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Re: FV & PGP (was Re: First Virtual email security)
by NetSurfer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 17 Dec 1994 nsb(a)nsb.fv.com wrote: > Once more, with feeling: > > It is NOT an either/or. In the First Virtual system, the credit card > number NEVER GOES OVER THE NET AT ALL, which means that it doesn't go > over the net in the clear AND it doesn't go over the net encrypted. > I got your point from your first response. The remaining 5 were not necessary. I do not continue to question this point. But I might point out that companys doing business on the net might not like having the details of their day to day transactions sniffable, as you can build quite a good business intelligence profile from that type of info. As can the IRS, FBI, etc. Nor would they appreciate being spoofed... I strongly suggest you take another serious consideration of implementing encryption *now* rather than later, as your current scheme is not thorughly protecting the privacy of individuals or organizations until you do. - -NetSurfer #include <standard.disclaimer> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> == = = |James D. Wilson |V.PGP 2.7: 512/E12FCD 1994/03/17 > " " o " |P. O. Box 15432 | finger for full PGP key > " " / \ " |Honolulu, HI 96830 |====================================> \" "/ G \" |Serendipitous Solutions| Also NetSurfer(a)sersol.com > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> - --- [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 iQBFAwUBLvPiKioZzwIn1bdtAQEBVAGAhjULtzChTtOy5zY0L+kjuzzXXNLfeYAL jJqKiETK5l8GqqGPXr/I+yx3z7PSu3zN =bcUC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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NYT on Pentium
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Markoff writes today on Intel's mishandling of the Pentium flaw. Mr. T May quoted. For email copy send blank message with subject: 585_999 Here are few excerpts: In recent weeks, evoking memories of Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate crisis, Mr. Grove has retreated to his "war room" inside the company's corporate headquarters in Santa Clara. *** 'Righteousness' How did a sporadic arithmetic error that was not detected for months, in the chip that Intel insists is its most heavily tested microprocessor in history, become the heart of such a debacle? The answer is rooted in Intel's distinctive corporate culture, and suggests that Intel went wrong in much the same way as other big and unresponsive companies before it. Intel has traditionally valued engineering over product marketing. Inward-looking and wary of competitors (from experience with the Japanese), it developed a bunker mentality, a go-for-the-jugular attitude and a reputation for arrogance. "There are certain elements in Intel's culture, and one is righteousness," said Federico Faggin, a former Intel engineer and co-inventor of its first microprocessor. "The attitude at Intel is, 'We're better than everyone else and what we do is right and we never make mistakes.' " *** But the technologist's mind-set did little to prepare Intel for the consumer marketplace. Although it spent hundreds of millions of dollars on its "Intel Inside" and Pentium ad campaigns, the consumer-oriented strategy unraveled last month when Mr. Grove dismissed customers' requests for chips to replace the Pentium. *** "What Intel clearly should have done is issued a bug report as soon as they found out it was a reproducible problem," said Timothy May, a former Intel semiconductor engineer. "Instead, by keeping it mum, they backed themselves into a corner." But although he has issued a public apology for the flaw, Mr. Grove has been unwilling to personally come forward in an effort to restore customer confidence. "The test of a great company is in how they handle disasters," said James F. Moore, head of Geopartners, a high-tech consulting firm. "This is one where you can't behave like a paranoid. This is one where only the compassionate survive."

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Name that phone
by blancw＠pylon.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

MMPCPGPVSP ( MultiMedia PC PGP-Voice-Secure Phone ) PGVEPCP ( Pretty Good Voice Encryped PC Phone ) Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Blanc

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NONE
by nobody＠rebma.rebma.mn.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Matthew Ghio, You've done a great job in the past and continue to do so, but for the past week some (all?) of your users have not been getting any mail. What happened? Post to cypherpunks, remailer-operators, alt.privacy or alt.anonymous.messages, alt.abuse.recovery (either one. You choose). Thanks. END

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MacPGP
by norm＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Now I have something nice to say about MacPGP: It can take its input and output from the clip board. This makes it about half as much work as it was before. Look in "Dialog Shortcuts" under the "Options" menu.

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Remailer at myriad.pc.cc.cmu.edu??
by Mark Terka 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I take it the above remailer has bitten the dust? I didn't see it in Ralph's last list.

