December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: Protocols for Insurance to Maintain Privacy
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 10/31/97 12:46 PM, Tim May (tcmay(a)got.net) passed this wisdom: >I had an engineer working for me who cheerfully used the company medical >plan for all it was worth. If his kid had a cold, off to the doctor. If his >wife felt feverish, off to the doctor. If he had an upset stomache after >lunch (understandable considering the state of company food and >burrito-vending machines in 1980), off to the doctor. He may have paid $5 >per visit. Of course, he took off a lot of time to make these various treks >to have his kids, himself, and his wife "treated" (given aspirin, told to >drink plenty of fluids, whatever). A nice racket for the hospitals. This is one (of many) things my ex-wife and I used to disagree on ... she would want to haul the kid or herself off to the Emergency room everytime anything happened ... the idea of sleeping on it and seeing how it seemed in the morning was foreign to her; I can see that broken limbs getting sharp raps in head etc ... but every little sniffle ... of course premiums are up. For us, it was zero co-pay since between my retired military status and back then Raytheon medical coverage I never had to lay out a penny, when its that free eats easy to over-indulge ... and during those times I spent in the ER waiting room I saw many other doing the same thing. Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "Home is where your books are" -- Kitty O'Neal

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Re: Bell sentencing timed to coincide with raids on militia members?
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 10/31/97 3:01 PM, Tim May (tcmay(a)got.net) passed this wisdom: >Get ready, folks. By the way, I'll be at the gun show at the Cow Palace in >San Francisco on the weekend of November 8-9, probably Saturday, the 8th. >Seems I'm running low on certain types of ammo, and I may want to pick up a >couple more assault rifles before Swinestein succeeds in completely banning >them. I used to think that way ... but then I thought, why pay all that money and walk the line of whatever Swinesteen et al come up with. Instead I have my deer rifles and a shotgun or two and ammo for both. The way this all is working now, I have more combat experience than 90% of the active duty military and most cops, and every day goes by more and more are retiring. If it ever comes down to that, I'll take down one or two of them with my deer rifle and help myself to their weapons and ammo ... also kind of makes sure I haven't set myself up to depend on an obsolete caliber ... if I am not good enough to take some of them down and take their weapons, no 300 nor 30,000 rounds for my very own Armalite is going to make any difference. Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "Everyone who lives dies; but not everyone who dies has lived" -- back of a 'No Fear' t-shirt

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S/MIME
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Smartcards - Drivers Licenses in New Jersey
by Robert A. Costner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The New Jersey legislature has announced that they will begin issuing smartcards for driver's licenses. The New license is reported to contain * biographical info * auto insurance info * medical insurance info * health info The cards are also claimed to be capable of carrying * fingerprints * photographic images * health records * billing statements The Capitol Report article and a Web based feedback forum can be found at http://www.cpanj.com/legislative/drivers_license_1196.html -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord ?"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config(a)nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{'weasel'} = '<config(a)weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman(a)cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?"; $remailer{"cracker"} = "<remailer(a)anon.efga.org> cpunk mix remix pgp hash ksub esub latent cut ek reord post"; $remailer{'redneck'} = '<config(a)anon.efga.org> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"bureau42"} = "<remailer(a)bureau42.ml.org> cpunk mix pgp ksub hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"neva"} = "<remailer(a)neva.org> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub ?"; $remailer{"lcs"} = "<mix(a)anon.lcs.mit.edu> mix"; $remailer{"medusa"} = "<medusa(a)weasel.owl.de> mix middle" $remailer{"McCain"} = "<mccain(a)notatla.demon.co.uk> mix middle"; $remailer{"valdeez"} = "<valdeez(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"arrid"} = "<arrid(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"hera"} = "<goddesshera(a)juno.com> cpunk pgp pgponly hash ek"; $remailer{"htuttle"} = "<h_tuttle(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. remailer(a)crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer. There is no remailer at relay.com. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix reno winsock) (weasel squirrel medusa) (cracker redneck) (nym lcs) (valdeez arrid hera) This remailer list is somewhat phooey. Go check out http://www.publius.net/rlist.html for a good one. Last update: Thu 23 Oct 97 15:48:06 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- hera goddesshera(a)juno.com ------------ 5:03:45 99.86% nym config(a)nym.alias.net +*#**#**### :34 95.82% redneck config(a)anon.efga.org #*##*+#**** 2:00 95.44% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com +++ ++++++* 19:18 95.27% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de -- ---+--- 2:34:19 95.16% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net *++***+ ++ 11:26 95.11% replay remailer(a)replay.com **** *** 10:06 94.93% arrid arrid(a)juno.com ----.------ 8:50:34 94.41% bureau42 remailer(a)bureau42.ml.org --------- 3:38:29 93.53% cracker remailer(a)anon.efga.org + +*+*+*+ 16:32 92.80% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca + +*-++++ 24:14 92.79% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net -..-..---- 9:59:18 92.22% neva remailer(a)neva.org ------****+ 1:03:02 90.39% valdeez valdeez(a)juno.com 4:58:22 -36.97% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net 1:01:28 -2.65% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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the one Unbreakable crypto scheme.
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

