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PGMedia Challenges U.S. Government's Claim To Control Of The Domain Name System
by pgp＠pgmedia.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Press Release September 18, 1997 PGMedia Challenges U.S. Government's Claim To Control Of The Domain Name System NEW YORK, NEW YORK: PGMedia, Inc. d/b/a name.space(tm), the New York-based company which sued Network Solutions, Inc. ("NSI") (the holder of the monopoly in commercial Internet Domain Name Registrations) for violations of U.S. antitrust laws in March of this year, has amended its Complaint in that case to join the National Science Foundation ("NSF") as a party-defendant. While PGMedia steadfastly believes that the National Science Foundation has no authority to restrict or forestall the complete opening of the Domain Name Registration market which PGMedia seeks in its case against NSI, over the last three months, the NSF has injected itself into the Domain Name dispute by claiming (on behalf of the U.S. Government) to exclusively control the Domain Name System. The NSF has exerted this control to prevent NSI from acquiescing in PGMedia's demand for access to the market. Again, PGMedia believes that the NSF possesses no such control or authority, but even if it did, such actions have the clear effect of limiting freedom of expression in the first and foremost avenue of speech on the Internet -- the Domain Name. Thus, either the NSF has no authority, and NSI should be allowed to comply with Federal and state antitrust law in settling with PGMedia, or the NSF must, pursuant to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, acquiesce in PGMedia's demand to unlimited and shared Top Level Domain Names. The name.space(tm) Service PGMedia's name.space(tm) service(http://namespace.pgmedia.net) was launched in August 1996 to offer Internet Domain Name Registration Services in competition with NSI under virtually unlimited Top Level Domain names. That is to say, while NSI has forced Internet users to register their names under .com, .net and .org, name.space(tm) offers the full range of expression, in virtually any language, in the top level namespace. In addition, and significantly, name.space(tm) claims no exclusivity with respect to the right to register under any TLD. Indeed, PGMedia has developed software and code to allow multiple registries to register names under the same TLD. Unfortunately, until NSI changes the so-called "root zone file" (or directory of directories) which resides on its root name servers, the name.space(tm) top level domain names will not be universally resolvable on the Internet. Until NSI makes that change, only users who have visited the name.space(tm) web page and downloaded the self-executing application which points their browser to the name.space(tm) servers first can use a name.space(tm) domain name. PGMedia sues Network Solutions to Open the Domain Name Market In March 1997, after NSI refused PGMedia's request that reference to the name.space(tm) name servers be added to the root zone file, PGMedia sued NSI in Federal District Court in the Southern District of New York seeking, among other things, to compel NSI to add the name.space(tm) TLDs and nameservers to the root zone file. Initially, NSI refused, claiming that Dr. Jon Postel, of the so-called Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ("IANA"), was the only person who could add a TLD to the root zone file. However, after several discussions with PGMedia and its counsel, NSI proposed allowing unlimited TLDs, but only if the National Science Foundation had no objection. PGMedia has consistently contended that the NSF has no more of a place in this debate than any other interested party, and could not act to arbitrarily limit speech in the top level name space even if it did. In June and again in August of this year, the NSF informed NSI that the NSF controlled the root zone file, and that the NSF could not allow NSI to comply with Federal and state antitrust laws in granting PGMedia's reasonable request. With today's addition of the National Science Foundation to the case, the issue of who ultimately controls the Global Internet is squarely before a Court of competent jurisdiction. In addition, the arbitrary restriction by the U.S. Government of freedom of expression in the top level name space may soon finally come to an end. For more information, contact: law(a)pgmedia.net Or call (212) 677-4080

