December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Your sixdegrees Member Update
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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RE: This is a listed crime? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Matthew James Gering <mgering(a)ecosystems.net> > Subject: RE: This is a listed crime? > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:32:19 -0700 > Regarding the 5th amendment and other laws and precedence involving the > right to remain silent, the right against self-incrimination, etc, how > far could one carry that as an excuse to remain silent? As far as ones convictions and intestinal fortitude will take them. Simply tell them you won't answer any of their questions, you'd like to make your phone call *now*, and you want to see a judge *now*. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CyberPoll Results - The Starr Report
by info＠survey.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thank you for participating in our recent CyberPoll about the Starr Report. The results are in! You can access them at http://www.cyberpoll.com/starrresults.html. Would you like to participate in our follow-up CyberPoll about the Clinton Tapes? If so, please go to http://www.cyberpoll.com/clintontapes.html. Thank you again for your participation. World Research, Inc.

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My favorite Clinton Quote from Today...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"I'm trying to be honest with you, and it hurts me." :-). "I am not a crook."? Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 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'

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Alone
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Clinton: "...it depends on how you define 'alone'.". Alone enough to get a blowjob? Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 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'

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RE: atheism (was: RE: Democracy... (fwd)) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Matthew James Gering <mgering(a)ecosystems.net> > Subject: RE: atheism (was: RE: Democracy... (fwd)) (fwd) > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:09:30 -0700 > Jim Choate wrote: > > As I've demonstrated before (and for the last time): > > > > ^(A) = (^A) > > f() = belief function > A = hypothesis > ^ = not > > f(^A) != ^f(A) Prove it. The f in your f() is redundant, but I can work with it. Simply stating it over and over isn't proof. We're doing Boolean Algebra here not Algebra, the rules for transitory functions are different. I'll even do you a favor and list the Boolean Laws and Theorems for you: 1) X+0=X X*1=X 2) X+1=1 X*0=0 3) X+X=X X*X=X 4) (X')'=X 5) X+X'=X X*X'=0 6) X+Y=Y+X X*Y=Y*X 7) (X+Y)+Z=X+(Y+Z) (XY)Z=X(YZ)=XYZ =X+Y+Z 8) X(Y+Z)=XY+XZ X+YZ=(X+Y)*(X+Z) 9) XY+XY'=X (X+Y)*(X+Y')=X 10) X+XY=X X(X+Y)=X 11) (X+Y')Y=XY XY'+Y=X+Y 12) (X+Y+Z+...)'=X'Y'Z'... (XYX...)'=X'+Y'+Z'+... 13) [f(X1, X2, X3,...,0,1,+,*)]'= f(X1', X2', X3',...,1,0,*,+) {The following two are called Duality Theorems, not important here} 14) (X+Y+Z+...)^D = XYZ... (XYZ...)^D=X+Y+Z+... 15) [f(X1, X2, X3, ...,0,1,+,*)]^D=f(X1, X2, X3,...,1,0,*,+) 16) XY+YZ+X'Z=XY+X'Z (X+Y)*(Y+Z)*(X'+Z)=(X+Y)*(X'+Z) 17) (X+Y)(X'+Z)=XZ+X'Y The ones you and your dualist-atheism buddies are confused on are #4, #12, & #13. By #4 we have: ^(X)=(^X) By #12 we have: ^(X)=^X By #13 we have: ^f(X) = f(^X) All are clearly contrary to your assertion. Balls in your court junior. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:05:30 -0400 > From: Sunder <sunder(a)brainlink.com> > Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... > What's this bullshit, eh? Just overwrite the BIOS roms in your machine to > return all zeros for the sectors you don't want to show them. Have some > special passphrase you have to type in while in the BIOS setup program to > deactivate this. Most newer notebooks have flash upgradeable ROMs anyway. What's this bullshit, eh? I wonder how you propose to answer the question: "Sir, exactly why are you typing that sentence into the computer at this time?" Now we have not only given them probably cause but clear evidence for a prior intent to commit a crime. Even if your hard drive is clean they're going to bust your ass. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Alone (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:38:16 -0400 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: Alone > > "...it depends on how you define 'alone'.". > > Alone enough to get a blowjob? > That depends Bob, can you bend over that far? ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CHALLENGE? Toto/signature attack w. unpublished public key
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This value is wrong: it has 3 bytes of 0's inserted and is therefore missing the last three bytes of the signature. s = 0x08F4D5CBC10063725B206F787EB7370BBD0C5B4854CE79A9007D1801AEAEE6E6 D2C68D7EDF877FECE1FA539D08BEC54BD152BA05113951E8A84CDECAD2CB8E7A C28BE916570BA7BB9C00C64DF57113C4AE81613BD351541523CD3A028FBF220E F7469BD4175302DCB5B6E886974877F28A2D301433AFFFE26081008BFF687B37 Here is the correct value, from the signed message. 08F4D5CBC10063725B206F787EB7370BBD0C5B4854CE79A97D1801AEAEE6E6D2 C68D7EDF877FECE1FA539D08BEC54BD152BA05113951E8A84CDECAD2CB8E7AC2 8BE916570BA7BB9CC64DF57113C4AE81613BD351541523CD3A028FBF220EF746 9BD4175302DCB5B6E886974877F28A2D301433AFFFE260818BFF687B37DE8167

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Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Jim Choate wrote: > > Forwarded message: > > > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:46:03 +0000 > > From: Michael Hohensee <mah248(a)is9.nyu.edu> > > Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd) > > > I believe that the idea was to set it up so that BIOS defaults to > > HD-hiding mode. > > How do you propose to do this? Via a BIOS setting? By default. The machine boots. It is either told to accept a passphrase or is told nothing. If the latter, it boots normally, only with its HD-hiding code. If the former, it prompts, accepts a passphrase, and then boots normally, only with the HD-hiding code disabled. What I think you're asking is how the actual cryptography would be done. I wouldn't want to stick crypto code in the BIOS, or at least not the code which will be used all the time. I think a better way to do this is to have the BIOS boot up in HD-hiding mode all the time, and require user-mode software to disable HD-hiding mode and then deal with the cryptography. > > > When you're taking your laptop through customs, you do > > nothing while the machine boots up, the doctored BIOS does its thing, > > and everybody's happy. When you want to get at the stuff on the rest of > > the HD, you reboot and type in your passphrase. > > How do you propose to prompt the user for the correct time to type? You don't, at least not at first. If you hold down maybe the left and right shift keys, in combination with the left alt key while pressing the "R" key, it prompts "BIOS: ". You type your passphrase in. LILO (the LInux LOader) does this if you depress a shift key during boot. Obviously with LILO it's to specify kernel parameters, what OS to boot into, and things like that.

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