mail security offerings. "Most people don't realize that their e-mail can be forged, altered or read by anyone, any time, without any evidence," said Jack Oswald, President and CEO of RPK Ltd. "Without products like RPK InvisiMail, communications on the Internet are untrustworthy." InvisiMail uses the RPK Fast Public Key Encryptonite(tm) Engine, the strongest cryptography available worldwide today. RPK is dramatically faster than the well-known RSA algorithm, yet just as secure. RPK has been analyzed by world class cryptographers who have issued reports on the security and integrity of the technology. "InvisiMail is the easiest, fastest, most transparent e-mail security product I have seen," said Kevin Shannon, President of net*Gain, a specialist in launching Internet companies. "This is the product we've all been waiting for." As part of its official launch, InvisiMail Professional is available FREE to all New Zealand residents for ninety days. RPK InvisiMail is available in two desktop versions: Intro (FREE) and Professional (introductory price $29.95). RPK InvisiMail Enterprise Gateway Server will be available Q2 1998. InvisiMail can be downloaded from: www.InvisiMail.com. All trademarks and registered trademarks are those of their respective companies. ***

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Surprisingly fast PGP5.5(i) scanning and proofreading
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: ica(a)hawking.fokus.gmd.de (Ingmar Camphausen) Newsgroups: de.comp.security,alt.security.pgp,comp.security.pgp.discuss Subject: Surprisingly fast PGP5.5(i) scanning and proofreading Message-ID: <6aaf44$id8(a)stern.fokus.gmd.de> I am probably not the only one surprised how "out of a sudden" the 5.5 version of PGP was scanned and proofread by Stale Schumacher alone (as it seemed to me). Hence I asked him and Teun Nijssen (they, according to the README in the PGPsdk 5.5 distribution on www.pgpi.com, did all the work) how come they were so much faster and there wasn't a coordinated "distributed" proofreading as with the "international" version of PGP5.0. Teun took the time for a detailed answer and was so kind to permit its free distribution; so here is what he wrote in reply to my request: ---8<--snip-------------------------------------------------------- Hello Ingmar, there are no secrets in this reply; you may do with it whatever you like. /I was somewhat surprised how suddenly and fast PGP5.5(i) was scanned *and* /proofread. Thank you. /Having participated in the proofreading of the 5.0i version and with the /amount of time spent by the "correctors" all over the world in mind, I had /the impression that 5.5 was there and proofread like "a bolt out of the /blue"! It took roughly 100 hours of stamina, between Christmas and 5 January to scan the complete 5.5 books and to correct the 5000 pages of the PGPsdk and Win version. Scanning was no longer an issue, as we had now an Automatic Document Feeder for the HP Scanjet 4C at our disposal. This ADF has been the hero of the two weeks: actually it did not scan 7500 pages ("tools" book + 5.5) but about 10.000 pages, since an initial set of about 3000 pages was discarded when the OCR quality proved not optimal yet. This wonderful ADF misfed exactly zero pages on all this effort. It can contain 50 pages input, so 10.000 pages require 200 manual interventions 30 minutes separated from each other (the HP Scanjet 4C combined with Omnipage Pro takes a little bit less than 30 seconds per page). One Pentium did nothing but scanning, several days starting at 9:00 and finishing around 23:00. The reason that correction went so much better than on either of the two editions of PGP 5.0 was in the new format of the books. The fonts are now excellent, including visible 'tab' characters (kind of triangles), visible spaces (if more than one space is used somewhere, the second one is printed as a tiny black triangle) and a special 'underscore' with little curls. This new book format is supported by a truely marvelous new 'repair' utility, that obviously was optimized to correct the results that come from using an Omnipage version HP Scanjet 4c: the intro of the book "Tools for Publishing Source Code via OCR" describe setting-up the OCR on a Mac/Omnipage/HP 4c. Anyway, repairing 100 pages now takes 4 hours worst case (if very many visible spaces are used: Omnipage often mis-counts multiple visible spaces). And best case: 100 pages can be repaired in half an hour. That is twice the speed of scanning. The true horror of PGP 5.0 was the BINARIES.ZIP file. It was done within 8 hours for 5.5 Windows. The trick was simply to manually delete any page that contained any error. Then run the 'sortpage' utility to report what was missing and *re-scan* those pages. In this way it went from 217 pages to 30 and then to only 6 pages that needed real correction, because at the margin of these pages some lines had not got enough black ink from the book print process. /Did you get any special ...emmmm...support? very definitely not! Neither would we have accepted it should it have been available. It was not available. We think this game should be played "by the book" (sic). The books were simply an order of magnitude better. I think that someone at PGP Inc really tested scanning this time, before printing. Now if they print a next bookset, let's hope they pretty-print everything, discarding trailing visible whitespace and replacing initial spaces by tabs on all lines... /Or did I just miss a "call for volunteers" etc. like the one that /preceeded the release of PGP5.0i? Nope, there was no call this time, because Stale and me could do it alone. /I am very interested in a satisfying answer to this question, for it is /closely related to the credibility of the international PGP website and /the new software version. I agree with that objective. That is the reason that I wrote this answer as extensively as I did and why I permit you to publish it as widely as you like. cheers, teun Senior Project Manager Computer Centre Tilburg University ------------------------------------------>8----snip------------- The original reply was PGP-signed by Teun; it should be available via http://www.in-berlin.de/User/aurora/teun_pgp55-ocr.txt from today, ~ 7pm UTC (GMT) on. Ingmar -- Ingmar Camphausen camphausen(a)fokus.gmd.de PGP key on server GMD FOKUS = Research Institute for Open Communication Systems

