December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

some interesting news...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text From: pete(a)loshin.com Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:43:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: some interesting news... Status: U Bob, you can forward this if you like to any appropriate newsgroups (but only if it hasn't already been mentioned). If it isn't entirely clear, let me know. According to Netscape's press release of 12/10/97, their new Mission Control software solution includes an LDAP directory server and a certificate server. That certificate server boasts an interesting new feature: the ability for the server to generate not just certs but also the keys, and install them on remotely managed browsers. They are positioning this as a feature for organizations that want to use keys but don't want to lose access to corporate data. -pl --- 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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PGP 5.0i Manual translation released
by Maksim Otstavnov 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Updates: * Russian translation of PGP 5.0 for Windows User's Guide is released: ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/pgp/5.0/manual/win95nt/russian/pgp50manual-ru.pdf * The following PGP Russian Homepage documents are updated: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1059/pgp-ru.html http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1059/pgp50-ru-toc.html http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1059/pgp-project-ru.html as well as http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1059/pubs-ru.html -- -- Maksim Otstavnov <maksim(a)volga.net> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1059/ -- -maintainer of The Russian PGP HomePage -- (http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1059/pgp-ru.html)

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A new first for Reno/Justice! Encryption not even on the agenda!
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- December 11, 1997, NYTimes: Reno Says Plan Will "Match Wits" With Technological Criminals By JERI CLAUSING >>> A new first for Reno/Justice! Encryption not even on the agenda! absolutely unreal --of course, being cynical at heart (and having watched the snakes and other assorted vermin inside the Beltway, encryption control will be back... http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/121197crime.html WASHINGTON Justice officials from the world's largest industrial countries met here on Wednesday to draft an international plan that Attorney General Janet Reno said was designed to catch cybercriminals and ensure no safe haven exists for them. ... "Today is an important day in fighting computer crime, and in laying the groundwork for the next century of crime fighting," ... cover the following principles: 1. Ensuring that a sufficient number of trained and equipped law enforcement personnel are enlisted to fight high-tech crime. 2. Creating contacts available on a 24-hour basis to allow countries to move quickly in tracking down computer criminals. 3. Developing faster ways to trace attacks on computer networks and identify hackers. 4. Carrying out a criminal prosecution in the country a suspect flees to, if extradition is impossible. 5. Taking steps to preserve important information on computer networks to help prevent tampering. 6. Reviewing the respective legal systems in each nation to make sure there are appropriate crimes for computer wrongdoing and to make it easier to investigate the crimes. 7. Working with the industry to come up with new ways to detect and prevent computer crimes. 8. Stepping up efforts to use new technologies, such as so-called video links, which would allow obtaining testimony from witnesses in other countries. ... Reno said the contentious topic of encryption regulation was not a focus of the meeting. ..."We were here to discuss a framework," she said. "Encryption was not a topic. Although it was alluded to, it generally was not a topic." ... Asked what the biggest dangers are from technological criminals, Reno gave the example of a hacker who can "sit in his room in Washington, D.C., and steal from a bank in another country," or sabotage the computer networks of companies or governments anywhere in the world. ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQBVAwUBNI/M3LR8UA6T6u61AQGLaAH/QnLL+qfrlPR3U+08+GVNX6Fh6g1KyvkT uxawQXMeZKva9c6miAgSRSftgVbueIeHNtjTZBL9npbnzwPl9ASL2g== =xrMG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Diffie-Hellman
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy `C' May is another loser who pays for got.net because he lacks the mental capacity to gain net access as a perk of either employment or academic achievment. 0 \/|/\ Timothy `C' May | / \/\ \/

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Improved RealAudio and RealVideo with New RealPlayer 5.0
by RealNetworks News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Teach if you know it.
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Same old shit from Gary L. Burnore / DataBasix
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

