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Caligula, My Father, Bill Clinton
by Lazlo Toth 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think people are finding it much easier to relate to your Mr. Clinton lately... -Lazlo ------------- Caligula, My Father, Bill Clinton by Sam Lipsyte >From Nerve Magazine http://www.nervemag.com/Lipsyte/caligula/ >... > Of course you want her breasts first. I want her breasts first. I >want her in the blue-black dress and I want her breasts first. > I am the President. I've been doing this shit all my life, and I want >her breasts first. I can tell what they will look like already, round and >full and pale with a tiny beautiful vein like a quiet river running to >her heart. I want to squeeze and suckle. That's all I ever really ever >ever wanted. The suits, the speeches, sure, the airplane, sure, but those >fuckers are always after me for more and more of me and this is all I ever >wanted. > I want her ass and her belly and her hair and her lips. > Those fuckers. >...

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An Attempt to Hobble SAFE Crypto Bill
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:03:33 -0800 From: "--Todd Lappin-->" <telstar(a)wired.com> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/5492.html An Attempt to Hobble House Crypto Bill by Rebecca Vesely 9:08am 25.Jul.97.PDT A Republican opponent of a House bill that would loosen controls on the use and export of encryption is circulating an amendment that would effectively cripple the legislation. The amendment, by Representative Benjamin Gilman (R-New York), who chairs the International Relations Committee, would make it unlawful to "manufacture, distribute, sell, or import any product within the United States that can be used to encrypt communications or information if the product does not permit the real-time decryption of such encrypted communications or information." This means that if law-enforcement officials could not crack an encrypted file within 24 hours - the time that FBI director Louis Freeh and other law enforcement officials say is reasonable for accessing information related to a crime - that strength of encryption would be illegal. The amendment set a civil penalty of US$100,000 for such violations. Currently, the most complex programs that can be cracked so quickly use 40-bit algorithms. The relative ease of breaking such code makes it nearly worthless on the marketplace, the high-tech industry has warned. Stronger encryption - 56-bit and 128-bit algorithms are being employed in many products now - is widely viewed as a cornerstone to the development of electronic commerce. Stronger code can safeguard data such as credit-card numbers as it travels over networks. Gilman had the amendment in hand earlier this week when his panel marked up the Security and Freedom through Encryption Act by Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia). The bill has been condemned by the government's chief law-enforcement and national-security officials because it would prevent domestic controls on encryption while relaxing export controls. The FBI and National Security Agency want a domestic key-recovery system to wiretap digital communications. Gilman was unsuccessful in trying to insert another provision during the mark-up - one to give the president the power to deny crypto export licenses on national-security grounds. "The second amendment was a staff proposal that basically was dependent on what happened to the first amendment," said Jerry Lipson, spokesman for the House International Relations Committee. "There was no sentiment that this one should be introduced when the first one failed." A staffer for a congressman who supports the Goodlatte bill said that the new amendment was a "scare tactic" meant to show committee members that law enforcement won't stand for a relaxed approach to encryption policy. Indeed, FBI director Freeh met one-on-one with 10 International Relations panel members for hour-long sessions in the days before the mark-up, the staffer said. Nine of the 10 voted for the bill anyway. Some staffers and observers suggest that the Gilman amendment could be introduced when the bill goes to the Select Committee on Intelligence. Although the legislation has 214 co-sponsors in the House, none are members of that panel. And the bill still must reach two other committees before it goes to a full House vote: Commerce and National Security. The deadline for all committees to address the bill is 5 September. "They don't draft amendments like this for the heck of it," said Alan Davidson, staff counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology. "It's a glimpse at what could be a very frightening future." Copyright © 1993-97 Wired Ventures, Inc. and affiliated companies. All rights reserved.