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Re: FCPUNX:Revenge on the Nerds -Maureen on a rampage
by Eli Brandt 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Igor Chudov @ home writes: > I suggest writing a proxy server that does such filtering, running it on > the local machine, and using it as proxy server from your netscape browser. "The Internet Junkbuster Proxy(TM) gets rid of stuff you don't want while surfing the Web, such as banner ads and cookies. It's free." http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/ijb.html -- Eli Brandt | eli+(a)cs.cmu.edu | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/

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sleep writing? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi David, Forwarded message: > >Consequently, a contradiction emerges between the universality of intellectual labor (the search for > >universal truth and the good of all) and the particularity of the interests served. The intellectual > middle rival? devil rim lad? This is too weird. I believe the entire problem rests in that concept 'universal truth', again a veiled reference to a theism of some sort or another, a fundamental transcendance. > That reminds me. When I was in Austin, I did notice that they had quite an incredible amount of > public access TV. We spend quite a bit of money on it that is for shure. I believe we have like 5 or 6 channels currently. I worked on a program for access television a few years ago doing post production, video processing, and audio sweetening. It was a soap opera that we filmed in a local retirement home and even won an award at some contest in England. It was called 'Silver Time'. The cool thing is that anyone can go down and by taking a couple of 4 hour classes put their own show on. Because I know the person who does their technical support via contract through one of my customers (CVS) they'll let me go in and play around for free. They have some quite professional equipment, Raptors and several non-linear editing decks as well as a bunch of Amiga Video Toasters and such. That experience is one of the reasons I ended getting my own Toaster. The hard drive of which failed and I have spend the last few evenings, between answering your traffic, rebuilding. It finaly came back online yesterday and I think I've just about got it all rebuilt software wise. One of the local Austin Cypherpunks works on a variety of shows down there and occassionaly puts on his own video game review production. We had hoped to do a 30 minute 'state of crypto today' show but we never could get the momentum going. Jim

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Test [No reply please]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Misty???
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One version of MISTY appeared a couple of years ago, and it was discussed on cpunks then. Mitsubishi has had brief descriptions of it since then as the algorithm used on its LSI chip. Here are two almost identical Melco blurbs which describe the features of MISTY1 and MYSTY2: http://www.melco.co.jp/rd_home/map/j_s/topics/new/misty_e.html http://www.mitsubishi.com/ghp_japan/TechShowcase/Text/tsText06.html Note that these undated sites promise to publicize the algorithm and state that public testing of algorithms is a means of assuring their strength. Matsui, one of its authors, is a highly respected cryptographer and he's a regular participant in international crypto conferences. His articles on the ciphers underlying MISTY are listed in the IETF draft for it: http://jya.com/misty1.htm For those who wish to see the 25 draft encryption algorithms submitted to IETF in 1997 (MISTY1 the last) see a list at: http://jya.com/ietf-dea-97.htm

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PGP SDK integrated into Communicator 5.x Mail?
by Jim Burnes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK: I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of this one. With Communicator 5.x source code being free, how long will it take for someone to integrate it with PGP SDK (and mixmaster and nym.alias.net nyms for that matter?) Whew! jim -- "How do you explain school to higher intelligence?" Elliot to his brother in ET

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Thank you for registering at Disney.com
by guest_mail＠online.disney.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Forbiden Library soon to open to the public (fwd)
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 01:25:32 -0500 > To: voynich(a)rand.org > From: Daniel Harms <dmharms(a)mailhub.acsu.buffalo.edu> > Subject: Forbiden Library soon to open to the public > > This was on another mailing list, but I thought it might > be of interest to the list. Does anyone have any more details? > > [Slightly edited] > > >Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. > > > >The evening news has just announced a rather unexpected decision taken by > >the Vatican's "Sant'Uffizio" (Holy Office): the whole archive of Holy > >Office secret and sensitive documents, also known as the "Forbidden > >Library", currently occupying 27 large rooms in the Vatican Library, will > >shortly be open to the public for the purpose of academic research. > >The works, collected between 1542 and 1903, include official records of > >Inquisition trials and supposed miracle investigations, various tons worth > >of confidential papers, a huge library of indexed and forbidden books, etc. > >According to Cardinal Ratzinger "Researchers will probably have quite a few > >surprises". > > > > Daniel Harms dmharms(a)acsu.buffalo.edu > "Fie on the immortality of cast-iron lawn deer!" > -- H. P. Lovecraft > -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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