December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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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Welcome to Switchboard: [FBJJM,695]
by registrar＠mailer.switchboard.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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40-bit brute force RC4 speed records?
by Dan McDonald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just curious, what's the speed record? What if I had, oh, say, a 4-way Ultra Enterprise 450 at my disposal? Thanks, Dan

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Just who should Kenneth Starr work for next?
by Jim Burnes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Pat Cain wrote: > Folks - > > Allegedly a Reuters story, from sources unknown (too many forwards to give > proper credit). > > pjc > > ===================================================== > Flynt offers Starr job as porno aide > Pretty amusing. After Billy has resigned/been impeached he could star in porno movies that Flynt produces -- maybe use the proceeds to pay the taxpayer back for all the wasted time and money. The real problem with all this is that Star was forced to reveal exactly what acts took place because Clinton insisted on defining the minutia of what constituted "sexual relations" -- thus revealing whether he did or didn't conform to that definition was mandatory. The question of perjury balances on these facts. Any adult with half a brain knows that sexual relations are relations that are sexual in nature. A reasonable man/woman (especially wives of the adulterer in question) would consider oral sex sexual relations. But that is beside the point. Billy C is being hoist on his own petard. The fishing expedition discovery process allowed by sexual harrasment suits were an invention of NOW (and the club of socialist lawyers that Mr Clinton clearly is a member of.) By any stretch of the imagination Clinton has either perjured himself in his civil deposition (a felony offense), perjured himself before a federal grand jury (an even more serious felony offense), obstructed justice or all three. Of course the whole thing could have been avoided if Clinton had simply told the truth during the deposition and to the American people. (Actually it could have been avoided if Mr. Clinton had not made a habit of making his private life a matter of public record). Now Clinton has put either himself or the Republic in a very precarious situtation. (1) Either the perjury and obstruction of justice laws apply equally to everyone, or they apply to no one. If the judicial system fails to enforce these laws they set an example. Next time someone is under oath they can decide what they can and can't lie about. They can decide that "alone" means something other than what a reasonable man would agree with. They can decide to deceive the judge and jury if the prosecution is hostile (as if the prosecution is ever anything but). They can give testimony before a federal grand jury over a closed circuit video feed so that they are free to refuse to answer questions without chance of being held in contempt and jailed. (2) Admit that he lied under oath and open himself up to prosecution (and definite impeachment). (3) Resign and save (a) the Democratic Party (b) tax payers dollars (c) his own skin (4) Refuse (2) and (3) and trash the democratic party in the elections, waste huge amounts of taxpayer dollars and jeopardize the institution of the presidency and the legal system. (whats left of them ;-) And before all the dems on this list bitch that I'm just being partisan and just "let the man get on with his job" -- let me state that telling the people the truth *is* part of "his job". (and I'm neither a democrat or a republican -- not that there is much differnce anymore) We all laugh at and belittle politicians for lying to us when "their mouths are moving", but when they move those mouths under oath they are held to a high legal standard. Would you prefer this standard not apply when taking the oath of office? Would you countenance a politician who, appearing as a witness in a murder case, lied about who he had seen stabbing whom? Part of the oath of office swears out the fact that they will faithfully execute the laws of the land. Is this another sworn oath we could write off as the "trappings" of the republic? More importantly, as Noam Chomsky points out in "Manufacturing Consent", lying politicians are the modern democratic equivalent of feudal tyrants beating or executing citizens in more "uncivilized times". When the king decided to supress the power of the citizens he simply beat, killed or imprisoned them. When modern politicos want to relieve people of power they lie to them straightfaced, then do whatever they choose. The more slick they are, the less the people even know whats being done to them -- and the more dangerous they are. They become tools of force for those who wish to buy them. The velvet glove over the iron fist. In this Heinlein is dead right -- democracy is force. If anyone could watch the clinton testimony on video tape and not believe that he is a congenital liar then you are deluding yourself. And as for getting on with the business of government that most "liberals" hope for: education, welfare, more money for more people -- maybe they ought to start thinking more about what is being done *to* them than *for* them. "When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it." President Bill Clinton, MTV's "Enough is Enough" 3-22-94 (*gulp*, the Founders are rolling in their graves like blenders on frappe. The true colors of a "communitarian") In any case, since I'm neither Demoblican or RepublicRat I see the whole issue like a bystander at the crash of the Hindenberg. The first flames are breaking out on top and you know that the thing is made of hydrogen and flammable materials. The conflagration is not going to go out until the fuel is exausted. Between Lewinsky, TravelGate, FBIFileGate, DonationGate, Whitewater, Elections, Satellite News and the Internet thats a hell of a lot of fuel. Add Y2K to the fire and you just know the thing is going to burn to a cinder as it grounds out. "Oh, the humanity" Being of libertarian disposition I'm no fan of the nature of sexual harrasment proceedings, but if you are the chief executive of those laws then you must also live by them or risk undermining the very underpinnings of the legal system. If you want to be the banker in the game of Monopoly, don't complain that you don't like the rules when someone catches you cheating. (i know the original post was intended humoursly, but I'm so tired of the prevarication, deceit, etc I had to put a word or two in ;-) taking a deep breath, jim burnes "Libery cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have .. a desire to know; .. that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge. I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers." -- John Adams A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law [1765]

