December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Release of Veterans' Affairs policy
by Scott Balson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please check: <A href="http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/policy/vet.html">http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/policy/vet.html GWB Scott Balson

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday, September 25, 1998 - 08:08:49 MET You know for what the acronym CLINTON stands for ? Call Lewinsky, I Need The Oral Now !

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by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Hello from USA,
by winkler.elke＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here is Elke agian, it's been a while we've exchanged our e-mails. I'd like to touch bases with you again on the Network Branch. Are you still interested in setting your own business on the internet? Our project is ready to be taken over. So you can run your branch of an International Dating, Matchmaking and Travel Service in your region. We will provide for you all necessary setup, software, etc., and you can start making your money right away! So, please get back to me on that. Warmly, Elke Winkler Berlin, Germany winkler.elke(a)usa.net

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MEDIA RELEASE: Data Fellows and BackWeb sign agreement
by Marita N�sman-Repo 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For immediate release. September 25, 1998 #################################### Data Fellows to integrate BackWeb's technology into CounterSign architecture Helsinki, Finland, September 25, 1998 - Data Fellows Ltd., a leading data security vendor, and BackWeb Technologies, a leader in push solutions for Knowledge Distribution, today announced an agreement to integrate BackWebs Polite Server and Agent technology into Data Fellows CounterSign management architecture. The CounterSign architecture provides a scalable, policy-based framework for managing the security infrastructure. By including BackWeb technology in Data Fellows products, protection against security breaches reaches the highest level, as the security system will automatically and transparently keep itself up-to-date during idle time online. BackWebs solution will complement the existing Internet update technology in F-Secure security products, which include F-Secure Workstation Suite, F-Secure Anti-Virus, F-Secure FileCrypto, F-Secure VPN+, F-Secure SSH and F-Secure NameSurfer. "Combining our integrated security solutions with BackWebs Polite distribution technology provides clear benefits to corporate customers in todays insecure Internet environments," said Risto Siilasmaa, President and CEO of Data Fellows. "The use of bandwidth-friendly and scaleable push technology is a natural extension of our strong Internet approach." F-Secure utilizes BackWebs new client, which allows data transfer to customer networks securely even through firewalls. Administrators of corporate networks will be able to make the decision about deploying a particular version update in their networks, on a case-by-case basis, if they prefer to evaluate the updates before deployment. This type of implementation ensures that customers always have the latest versions on hand and are able to follow company security policy on software distribution. Data Fellows will also utilize the BackWeb broadcast channel for delivering alerts as well as relevant product service and support information to the corporate administrators and to its partners world-wide. Data Fellows future plans include establishing partnerships with ISPs for using BackWebs push technology and its down- and upstream capabilities to enable ISPs to find new sources of revenue from value-added services, such as well-managed security services. About Data Fellows Data Fellows is one of the worlds leading developers of data security products. The Company develops, markets and supports anti-virus, data security and cryptography software products for corporate computer networks. It has offices in San Jose, California, and Espoo, Finland, with corporate partners, VARs and other distributors in over 80 countries around the world. All F-Secure products are integrated into the CounterSign management architecture, which provides a three-tier, scaleable, policy-based management infrastructure to minimize the costs of security management. F-Secure Workstation Suite consists of malicious code detection and removal, unobtrusive file and network encryption, and personal firewall functionality, all integrated into a policy-based management architecture. F-Secure Anti-Virus, with multiple scanning engines (including F-PROT and AVP), is the most comprehensive, real-time virus scanning and protection system for all Windows platforms. F-Secure VPN+ provides a software-based, IPSEC-compliant Virtual Private Network solution for large corporate networks as well as remote and small office networks. F-Secure FileCrypto is the first and only product to integrate strong real-time encryption directly into the Windows file system. FSecure SSH provides secure remote login, terminal, and other connections over unsecured networks. It is the most widely used secure remote administration tool. F-Secure NameSurfer is the solution for remote Internet and Intranet DNS administration. Its easy-to-use WWW user interface automates and simplifies DNS administration. The Company has customers in more than 100 countries, including many of the worlds largest industrial corporations and best-known telecommunications companies, major international airlines, European governments, post offices and defense forces, and several of the worlds largest banks. The Company was named one of the Top 100 Technology companies in the world by Red Herring magazine in its September 1998 issue. Other commendations include Hot Product of the Year 1997 (Data Communications Magazine); Best Anti-Virus product (SVM Magazine, May 1997); Editors Choice (SECURE Computing Magazine); and the 1996 European Information Technology Prize. For more information, please contact: USA: Data Fellows Inc. Mr. Petri Laakkonen, President Tel. +1 408 938 6700, fax +1 408 938 6701 E-mail: Petri.Laakkonen(a)DataFellows.com Europe: Data Fellows Oy Mr. Jari Puhakka, Director, Business Development PL 24 FIN-02231 ESPOO Tel. +358 9 859 900, fax. +358 9 8599 0599 E-mail: Jari.Puhakka(a)DataFellows.com or visit our web site at http://www.DataFellows.com -- Marita.Nasman-Repo(a)DataFellows.com, World-Wide Web http://www.DataFellows.com

