December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

More on crypto from Bonn
by Donald Weightman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Another story in today's FINANCIAL TIMES http://www.FT.com describes a "clash" between USCommerce Sec'y Daley and German economic minister Rexrodt on strong crypto. Because the speakers' choices of words are interesting, I quote from the FT article by Ralph Atkins: On coding technology, however, Mr Daley insisted, "there are certain legitimate areas where governments have to be involved". Encryption should be used to protect credit card numbers or detailed contracts from being read. But, he went on: "We must also make sure national security is safeguarded by applying those rules sensibly, so that potential terrorists or other sophisticated criminals cannot hide their work." Mr Rexrodt hinted the European ministers regarded US policy on exporting encryption technology as discriminatory. He backed "strong" encryption procedures, which he said were "offering users the only protection that they have, the only certainty, that their data is not going to be divulged or misused on open networks". Mr Rexrodt was backed by Mr Ron Sommer, chairman of Deutsche Telekom, Europe's largest telecommunications group, who said: "Anyone who uses the point of public security as an argument in this [encryption] issue has not realised or acknowledged that any such legal requirements stand in the way of the further spread of electronic commerce." Questions for the reader: What's a "potential" terrorist? (Is the occasional apparent c'punx paranoia justified?) How is the US export policy discriminatory? Why is DT coming out on this issue? Who are their strategic partners for ecommerce among US telecomms? (I'll have to ask around about that ...) cheers ......................................... Donald Weightman dweightman(a)radix.net

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More PGP volunteers needed
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Folks, The proofreading of the legally exported PGP source is going pretty slow. Platform independent source is only 68% done, Windows and Macintosh 6 and 2% respectively. http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/ It would speed things up if more non-US citizens living outside the US willing to proofread source were to contact Stale Schumacher at <stale(a)hypnotech.com> to volunteer some time. You can wait for the source to show up on your favorite ftp site, or you can make it happen. Your choice. You would need a basic C compiler and perl to join the "Free the Source" effort. A scanner is *not* needed. --Lucky, who by law can not participate in the proofreading. --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/

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No Subject
by geeman＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.sacog.org/web/text/datactr/facts/octff.htm: Facts and Figures Migration for July 1995 to June 1996 October 1996 The Department of Motor Vehicles publishes an annual report of migration based on Driver License and California ID card holders change of address. Data is presented for individuals 18 and over. The data collected is through voluntary cooperation between the states. The California DMV, based on historical data, believes that data from Colorado, Mississippi, New Mexico, and North Carolina may be under reported.

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Jim Bell reference
by Kevin L Prigge 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dorothy Denning taught a class (COSC 511) "Information Warfare" Spring 97. Apparently as an assignment, several students put together an infowar incident database at: http://www.georgetown.edu/users/samplem/iw/ Jim Bell's case is mentioned under: http://www.georgetown.edu/users/samplem/iw/html/iw_database_92.html -- Kevin L. Prigge | "The only thing that saves us from Systems Software Programmer | the bureaucracy is it's Enterprise Internet Services | inefficiency." - Eugene McCarthy University of Minnesota |

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Re: The Recent Trend in "Collective Contracts"
by Peter Swire 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:05 PM 7/10/97 -0700, Tim May wrote: >A thoughtful response from Peter Swire. Thanks kindly. >A third possibility, and one which deserves a longer essay by someone, is >the role quasi-private organizations play. To cut to the chase, >organizations like the American Bar Association, American Medical >Association, etc. > >These "guilds" are an interesting case of self-policing where there is no >option for opting out. (I don't believe it is possible to practice law or >medicine without approval/licensing from these kinds of >organizations/guilds.) You might check out my article on "Markets, Self-Regulation, and Government Enforcement in the Protection of Personal Information." Among other topics, I talk about self-regulation by licensing organizations. The piece is posted at my web site. It is also the lead chapter in a recent report by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on "Self-Regulation and Privacy in the Information Age", on their web site at http://www.ntia.doc.gov. Peter Prof. Peter Swire Ohio State University College of Law mailto:swire.1@osu.edu web: http://www.osu.edu/units/law/swire.htm (in early stages of construction)