/* Generic xor handler. With no args, xors stdin against 0xFF to stdout. A single argument is a file to read xor-bytes out of. Any zero in the xor-bytes array is treated as the end; if you need to xor against a string that *includes* zeros, you're on your own. *Hobbit*, 960208 */ #include <stdio.h> #include <fcntl.h> char buf[8192]; char bytes[256]; char * py; /* do the xor, in place. Uses global ptr "py" to maintain "bytes" state */ xorb (buf, len) char * buf; int len; { register int x; register char * pb; pb = buf; x = len; while (x > 0) { *pb = (*pb ^ *py); pb++; py++; if (! *py) py = bytes; x--; } } /* xorb */ /* blah */ main (argc, argv) int argc; char ** argv; { register int x = 0; register int y; /* manually preload; xor-with-0xFF is all too common */ memset (bytes, 0, sizeof (bytes)); bytes[0] = 0xff; /* if file named in any arg, reload from that */ #ifdef O_BINARY /* DOS shit... */ x = setmode (0, O_BINARY); /* make stdin raw */ if (x < 0) { fprintf (stderr, "stdin binary setmode oops: %d\n", x); exit (1); } x = setmode (1, O_BINARY); /* make stdout raw */ if (x < 0) { fprintf (stderr, "stdout binary setmode oops: %d\n", x); exit (1); } #endif /* O_BINARY */ if (argv[1]) #ifdef O_BINARY x = open (argv[1], O_RDONLY | O_BINARY); #else x = open (argv[1], O_RDONLY); #endif if (x > 0) { read (x, bytes, 250); /* nothin' fancy here */ close (x); } py = bytes; x = 1; while (x > 0) { x = read (0, buf, sizeof (buf)); if (x <= 0) break; xorb (buf, x); y = write (1, buf, x); if (y <= 0) exit (1); } exit (0); }

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PGP 50i Beta 8a for Unix.
by Ryan Anderson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I jsut went and got myself a copy of this. It's frustratingly hard to get to compile. The source directories are all missing header files (filling src/include with all the headers via symlinks seems to work) but other files seem to be missing. Is there a better distribution of this than the mess on pgpi.com? Ryan Anderson - PGP fp: 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 RSA in Perl: (Export violations for the lazy) print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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Re: Why Jodi Hoffman must be called a 'Dumb Cunt' and told to 'Go Fuck Yourself' at all costs, by TruthMonger
by wabe 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