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Georges
by Edwin E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The rain has started here in north Tampa. Hope to see all of you in the next life. :-)

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EU-US Relations and Spy Satellit
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg3/sdp/pointses/en/p980914s.htm#6 EU-US relations and spy satellite Monday 14 September MEPs adopted the resolution emphasising the importance of EU-US relations and welcoming the New Transatlantic Agenda agreed at the 18 May London Summit. MEPs see the agreement as a means of reducing potential sources of conflict between both sides but want Congress to scrap the extra-territorial Helms-Burton and d'Amato Acts. The resolution recognises the importance of cooperation in the field of electronic surveillance for tracking down international criminal terrorists and drug traffickers but takes the view that "protective measures concerning economic information and effective encryption" should be taken to guard against abuse and threat to civil liberties posed by international telecommunications such as the "Echelon" US system. ----- We were unable to find the full resolution online and would appreciate a pointer, or a hardcopy: US Fax: 212-873-8700 Snail: John Young 251 West 89th Street, Suite 6E New York, NY 10024 No response from DoD on our request to interview Secretary Cohen about Echelon. And despite the spate of news reports on the recent Euro Parliament debate about it, there have been no questions about Echelon in DoD press briefings. Perhaps one of our esteemed journalists with Pentagon links could follow up on the Baltimore Sun coverage. Duncan Campbell, the first to write of Echelon in 1988, is offering information on Menwith Hill (NSA Echelon base) obtained by British protestors: http://jya.com/en092198.htm