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NSA's text search algorithm
by rishab＠dxm.ernet.in 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Ian Farquhar" <ianf(a)sydney.sgi.com>: > I always imagined that the development of [NSA's text scanning] > algorithm itself predated email, and started back with cable and > telex traffic. Stat text scanning is ancient, but has probably not been used on the scale and efficiency that the NSA would require for net traffic. > > Earlier this year, the agency began soliciting collaborations from > > business to develop commercial applications of their technique. > > Has anyone got any further information about how this algorithm works? > It sounds like Rishab has somewhat better info than was publicly > available months ago when we last discussed this particular NSA > "technology transfer". Actually my 'info' about NSA's thing was mainly deduction put together with some (limited) specs on Architext (http://www.atext.com graham(a)atext.com) If you read NSA's note carefully, you easily rule out NLP ("independent of...language") and sophisticated neural nets ("very fast"). The Economist story I mentioned in my last post (on the fact that I beat them to the story!) goes into some detail on BT and Cornell's programs that summarize textual matter. These are apparently successful (included is an pretty good example of a computer-generated summary of the article), but also quite different from NSA's. BT uses basic NLP to get past articles, conjunctions etc (making it language-dependent), and stems (removes -ing, -ed, -s etc, unlike NSA which denies stemming, dictionaries etc; obviously language-dependent), before creating statistical table of word frequencies which are used to determine the subject of a sentence or the similarities between texts. Cornell can search "gigabytes of data ... in a few seconds [for] a subject" or similarity to an example text. It can figure out which sentences are 'important' (by comparing frequency tables). I suspect NSA's is much more pattern-oriented, as its USP is document clustering; maybe it uses some NN at some level. Of course you don't really need to know grammar to filter out articles and pronouns; you could do that statistically too. Rishab ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh "In between the breaths is rishab(a)dxm.ernet.in the space where we live" rishab(a)arbornet.org - Lawrence Durrell Voice/Fax/Data +91 11 6853410 Voicemail +91 11 3760335 H 34C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA

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Name that phone
by Philip Zimmermann 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm trying to come up with a name for the secure phone software I'm planning on releasing. The software would turn any multimedia PC into a secure phone. I'm open to suggestions for the name. Some names that have been suggested: 1) Voice PGP 2) Pretty Good Secure Phone (PGSP) 3) PGP Phone I like 2 or 3. Does anyone want to suggest other names, or vote for which of these is better? Send your replies to prz(a)acm.org, with the subject line of "Name that phone". The winner will get a free copy. But then, so will a lot of other people.