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Re: The great GAK crack (making GAK economically impossible)
by geeman＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This seems to ignore a possible worst-case scenario, in which the only products which are ultimately approved wrap the key using a special law enforcement key, for example. If the Powers that be can mandate "escrow" --- really GAP, Gov't Access to Plaintext --- then it can be mandated to take a particular form that is defined to be tractable. At 05:25 PM 9/15/97 -0700, Tim May wrote: > >At 8:41 AM -0700 9/15/97, nospam-seesignature(a)ceddec.com wrote: >>If I have to GAK my keys, and there then exists a pgp-gak, then we simply >>recruit the same CPU power that generated the millions of DES keys to just >>run pgpk-gak with the shortest keylength and send billions of keys to the >>GAKserver each week. Many from out of the US if pgp-gak becomes available >>there. >> >>My test software uses a loop that generates a new pair every few seconds >>on a pentium (and found some very obscure bugs). I would be required to >>send all those to the gak.gov. If they really want them... >> >>What it probably means is the govenrment will issue keys or have to >>license people to create them. > >"There ain't no such thing as free escrow." > >Some fee will be collected to register keys. "To defray costs" (never mind >that the government is the party _requiring_ the damned escrow!). > >This will stop the "flooding attacks" which a free key escrow system would >generate. It will also, sadly for us, put an end to many applications where >keys are generated quickly, transiently, and on an ad hoc basis. There >simply will be no time to register the keys, and the $10 (or whatever) >processing fee will be unacceptable for these applications. > >--Tim May > >There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. >Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" >---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- >Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, >tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero >W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, >Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. >"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." > > > > > >

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Re: Escrow system design query
by geeman＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is no one "key escrow backbone network" There's a link on my page @ www.best.com/~geeman to the Key Recovery Demostration Program, and the infrastructure study task group ... have a look there at what's going on. At 08:03 PM 9/14/97 -0400, Michael Wilson wrote: > >Does anyone know of a solid document out there in the web that actually >describes the proposed key escrow backbone network? After wading through >considerable junk in the search engines (my, but the net is wordy on the >topic), I didn't turn up anything that looked like architecture. >MW > > >

