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by Anonymous User 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"add leslie(a)koalas.com clueless" 'leslie(a)koalas.com' was ADDED to the 'clueless' mailing list.

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Re[2]: on corporations and subpoenas
by jpb＠miamisci.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam, re: At 9:42 AM 4/17/96, Adam Pingitore wrote: > Um, well, then I'm going to have to spam your ass. Um, well, then I'm going to have to notify your postmaster of your threat to spam the cypherpunks(a)toad.com mailing list. I'm certain he has better things to do than reply to several hundred irate cypherpunks copying your spam to him and will take appropriate steps. Grow up. Joseph Block <jpb(a)miamisci.org> "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..." -- Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A) PGP 2048bit-Fingerprint: F8 A2 A5 15 56 42 9B 16 3F BD 57 0F 8A ED E3 21 No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

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[Noise] Unsubrscive $$$
by JonWienke＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wanna make lotsa money? Just charge $20 for instructions whenever the clueless want off the list. When they email you with their pathetic "unsubscrive" pleas, get their MasterCard / Visa / AmEx / Discover number and expiration date. Call it a "spamming fee" to compensate you for the time it takes to download and respond to their iggorant [sick] requests. See you on the Riviera!

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Re: Spaces in passwords
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Ben Rothke writes: >> Do spaces (ASCII 20) in passwords make them less secure? > >Of course not. In a normal Unix password, adding spaces to the >password search space increases the search space, so it necessarily >makes the search harder. Depends on the space of ideas that are leading to your passwords. If the reason you're adding spaces is to separate an n-character word from the dictionary from a 7-n character word from the dictionary, this reduces the search space for a cracker considerably. At least pick random punctuation instead. On the other hand, if your password is a bunch of randomly chosen characters, having another character in the space doesn't hurt. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215

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Re: why compression doesn't perfectly even out entropy
by Jay Holovacs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Perhaps keyspace analysis and randomness analysis should be done from a Bayesian technique, with the the potential perspective of the cracker, or your estimate of the potental prospective of the cracker as a priori conditions. Hamlet could well qualify as a random string, however if your cracker was using 'Great Books of Western Civ' as a dictionary source, it would not be so good. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay Holovacs <holovacs(a)ios.com> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Key fingerprint = AC 29 C8 7A E4 2D 07 27 AE CA 99 4A F6 59 87 90 On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Simon Spero wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Mark Rogaski wrote: > > > Is it possible to find a percentage of the key space to eliminate that > > will optimize security assuming that the attacker will try the easy > > stuff first (and is it possible to quantify "easy stuff")? > > Hmmm- I think this could be interesting to study; if we treat the space > of possible passwords as a non-uniform probability distribution > (Zipfian?), and then transform it in such a way to be uniform (by > having the probability of certain passwords being disqualified be > based on their relative probability it should be possible to get a > situation where all passwords are possible, and all have equal probability.

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Re: EFF/Bernstein Press Release
by SBinkley＠atitech.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>On the other hand, a virus is malicious speech, no? Sorta like libel or >fraud. You said bad and untrue things to the victim's computer and the >dimwitted OS believed it. > >Also this is impersonation. You spoke words that led the OS to think that >you were a legit user and, having its gained trust on false grounds, it lets >you do malicious things. Does this mean that an OS is legally considered an entity??? /sb

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Re: DANGER! Baby-Food Bombs on the Internet! [was Re: (Fwd)]
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Rich Graves <llurch(a)networking.stanford.edu> > > On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, the intrepid anonymous-remailer(a)shell.portal.com > FUDded to cypherpunks: > [Senatorial panic at the spread of knowledge deleted] > Does anyone know the documents that Senator Biden is quoting? I *must > know* how to build The Dreaded Baby-Food Bomb. As usual, altavista comes to the rescue. *A* baby food jar bomb is described at: http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~llovejo/explode.txt and echoed overseas at http://ps.cus.umist.ac.uk/~vivaldi/boom/original.txt I could not find the article on harvesting gunpowder from shotgun shells. Neat stuff in australia on making primary and secondary explosives however (neurocactus). With the Internet in place, government attempts to legislate the flow of ideas and knowledge are about as effective as attempts to legislate the migration routes of birds. Peter Trei trei(a)process.com

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Re: [Explanation] Re: "STOP SENDING ME THIS SHIT"
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:37 AM 4/18/96, Pat May wrote: > > Crypto relevance: This attack will be eliminated when more mail > agents support public key crypto and the mailing list software can be > modified to check signatures on subscription requests. In my ongoing quest for net.buckyness I sent a subscribe message to the synergetics-l list, and got back a password, which I had to use to actually subscribe. It looked like a majordomo hack of some kind... Cheers, Bob ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "If they could 'just pass just pass a few more laws', we would all be criminals." --Vinnie Moscaritolo The e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/

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ERR_not
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

4-12-96. Science: "Error-Correcting Codes Keeps Quantum Computers on Track" Commentary by Barry Cipra on Peter Shor's error-correction scheme for quantum systems (published last year in Phys Rev A) and his subsequent work with Rob Calderbank at AT&T Research on "quantum analogs of other more powerful codes that can correct multiple errors in long strings of bits." And cites work of others who are following Shor's lead -- Seth Lloyd at MIT, IBM, LANL, Oxford: "Quantum computers may be getting closer to reality." ERR_not

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Re: (Fwd) RE: Noise Sphere in Java
by Andrew Loewenstern 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Deranged Mutant writes: > Noise spheres will show certain correlations in the data. It > doesn't mean that the RNG is crypto-usable if it looks good. > But if it looks bad then you know to be suspicious.... "Statistical tests cannot find good (P)RNG's, only bad ones." This has been said before in various ways on the list, but it is worth repeating... andrew

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