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HTML browser/editor for MS Word 6.0
by xpat＠vm1.spcs.umn.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From PC WEEK, Nov 21, 1994, a summary: Bill Gates demonstrated an HTML browser/editor for MS Word 6.0. It is called Internet Assistant. It just entered beta testing, and will be available under the "What's New" heading of the Microsoft Home Page by the end of December, and later it will come with the 32-bit version of Word for WIN95. It will also include a viewer which will "display any Word document distributed across a network." I've read that the PGP code is not highly modular, but this is just one more indication of an OLE document centric universal editor based loosely on Word. I could eventually see their mail product calling most of the same code. Has anyone considered OLE compliant PGP encrypter/decrypter objects that would act on the contents of the document? A tool on this platform could be the most rapid path to widespread use of encryption. Almost everyone is able to use Word, and it comes bundled with a *lot* of new computers. And if it is OLE compliant, it can drop inside of your favorite OLE aware application. -pd-

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Cell Phones Security - NOT!
by cwalton＠earthlink.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:34 PM 11-21-94 -0500, Mark Terka wrote: >As one who will be shopping for a cell phone in the next week, what should >I look for in terms of security? What features are available in phones on >the market....if any? Well, as one who owns an AOR 1000 radio frequency scanner that can receive any and all cell phone conversations, I would have to say you have no security unless you use some kind of voice encryption. In order to make you can feel warm and safe, the manufacture or importation of scanners with cell phone capability was outlawed by congress earlier this year, which means that I can still listen to your call with my existing scanner while you feel protected. I bought guns with high capacity magazines this year after they were banned also. I wish I had enough money to buy a good assault rifle before they're all over priced (they'll never be all gone, just over priced.) Conrad Walton cwalton(a)earthlink.net **************************************************************** "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the ... people to carry arms. -- Adolph Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938

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Re: (Fwd) news spoke
by wcs＠anchor.ho.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is the infamous "CERT Monitoring Warning Meme". Essentially, it doesn't mean that your administrators *are* going to monitor you, it just means that you've been warned, so it's not illegal under ECPA to do it if they feel like, because you consented by using the system knowing it was one of the terms for use. Unfortunately, there's no very good way to implement "Authorized users will not be monitored but unauthorized users cracking in will be", which is the real intent of most people putting up the warning - any system which could implement that could have kept the crackers off in the first place.... Bill

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DNA Computation paper on Web.
by L. Todd Masco 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adleman's paper can now be found at http://www.hks.net/~cactus/doc/science/molecule_comp.html All typos are mine, Todd Masco, cactus(a)hks.net. Please send any corrections to me. -- Todd, cactus(a)hks.net (I'll be mailing out the Perspectives part tomorrow to anybody who's asked. Since I'm less certain of the copyright issues on that part, I'm only going to send that to individuals rather than putting it up on the web).

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Hows THIS For Some Human Interest!
by anonymous-remailer＠xs4all.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Its funny, but this girl I'm seeing will be getting some Internet training in the near future for the gov't job she holds. And in the course of talking about that this evening with her, I briefly chatted with her about cryptography privacy and PGP. But when we talked abit more on this subject, she revealed something I found to be pretty interesting. It turns out that her old man was an MI6 operative during WWII. That certainly caused me to raise my eyebrows a bit. He evidently was one of MI6's operatives in Iraq and did some pretty lethal shit. Apparently he was involved in some economic warfare (whatever the hell that means) aginast Axis interests in the area.She told me he still clams up REAL good about his wartime experiences and it takes quite abit of coaxing to get anything out of him. It sounds like his security clearance was pretty reasonable.....likely in the secret/top secret category. As somebody whose closest contact with an operative of an intelligence service has been the cover of a Len Deighton novel, I found this awful intriguing. MI6, from what I understand is one of the oldest and longest running agencies around. I think they started up (offically) in 1910, although Whitehall likely had some spooks earlier than that, given Britain's colonial exposure. And indeed, MI6 is one of the best. Maybe even THE best? Still, you can be damn sure I'm going to remain friends with this lady for some time. What her father has to tell is probably pretty enlightening, to say the least.

