December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 02:28:18 -0800 > From: x <x(a)x.com> > Subject: Re: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin > Walls > >1. What is the point of the obfuscation? If it's not legal to do it > >openly, then it's certainly not legal to hide the fact your doing it. > >"The accused did it in such a way as to demonstrate that he was aware > >of it's illegality". > > the point is not to hide anything; the point is to expand, arbitrarily (and > this was a trivial example), the f() that takes bits from a controllable > image to one that is not. In other words, hide it. A distributed stego hash algorithm. It quacks like a duck. It waddles like a duck. It swims like a duck. It would actualy be criminal collusion and would give the LEA's in the relevant areas the necessary reason (ie probable cause) to act in concert, creating a bigger big brother. Hardly a cpunks goal. ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Survey Says Kids Feel 'Threatened' By Internet
by damaged justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A survey has suggested that up to half a million British children may have been upset by something they have seen on the Internet. The NOP poll shows that one in five of nearly 4,000 children between the ages of six and 16 interviewed for the survey between September and October this year were "uncomfortable" with some content viewed on-line. In the UK, 2.4 million children are estimated to use the Internet - roughly a third of all children between six and 16. Of those who have had negative experiences while surfing the Internet, the largest proportion - 40% - had seen something "rude". 'Not surprised' One in seven said they had encountered content that had "freightened them", while 25% saw pages that they thought "would get them into trouble". NOP Associate Director Rob Lawson described the numbers as a "significant minority". The children's charity NCH Action for Children suggested the survey strengthened calls for Internet regulation to protect younger users. Charity spokesman John Carr said: "I regret to say I'm not surprised by this survey's findings, it's what we have been saying for some time. Net nannies "Parents need to know their children are surfing the net in safety and security. At the moment, they have no way of knowing that at all." NCH Action for Children, which advises the government on children's issues, backs the introduction of "net nannies" - programmes which filter out content unsuitable for children. The survey, called Kids.net, was paid for by Microsoft, the BBC, NatWest and Anglia Multimedia in syndicate. The Department of Trade and Industry's forthcoming review on Internet regulation is expected to be published before Christmas. [from news.bbs.co.uk]

