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Call for Demos at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '96
by Leonard N. Foner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Since 1991, the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference has brought together experts and advocates from the fields of computer science, law, business, public policy, law enforcement, government, and many other areas to explore how computer and telecommunications technologies are affecting freedom and privacy. This year, for the first time, it's happening at MIT. I'm helping to coordinate a Technology Fair of interesting demos related to CFP's themes, and I'm soliciting people for neat things they'd like to show. If you think you have something you'd like to demo, please let me know. For more information about the conference, you might want to check out http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~switz/cfp96/ and for information about the demos themselves (including telling us what items you may need us to provide), you should check out http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~switz/cfp96/call-for-demos.html Some examples to get you thinking: . A demonstration of anonymous remailers? . A demonstration of NFS packet substitution on the wire? . Real-time Netscape key-breaking? . A bake-off between some individuals or companies to see who can find out the most dirt on someone the fastest? . Something else? Remember, a lot of the things that Cypherpunks take for granted are relatively unknown even to the type of crowd that goes to CFP; this could be your chance to raise some awareness on these issues, show reporters what can _really_ be done, and so forth. If you'd like to demo (or even if you're just thinking about), please send me mail as soon as possible so we can have time to plan. Thanks!

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Looking for GSM A5 info
by Stephan Somogyi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm looking for information about the A5 encryption algorithm used in GSM phones. Specifically: - How does the algorithm work and is its encryption methodology similar to any other well-known algorithms? - Is A5's implementation mandatory to produce an world-wide interoperable GSM device? - What are the variants of A5 (there was some discussion of less secure versions), how do they differ, and where are they used? - Are there any known weaknesses in or attacks on A5-encrypted GSM conversations? - Are there notable instances where GSM deployment was delayed or halted due to A5? (I remember hearing that such a delay happened in Australia, but I don't recall details.) Any related information, or pointers to related information, appreciated greatly. ________________________________________________________________________ Stephan Somogyi Mr Gyroscope Digital Media

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Ways around "censorship" of Nazi Zundelsite (fwd)
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Similar notes have been posted to the newsgroups and faxed to a number of press critters in Germany, Canada, and the US. The Ottowa Times is probably going to be the first out with a reasonably in-depth story. If you have something of import to say, I'll give you the reporter's number. We won already. OK? I believe even the Wiesenthal Center is waking up to the fact that the only acceptable and efffective way to deal with evil lies in the modern age is by drawing them into the open and smothering them with the truth. They should have a statement shortly. Share and enjoy. -rich ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:34:42 -0800 (PST) From: Rich Graves <llurch(a)Networking.Stanford.EDU> To: declan(a)eff.org, fight-censorship+(a)andrew.cmu.edu, haggaik@leland Subject: Ways around WebCom censorship of Zundelsite (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Declan et al, I sent the enclosed to the white supremacists' moderated mailing list in order to foster the free flow of information, and Don Black approved it for distribution. Now they all know about all the mirrors. Since there is no longer any censorship, and since Zundel has released a press release about how "major universities have come to his defence" against this Zionist repression, I believe it would be appropriate to express our true feelings now. Of course copyright and good taste dictate that his pages remain on the Web completely unedited, but I see no reason for them to be the only thing there. I would recommend adding a link to the following additional publications of Zundel's, which were similarly "censored": http://www.almanac.bc.ca/hweb/people/z/zundel-ernst/flying-saucers/ To prevent the saving of bookmarks within his site, I further recommend moving his pages into a subdirectory with a name that changes from time to time, as I have done. I apologize for blowing up at Declan. The link text from my page to his again reads, in part: "My friend Declan's page has some more developed ideas, most but not all of which I agree with. He has more time for this." - -rich - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 00:55:06 GMT From: Stormfront-l <stormfront-l(a)stormfront.org> To: rich(a)c2.org Subject: Ways around WebCom censorship of Zundelsite From: Rich Graves <llurch(a)networking.stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 16:55:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: Ways around WebCom censorship of Zundelsite You might want to consider this on your own sites. An IP filter is no good if the IP address changes. I would also suggest holding your own press conference on February 28th. - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:52:37 -0800 (PST) From: Declan To: Fight Censorship Mailing List <fight-censorship+(a)andrew.cmu.edu>, Subject: Re: A possible (though unlikely) easy way around WebCom censorship On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Declan B. McCullagh wrote: > The attached TELECOM Digest message mentions assigning a new IP address > to WebCom's web server, which would defeat the current block. Thomas Leavitt from WebCom tells me that Telekom has blocked all accesses to hosts within the webcom.com domain, though WiN has not. Apparently Spiegel TV is interested in reporting on this. One of their reporters told me that the AntiDefamation League in NYC has been compiling a list of offensive resources (primarily web pages, I think) on the Internet. They're going to hold a press conference on February 28 to "demand reduced access" to this material. - -Declan - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Anyway, this is all moot, because there are so many holes in the censorship curtain. See the full list of mirror sites and supplemental documentation at any of the following, all accessible from any computer in Germany: http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/contrib/bitbucket2/zundel/censorship.… http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/Not_By_Me_Not_My_Views/censors…. html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/Not_By_Me_Not_My_Views/censors…. html http://web.mit.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/declan/www/Not_By_Me_Not_My_Views/ce… ship.html The Berlin Wall has fallen. Next stop, the Great Firewall of China. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Multiple recipients of the Stormfront-L Mailing List Host: don.black(a)stormfront.org (Don Black) To unsubscribe, send e-mail to 'listserv(a)stormfront.org' with the line 'unsubscribe Stormfront-L' in the message BODY, not the subject. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----- Processed with Listserv v2.77 for Wildcat v4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMREji43DXUbM57SdAQFO0wP/XsuwmTWifPvJ2MscEWP0N+hSslXRzxfr l1FN13DnduAJBE2yhJhZUZoCxdAlpXehHP7G2ZOyycdQpxUom7sTo4X0PP95Y5k4 7psQdzFoubAN7Uv6hQh1MTALD3t8vu2bwH4pYtkOeAi13PMvTe/PRfxlPBLcFz69 Bro6hYmaeE8= =rKCu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Gleeful Prosecutors, Happy AOL
by James M. Cobb 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friend, A 02 02 96 Associated Press newsstory ------------------------------------- AMERICA ONLINE ADDED TO PROBE OVER INCITING RACISM datelined MANNHEIM, Germany (Feb 2, 1996 3:29 p.m. EST) reports: Prosecutors hoping to ban neo-Nazi material from reaching Internet users in Germany have notified America Online Inc. that it may be charged with inciting racial hatred. and of course... America On-Line spokesman Ingo Reese in Hamburg said his company also was happy to work with the prosecutors. Cordially, Jim