THE FOLLOWING IS AN OPINION, (this is a forged post anyway) So I read Jodi's lawsuit as it is posted on her web page. I'll post some interesting parts below. Keep in mind that I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one in cyberspace... Basically the lawsuit (supposably) is(was?) against a school board in Florida where Jodi sent her 3 children to middle school. Jodi seeks mucho casho for emotional damages she was inflicted by having to discover and fight the sex-ed class. Apparantly she originally was one of the mothers who opted her children out, but the school fumbled (or the child "forgot" to hand the paper back in) and they took the class anyways. After one day, she yanked the kids out of school for a week, and engaged on the legal battle we see here. She also seeks to shut down (or heavily amend) the sex ed class, along with the newspaper part of a civics class, and she wants more supervision of the children's internet access. As far as I can tell, oddly enough, the internet part of the case is the only part with any real merit. (She doesn't want her children using the internet at school to see pornography while she isn't watching.) That's reasonable, and the school could have someone watching (or claim to) to avoid it. There's a lot of whining about the "secular humanism" of the school which is entirely without merit and sounds foolish in the context of a legal paper. Selected interesting points are as follows: (claimed as the school board's damaging sex ed class. . .) c) giving inaccurate and incomplete information about HIV/AIDS transmission, by claiming students should not worry if their cut-free leg was splashed with HIV positive blood; How innaccurate is this? Do we have some "studies?" k) failing to emphasize abstinence from activity outside of marriage as the expected standard for all school-age children and failing to teach the benefits of monogamous hetero marriage; This is CRAZY! Not only does she want them to accept whatever she believes as the "expected standard" but she wants them to expound upon the glories of a boring sex life! :> l) failing to emphasize that abstinence is a certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, ly transmitted diseases, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other associated health problems; abstinence was only briefly mentioned and then ridiculed at length; Not true! As claimed in her previous points (see 'bloody leg' above) m) failing to respect the conscience and rights of parents and students; respect is a hard thing to measure, and is often something EARNED. n) in addition, the opt out letter failed to fully and properly advise parents of the nature and content of the lecture so that parents could meaningfully decide to let their children opt out or attend the lecture; Actually has some merit. (Then the school board showed a laser disk purchased from the "homosexual propagandizer" ABC which...) c.) failing to promote an awareness of the benefits of abstinence, by failing to equip students with abstinence decision-making techniques; That last phase is just funny! e.) promoting a secular humanist philosophy by teaching children that they alone should decide when to become ly active; hmmm.... (Now they have the GALL to buy some newspapers and provide them to the children....these newspapers:) a.) favoring, justifying, promoting, condoning and/or providing biased, inaccurate and incomplete information about homo , by failing to discuss adverse mental, physical and emotional consequences of engaging in homo behavior and not discussing the changeability of orientation; If they had advised the students that some of them could, if they wanted, become homosexuals, would that have been more proper? d.) failing to teach monogamous, hetero marriage as the expected standard to prevent ly transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy; HAHAHA, isn't homosexual marriage a better way of avoiding pregnancy? Then Jodi objects to some newspapers being shown in geography class which contain an "adult" advertisement section (aparantly) Here are the whole of her objections to this particular point: a.) providing inappropriate material as part of curriculum (one ad for an adult video store invites customers to bring their wife, girlfriend, boyfriend or all three); b.) providing material that does not promote core values; c.) providing material which does not promote the contributions made by women to society, such as ads for sex-for-sale businesses; d.) failing to promote an awareness of the benefits of abstinence and the consequences of teenage pregnancy; e.) failing to teach monogamous hetero marriage as the standard; f.) failing to teach respect for family and marriage; g.) failing to promote a moral society; h.) encouraging early activity of children; i.) contributing to the delinquency of minors by encouraging activity. Those were very funny! She is a comic in the classic Milk and Cheese sense! I especially loved c) which claims that ads for sex for sale businesses are contributions made by women to society! I wholeheartedly disagree! How can she be sure the ads were placed and created by WOMEN!? Couldn't a man have made the ads? Other problems Jodi had with sex ed were: a.) giving inaccurate, incomplete or biased information about masturbation, by teaching there is no evidence that it is emotionally harmful, when there is substantial evidence to the contrary; k.) failing to encourage respect for parents as authority figures by telling children they can make decisions without consulting or relying on parents' advice; l.) establishing a secular humanist philosophy by teaching, for example, that children are in charge of their bodies and are free to make decisions based on what they feel is the right thing to do at the time and by excluding parents and other adults from decision-making processes; Further explainations follow: 42. The actions of Defendant in paragraphs 25-28 , 30-32 and 34-40 were outrageous, intentional and/or reckless and were intended to cause plaintiff JODI HOFFMAN severe emotional distress and as a result of said acts, Plaintiff suffered severe distress. 43. Plaintiff suffered an inability to sleep properly, met with the publisher of the Miami Herald to ask that the ads be removed from the schools, and suffered other emotional injury, loss and distress, became anxious, worried about the safety and morals of her children as a result of Defendant's conduct. She then whines about the word "orientation" being added to the school's policy of anti-discrimination because "the undefined class known simply as " orientation" appears to protect persons who could pose a threat to the health and safety of students, impair the right of the school board to reject applications for employment based on good cause and who, under 231.02 (1), may not be of good moral character." Among the many things she demands are: (m.) Order that the school board institute a balanced comprehensive health curricula, one that emphasizes abstinence until marriage and fidelity within marriage, (5) Money damages for Defendant's intentional infliction of emotional distress on Plaintiff parent and for the loss of educational opportunity to Plaintiff's minor children. Summery: I WISH I could say that she was only going after the money. In this case, that would be a severe case of moral improvement. Specific phrases jump out of her case ("failing to promote a moral society") that nail her down as a Fundamentalist Christian with an agenda, using the Law as one arm of her attack. She ranks up there with those terrorists in Texas who filed liens against practically everyone, in my opinion.

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No Subject
by Ghost＠workline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

F <Ghost(a)workline.com> R <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> (remote destination) R <jlhoffm(a)ibm.net> (remote destination) R <fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu> (remote destination) X - Start Received: by soi.hyperchat.com id 00e700 at Mon, 03 Nov 1997 17:58:33 -700 (Mountain Standard Time) Message-ID: <345E731B.12(a)workline.com> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 19:58:03 -0500 From: Abstruse <abstruse(a)technologist.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com CC: Jodi Hoffman <jlhoffm(a)ibm.net>, fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Re: Why porn must be stopped at all costs, by Jodi Hoffman References: <199711032057.MAA08856(a)k2.brigadoon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Someone on this list, I forget who, has made numerous attempts at > convincing us that pornography 'does no harm' to children. It is > exactly at this point that I must draw a line. Studies have shown that > an event which lasts even so much as three-tenths of a second, within > five to ten minutes has produced a structural change in the brain. > Exposure to porn causes actual brain damage, especially in a child. let me guess . . . scientology? it sounds to me as if you just despise porn so much that you're seeing red, and hence . . . not seeing the facts straight (or believing whatever you [want to] hear).

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SynCrypt: the new PGP?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anybody heard of syncrypt? www.syncrypt.com It is like pgp but has lots of cool features. File wiping, group encryption, automatic encryption of files put in certain directories. Get this, hiding encrypted files in pictures! Automatically. It pulls them back out again too. Plus it has an interesting "20 questions" method for backing up your passphrase. If you forget your passphrase you have to answer 25 of 27 questions like "who was your favorite teacher" to get it back. Bruce Schneier is working with them, so they should have good crypto. It has blowfish, des and triple des, and idea. The keys are el gamal. Problem is the freeware is crippled to 10 encryptions (unlimited decryptions). $50 for full functions. Is this the new pgp? No gak or even cak in sight. SynMonger

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