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Re: Secure Erase for PCs?
by Mark Rosen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > Though, technically, no disk can be securely erased, my program, Read Peter Gutmann's paper on securely deleting files at: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/secure_del.html. > > Very Good Privacy, can securely delete files after they have been encrypted. > > Thought you said "no disk...". So how does VGP do it? I should have added quotes around "securely delete." The end of Peter Gutmann's paper states "it is effectively impossible to sanitise storage locations by simple overwriting them, no matter how many overwrite passes are made or what data patterns are written. However by using the relatively simple methods presented in this paper the task of an attacker can be made significantly more difficult, if not prohibitively expensive." VGP tries to make is prohibitively expensive (that is, in essence, what all ciphers do; someone can break just about any cipher if they have enough money). VGP can be downloaded at: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2690 If you have any questions, please e-mail vgp(a)cryogen.com

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Apropros of labeling systems...
by Mike McNally 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Yahoo has a Reuter's story covering a policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics. They're concerned about record content description labels; they don't think their "strong" enough. If the industry does not develop a stronger voluntary system, it said, Congress should impose one. (I wonder if they really said that Congress should impose a stronger voluntary system?) I wonder when people will realize that the threat of Congress imposing a ratings system seems functionally equivalent to Congress imposing a ratings system? -- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Mike McNally -- Egregiously Pointy -- Tivoli Systems, "IBM" -- Austin mailto:m5@tivoli.com mailto:m101@io.com http://www.io.com/~m101 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

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Re: Redlining
by drose＠AZStarNet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Matthew J. Miszewski wrote: (snip) >I, personally, find racial discrimination to be a problem in the USA. > >Not only do I find it a moral problem, but it has adverse effects on >markets and the efficiency of these same markets. > >It is costly not only in personal measures, but in economical terms as well. > >As a way to address these concerns, holistically, moral concerns as well as >economic concerns, I do support limited regulation specifically tailored to >address this problem. > >One of the means of addressing only one specific aspect of this problem is >to legislatively restrict the practice of redlining. (snip) Many people of good will find racial discrimination to be abhorrent. OTOH, I'm sure that as an attorney you are cognizant of the fact that financial institutions have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. In any case, have you given any consideration to taking your well-meaning but off-topic thoughts to any one of a number of perhaps more appropriate fora?

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verysign
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.verisign.com/cgi-bin/authdb/search.cgi Click defense industries, enter a site url of www. I suppose #2 can be seen as a vital part of the defense establishment.. ;) This really should be listed as 'under test.' Enjoy yourselves. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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

17 Dec '03

Anonymous wrote: > Dale Thorn sez: > >Jamie Lawrence wrote: [snip] > >But nobody answered my question: Is there a shortcut way to do the > >wipe, say, thirty times? Ordinarily, I'd run the program thirty > >times, which would consist of a data write followed by a flush, > >which would take 30x amount of time. > Buffered writes won't work for obvious reasons. You must make raw > writes to the sectors you seek to scramble after you gather information > about what sectors you want to write. That much I've known for 15 years or so.... > The innovation you are looking for is > called "the loop". You can implement "the loop" many ways including > taping the end of your program to the beginning. Be careful not to > accidentally twist the paper as this will cause your writes to become reads. > If you are using punch cards you are SOL. sheesh. > Remind me not to use any of Dale's "utilities". You would not likely ever have the opportunity to use such utilities, since you obviously lack certain basic ingredients of intelligence. I don't do "user-friendly" GUI programs, but I suppose this list is full of MAC users for reasons known only to themselves (I don't want to know).