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FC98 Call for Participants
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A N T S Financial Cryptography 1998 (FC98): The world's only financial cryptography conference, exhibition, and workshop. FC98 Conference February 23-26, 1998 FC98 Exhibition February 23-27, 1998 FC98 Financial Cryptography Workshop March 2-6, 1998 The Inter-Island Hotel Anguilla, BWI Conference Reservations: <http://www.fc98.ai/> FC98 is currently sponsored by: - --------------------- Offshore Information Services <http://www.offshore.com.ai/> e$ <http://www.shipwright.com> Hansa Bank & Trust Company Limited, Anguilla <http://www.hansa.net/> C2NET <http://www.c2.net> If your firm would like to sponsor FC98, please see below, and contact Julie Rackliffe, the sponsorship manager, at <mailto: rackliffe(a)tcm.org> for further information. What is FC98? - ------------- FC98, the world's only peer-reviewed conference on financial cryptography, will be held Monday through Thursday, February 23-26, 1997, at the Inter-Island Hotel on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. In conjunction with the conference, the Inter-Island Hotel will also be the site of an intensive 40-hour workshop for senior managers and IS professionals the week after the conference (March 2-6), and a concurrent exhibition of financial cryptography products and services during the entire week of the conference itself, February 23-27. The goals of the combined conference, workshop, and exhibition are: - -- to provide a peer-reviewed forum for important research in financial cryptography and the effects it will have on society, - -- to give senior managers and IS professionals a solid understanding of the fundamentals of strong cryptgraphy as applied to financial operations on public networks, and, - -- to showcase the newest products in financial cryptography. In addition, time has been reserved in the afternoon and evening for sponsored corporate presentations, functions and activities, and for business networking. Conference participants are encouraged to bring their families. The Conference - -------------- Ray Hirschfeld, the conference chair, has picked an outstanding group of professionals and researchers in financial cryptography and in related fields to review the papers for this conference. They are: Chair: Rafael Hirschfeld, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Co-Chair: Matthew Franklin, AT&T Laboratories--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA Matt Blaze, AT&T Laboratories--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA Antoon Bosselaers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Yves Carlier, Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland Walter Effross, Washington College of Law, American U., Washington DC, USA Michael Froomkin, U. Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, FL, USA Rafael Hirschfeld, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Alain Mayer, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA Moni Naor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Frank Trotter, Mark Twain Ecash/Mercantile Bank, St. Louis, MO, USA Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Moti Yung, CertCo LLC (formerly: Bankers Trust E-Commerce), New York, NY, USA The actual agenda of the conference will be determined by the papers the program committee selects. The conference committee is selecting papers in what it considers the union, rather than a strict intersection, of the fields of finance and cryptography. For last year's program please see <http://www.offshore.com.ai/fc97/>. Original papers are being solicited on all aspects of financial data security and digital commerce in general, including: Anonymous Payments Fungibility Authentication Home Banking Communication Security Identification Conditional Access Implementations Copyright Protection Loss Tolerance Credit/Debit Cards Loyalty Mechanisms Currency Exchange Legal Aspects Digital Cash Micropayments Digital Receipts Network Payments Digital Signatures Privacy Issues Economic Implications Regulatory Issues Electronic Funds Transfer Smart Cards Electronic Purses Standards Electronic Voting Tamper Resistance Electronic Wallets Transferability Proceedings of Financial Cryptography 1998 will be published by Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For further information on the submission process, please see the program committee's web-page at <http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/FC98>. Last year, the conference was been covered by The New York Times, Institutional Investor, the Financial Times, Wired Magazine, NHK Japan, and other media. In addition, financial cryptograpy and several of last year's conference participants and sponsors were the subject of a cover story in a September issue of Forbes Magazine. If last year's interest in this conference is any indication, it is probably a good idea to register for FC98 and make your plane and hotel reservations as soon as possible, as conference, workshop, and exhibit space is extremely limited, and we anticipate selling out all three events. The price of a pass to the conference sessions and exhibits is US$1,000, with discounted rates for full-time academics and students of $250 and $100 respectively. You can pay for your FC98 conference ticket with Visa or MasterCard, or any of a number of other internet commerce payment protocols, at the regstration site, <http://www.fc98.ai/>. The price includes breakfast and lunch. Internet connectivity will also be provided at the conference site. The Exhibition - -------------- The FC98 Exhibition is an exclusive trade show for financial cryptography products and services. The trade show floor will be open from 9:00 am to 5 pm the entire week of the conference Monday through Friday, February 23-27. In addition, the conference facility will be open for commercial presentations and demonstrations in the afternoons Tuesday through Thursday, and all day on Friday. Each booth will have high bandwidth access to the internet, and will get 3 conference passes. Booth prices start at $5,000 US. Please contact Julie Rackliffe at <mailto:rackliffe@tcm.org> for further information. As space is limited, please reserve your space as soon as possible. The Workshop - ------------ We are again honored to have Ian Goldberg as the leader of the FC98 Financial Cryptography Workshop, which will run one week after the conference, March 2-6, 1998. Ian, the cryptographer at Berkeley who is now famous (in articles in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Forbes) for breaking several financial cryptography transaction protocols, will be running an intensive, 5-day workshop for senior managers and technology professionals. While the workshop is still being developed, and will depend on the skills of the planned participants, Workshop topics will include, but not be limited to: Overview and