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Re: [salman rushdie]
by NMIR 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone have any idea what this guy is on about?. Regards, NMIR www.netlink.co.uk/users/impact/namir/namirm.html billp(a)nmol.com wrote: dave --- ABQ J 9/24/98 Iran May Withdraw Writer's Death Threat LONDON - Author Salman Rushdie met with British Foreign Office officials Wednesday amid reports Iran is preparing to withdraw the threat on his life. The late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini pronounced a "fatwa," death sentence, against Rushdie in 1989 after the publication of his book "Satanic Verses," which many Muslims deemed blasphemous. Islamic militants then put a $2 million bounty on Rushdie's head, forcing the author to live largely in under British police protection. --- I THINK that I heard tonight and saw Rushie's picture on TV that the above was called off. Progress. I am reading again your stuff at http://www.jya.com/filth-spot.htm Let's all hope for release of the requested documents and SETTLEMENT. bill > --------------------------------------------- > Attachment: bw1.html > MIME Type: text/html > --------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 21:43:34 -0400 "Edwin E. Smith" <edsmith(a)IntNet.net> writes: > > > >If you have Microsoft Word (6.0 or later), and have a thesaurus >installed, do the following: > >1) Open a new, blank document. >2) Type in the words: I'd like to see Bill Clinton resign. >3) Highlight the entire sentence. >4) Click on the tools menu and select thesaurus (tools, language, > thesaurus) > >Look what is immediately highlighted in the selection box. > This was almost funny. Too bad the following sentences also work: I'd like to drink frog urine I'd like to hug large, purple dinosaurs I'd like to cook onions with garlic and tomatoes I'd like to strangle you with a mouse cable

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Re:
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

How about: I'd like humping your mom with a prosthetic limb. I'd like Hillary to get down on both knees and eat out Monica's ass. I'd like nothing more than for anyone who even thinks about mentioning Bill Clinton to spontaneously combust, preferably right in front of a gas pump where his whole family is sitting in some sort of catatonic stupor, unable to digest any information beyond that which The Machine feeds them every day. Who the fuck wouldn't drink to that? For Christ's sake, I'd be buying! At 10:34 PM 9/25/98 +0200, Anonymous wrote: >On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 21:43:34 -0400 "Edwin E. Smith" <edsmith(a)IntNet.net> >writes: >> >> >> >>If you have Microsoft Word (6.0 or later), and have a thesaurus >>installed, do the following: >> >>1) Open a new, blank document. >>2) Type in the words: I'd like to see Bill Clinton resign. >>3) Highlight the entire sentence. >>4) Click on the tools menu and select thesaurus (tools, language, >> thesaurus) >> >>Look what is immediately highlighted in the selection box. >> > >This was almost funny. Too bad the following sentences also work: >I'd like to drink frog urine >I'd like to hug large, purple dinosaurs >I'd like to cook onions with garlic and tomatoes >I'd like to strangle you with a mouse cable >

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Re: IP: National ID
by pnet＠proliberty.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: Larry Becraft <becraft(a)hiwaay.net> >Subject: IP: National ID >Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 17:17:56 -0500 >To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com > The reason I write now is because we have only about another week >(Oct. 2) to get in more objections to this regulation. I have just >visited the DoT webpage Do you have a URL for this page? - tppt: Tom Paine, Perpetual Traveller; webmaster(a)proliberty.com ================================================================ The USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world (1.6 m) Most of those in prison are there for victimless 'crimes' (63%) Since 1979, property seized without trial, has increased by 2500% In the 'War On Drugs', drugs do not die. People do.

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