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What does IBM Know about ClearWorks that you don't?
by FYI Stock Alert 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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[flames] a clueless can't see parallel between crypto-freedom and 2nd amendment...
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: jf_avon(a)citenet.net Date: 25 sept 98 10h57 EST Topic: [flames] a clueless can't see parallel between crypto-freedom and 2nd amendment... On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:11:10 +0200, Hans-Juergen Wiesner wrote: Your comment is the first and only one complaint I ever received while posting on this subject. OTOH, I occasionnally receive mail to either objectively discuss the topic or to comment in a positive ways my posts. Beside, post to the owner-cypherpunks to your hearth content, I am not, as of a few weeks ago, on the list. I jump in and off depending on my time availability. >At 14:53 24.09.98 -0400, you wrote: >> ====== forwarded from Canadian Firearms Digest, V2 # 605 ========== > >I won't comment on your somewhat distortet view on reality and your >miserable sense of logic proven by your "arguments". Please submit me with your valid data. I'll welcome it. > I won't even lose a >word on your misuse of HTML instead of plain ASCII for sending mail. Then, don't... >It's just that I don't know why you distribute your meaningless factoids by >way of mailing lists like Cypherpunks (which is how I'm bothered by your >postings every single day). Please feel free to enlighten me about reality and debunk my factoids. As for why I fwd to the Cypherpunks, ask Tim May about the link between govt trying to ban guns and govt trying to ban strong crypto. Or even better than bothering Tim, go back an read the archives of Cypherpunks... > Cypherpunks is a mailing list for users of >cryptographic technology. Topics are concerned mainly with software and the >implications of using certain programs. Mainly. But it is also *highly* concerned by the ethics and politics of it. Guns and crypto are, at the abstraction level, extremely similar and therefore, it is not surprizing to see govt react the same to both topic. An individual's specific psycho-epistemology and definition of Man will, usually, lead to the same conclusions on theses two apparently different topics. >Arms,which seem to be YOUR concern, are for shooting people or game. Arms are NOT my concern, my concern is Freedom. Guns are not for anything in particular, they *are*. Your choice to prefer to shoot peoples than game or targets or simply to engineer a more performing piece of hardware is what you choose to do with it. And is happens that by the nature of them, e.g. the capacity to exert coercion at a distance, they are the ultimate tools of choice of governments, which by nature, are coercives. Govts have their roles. History has shown over and over again ad nauseaum that govts are *dangerous* entities if taken over by a certain category of individuals. In order to defend the freedom of the individual, guns, i.e. tools of tele-coercion are the ultimate deterrent. Ask any american about it. Or consult the Constitution of the United States and see Thomas Jefferson's explanation for the reason of the second ammendment. >think this difference is big enough to justify my asking you to post your >stuff elsewhere. I suppose you ignore that crypto is ruled by ITAR in North-America and that the liberty-to-own-guns advocates also have their grips with ITAR ? >I don't want to be bothered by unsolicited junk mail like >yours any more. when you sent the line subscribing line to the majordomo subscribe cypherpunk-unedited hjwiesner(a)uni-tuebingen.de, which letters of the word "unedited" did you not understand? There is *a lot* of junk mail coming from the cypherpunks list and my posts represent my opinion, which in itself is legitimate, an facts obtained from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police itself. If you don't want to receive any junk mail, send an e-mail to majordomo(a)toad.com, leave the subject line blank and send the following message: unsubscribe cypherpunks-unedited hjwiesner(a)uni-tuebingen.de Ciao jfa [note: when I post to gun groups, I use a crypto-oriented .sig and when I post to crypto groups, I usually use a gun-oriented .sig.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use <http://www.pgpi.com> iQEVAwUBNguvx8iycyXFit0NAQGhqgf9G3Kl3NR2rPac87kQJlx3meMSmU6NM5G6 gx3OElO+LHQw2beD0WOTD1Lj6whLIit0oW/I6uJqHKWhnYAjCM9jm8+REQdiY2Ge s3ISQmSGNyf3rARWIPA6ecrJsMCLJy3vJD60HDtanq4/5GXZTp2Xq3iEOMbLjkp9 36z53e4E0IcF2Betyg2gpyrPajm7cFCv066mSPpUZaEUqG9PwmLRxNYyn03A9bSV PAkUKwyZ/MZy+CHwyuR5lfCPojOuFuFPzA0UINdD6GVk+OK5Gm6ys+GKAcV00SBL y5gqTyGI4Y29nuYiUn27q3dXORxtw4+vbccBqnoonkAmReH+T4lGXA== =AuSQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Definition: FASCISM: n.: a political and economic movement, strongly nationalistic, magnifying the rights of the state as opposed to those of the individual, in which industry, though remaining largely under private ownership, and all administrative political units, are controlled by a strong central government. ------------------------------------------------- "One of the ordinary modes by which tyrants accomplish their purpose, without resistance, is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms". - Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice. ------------------------------------------------- the German gun control laws were enacted by the "liberal" Weimar Republic government that preceded Hitler, and were a strong aid to his coming to power -- because they disarmed Hitler's opponents, and Hitler's adherents ignored them -- as criminals have always ignored gun control laws. Disarming the public is a frequent first step toward dictatorships and genocides. Once the disarming is complete, the public is helpless against those who have the guns. ------------------------------------------------- PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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An Extended Version of My Encryption Algorithm WEAK3
by Mok-Kong Shen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have done a trial implementation of a number of suggestions received for improving my encryption algorithm WEAK3 and have decided to integrate a subset of these into WEAK3 to form an extended version of it designated WEAK3-E. The added features are the following: 1. Text block chaining. Two options are provided. These are similar though not identical to the block chaining methods PBC and CBCC as described in B. Schneier's book. 2. Another block chaining method that is specific to our scheme. It consists in modifying, depending on the text being processed, the pointers that are used to access the various pseudo-randomly generated tables of the algorithm. 3. All pseudo-randomly generated tables used in the algorithm can now be refreshed at user specified periods. 4. Checksums of the chaining values in (1) and (2) above are output to provide integrity checking. An implementation in Fortran 90 is available in: http://www.stud.uni-muenchen.de/~mok-kong.shen/#paper12 The rationales of design of the base version, WEAK3, are given in http://www.stud.uni-muenchen.de/~mok-kong.shen/#paper11 The implemented new features largely follow the suggestions of CWL. I like also to thank GR and CK for construcive critiques and TPS for validating the program code. All eventual remaining deficiencies and errors are however exclusively mine. A binary executable file for PC may be downloaded through: http://www.stud.uni-muenchen.de/~mok-kong.shen/#software Critiques comments and suggestions for improvements are sincerely solicited. M. K. Shen

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