December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [IMPORTANT] Accounts payable
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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PGP for Windows 95
by Silvakow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Has anyone yet checked out PGP for Windows 95? It's $50 at stores right now. Information from pgp.com, but I want to know more before I buy it. Is it worth it? Should I stick with PGP for DOS? And does anyone know if those PGP public keys are compatible with DOS PGP? |[(*+- Silvakow -+*)]|

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Re: PGP for Windows 95
by Arunas Norvaisa 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 08:55 AM 97.06.17 +0000, Silvakow wrote (and I quoted): > >Has anyone yet checked out PGP for Windows 95? It's $50 at stores >right now. Information from pgp.com, but I want to know more before >I buy it. Is it worth it? Should I stick with PGP for DOS? And >does anyone know if those PGP public keys are compatible with DOS >PGP? What d'ya mean??? PGP 5.0 is much more (not USD 50 in any case); freeware PGP (latest version 2.6.2 for USA and 2.6.3i outside US) is working just fine in MS-Dos shell under windoze'95... If you mean specific shell (what I doubt), it's not PGP itself and you'll still will get those dos windows anyway... -- greetz... Arunas Norvaisa - little guy, The Masses Inc. <mailto:arunas@post1.com> with subject: 'send key' to get PGP key PGP for idiots page <http://www.a-vip.com/an> and a mirror site <http://www.post1.com/~arunas> Programming Department: Mistakes made while you wait.

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Recipient Anonymity
by ghio＠temp0097.myriad.ml.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A group of servers collects messages of equal length for anonymous recipients. All servers exchange messages so that each has copies of all messages. A recipient wishes to retrieve a message from the servers without any server knowing which message he is receiving. The recipient selects a group of n servers. From each server, S_1...S_n-1, he requests a random selection of messages, with a 50% probability that any particular message will be selected. The server returns the xor of all messages requested. He sends the final server a request which is the xor of all the previous requests and the one single message that he wants. The xor of all the responses is the desired message. It is impossible to determine which message was received unless all servers collude. A variant of this scheme where there is only one server and a number of anonymizing proxies will also work, however in this case there must be sufficient delay to obscure the time correlations or the server will know which message was received, and collusion with any one of the proxies could reveal the recipient. It is also possible to eliminate the need for real-time communication and operate the system on a store-and-forward network. The recipient generates a one time pad and sends it to a remailer/messageserver along with a reply-block which is a nested series of encrypted message requests and next-hop addresses. Each remailer along the way xors the requested messages onto the existing message data before forwarding it to the next hop. When the recipient gets his message back, he decrypts it using the one time pad. To account for the situation where first and last remailer collude, it is desireable to have some of the intervening remailers apply a stream cipher to the message using a supplied key. The server-to-server broadcast eliminates the need for cover traffic, but the anonymizing proxy system does not. However, there is no reason that both schemes could not be used concurrently in the same network, and in fact they would look the same to the end-user. Except for the additional server-to-server communications necessary to broadcast new messages into the system, the bandwidth utilization is comparable to sender-anonymous remailers; it scales linearly as the number of parties involved in the delivery of a particular message. The failure rate is also the product of the failure rate for each server; if one server delivers corrupt data, the message is unreadable, and the recipient must identify the bad server and eliminate it from future requests.

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signup
by Karl Deardorff 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