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by owner-cypherpunks 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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using perl-rsa
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[managed to type kent instead of keng this time, touch typist and not watching the screen either]. Kent Crispin <kent(a)songbird.com> writes: > [...] > > >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` > > BTW, how do you use this code? I'm not a big "dc" user, I must admit. You first of all extract your a PGP key with pgpacket. (You'll need to change the password to be no password (press enter when prompted for password), so that PGP doesn't encrypt the private key. Next, you can do: % perl rsa.pl [e] [n] < plaintext > ciphertext % perl rsa.pl [d] [n] < plaintext > ciphertext to encrypt and decrypt. Here's a small example (Fred is a notional eternity user who's key, both public and private is included in the eternity distribution): Fred's public key: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3i mQBNAzPfUPsAAAECAMn6jtL3ZNjmBrkDLIktHNmBGc+a59BSvFPN8howj5zAj1U8 5QOfVtV4kOliK2AkCcL2yyz3Wz+AHiYdVyuQJF0ABRG0FEZyZWQgPGZyZWRAZXRl cm5pdHk+iQBVAwUQM99Q/B4mHVcrkCRdAQECQQH/YZqss3VQZwZi5KfylAzFOnz8 /pXOSh8Rf9pTsF2TbsAKIK4xL9PzYoicy/KAZdIN+AJO8dX/xY0a1v5A8xobeg== =iWoN -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Fred's secret key (no password): -----BEGIN PGP SECRET KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3i lQD4AzPfUPsAAAECAMn6jtL3ZNjmBrkDLIktHNmBGc+a59BSvFPN8howj5zAj1U8 5QOfVtV4kOliK2AkCcL2yyz3Wz+AHiYdVyuQJF0ABREAAfsEPkWwiGybJRn00/dB RLZjOZHAmMRVDH6UC9si+GpHDsOs5/eLbK6GUqmbWXG4I4LadxRQz/nplQ+lCVYP ecrbAQDixLjtXlj9ks1e9ZcroU71Pvk84oQjpUhiU1rAIkKh9wEA5APIvVJETEjm DxEpdE6hJkty+nb6v8VNOYlslo8Ol0sA/iwRycjjcNs4A2c9Owt+xLCiMp2JIb0z yf7d4xEcLI1vUXG0FEZyZWQgPGZyZWRAZXRlcm5pdHk+ =CHwS -----END PGP SECRET KEY BLOCK----- (to extract public key do: % pgp -kxa fred fredpub ~/.pgp/pubring.pgp and to get private key do: % pgp -kxa fred fredpri ~/.pgp/secring.pgp ) Next get pgpacket.pl, see ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp/utils/ or something like that. Then run pgpacket on the fredpri.asc (it contains all the info that you want, without looking at fredpub.asc, ie the values for e, d and n): % pgpacket fredpri.asc The values for e, d, and n are: e = 11 d = 043E45B0886C9B2519F4D3F74144B6633991C098C4550C7E940BDB22F86A470E C3ACE7F78B6CAE8652A99B5971B82382DA771450CFF9E9950FA509560F79CADB n = C9FA8ED2F764D8E606B9032C892D1CD98119CF9AE7D052BC53CDF21A308F9CC0 8F553CE5039F56D57890E9622B602409C2F6CB2CF75B3F801E261D572B90245D Now you can encrypt for fred like so: % echo hello world | perl rsa.pl 11 C9FA8ED2F764D8E606B9032C892D1CD98119CF9AE7D052BC53CDF21A308F9CC08F553CE5039F56D57890E9622B602409C2F6CB2CF75B3F801E261D572B90245D > hello.rsa % and to decrypt: % perl rsa.pl 043E45B0886C9B2519F4D3F74144B6633991C098C4550C7E940BDB22F86A470EC3ACE7F78B6CAE8652A99B5971B82382DA771450CFF9E9950FA509560F79CADB C9FA8ED2F764D8E606B9032C892D1CD98119CF9AE7D052BC53CDF21A308F9CC08F553CE5039F56D57890E9622B602409C2F6CB2CF75B3F801E261D572B90245D < hello.rsa hello world % Now dc can do modular exponentiation like so (reverse polish notation): dc> m e ^ n % but that's going to take a long time because it will evaluate m ^ e and then do mod n. So the clever thing that the program does is to implement Knuth's modexp algorithm which reduces the work factor immensly. Actually GNU dc 1.1 (distributed with GNU bc-1.04) now includes "|" as a modular exponentiation operator, so you can do: "m e n |" and it'll do it directly. This feature was a special, just for perl rsa because Ken Pizzini, author of GNU dc, happens to be one of the major contributors of hacks to shorten the perl program, and so have a vested interest. With the dc 1.1 | operator, Ken got the script down to: $/=$z;exec"dc -e'16i0[lN*lMlKlN|+lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJ\U@{[ pop,pop,unpack'H*',<>]}\EsMsKsNx[II*~aSad0<ZLaP]dsZx'" a considerable improvement over: 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` > I dug out a midi interpreter I wrote a number of years ago, > and it is indeed trivial to modify it to read any text as input. > Unfortunately, I wrote that long before the midi file spec was > finalized, and the hardware I wrote it for is also long gone. But > it's probably not much work to get file output working again...and > the thought of a general text-to-midi translator is rather > entertaining -- I could play this entire mail message through it, for > example... It would definitely make better music if some rhythmic > variation was part of the coding, but that would make it a little > harder to make an automatic decoder... I'd find it most cool to hear an audio file of the above. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ 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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Government Access to Safes
by Martin Minow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You may have been following the recent murder of Gianni Versace and the subsequent suicide of his alleged murderer. One minor footnote that popped up in the news is a small safe located in the houseboat where the suicide was found. This safe uses a keypad lock (rather than a mechanical combination or physical key). Is this more secure than a regular safe lock? Does the government have an access key that would premit a law enforcement officer (with appropriate authority) to open any such lock? Should I be required to deposit the secret key to my safe with a government-mandated "escrow" agent? Martin Minow minow(a)apple.com

