March 2005 - cypherpunks-legacy

[>Htech] Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net (fwd from eugen@leitl.org)
by Eugen Leitl 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

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Re: [linux-elitists] Re: MCI boots send-safe (Register) -- adds a net of 11 more spam hosts (fwd from kmself@ix.netcom.com)
by Eugen Leitl 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

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AVOJ Dep.
by norwood＠pittsburg.com 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

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ZipLip ends secure email service
by Steve Schear 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

"Thank you for using ZipLip's free secure mail service. We appreciate your patronage and wish to inform you that we will be discontinuing our service on June 30th, 2005. For various reasons, including new U.S. legislation which significantly impacts the individual's privacy rights, ZipLip is no longer able to provide its free secure email services with any reasonable assurance of privacy and security, particularly in the context of a hosted service. We will revisit the service issue when our legislature reinstates our privacy rights. Please make the necessary arrangements to use another Webmail service before June 30th. We are unable to offer any data migration services. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused. " https://www.ziplip.com/ps/PmApp/zlp_dummy?mgc=1&NextPage=/app/services/en/r…

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NSA specifies elliptic-curve crypto for security applications
by sunder 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

http://www.eet.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=60404977 NSA specifies elliptic-curve crypto for security applications By Loring Wirbel , EE Times <http://www.eetimes.com/;jsessionid=3J52X3FMWO51MQSNDBGCKHSCJUMEKJVN> March 03, 2005 (10:22 AM EST) URL: http://www.eet.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=60404977 <http://www.eet.com/article/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3J52X3FMWO51MQSNDBG…> <SNIP> Last October, the agency referred to ECC as one of the few public-key systems that could meet equivalent security standards to the private-key AES. NSA (Fort Meade, Md.) is recommending a series of algorithms called "Suite B" for securing sensitive and unclassified data. Suite B includes Elliptic-Curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone and Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman for key agreement, along with the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm for digital signatures. AES and Secure Hashing Algorithm also are included in Suite B.

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Independent URUD
by waddell＠fairfax.com 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

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Re: End of a cypherpunk era?
by Steve Thompson 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

--- Anonymous <cripto(a)ecn.org> wrote: [snip] > Still, if we could achieve mutual respect and freedom in the physical > world, we would happily pay the price of increased rudeness online. Speak for yourself. Regards, Steve ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

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Re: End of a cypherpunk era?
by Anonymous 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

EMC writes: > Loudly renouncing ones citizenship is a lot less effective in destroying > the infrastructure of oppression, than anonymously telling everyone in the > world how they can make a 20 megaton thermonuclear explosion working for a > few years in their basement using only non-radioactive materials that can > never be made illegal to own. That would certainly be conducive to destruction, but I imagine we'd see a lot more than just "the infrastructure of oppression" being destroyed in such a world. The problem, vs your dolphins, is that nukes can be delivered anonymously, hence used without fear of retribution. > There are two types of societies in the world. Those in which everyone > has a deadly weapon that can never be take away, and against which there > is no defense. And those in which everyone has an inpenetrable shield > that can never be taken away, and against which no weapon is effective. No, I don't think every society in the world falls into one of these two categories. Don't you recognize that we live in a world where there are neither perfect shields nor perfect weapons? > Dolphins are an example of the former. Usenet is an example of the > latter. Dolphins are polite, friendly, and respectful of eachother, and > no group of dolphins can ever form a government to oppress the rest of > them. > > We should try to be more like dolphins in cypherspace, while attracting as > little attention to ourselves in other places. Unfortunately, cypherspace even more than cyberspace tends towards the perfect-shield side of the equation. You can't harm a person if your only interactions are anonymous communications. About the worst you can give him is a stern talking-to. If your social analysis is correct, then cypherpunk technologies are going to make online interactions even less polite, friendly and respectful. Still, if we could achieve mutual respect and freedom in the physical world, we would happily pay the price of increased rudeness online.

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End of a cypherpunk era?
by Anonymous 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Ian Grigg writes at http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000381.html: : FC exile finds home as Caribbean Brit : : Vince Cate (writes Ray Hirschfeld) created a stir a number of years ago : by relocating to the Caribbean island nation of Anguilla, purchasing a : Mozambique passport-of-convenience, and renouncing his US citizenship : in the name of cryptographic and tax freedom. : : Last Thursday I attended a ceremony (the first of its kind in Anguilla) : at which he received his certificate of British citizenship. : : But Vince's solemn affirmation of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth, her : heirs and successors was done for practical rather than ideological : reasons. Since giving up his citizenship, the US has refused to grant : him a visa to visit his family there, or even to accompany his wife to : St. Thomas for her recent kidney surgery. Now as a British citizen he : expects to qualify for the US visa waiver program. : : Is this the end of an era, a defining cypherpunk moment? "Cypherpunk" responds in the comments: > I never saw this kind of thing as being central to the cypherpunk > concept. In fact, to me it seems like the wrong direction to go. The > point of being a cypherpunk is to live in cypherspace, the mythical land > where online interactions dominate and we can use information theory and > mathematics to protect ourselves. Of course, cypherspace is inevitably > grounded in the physical world, so we have to use anonymous remailers > and proxies to achieve our goals. > > But escaping overseas is granting too much to the primacy of the > physical. It would be better for Vince Cate and other expats to help > create anonymizing technology and other infrastructure to allow people > to work and play freely in the online world. > > And tying it back to this blog, the gold at the end of the cipherpunk > rainbow is a payment system which can be deployed and exploited > anonymously. That's hard, for many reasons, not least because most people > are happy and eager to share information goods for free. Modern-day > online communism (creative commons, open source, etc) actually undercuts > cypherpunk goals by reducing the need and motivation for anonymous > payment systems. How can you buy and sell information goods online, > when everyone gives everything away freely?

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mixminion test
by Tarapia Tapioco 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

-----BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE----- Message-type: plaintext One-line test of mixminion! -----END TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-----

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