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Going, Going, Gone With the Flow
by James M. Cobb 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friend, A 02 02 96 Boston Globe newsstory --------------------------------- GOVERNMENTS MOVE TO LIMIT FREE FLOW OF THE INTERNET datelined (Feb 2, 1996 00:17 a.m. EST) reports: ...the Internet is slowly being colonized. Colonized? Governments around the world -- from Germany to Iran to Singapore -- are moving to limit Internet access for their citizens.... Oh I see. Colonized by parasites. This move to cordon off the Internet into private plots -- some call it digital Balkanization -- is seen by experts as one of the most profound changes since the global network emerged as a commercial medium in 1991. S-s-h-h. The experts speak! Many Internet specialists say it marks the shift...to [a "network"] where users are building nation states, an evo- lution that they say will lead to the Internet's ultimate success as a commercial and communication platform. S-s-h-h! The specialists have spoken. Earlier this week, Federico Mayor, the director of UNESCO, an arm of the United Nations, called for the drafting of a global agreement that would help protect rights in cyber- space. Mais oui. Cordially, Jim

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Re: Proxies
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:46 PM 2/2/96, bjohnson(a)nym.alias.net wrote: >I keep hearing references to 'proxies' as a method of anonymity. The only >information that I've been able to find, deals with firewalls on networked >systems. > >Are 'proxies' applicable to personal PCs using browsers, such as Netscape? > >Would appreciate any info or leads to information sources. A quick look with Alta Vista for the string "web proxy" reveals 25 articles on Usenet and 200 on the Web, with some of them containing further pointers, definitions, and other helpful information. --Tim May Boycott espionage-enabled software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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RSA disappears :-)
by John Pettitt 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

rsa.com dissapeard from the net! The only valid nameserver for rsa.com is rsa.com and since it's net connection is down anybody trying to talk to www.rsa.com or send mail to rsa is getting host not found errors. :-) -- John Pettitt email: jpettitt(a)well.sf.ca.us (home) jpp(a)software.net (work)