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Re: Even more unix holy war. Was "Clinton freezes U.S. assets .."
by cactus＠seabsd.hks.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Do you have any sort of life whatsoever, James? Writing a gazillion K of flamage on your hot-button topic du jour, especially when you keep lying about wanting to end the thread, is a total waste of your time, esp. if you believe people will read the spew. (I'm half believing that you're going to call me a collectivist because I imply that one writes so that others will read). I've simply never heard of anybody caring. - - -- Todd Masco | "life without caution/ the only worth living / love for a man/ cactus(a)hks.net | love for a woman/ love for the facts/ protectless" - A Rich Cactus' Homepage - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLyiAKhNhgovrPB7dAQFRJAQAkGwvDaHc6FbNsZXglVOuH0I6b79MLqaN cI0rPN2xIwC8w+/cL/jFNaFZDlp4/V1/AZARQaFpY+MMuLsFMBL20c1jAfws/qXO EVFKEWNlRPDo1D85fxvNwT36J+YsLc+PB5ewWlR6AYysh+QBYzZOUhUXJsAo+Lka Kn1PAKFDiZM= =lPZy - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLyi47yoZzwIn1bdtAQFmWwF/UuqPF693wVp6GlI/mkKypPkyyB8thivm WePmowpndywBGGVhtWiVMcZWzqDGEFo2 =Npk+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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CDT, RSACi, and "public service" groups (3/3)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 16:53:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: Jonah Seiger <jseiger(a)cdt.org> Cc: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu, chris_barr(a)cnet.com Subject: Re: CDT, RSACi, and "public service" groups Jonah, Thanks for responding. The "yet to be determined category" CDT suggested during that conversation with RSAC is of course the same "public service site" category I mentioned in my previous post. I'm still curious to know what exactly was discussed and what was proposed during that July 10 conference call, which happened a few minutes after I had lunch with RSAC's Stephen Balkam. Can you fill us in? Though to be fair, I should say Balkam told me the following week that the "public service site" discussions were on hold. (I'd have to look at my notes for his exact wording.) So would you rate your site with RSAC-PS? -Declan On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Jonah Seiger wrote: > At 3:12 PM -0700 7/24/97, Declan McCullagh wrote: > >On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Jonah Seiger wrote: > > > >> We do not believe ratings are appropriate for news sites or sites that are > >> geared toward public discussion of political/social issues (CDT has refused > >> to rate our sites with RSAC). > > > >Of course that hasn't stopped CDT from, as I understand it, proposing > >a "public service site" exemption to RSAC, similar to the "news site" > >exemption. > > This is not even close to accurate. We have not proposed anything. > > We have told RSAC that we will not rate our sites with their system because > we do not believe that ratings are appropriate for politically > oriented/social issues sites or news sites. > > When we discovered that RSAC was considering a news rating, we were > concerned and asked them to tell us what they had in mind. As part of that > conversation, we asked whether CDT and the other sites we produce (which > are not 'news' sites in the same way the New York Times) would also fall > under that classification, or some other yet to be determined category. > > My guess is that this fact got garbled in the translation to you from > someone at RSAC (or perhaps you were just too eager find what you were > looking for). > > >RSAC-PS raises the same troubling questions as RSACnews: what is a "public > >service" group? Who decides? Is CDT? Focus on the Family? The > >fight-censorship archives? The Cato Institute? The Washington Post? The > >U.S. Congress? The Democratic Party? NAMBLA? Jim Bell's Multnomah County > >Common Law Court? > > These are exactly the same questions we asked RSAC. Ask them, not us -- > this is their idea. > > >The above is what I understand to be the case. I emailed CDT a week ago > >about this but haven't heard back. I'd appreciate clarification. > > Hope that helps. > > Jonah >