gburnore(a)netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore) > X-No-Archive: yes > :Your paranoid conspiracy theories remind me of the kid who blamed the mess in > :his bedroom on an invisible herd of stampeding elephants. ("Well of course > :you didn't see them, dad. They're INVISIBLE.") In your case, you speculate > :that there's a single "anonymous asshole" who's responsible for everything > :that you CLAIM has occurred. > > > Nope, I'm saying that the anonymous asshole (you) keeps posting lies with no > proof and still hasn't explained why. How is asking you a QUESTION a LIE? Why won't you answer the question about why you wanted the sendmail logs from the Huge Cajones Remailer? What purpose did you have in mind for all those names and e-mail addresses? > First you said it was because of rfg > then because of burchell yet you were attacking me long before either. I trust that you have proof for that accusation. Are you now saying that your previous accusation that rfg was your so-called "anon-asshole" was a lie? Or your accusation that Scott Dentice was this person? Remember, it's YOUR theory that there's only ONE such person, yet you've accused three different people of being this individual. > So come on anonasshole, what's your reason? If you don't like my answer, then stop asking the question. As one of the former users of Jeff Burchell's now-defunct remailer, please explain why you wanted him to turn over his logs to you and Belinda Bryan which, had they existed, would have listed the identities of everyone who either sent or received anonymous mail through that remailer. > : The problem is, you haven't proven that 90% of > :the stuff you *CLAIM* occurred even happened, let alone was the work of your > :imaginary lone "spam-baiting/forging/child-molesting/cyber-stalking/libeling" > :(did I miss anything?) so-called "anon asshole". > > > Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah. You still haven't posted proof of your claims. They're YOUR claims, Gary. You're the one who keeps claiming that you're the victim of "forgery", "libel", "spam baiting", etc. You are the one that made the unsubstantiated claim that a remailer user sent a harassing letter to an unnamed "teenage girl" with a web page at DataBasix. You are the one who needs to prove them. > :How about some proof of your wild charges, Gary? > > > You're posting anonymously. You're lying about me. Those are the charges. I'm posting anonymously? Well cry me a river. Deal with it! If that's your charge, then it says more about you than it does about me. If posting anonymously upsets you, then that alone is reason enough to do it. I'm lying about you? How? By asking you why you wanted to violate the privacy of all of the users of Jeff Burchell's remailer? It was Jeff's post that revealed your attempt to violate the privacy of his users. I only referred to it. How does that make me a liar? > :" Only one of us even USES > :remailers (or at least admits to it). You, OTOH, have never had a civil word > :to say about ANY anonymous poster. > > You're the one who keeps ranting on and on that I'm agaist remailers and I say > I'm not. You've yet to do anything other than prove that you really do want to > shut them down. Then why did you harass Jeff Burchell by demanding that he turn over his logs to you that would have identified all of his remailer's users and effectively shut it down by destroying confidence in its integrity. Did you really think that the remailer would have remained viable after it was revealed that its operator turned over its logs to DataBasix or the Church of Scientology? Or were you hoping that your attempted end run on privacy would remain your own dirty little secret? > : If remailers were shut down, I'd lose my > :ability to post. What would you lose, Gary? > > The same thing you'd lose. How so? You claim that you don't use remailers. > : Is being able to identify your > :critics and single them out for harassment really that important to you? > > You mean like you single me out for harassment? Your disinformation is getting old. You've posted no evidence: * No evidence that this so called "harassment" even occurred. * No evidence that it originated from someone other than a DataBasix staffer fabricating evidence for a smear campaign. * No evidence that I did it. * No evidence, period. Typical DataBasix big lie technique. How about the evidence, BurnFUD? HINT: Unsupported allegations that an UNNAMED user at DataBasix was "harassed" by an UNDISCLOSED e-mail from an UNNAMED person using an UNNAMED remailer are not evidence. I've posted a URL to my evidence, posted by a NON-anonymous, firsthand witness to your abuse, that NAMED you, Belinda Bryan, and William J. McClatchie. You are invited to do likewise, if you have any such evidence.

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17 Dec '03

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Re: FCPUNX:Elliptic Curve Tidbit
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:01 PM 12/9/97 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > Certicom estimates the difficulty of the warmup exercises thus: > > > Using a network of 3000 computers, it is expected that the > > 79-bit exercise could be solved in a matter of hours, the > > 89-bit in a matter of days, and the 97-bit in a matter of > > weeks. > > Harley and Baisley applied 6 computers to ECCp-79 and solved it in a > bit under 10 days, which would have amounted to less than half an hour > had they had 3000 machines to throw at the problem. In that case, 240 bit keys, as used by Pegwit and Kong, should take 70 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 years on a network of three thousand computers, assuming that the scaling law claimed by Certicom holds true. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/

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Re: 'Off' the parking pigs! (fwd)
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 12/10/97 2:45 PM, Eric Seggebruch - NYC SE (eric.seggebruch(a)East.Sun.COM) passed this wisdom: >Actually it is possible for the government to get more than one shot at >a defendant through the doctrine of dual sovereignty (state and >federal). That is how they got the police officers involved in the >Rodney King incident. When the state court (California) jury let them >off, the feds prosecuted them for civil rights violations in federal >court. TRhey also got the guys who murdered the civil rights workers in the 60's, after being acquitted in state court of murder. They were convicted of the federal crime of violating the victims civil rights also. Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "The 2nd amendment guarantees all the rest."

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