background of cryptography Survey of existing and proposed Internet payment systems Details on some specific payment systems Issues involved in setting up a secure Internet site A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up a digital bearer certificate mint. Ian has recruited a strong roster of instructors with credentials similar to his own, and, as he plans to maintain a 5-1 student/teacher ratio, the size of the Workshop will be restricted and advance registration will be required. Further information about the Workshop can be found at: <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~iang/fc98/workshop.html> The planned price for the workshop is $5,000. This covers lab space, hardware, network access, software, meals, and, of course, 40 hours of instruction and structured lab activity. The lab itself will be open 24 hours a day. Sponsorship Opportunities - ------------------------- FC98 offers sponsorship opportunities at all levels. Businesses are encouraged to be an exclusive sponsor for lunch or dinner in conjunction with a networking/recreational activity of some kind. Sponsorship provides corporations with a unique opportunity to get their message heard by the best people in the field of financial cryptography, and to gain unprecedented exposure for their business. Sponsorships start at $10,000, and include one booth, discounts on additional booth space, 5 conference passes, mention of your company in all FC98 communications (like this one), and a sponsored lunch or dinner and networking/recreational activity for the conference participants. In-kind sponsorship is also available, with opportunities for companies to provide networking, bandwidth, software, hardware, radio packet modems and equipment, as well as web-design and print services, and transportation. The sponsorship contact is Julie Rackliffe <mailto: rackliffe(a)tcm.org>. Air Transportation and Hotels - ----------------------------- Air travel to Anguilla is typically done via San Juan, Puerto Rico, or St. Maarten. There are several non-stop flights a day from various US and European locations to St. Maarten. Connection through to Anguilla can be made through American Eagle, or through LIAT, not to mention a short, inexpensive ferry service from St. Martin to Anguilla. See your travel agent for details. American Eagle Airlines has agreed to increase their flights as needed to accomodate any extra traffic the conference brings to the island. There is also discussion of a "crypto-plane" charter making a transcontinental run from San Jose to St. Maarten by way of Las Vegas, Minneapolis, and JFK/New York. We're still working on it. Let Robert Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com> know if you're interested in this idea. Anguilla's runway is 3600 feet, with a displaced threshold of 600 feet, and can accomodate business jets. Anguilla import duties are not imposed on hardware or software which will leave the island again, so, as long as you take it with you when you leave, you won't pay import duties on the things you bring. Hotels range from spartan to luxurious, and more information about hotels on Anquilla can be obtained from your travel agent, or at <http://www.fc98.ai/>. Registration for FC98 - --------------------- Again, to register and pay for your ticket to FC98 see: <http://www.fc98.ai/> For information the selection of papers for FC98 see: <http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/FC98> If you're interested in exhibit space, please contact Julie Rackliffe: <mailto:rackliffe@tcm.org> If you're interested in sponsoring FC98, also contact Julie Rackliffe: <mailto:rackliffe@tcm.org> If you're interested in the FC98 Workshop for Senior Managers and IS Professionals, see: <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~iang/fc98/workshop.html> See you in Anguilla! The FC98 Organizing Committee - ----------------------------- Vince Cate and Bob Hettinga, General Chairs Ray Hirschfeld and Matt Franklin, Program Chair and Co-Chair Ian Goldberg, Workshop Director Lynwood Bell, Exhibition Steering Committee Chair Julie Rackliffe, Exhibition and Sponsorship Manager FC98 Sponsors - ------------- Offshore Information Services <http://www.offshore.com.ai/> e$ <http://www.shipwright.com> Hansa Bank & Trust Company Limited, Anguilla <http://www.hansa.net/> C2NET <http://www.c2.net> See Your Name Here: <mailto: rackliffe(a)tcm.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNCGBf8UCGwxmWcHhAQEoYgf/eP6QCIlmcMWQBYTu5i55frK/rsCTNDlX ipirMoHRHDmFdvJaGaxST6t5VebImTnArLJ3he+52aBNqVaq+v+kUSKS50ebe0G6 fN27/LpIqiGCFgswnjW7AcHAfosJTSRWhdZHvUVCgMi22gq2GVkQD6tPCK/1TueI +t4XAax1IOr1IlKpJkTA6XxUUTt8zn/byzS2IMQAhERFaSeqH1ngTrX0xottMRS0 7dKQ2aL/IHbcYRFad3thLFlzWCz4CwO9YsX94gc5kLkxdenZWMv+k+FsynIJPdRB S1+dtqiGIdfiehp3cxptD1H1QCPqvygS88pXGb5Q6zTs8y634vzjoA== =K3Bb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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"The Life And Times Of One Average Man"
by D.S.McLean 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Crypto-law etc
by Chuck McManis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The longer I follow the crypto "debate" the more I begin to understand what must have been the real intent behind the 2nd amendment of the constitution. If the White House can get crypto code defined in the true legal sense (that is backed up by case law) as a munition, do US citizens then have a constitutional right to "bear" it? Just curious, --Chuck

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House Report on SAFE
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The National Security Committee report on SAFE is available: http://jya.com/hr105-108-pt3.htm (48K) This provides discussion of the Weldon-Dellums amendment and other matters. The Intel Committee report is due out shortly, which is designated Part 4.

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SSZ status test [No Reply]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

SSZ Status Test No Reply No Repeat

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Re: National Security Committee amendments to SAFE
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Peter D. Junger" <junger(a)upaya.multiverse.com> writes: > I do not want to give Congress any ideas, but there is also the > possibility that they could take away the federal courts' jurisdiction > to hear constitutional questions without amending the constitution. > On the other hand it is possible that the courts would find a way to > hold that that limitation on their jurisdiction is unconstitutional. > Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH If Congress or the Executive branch do this, the American people and nation will be in far, far deeper trouble than would be caused by mere crypto restrictions. Peter Trei trei(a)process.com

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17 Dec '03

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