signup

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New PGP Key
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Just a brief note to say that I have generated a new 1024 bit PGP key for my new ISP, zipcon.net. I have signed this key with itself, and with my Netcom key. Unlike my Netcom key, whose passphrase is only typed when I am alone with my PC, the Zipcon key will be used on a multi-user Linux system for signing posts and other such things, and will not be secure against having its passphrase sniffed. Feel free to use the Zipcon key for casual commuication, but "Eyes Only" stuff should ONLY be encrypted with the Netcom key. - -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBM6b9g8A6o0SuPU79AQGF9gP+MhGUUv6dL6T6gETgujfI61s52AFzrO8a /akS0492PdLoGLMvKbco+icnkQ6BQyJQw2lrV3G3mghQxXOBpJojW8z5mxD/eTUm QpaTO+AxiEnEQQcWb5X9PGGlJ/LLiJIo3Tc99DJhTIYgSTIkgNtYD7IgvAhziMwr jMHQjq9R/j8= =3UMb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzOm9YkAAAEEANXQ12uCbPMlbON1kwbHfaLZ79MaSQCmB1AJ399gmt6LhYR5 aWtbeuRzDw1m5lF0hDveWDga1WG9PY7WQ0nq/W+Ww9SrrTPCI055rUW5RcAeKUNS Y6udUoCojMRT5bHMi/7CUm3OYtCw2T9DAE9NerOJ8IVpusqeVMA6o0SuPU79AAUR tB1NaWtlIER1dm9zIDxlbm9jaEB6aXBjb24ubmV0PokAlQMFEDOmlcY1TNKt+Wg9 AQEBKygD/ih1A1mjYcq8mrMmcBgDIAzu3RCbBv/uYGRXXherjKhrpdvHNTzd/LFF Z/Akg3owYhMJbHa9cbu4pCe1U+YgmGWqrsoXsuF87KrwUoO/HYI6ggosRhMazhdT 0H/zudqIMlyxXwLZqMiGI5XEkyHmkX4Jodh+SC7u7i1SjWTvYhCziQCVAwUQM6b1 8sA6o0SuPU79AQF+XAQAxKBswtbUe1/dforndHQ0+Fh6oRjdrfod3X/UQp3WIO+t cdSd0Vk2zVklECSV/vDjwEI46W9ZK/LVWhLuxVsGNJOnEYUFHfm89QIA7h8BkiIf iwRYdbrA32mHiogyy552Rq2YMOtQxa5T0/LrNSgOesXNV1UYBNC7bLkj3iA7gag= =f3h5 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Anon E-mail article in WSJ
by Alan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In today's (06/18/97) Wall Street Journal there is an article on Anonymous e-mail in the corporate environment. Talks about companies who have set up systems to recieve anonymous e-mail from employees to deal with specific situations in the workplace. Interesting stuff and very positive. (A few negatives were listed, but more as sidenotes than anything.) Page B-1 has the article. This time I will be making a copy... alano(a)teleport.com | "Those who are without history are doomed to retype it."

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by ETN Head Office 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Kerrey bill introduced in Senate
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sen. Kerrey's evil "Secure Public Networks Act" was introduced in the Senate today, cosponsored by Sen. McCain. The bill, if passed, would: Criminalize the knowing use of crypto to encrypt data or communications in furtherance of a crime; (s. 104) Criminalize breaking another person's ciphertext for the purpose of violating their privacy, security, or property rights; (goodbye, Netscape bugs bounty and DES/RC4 cracks) (s. 105(3)) Criminalize intercepting another's intellectual property for the purpose of violating intellectual property rights (s. 105(4)) Criminalize issuing a key to another person in furtherance of a crime (s. 105(6)) Require federal government purchasers of crypto equipment to buy GAK crypto; (s. 202, 204) Require crypto products purchased with federal funds for use on a public network to employ GAK crypto; (s. 203, 205) Legalize the export of 56-bit DES crypto; (s. 302) Criminalizes the issuance of signature certificates by registered CA's for encryption keys if the user has not complied with GAK procedures; (s. 407(a)(4)) Criminalizes requesting a signature certificate for an encryption key from a registered CA if the user has not complied with GAK procedures; (s. 407(a)(5)) Allows the Secretary of Commerce to "make investigations, obtain information, take sworn testimony, and require reports or the keeping of records by .. any person", to the extent necessary to enforce the Act; (s. 701(a)) Allows the Secretary of Commerce to subpoena witnesses and documents in any State at any designated place; (s. 701(b)(3)(A)) Allows the Secretary of Commerce to impose civil/adminstrative penalties of up to $100K for violations of the Act; (s. 702(1)) Ugh. The original is online at <http://www.senate.gov/~kerrey/encrypt/encrypt2.html>, mirrored at <http://www.parrhesia.com/kerrey.html>. -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles(a)netbox.com | http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto.