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Re: Futplex makes the news!
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 2:28 AM 2/3/96, Mike Duvos wrote: >On 2 Feb 1996 19:02:29 -0500, you wrote: > >>I think the whole endeavor was a resounding success, and I wish I had been >>on the ball enough to participate in it. > >[deletia] > >>The important thing is that Rich, Declan, Futplex, and anyone else >>participating showed the world that censorship on the internet, if not >>impossible, is at least a good deal more dificult then people thought. > >Before poo-pooing Tim, declaring victory, and returning home, it >should be noted that German prosecutors today added AOL to the list of >entities they wish to charge with "inciting hatred." > >UMASS will of course test the political waters before taking any >action, but we may yet see the gonads of Futplex hanging from one of >the upper floors of the Graduate Research Center. :) > >Time will tell whether we have won this war, or have simply >encountered a lull after the first onslought by the enemy. Meaning no disrespect to any of my colleagues here, but is there now some sense that "we won"? I don't see it this way. And the Germans don't seem to think they lost. Let's look at where this issue is. The UMass admins yanked the Zundelsite info, Declan has voluntarily withdrawn his ZS info, Germany is accelerating its threats against CS, AOL, etc., and of course the Communications Decency Act is about to be signed into law. Maybe I'm not seeing the Boston-area papers, and their spin on things, but it doesn't seem to me that an anti-censorship interpretation is getting a lot of press. What I am sensing is just the opposite, that a bunch of babykilling Nazis bent on taking over the Internet just had their main Propaganda Center at UMass shut down by the forces of light. This is the spin on the story I'm sensing. (Hate to say it, but the nuances of free speech are lost on most people. To most of them, putting Holocaust denial information on a site is ipso facto proof of genocidal racism. I wouldn't be surprised to see the various groups at UMass foaming at the mouth next week in the campus newspaper to get the "notorious racist" Lewis McCarthy sanctioned or thrown out. University administrators will try to cool things off, but will keep feeling the pressures from various "aggreived" groups until something just has to be done. I've seen this many times at Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, Berkeley, and elsewhere.) Here's to hoping Rich's site remains up. --Tim Boycott espionage-enabled software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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crypto/classification
by tien＠well.sf.ca.us 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A few weeks ago someone posted the following message: From: nobody(a)tjava.com (Anonymous) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:30:55 -0600 Subject: Cryptology and classification Hi all, Just received a memo, the "Desk Reference Guide" to Executive Order 12958. This memo/executive order discusses classified national security information. The cypherpunks-interesting aspect of this memo lies in exceptions to some new guidelines. Basically, this executive order removes the authority for the government to "permanently" classify information. Basically, classification is now limited to 10 years (or 25 years in some special cases). The exceptions to this allow classification for longer durations for certain types of material. These types include things like protecting intelligence sources and nuclear weapons design info. One of the other exeptions is for: "...information that would impair United States cryptologic systems or activities." This appears to be taken directly from the executive order, so these types of decisions are being made at high levels. Thought you might be interested. Hooker I'm curious whether the "desk reference" contains more than the mere text of the Executive Order. If it does, I'd like to get a copy, since the FOIA cases I handle typically involve classified information. Please reply personally, since I only read the list in digest form. Thanks! Lee Tien

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Re: Imminent Death of Usenet Predicted
by tbyfield＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 1:18 AM 2/3/96, Dave Mandl wrote: >As I and others have been saying for a while: what's happening on the net >is another "enclosures" movement. Yes, I know that on this list that's a >politically incorrect view. Deal with it. "Politically incorrect" on this list? What's gotten into you, Dave? Really! PCism is what all those goddamn Tax-n-Spend Leftist Liberals do--you know, like the ones in the _Life of Brian_. Folks here would never engage in _any_ kind of PCism. I'm shocked, shocked... Don't you get it? Nation-states are going to collapse Real Soon Now (after all, their Imminent Death has been Predicted), and the Markets, guided by an irresistably beckoning Invisible Hand, will Rise Up against their Tyrannous Masters and be guided out of State Space into Crypto-Anarchy[T{C}M], the land of milk and honey. And everyone who's positioned themselves shrewdly--as your friend no doubt has--will prosper. No problem! Tell your friend she has _nothing_ to worry about. In a few months, she'll look back and laugh. --Victor! von Kredulous-am-Kapitalismus Visit Pere Lachaise! We got majordomos, we're typing on phone lines, it's Realpolitik Lite & Fun 2! ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Nostradamus F. Xavier | Clipto-nemesis: privatization, tons of $$$, victor(a)get.not 212-255-2748 | end of history, optimistic tax deductions, G.A.D.D.I.S.: Nag Hammadi, EG | C-corps, lecture circuits, insider trading, Higher power: "What me worry?" | carpal tunnel syndrome, other cool stuff. "Sleeping policemen are national borders on the Information Soapbox Derby."

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