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Citizens' Butts Open to Key Recovery Alternative
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Alan wrote: > http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/5133.html > McCain Open to Key Recovery Alternative > by Rebecca Vesely > > Senator John McCain, sponsor of legislation that > would create a domestic key recovery system for all encrypted > commercial transactions and personal communications, said Friday that > he is open to hearing alternatives to such a plan. Didn't one of the list members just mention a "cracking open the citizen's brain with a crowbar" plan? Has anyone forwarded it to McCain yet? Is he proposing "use of a thick skull in the commission of a crime" legislation yet? > Privacy advocates and much of > the high-tech industry oppose domestic key recovery on grounds that it > would violate civil rights Which is their way of saying that compromise and selling-out is going to come at a premium price on this issue. >and be impractical and expensive to build and manage. And will thus provide outrageous profits for those who are chosen to pluck _this_ golden goose. (CryptoStar Wars?) > McCain said he met with Microsoft representatives recently to discuss > a new technology being developed by the software giant that could be > less intrusive and problematic than key recovery. Less "blatantly" intrusive? Less "obviously" intrusive? or More "secretly" intrusive? More "sneakily" intrusive? Less "fascistly" intrusive? Less "unconstitutionally" intrusive? or More "justifiably" intrusive? More "corporately" intrusive? >The senator also said > he plans to meet with Netscape officials next week to discuss yet > another alternative. Translate that to say, "To work one industry giant against the other." or "To engender in each of them the fear that their chief competitor will be chosen to profit outageously for helping to violate the civil rights of their customers. > Just two days ago, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the bill, > FBI director Louis Freeh testified on the need for mandatory domestic > key recovery, and some senators on the committee, notably the > chairman, Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), seemed to agree that some sort of > domestic key recovery is needed to allow law enforcement to wiretap > suspect digital communications and transactions. Translate that to say, "to allow law enforcement to wiretap _all_ digital communications and transactions in order to decide which ones they wish to apply for a _legal_ wiretap for." The reason it is called "Capitol Hill" is because there is a "mountain of capital" waiting for anyone who wants to play ball with the criminals who inhabit that dark lair. Tim May pointed out the "fever" overtaking the legislators to be the first to mine the "hard on drug dealing pedophiles" gold that the LEA's have promised them on this issue. McCain is now making the rounds of the corporate players to offer them a chance to help draw the map that will lead to the thirty million pieces of silver the Romans in D.C. are offering anyone who will betray the citizens. "And as BillyG was beneath in the Whitehouse, there cometh one of the maids of Louis Freeh: "And when she saw BillyG counting his money, she looked upon him, and said, 'And thou was also wast with Citizen of the Constitution.' "But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand what thou sayest. And he went out of the Lincoln bedroom onto the Whithouse lawn to count his money; and the cock(sucker Louis Freeh) crew. "And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by with large guns and open warrants, 'This is _one_ of them.' "And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to BillyG, 'Surely thou art _one_ of them: for thou art a FreeMarketer, and thy speech agreeth thereto. "But he began to curse and swear like a CypherPunk, saying, 'I know not this Constitution of which you speak.' "And the second time the cock(sucker Louis Freeh) crew. "And BillyG called to mind the word that the Citizen said unto him, 'Before the cock(sucker Louis Freeh) crow twice, thou shalt deny your customers' civil rights thrice.' And when he thought thereon, he wept." Or, Will Netscape's Moses Weinstein come down from the "mountain of capital" with the stone tablets upon which are engraved the command-line-ments which will be used to access the records of those who own the golden calves and the goats? {Old Testament Joke: "What is the difference between a Gentile and a sacrificial lamb of God?" Answer: "Tablet escrow."} {New Testament Joke: "What issue should have been addressed by an "amendment" to the Torah that was essential to protect "Religious Security" and prevent the overthrow of the Pharisees and Saudecees?" Answer: "Body recovery."} Jesus F. Christ of Nazareth (the band!) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "I am the Way(-out) and the Truth(Monger) and the Light (that doobie and pass it over here)." "There is something wrong when I'm a sinner under an increasing number of commandments." "Spirituality interprets commandments as damage and rises above them."