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Reap and Sow
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Congressional Record reprinted July 23 "Anti-Government, Anti-Social Attitudes," a news column which examines the increasing discontent caused by governmental programs. It describes the increasing psychopathology by those who have suffered economic harm due to shifts in the nation's and international resources and the appeal of anti-government and anti-social acts in response to failure to meet obligations to the citizenry. Not a few think OKC bombing is the the way to fight government-sponsored terrorism against civilians. http://jya.com/anti-gov.txt Couple that with reports on DoD's efforts to combat terrorism against its troops abroad, more funding of counterterrorism and more sharing of "dual-use" weaponry with jittery, trigger- itchy law enforcement and IRS infohighway bandits around the globe. Boil the frogs. Says the snarling marshal (OSFOR trooper), just back from stress counseling and a beer, to the neighbor (rapee) kicking and screaming: It's dog eat dog, in the battle to keep our family fed, so sorry, but we gotta enforce order and the law (our exculpatory Bible), burp, tell it to the judge (the President), my therapist (godfather). Meanwhile have a pleasant remand while the court's on vacation.

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Re: Oops, Correction: one big error in "Even more unix holy war."
by Bill O'Hanlon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 27 Jan 1995 13:19:01 +0800 jamesd(a)com.informix.com wrote: -------- > > source code variables. > > On this I was of course totally wrong: > > Unix has symbolic debugging equal to DOS/Windows. > I was under the false impression that it only had > C code interpretation. > > This is an error -- what I said was true for C++, but > then in Windows we too are forced to primarily use > interpretation to debug C++. C++ symbolic debuggers > are not up to acceptable capabilities in either system. > > Sorry. It just gets worse and worse. James, the debugging environment I've been referring to, and the product I've been debugging is written in C++. Let me be perfectly clear, here: The product is an embedded processor. I'm running a development environment on a Sun workstation. The code running on the processor is written in C++. The debugger is a symbolic debugger, and it can do breakpoints on lines of code, displays of expressions involving symbolic names, and all of the other points about debuggers that I recall you making. The code uses all C++ features quite heavily. There is no C or C++ interpretation involved. The environment is freely available.

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New copyright law coming...
by Albert P. Franco, II 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

More back room bullshit to screw with us: <http://www.sjmercury.com/business/center/copyright092698.htm> This article talks about a new copyright law slithering through congress. They're back...

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