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Re: Remailer FAQ?
by dmandl＠bear.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim's cypherpunks FAQ ("The Cyphernomicon") covers remailers pretty thoroughly. As for actual code, there's code for several different types of remailers at ftp(a)csua.berkeley.edu. The code for Raph Levien's "premail" is also available at that site. --Dave. > Anyone know of a Frequently Asked Questions on remailers? Where is it available? > Thanks, > -R > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Reuben Halper I'm not growing up, I'm just burnin' out." > Montclair High - Green Day - > Montclair, NJ > E-mail: fhalper(a)pilot.njin.net PGP 2.6ui Public Key > available upon request > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: REMAILER PROPOSAL
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, Lance Cottrell wrote: ... The "Electronic Mail Forwarders Guild" is ... capable of error. You assume that [the Issuer] would appear to be untrustworthy.... If a TLA wished to infiltrate us, the traitor would seem very trustworthy, gung ho, and paranoid. Life has risks; the trick is to minimize them. Yes, the Issuer could be a weak link. This only means that the Guild has to be careful whom it chooses, which security protocols it mandates and what oversight it exercises. I have suggested that the job of Issuer could be rotated. This would help. Another step that might be taken is to separate the job of Issuer from that of Database Manager. In other words, the Issuer would take in payment and provide a list of valid Spoon-Es to the DB Manager, who in turn would cancel the Spoon-Es as they were used. Under the threat posited by Lance, such a step would make it necessary for the Issuer, the DB Manager and the first remailer to collude for their to be a problem. If your paranoia can swallow that much collusion, than the job of Issuer could be further Balkanized into three or more jobs. Beyond these solutions, Lance has proposed a couple of other ways to reduce the risk he has identified. All in all, I think my crude-but-effective suggestion is still the best proposal extant for a pay-to-play remailer system. S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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re: Brad Templeton....
by ecarp＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's the "reward statement" that comes on the bottom of some of the ClariNet articles, if anyone's interested. I personally think it's pretty predatory, myself. -- C O P Y R I G H T R E M I N D E R This, and all articles in the clari.* news hierarchy, are Copyright 1994 by the wire service or information provider, and licensed to ClariNet Communications Corp. for distribution. Except for articles in the biz.clarinet.sample newsgroup, only paid subscribers may access these articles. Any unauthorized access, reproduction or transmission is strictly prohibited. We offer a reward to the person who first provides us with information that helps stop those who distribute or receive our news feeds without authorization. Please send reports to reward(a)clarinet.com. [Use info(a)clarinet.com for sales or other inquiries.] -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp(a)linux.org, ecarp(a)netcom.com Finger ecarp(a)netcom.com for PGP public key an88744(a)anon.penet.fi If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel! -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"

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No more unix holy war !
by L. McCarthy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From James Donald Jan 26, 95 07:14:19 pm +0800 [...] > A: This is not the proper place for such arguments. Right, so why do you persist in sending them here ? > B: The statement is so flagrantly silly that the > proper response is ridicule, not an answer. Right, so why did you answer (and to the list, no less) ? [...] > [Childish insults, abuse, and flame bait deleted] If that were true, this thread would be long dead. [...] > Note that although this flame has nothing to do with cypherpunks Right, so why are you sending it to the cypherpunks list ? >From jamesd(a)com.informix.com Jan 26, 95 08:05:46 pm +0800 > To summarize this thread, and I hope end it. This was (briefly) promising. >From jamesd(a)com.informix.com Jan 26, 95 09:00:03 pm +0800 > I am writing this under sun's unix imitation of Microsoft's [...] If you hoped to end the thread, why continue it like this less than an hour later ? >From jamesd(a)com.informix.com Jan 26, 95 09:05:10 pm +0800 > And did I mention that "make" used to treat a tab as semanticly [...] > Oh yes, I did mention that. > Well I guess I will mention it again. Why ? What about ending the thread ? >From jamesd(a)com.informix.com Jan 26, 95 09:12:31 pm +0800 > And did I mention that in DOS you can type > rename *.txt *.asc [...] 3 more messages in 13 minutes, and you said you hoped this thread would end ? >From jamesd(a)com.informix.com Jan 26, 95 09:38:35 pm +0800 > And did I mention that in DOS you can type: > dir filename /s [...] > You are spared. I will not mention "curses". Why not spare us entirely by not sending all this mail which "has nothing to do with cypherpunks" as you said ? "Yes, James, you're absolutely right. I prostrate myself before your magnificence." Will you be quiet about this now ? What do we need to do to make you hush up ? -L. Futplex McCarthy

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No Subject
by Dan Brown 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Path: eff!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: marielsn(a)Hawaii.Edu (Nathan Mariels) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.announce,comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Paranoid 1.0 encryption program available for FTP Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps Date: 22 Nov 1994 23:42:37 -0600 Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 35 Sender: nobody(a)cs.utexas.edu Approved: werner(a)rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Comp.sys.mac.announce Moderator) Message-ID: <CzMotJ.L4K(a)news.Hawaii.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu Xref: eff comp.sys.mac.announce:563 comp.sys.mac.apps:83645 I have written a freeware encryption program for the Macintosh that, I feel, offers the strongest encryption for the Mac to date. Paranoid allows you to encrypt files with IDEA, triple DES, or a third algorithm which I wrote (your choice). Paranoid also allows you to encrypt files into sounds. The only known bugs are in the grammar of the readme file. :) Paranoid is available by FTP from FTP.CSN.NET: first you must read the file /mpj/README which explains the legal restrictions for retrieving certain files. Paranoid will be available as /mpj/I_will_not_export/crypto_???????/paranoid/Paranoid1.0.hqx where ?????? changes at random times (as explained in the README file) in URL format, the files are: ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/README ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/I_will_not_export/crypto_???????/paranoid/Paranoid1.0… the file is also available at RIPEM.MSU.EDU at ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/other/paranoid-1.0-mac-idea.hqx but check first the README file in that directory for instructions. ---Nathan

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