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Re: More on crypto from Bonn
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Donald Weightman wrote: > What's a "potential" terrorist? (Is the occasional apparent c'punx One who plans with intent terrorist activities, yet whom has not carried them out. > How is the US export policy discriminatory? Banks are routinely permitted strong encryption export, or did you sleep through that part of the EAR.

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Re: [PGP-USERS] A start ... (hopefully) ...
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Darryl Rowe wrote: > The Allegro Group, Inc. has incorporated PGP technology in their > Encryption Gateway for Groupwise. Now, the 8.5 million users of > > Now if they can keep this up and get their foot in the door with all > the other email vendors. Well you'll also see that PGP Inc. also has a deal with Qualcomm for Eudora users. See PGP's welcome page for the notice, check the bottom.

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News of the Wired
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Subject: News of the Weird [486] - 30May97 by Chuck Shepherd LEAD STORIES * Ms. Courtney Mann, the head of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, who is a tax preparer and single mother, was rebuffed in an attempt to join a Ku Klux Klan-sponsored march in Pittsburgh in April, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Though she has been in the NAAWP for at least four years, the Pennsylvania KKK Grand Dragon turned her down because Mann is black. "She wanted me to send transportation [for the rally]," said the Grand Dragon. "She wanted to stay at my house [during rally weekend]. She's all confused, man. I don't think she knows she's a black." And we have Kent Crispin. When's the trading deadline? * April's annual religious fertility celebration in Nagoya, Japan, designed to improve the rice harvest, featured as usual a 12-foot- long, bright pink, plastic penis, carried through the street, followed by displays of smaller organs and a giant banner of a blood- vesseled penis, testicles, and pubic hair. Souvenir candy of the same shape was sold during the event, and at the end of a parade, the giant organ was placed on the fertility shrine. Don't they do the same thing in North Dakota? * In mid-April, five weeks before the national elections, the governing party in Indonesia announced, via "scientific calculation," according to one leader, that President Suharto had won re-election with 70.02 percent of the vote. There's a standard joke in Mexico about thieves breaking into a government office and stealing the results of next year's election. COURT DOCKET * In February, Maryland circuit court judge Thomas Bollinger Sr. agreed to wipe the record clean of Charles Weiner's spousal battery charge after he completes probation--for the sole purpose of helping Weiner join the Chestnut Ridge Country Club, which had until then rejected him because of his criminal record. (In 1993, Bollinger gave a rapist probation for an attack against a drunken woman, remarking that finding an unconscious woman on a bed was "the dream of a lot of males, quite honestly.") Four days later, Bollinger reversed his decision and removed himself from all domestic violence and sexual offense cases. Hey! Everyone _knows_ that "snoring" implies consent! * In Santa Cruz, Calif., in February, Mr. Danis Rivera, 25, rejected a plea bargain that would have sent him to prison for one year for having sex with underage girls. However, at his trial he was in such a foul mood that he constantly spit at court personnel and finally had to be outfitted with a Hannibal Lecter-type bonnet over his face. He was convicted and sentenced to 16 years in prison. And in a Providence, R. I., courtroom in April, Latin King gangster George "Animal" Perry, on trial for murder and racketeering and frustrated at the length of the prosecutor's closing argument, which denied him a much-needed restroom break, rose from his chair, unzipped his fly, and took one, anyway. It seems reasonable that if one petitions the court for relief, and is denied, then the only recourse is to relieve oneself. SCHEMES * St. Charles Catholic Church (Picayune, Miss.) and nearby St. Margaret Mary Church (Slidell, La.) posted security ushers at the doors in February to make sure that parishioners were not pocketing communion wafers. Devil-worshiping ceremonies often use wafers for symbolic desecration, and when six people were seen leaving St. Charles in December with their wafers, the churches' leaders began to fear a local Satanic conspiracy. Nonsense. They were probably just trading them for drugs and child pornography. * In April in Houston, Tex., Robert Perry Russell, Jr., 44, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexual assault and diapering of a 14-year-old boy, but police say the number of victims may have been as many as 10. According to police, Russell liked to take boys out in a boat, tell them a tale about a headless killer seeking to rescue a toddler from the dangerous lake and who kills all other people, and suggest that putting on the diapers he happens to have with him would be a good way, should the killer appear, of convincing him of his toddler status. 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No Subject