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4471.html
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Web Anglais? Non, S'il Vous Plait --> Ashley Craddock --> [1]arrow Web Anglais? Non, S'il Vous Plait by [2]Ashley Craddock 9:02am 17.Jun.97.PDT When Quebec computer-store owner Morty Grauer got a letter telling him to get rid of his Web page, change it, or else, he rolled over. But he wasn't happy about it. "I don't need subpoenas, fines, or going to court," Grauer told the [3]Montreal Gazette. "But what gets my goat is when they make me do something. I'm enraged right now. How can they tell you what to do on the Internet?" But according to the Quebec's Office de la Langue Francaise, they can do it pretty easily - jurisdictional issues notwithstanding. Because Grauer's Web site was in English, because it was on a Quebecois server, and because it had no French component, his [4]microbytes.com was illegal, plain and simple. "The Micro-Bytes Web page violated the Charter of the French Language," spokesman Gerald Paquette said Monday. So on 29 May, the OLF sent Grauer a letter, threatening to revoke his certificate of "francization," a legal necessity for businesses with 50-plus employees. Grauer has said he will comply as of 1 July. Crafted in the pre-Internet 1970s, Quebec's Charter of the French Language stipulates that commercial publications such as catalogs, brochures, leaflets, and commercial directories must be available in French. It also denies English-language education to immigrants, even those from English-speaking countries. (A separate Canadian federal law on bilingualism has a much more limited scope, requiring the government to publish information in both English and French.) In the separationist furor that has raged over Quebec for decades, the charter has been a highly controversial bulwark against anglicization and cultural dilution. In Montreal, large businesses are bilingual. On the streets, English words are no longer displayed. In homes and schools, the phrase, "le weekend," common parlance in France, is almost never heard. But whether or not the 20-year-old charter will have any teeth in the age of the Internet and free trade remains unclear. Although the charter has been relatively successful in terms of maintaining linguistic purity, its economic effects have been harsh: An estimated 300,000 residents and 1,000 businesses have left the province since the law was passed. And the Internet is expected to exact a high toll for such linguistic balkanization: An estimated 90 percent of online communications are in English, only 2 percent in French. In France itself, where linguistic purity campaigns have recently taken on some degree of political chic, language activists have sued three sites under a 1994 law that bans single-language advertising in any language but French. The suits, which would have tested the law's application to Web sites for the first time, were dismissed last week on a technicality. In the free-speech-happy Internet, however, a four-year-old United Nations ruling may prove the most ominous indicator for attempts to enforce language purity: After reviewing the case of an English-speaking Canadian forced to call his funeral home a "salon funeraire," The UN's Human Rights Council found that the Canadian charter was in violation of the free-speech provision of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Still, the Office de la Langue Francaise is determined to hold the linguistic line. "Quebec wants to be a player in the global market, but there's a real chance it will erode our sense of language, of identity," Paquette said. "It's the same thing with the Internet: We feel threatened by it. It gives us the possibility of communicating with French speakers in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and North Africa, but English is the lingua franca of the Web. If we don't enforce this law, that'll only be more true in the future." Related Wired Links: [5]Web Sites Foil Canada's Election Poll Ban 3.Jun.97 [6]Canadian Election Law Prompts Web Site Battle 27.May.97 [7]arrow [8]Find Read a story in the Wired News archive. [9]Feedback Let us know how we're doing. [10]Tips Have a story or tip for Wired News? Send it. [11]Copyright © 1993-97 Wired Ventures, Inc. and affiliated companies. All rights reserved. References 1. http://www.wired.com/news/top_stories/ 2. mailto:craddock@wired.com 3. http://www.montrealgazette.com/ 4. http://www.microbytes.com/main.html 5. http://www.wired.com/news/topframe/4221.html 6. http://www.wired.com/news/topframe/4081.html 7. http://www.wired.com/news/top_stories/ 8. http://www.wired.com/news/search.html 9. mailto:newsfeedback@wired.com 10. mailto:tips@wired.com 11. http://www.wired.com/wired/full.copyright.html

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