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DCSB: Applying PGP To Digital Commerce
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Rodney Thayer Sable Technology Corporation "Applying PGP To Digital Commerce" Tuesday, January 7, 1997 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Rodney Thayer has 20 years experience in the software development business. For the past 10 years he has been designing, implementing, deploying, and troubleshooting networking software. He currently is the Principal of a consulting firm based in Newton, Massachusetts where he is involved in the implementation of communications products for a variety of customers, including software vendors, major end-user organizations, and several governmental organizations both foreign and domestic. He also writes and lectures on the deployment, troubleshooting, and implementation of data communications networks. Mr. Thayer will talk about how PGP can be used in the business world today, for exchange of information, digitally identifying documents, and other commerce applications. In this presentation, we will discuss the application of PGP, including mechanics, the cryptographic and legal issues, and the infrastructure requirements for it's use. The state of the art in digital message encryption is now at the point where it has become practical to use encrypted and digitally signed email for digital commerce. Recently, one scheme, PGP, has emerged from the realm of the cyberpunk as a legitimate tool for business. Commercial products are now available that support PGP encryption in electronic mail and for documents and digital storage. PGP is no longer a cult tool for computer junkies and cyberpunks. It is a legitimate, sound cryptographic technology that can be used, today, for digital commerce. As an increasingly crypto-aware business community searches for solutions, the question of how to use message encryption tools such as PGP becomes germaine to the business community. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, January 7, 1997 from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $27.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men, and "appropriate business attire" for women. We will attempt to record this meeting and put it on the web in RealAudio format at some future date We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, January 4, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston". If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Planned speakers for DCSB are: February David Kaufman 1996 in Review / Predictions for 1997 March TBA April Stewart Baker Encryption Policy and Digital Commerce We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, rah(a)shipwright.com . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu . Looking forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: SafeMail 1.0b6 e32 iQCVAwUBMsb+IvgyLN8bw6ZVAQEhRgP/b5Q5u83gIUAqJYPHp6J/BxKUrFjy/fYH J4EqvEvjKrdWE0jcwE34ISf+qUmBS+rZZRYVMsQ8jiVa/uF8TwNNTEEe5kMUPpne UtKvuJOEosFURwGfR4OLoYu1NsqPNuzAD40dwfQDQGVcmTqNlivhikZByE4MTNVz bUlII450N/8= =IS1x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox, e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/

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www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/2608
by Zer0.Faith.Inc.＠website.chek.it.out 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/2608
by Zer0.Faith.Inc.＠website.chek.it.out 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/2608
by Zer0.Faith.Inc.＠website.chek.it.out 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Sandy and I will run a cypherpunks "moderation" experim
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On or About 5 Jan 97 at 22:38, Black Unicorn wrote: > Excellent until the flames list is eliminated. Yes I want to read this list, flames and all. I guess I'm just used to it by now. I don't filter it myself (except manually) so I don't want to trust someone I don't know to do it. Ross =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906

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Re: Secure Erase for PCs?
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steve Schear wrote: > >Steve Schear wrote:[snip] > >I've been watching for a lot of years, and I'm sick of those bastards > >at Apple. Those scumbags not only make a flimsy and unreliable computer, > >they won't repair the machine either. Too bad Ted Kazynski(sp?) didn't > >have a grudge against Apple, the scumbag creeps. > I'm sorry your ownership experience hasn't been pleasant. I've owned six > and installed a hundred or so as a consultant (along with many Wintel > systems) with great reliability. Only one of the machines I know of has > needed service, and this because it was operated in a dirty shop-floor > environment w/o an enclosure or even periodic internal cleaning. Since > I've not had to have one repaired under warranty I can't vouch for their > committment to good service. I'm puzzeled at your reaction. I hope you don't mind my adding this to the list, but since I posted something very pertinent several days ago and got *no* reaction, and since it was something very significant, I wanna try it one more time: This experience on your part, of installing 100-plus Macs with only one needing service, is beyond amazing. Most computer people will readily admit that HP (for example) is the best, reliability-wise, yet I have purchased quite a few of their computers and major peripherals over the past 20 years, and I have experienced an approximate 40% (!) defective rate during the one-year warranty period, more than 30% falling within the first three months. As to why I still use their stuff - it's because the others are worse, a fact which is almost universally agreed on. How can this possibly be, you ask? Could it be really bad luck? No. Could it be mishandling? No. For a reality check, another famed electronics vendor, Sony, has the same problem, but even worse than HP. Unfortunately, in the Sony case, their products don't wear well after fixing, excepting a couple of their rather expensive "professional" series products. I suspect that the 100-plus Apple owners don't really use the machines, otherwise, if they were so reliable, why does Apple desperately avoid repairing their own products, when HP has provided top-level professional technicians (not boys in dusty back rooms of cheap-ass computer stores) to fix their products, and done so consistently ever since the beginning of the PC business in 1966?

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Certified primes
by nobody＠replay.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The only `culture' Timmy C[retin] Maytag possesses is that cultivated from his foreskin scrapings. /\ o-/\ Timmy C[retin] Maytag ///\|/\\\ / /|\ \

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Re: [No joke] The Feds may legally gas us
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:09 PM 12/14/96 +0000, The Deviant wrote: >True, but the point still stands -- They can't, legally. I am not certain that the chemical weapons prohibitions apply to a country's own civilians. IANAL. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred Make your mark in the history of mathematics. Use the spare cycles of your PC/PPC/UNIX box to help find a new prime. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/justforfun/prime.htm

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Gov't Clarifes Position-Surprise!
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded from "Fred B. Ringel" <fredr(a)rivertown.net> on pgp-users list: Hi all- A list member forwarded this to me and I thought it was important enough to pass on. Its a "clarification" of the Government's "Key-Escrow/Key Recovery" position which is apparently "worldwide" in its intended reach. Besides the orwellian (sp?) nature of the proposal, I personally cannot imagine how this would be enforceable. Anyway, its something to ponder...how the government intends not only to restrict privacy rights at home, but extend those restrictions beyond our borders. Fred /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Fred B. Ringel Rivertown.Net Systems Administrator P.O. Box 532 and General Fixer-upper Hastings, New York 10706 Voice/Fax/Support: 914.478.2885 Data: 914-478-4988 Westchester's Rivertown's Full Service Flat-Rate Internet Access Provider E-mail "SEND-PGPKEY" in the Subject for my Public Key \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ----Begin Forwarded Message---- >From EPIC http://www.epic.org/crypto/export_controls/draft_regs_12_96.html **Commerce Department Prepares Draft Encryption Export Regulations** December 11, 1996 The Commerce Department is circulating draft regulations that differ sharply from earlier assurances made by the White House to relax export controls on strong encryption. The draft regulations state that it is the aim of the Commerce Department to promote "a worldwide key management infrastructure with the use of key recovery and key escrow encryption items." The proposal contrasts with earlier assurances that encryption standards would be voluntary and market-driven. The regulations would amend the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by imposing national security and foreign policy controls ("EI" for Encryption Items) on certain information security systems and equipment, cryptographic devices (including recoverable encryption software) and related technology. For the first time, the Administration makes clear what it means by "Key Recovery Encryption." The regulations state that: For purposes of this rule, "recovery encryption products" refer to encryption products (including software) which allow law enforcement officials to obtain under proper legal authority and without the cooperation or knowledge of the user, the plaintext of encrypted data and communications. This is an exact description of the original Clipper encryption proposal that was widely opposed by Internet users and industry when it was announced in 1993.

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ID's
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere." ~ Robert Heinlein

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