by Peterson, Doug 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is my first post to the list. I though this might be interesting. Taken from: http://wire.ap.org/APwire/pages/center/?STORYOID=206f.599a&FRONTID=TECHN OLOGY&SLOC=AP&SKEY=LATECLAMMOSSFUMEELANFUM&SLOG=sidebar 07/09/1997 17:34 EST FBI Wants Computer Decoding Ability By CASSANDRA BURRELL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- American law enforcers want to be allowed to decode scrambled computer messages during investigations in much the same way as they now use wiretaps, FBI director Louis Freeh said Wednesday. Freeh's plea in Senate testimony came as the computer industry bitterly fights bills aiming to restrict the export of sophisticated data-scrambling devices to foreign computer users. Offenders inside the United States are turning increasingly to computers to commit such crimes as child molestation, child pornography and drug trafficking, Freeh told the Senate Judiciary Committee. Some investigations are hindered by the criminal use of complex equipment that scrambles messages into codes that are all but impossible to crack without code keys. ``Major drug dealers are now using encrypted communications, and they are using it to our distinct disadvantage,'' Freeh said. The best solution would include setting up a key recovery system where developers of encryption devices deposit ``keys'' with a third party that can unscramble their codes, he said. As with wiretaps, authorities would have to obtain court orders to make the keys available for law enforcement. The same data-scrambling technology that is making the Internet a safer, more secure place to do business is causing headaches on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are struggling with its regulation. On one side are computer software and hardware developers trying to compete with companies operating abroad without restrictions. On the other side are enforcement authorities who say they don't want to tie the hands of U.S. businesses but need a way to eavesdrop on computer criminals. ``At stake are some of our most valuable and reliable investigative techniques and the public safety of our citizens,'' Freeh said. Without a key system, ``the ability of law enforcement to investigate and sometimes prevent the most serious crimes and terrorism will be severely impaired. Our national security will also be jeopardized.'' Currently, encryption technology is sold without restriction inside the United States. In an attempt to keep pace with technology advancing at lightning speed, the Clinton administration relaxed export controls last year. The computer industry complained the loosening didn't go far enough. ``The current law is unacceptable. The status quo is unacceptable,'' said Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., co-sponsor of one of several encryption bills moving through Congress. Sponsored by Kerrey and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that bill would set up a key recovery system to give computer companies strong incentives to make keys available to investigators who obtain a court's permission. It would link companies' cooperation to quicker, easier export rules. The Senate Commerce Committee approved the bill last month and recommended the full Senate pass it. A more liberal bill sponsored by Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., fell by the wayside. The Business Software Alliance, a coalition of computer businesses, promptly denounced the Kerrey-McCain bill as ``a step backward'' that would hurt American competitiveness. ``Strong cryptography is exactly like a good safe,'' said Raymond Ozzie, chairman of Iris Associates, a subsidiary of Lotus Development and IBM Corp. ``The best safe in the world cannot protect you if the combination is written on a scrap of paper and left lying around or is otherwise known to the safe cracker,'' he said in testimony submitted to the Senate committee. A House bill introduced by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., would bar the government from requiring businesses to set aside keys. The Clinton administration has criticized that bill. Its provisions, the administration said, would ``severely compromise law enforcements' ability to protect the American people from the threats posed by terrorists, organized crime, child pornographers, drug cartels, financial predators, hostile foreign intelligence agents and other criminals.'' Doug Peterson

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