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Karl Hess - L.A. area meeting
by j.hastings6＠genie.geis.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and let me remind you, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -- Karl Hess Meeting at Cheviot Hills (in Los Angeles) CALIFORNIA U-S-A- I will leave town right after this meeting -- to visit relatives and possibly attend this year's RSA conference January 9-11. The following text was written by SEK3 (with notes by JKH): --- K A R L H E S S C L U B --- REVOLUTION, REACTION or BETRAYAL? A Special 3-Part Post Election Series Monday, December 19, 1994 (That's tonight, yikes!) PART 2: ANARCHIST ALTERNATIVES DINNER at HASMIK'S Family Restaurant, 9824 National Blvd. In Cheviot Hills Center, National Exit from Santa Monica (10) Freeway. (310) 204-1591. Separate checks -- order from very reasonable menu. Beer and wine available. PROGRAM 8 p.m. Announcements * 8:15 Featured speakers * Questions and Answers (moderated by the speaker) * Special Series Opening and Closing by SEK3 * Official Meeting Close at 10 p.m. After-meeting until... ANARCHIST ALTERNATIVES ...and alternative anarchists. Agorists, Discordians, anarcho- syndicalists and punks -- cypher and rock. Does "dropping out" of the hopeless aboveground political system mean less activism -- or more? Is it time to move from the back-room to the coffeehouse? - From the conference committee room to the Usenet? Does feminism mean sharing the same oppression experienced by most males? Does voting for socialism mean bureaucratic capitalism and does voting for free enterprise mean profit...for bureaucrats? Did you vote for change last month...and get betrayed already? Are you ready to get angry...or get even? Or just get something done! If so, come and hear our panel of real alternatives: from (De)center, IWW, and the new improved and revitalized Movement of the Libertarian Left. Find out what's already going on all around you. At Hasmik's in Cheviot Hills (West L.A.). Make sure you are on our mailing list to get the postcard giving you the details! Call (310) 289-4126 or send your mail drop to KHC c/o AI, 291 S. La Cienega Blvd., #749, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. (Or e-mail to j.hastings6(a)genie.geis.com) - JKH Same time and place, next month: 3. Monday, January 16, 1995 "THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH" What have the Objectivists been up to since the death of Ayn Rand? Successors, institutes, new associations...some of whom are actually eager to dialog with libertarians and others. Have they something new for us to consider? Should we go back to our philosophical roots first before wasting more time on inherently impossible solutions? Is A still A? On this most special night for objectivists, come and find out. Kent - j.hastings6(a)genie.geis.com (story.com will be repaired over the next few weeks, and I'll be outahere). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3 iQCVAgUBLvVPyA4ciVn87Ra9AQHRfQP9Hiq8Q/sPlqHHDkdam7dA9xrD3KlyeS2A tnb9KyyKygfpacxFEkZ9trjPY+hB++hVikASJ5VxE0OwVIMYI4uyotYNZfcgXnmr YKsxpALqWVtTRKPnYjKGaTi8UppiJKUm2na0OQ95Xnh5V8gRqn8pbY55ZEzTpkxb oVicdOf3IsM= =cYKl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Any suggestions for additions to this?
by skaplin＠skypoint.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- My auto-responder is up, but not all of the files listed are there yet. Anybody have any suggestions for additions to the list? Sam - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the index for Sam Kaplin's Auto-Responder. To get a file: Send a message to: skaplin(a)c2.org The the subject of the message MUST BE: SEND FILE [file_name] EXAMPLE: Subject: SEND FILE help All binary files are UUENCODED with PGP signatures. Please address all comments or problems to skaplin(a)skypoint.com. If you receive a blank message back, then the file you requested does not exist. Please note that a copy of your request will be logged. Should you have a crypto related file that you would like added, contact me at: skaplin(a)skypoint.com. Please note that I am subject to the petty whims of the U.S. government, so I will not add any files which may be subject to ITAR. File Name Description - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- apgp212_1.uue Autopgp 2.12 offline mail packet processor. Automates PGP functions. Part 1 of 4 apgp212_2.uue Autopgp 2.12 offline mail packet processor. Automates PGP functions. Part 2 of 4 apgp212_3.uue Autopgp 2.12 offline mail packet processor. Automates PGP functions. Part 3 of 4 apgp212_4.uue Autopgp 2.12 offline mail packet processor. Automates PGP functions. Part 4 of 4 apgp22b2_1.uue Autopgp 2.2b2 offline mail packet processor. Automates PGP functions. Part 1 of 4 BETA apgp22b2_2.uue Autopgp 2.2b2 offline mail packet processor. Automates PGP functions. Part 2 of 4 BETA apgp22b2_3.uue Autopgp 2.2b2 offline mail packet processor. Automates PGP functions. Part 3 of 4 BETA apgp22b2_4.uue Autopgp 2.2b2 offline mail packet processor. Automates PGP functions. Part 4 of 4 BETA help This file. key Sam Kaplin's PGP Public keys. pgpfaq Frequently asked questions about PGP. wherefaq Where to obtain PGP. ============================================================================== Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers ============================================================================== skaplin(a)skypoint.com | "...vidi vici veni" - Overheard | outside a Roman brothel. PGP encrypted mail is accepted and | preferred. | Change is the only constant in the | Universe..."Four quarters, please." E-mail key(a)four11.com for PGP Key or | Finger skaplin(a)mirage.skypoint.com | Smile!! Big brother is watching. ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: This message digitally signed to verify the identity of the sender iQEVAwUBLvVid8lnXxBRSgfNAQFk1Af+Ix3SV47MpM4mATQIU6aF3mD55d4yYziC dAcR6Hz6IblNWPA+7COfu+mSrTuwpmgQmCdsLU68hniCeuT+HAp9911q5hQsqfig mBZQ2ttQXUJ6fRFtEsWrm+xD74V7J4IhhzKU2Yj/bUpYbE0hZP5wlufoZ1/ghRy6 /pQqxzaU+UGY77SceS4TXrBc1Sg8lQqiwIWVunAg1plz+t6Dxni65UQNh5hAqika v87qxp0aXXjjLDzil+NBPHimpPSEvikZ9iEkAYTMIMG7WkUCz3Hdl5j8nBAXvhcK 5xbA8OGsvJ5mUWqJ3Va+2bNhaX8xoWiBME7OKPYXhw9JUeRXwLTc2Q== =rdLv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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