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The problem with 'Gilmore's RSAREF' site...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's the bottem line issue with Gilmore's RSAREF site. It isn't Gilmore's, it's EFF's. It isn't Gilmore's butt on the line as it would be for person who participate in his call to action. What's EFF going to do to protect those participants? Nothing. What's Gilmore personaly going to do to protect those participants? Nothing. He's asking others to put their butt in the line of fire while he sits safely in a rear area. In effect he's asking YOU to be cannon fodder for his rights. ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Trans World Specials Fare Sales
by Trans World Specials 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: The problem with 'Gilmore's RSAREF' site... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 10:45:56 -0500 > From: Duncan Frissell <frissell(a)panix.com> > Subject: Re: The problem with 'Gilmore's RSAREF' site... > > Save that the cowards have never busted anyone for crypto exports. It's > dead letter law. They know they'd lose a criminal case against a civilian. > So, when do you bring your site with unconstrained access to PGP up? ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn 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: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 17:28:59 +0100 > From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen(a)stud.uni-muenchen.de> > Subject: Re: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls (fwd) > For longer term it might be desirable to have a site in a crypto- > politics neutral country (one that is unlikely to have crypto laws > in foreseeable future) to which software could be uploaded. > Downloading is then import and not subject to restriction. Where? Where is there a country that has a social, economic, and legal infrastructure of sufficient breadth but liberal views of speech to support such an effort? There are lots of little countries around but they have unstable governments, no economy to speak of, limited telecommunications infrastructure, etc. It's fine and dandy to talk about this in the theoretic but the rubber has to hit the road at some point. There isn't such a country to be had. ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn 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: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Ber (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 10:41:33 -0500 > From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> > Subject: Re: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Ber > Yes, Gilmore's proposal was to mirror the contents; URLs threaten > no reg-makers. > > Yep, mirrors of everything would be very large. We've heard already > that folks would like help in knowing what to mirror if they can't do > large archives, or can't easily decide which are most important. [text deleted] > What would help is a list from experts on what are the most gov-enraging > programs. We'd like to offer a few of those on jya.com, to test BXA's up-and- > running crypto-enforcement program, maybe get some jail and trial pleasure, > it's been too quiet on Bernstein, Junger, Karn, et al, a deliberate gov-stall, > awaiting Wassenaar. Besides enraging, it should also include the necessary documents, monographs, libraries, etc. to empower others to write the code within their own legal boundaries. If somebody makes the effort to compile such a list I'd like to personaly request they include this in addition to finished product. ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn 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: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls (fwd) > Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:43:58 +0100 (MET) > From: 3umoelle(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=) > > Ah, so the call is for folks in Denmark to post the various pieces of > > currently available software then, not everyone on the planet as it appears. > > It is not just about Denmark. The Wassenaar arrangement has been > signed by 33 countries, including the US, Canada, the European Union, > Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and others. Up to now, 30 of > these states have allowed to export mass market and public domain > crypto software without a license. Only the US, France and NZ did not > have the "General Software Note". Which is EXACTLY my point. People are being asked to put their butts on the line with no infrastructure or plan for what happens when the LEA's show up. Such poor planning is doomed to fail. > The US has exercised extreme pressure at the Wassenaar conference (as > one German government official writes) and has managed to get the > General Software Note modified. Now the states that have signed the > arrangement will have to regulate the export of strong > cryptography. There are other places such as Brazil, Iceland, South > Africa, India, and even Singapore which do not have any export > restrictions. And look at their social, economic, and civil liberty records. Other than Iceland not one area on your list of places has sufficient resources of the correct type to support this sort of effort. Iceland is about the only place that has any hope at all. Is there any move by any group to start some sort of archive there? Are there any subscribers from Iceland on the CDR? If so, I'd like their view on how realistic it would be to host a site in Iceland. > John Gilmore writes: "I call for volunteers in each country, at each > university or crypto-aware organization, to download crypto tools > while they can still be exported from where they are, and then to > offer them for export from your own site and your own country as long > as it's legal." ^^^^^^^ > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Which is exactly what is needed in this situation. Which, again, is my point. What is Gilmore going to do when they decide to make it illegal and start hassling these folks who were kind enough to back him? What does he OWE them for their participation in HIS movement? > RSAREF is what he has determined he can legally export from the US. So, > yes, he is doing what he also asks others to do. Hm, funny. Looks like EFF owns that site. Gilmore is doing nothing himself. He's using EFF as a shield for personal liability. Why isn't he suggesting that others do this instead of direct and personal action? Why is he not running the gilmore.org site directly? Why isn't he looking at starting some sort of international organization similar to EFF, or expanding EFF to do this sort of stuff and at the same time provide the same sort of legal shield he currently enjoys? > > Let me ask you this Ulf, when is YOUR site going up? > > My university is already distributing SSLeay, PGP, ssh, cfs and other > cypto tools. As long as they continue to do so, I won't make my mirror > available on the web, but my own crypto site is going up later this > week with another piece of strong crypto software. Kudos. > > What are you going to do for YOUR liberty today? Has Gilmore agreed to > > help fund YOUR fight of the change in your courts? > > Today I am going to create the distribution of the software I have > been working on in the past months, have the server set up and, if all > goes well, upload the file. > > I have made a few thousand dollars on developing crypto software and I > am ready to use much of that money to defend my right to distribute > the results of my work on the web. I haven't asked John or anybody > else to help me. But John IS asking you, me, and others to help him. ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Government-enraging programs
by Jim Gillogly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Young writes: > What would help is a list from experts on what are the most gov-enraging > programs. We'd like to offer a few of those on jya.com, to test BXA's up-and- > running crypto-enforcement program, maybe get some jail and trial pleasure, > it's been too quiet on Bernstein, Junger, Karn, et al, a deliberate gov-stall, > awaiting Wassenaar. One way to determine which programs are the best for this purpose would be to study what various governments have taken some action on. Some obvious ones: PGP (various versions, high level of government interest) Snuffle (extended US litigation) All the AES candidates (strictly-controlled dissemination from NIST) SecureOffice (Charles Booher's program -- US government has taken action) Applied Cryptography disk (US export license denied) It would also be nice to have an infrastructural component, such as (when ready for mass distribution) the Linux/FreeSWAN IPSec release; this doesn't have quite the cachet of programs on which the government has already weighed in, though. -- Jim Gillogly Sterday, 18 Foreyule S.R. 1998, 17:40 12.19.5.13.11, 10 Chuen 4 Mac, First Lord of Night

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Baker on Gilmore's Foil of Wassenaar
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Response to a forward of John Gilmore's message to UK Crypto: Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:50:19 -0500 From: <sbaker(a)steptoe.com> To: <ukcrypto(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re:Foil to Wassenaar MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="simple boundary" I would only add this caution. I think John is wrong in giving legal advice that Wassenaar is not binding without implementing legislation. That is an American approach to these matters. I believe that many, perhaps most, Wassenaar members derive their authority to regulate exports directly from the arrangement itself. For that reason, I would not assume that everyone everywhere is free to ignore the new restrictions until some further law or regulation is promulgated. Stewart Baker Steptoe & Johnson LLP 202.429.6413 sbaker(a)steptoe.com Baker & Hurst, "The Limits of Trust -- Governments, Cryptography, and Electronic Commerce" is now available from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9041106359

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