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Re: Redlining
by Matthew J. Miszewski 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 05:47 PM 12/10/96 -0800, Huge Cajones Remailer wrote: (snip) > >Do we then believe that we should outlaw the actions they take based >on these beliefs? So long as the people in question are doing no >harm, I propose we leave them alone to live their lives. > This is the essence of, at least, my disagreement with you Red. I dont agree that redlining doesnt harm people. You see no harm. I do. >I'm sure many readers of this list have had conversations which >abruptly end with "Are you a Libertarian?", which is generally >completely irrelevant to the point under discussion. What is >happening is that the other person is more interested in knowing your >tribal identification than what you believe. A pity. As strange as it may sound to you, most of my conversations go this way. It is ironic to me that I have been placed on this side of an argument. Do you tend to think of me now as "less of a Libertarian" much as your forewarned "In the House" black reference? > >Red Rackham > Matt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMq5XjbpijqL8wiT1AQGb4QQAlfkJjGxTli09WNWmKO5xL1raxv52ccQ7 WKPdLclQDhXD8rMrQQr85WgOhm6d/dEwJ0n8LKCz5i7OOuDE1YufgMBjQste9/Ul GJodjM4dbxDDqxdErPtIWTkkhTDNKqHNoZXMvQCDmYfQrBnRfsiOJcwXaz7sqoNF f+JHUSPjHGY= =q6bO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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black.hole in the net
by mf＠MediaFilter.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Call For Projects: ____________________the black.hole in the net is open. ____________________please go to: ____________________http://black.hole. or ____________________http://blackhole.autono.net. for name.space. networks, go directly to ____________________http://project.black.hole. to add your link (name.space. url's only!). and ____________________http://switchboard.black.hole. This project is based on "soft home" or "multi-homing" on web servers with the use of only one ip number. any number of names can be mapped to a single ip number. the server delivers the web page associated with the name that the server answers to, i.e. http://black.hole returns the black.hole page http://switchboard.black.hole returns the black.hole link page http://project.black.hole returns the black.hole link generator page The black.hole is an example of content-routing possible with the name.space naming system. Best regards, Paul Garrin mf(a)mediafilter.org please forward this message. http://name.space. http://namespace.autono.net. for more info on name.space, visit the site, or hear the confrontation over it on hotwired's hotseat (this is not an ad or endorsement for wired!) http://www.packet.com/hotseat (in realaudio)

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Re: Virus?
by Eric Wilson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:10 PM 12/10/96 EST, you wrote: >Has anybody heard of the Monkey_B virus? If so what does it do exactly? >Also does anybody know where I could find a downloadable Win95 upgrade >upgrading Windows 3.x to Win95? > > The Monkey virus ( I'm not sure what the "B" variant has altered ) is a memory resident, stealth, boot infector that writes ( and encrypts!) the partition table to side 0, cyl 0, sector 3 of your hard disk. It then modifies your MBR to point to this location. When the virus is resident it infects any floppy ( not write protected )that is accessed by the system. If you need help with cleaning the Monkey from your system, try asking the geniuses at alt.comp.virus for some help. Keep in mind they argue with each other more than cypherpunks do! Here's a hint on cleanup, booting clean and running Fdisk/mbr will remove the virus from your hard disk, but it WILL NOT restore your partition table! Eric

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Re: Codebreakers on the shelves!
by Remo Pini 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Tue Dec 10 10:16:58 1996 >> Warning: The book is $65.00 hardbound! (It is also *NOT* a small >> book. It is large. About 2000 pages by my guess. > 1181 actually, not including the table of contents and preface. It's available in swiss bookstores for $49. I'm about to get one :) - ------< fate favors the prepared mind >------ Remo Pini rp(a)rpini.com PGP: http://www.rpini.com/crypto/crypto.html - ----< words are what reality is made of >---- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv Comment: http://www.rpini.com/crypto/crypto.html iQEVAwUBMq0qjRFhy5sz+bTpAQER8Af8DviUdSvXhR1Ue7mMJY5/RndZjrTTEdU3 aMEkm7+Xly4ChN62CvKfiBwPjU/eYaEWPiC7YTYGJxe1tSnUoA4K0SHShPAmGI0M vj0/YlaST2/eSwm0m9bu9pcQLEGqX0w/ZsVHPliqTfjcA2k4c6feQg0ku0Ddfija x5y3MfkKoSGohbF96LQ6+KTJkKJuxnHZnRYPFUiXZCS5+CQHqK1I9VAGzeyF+7th Wj0vNif7oUBWH7Qssib380FQj5GtVN0IH/Z/vdcFBrxlXMPRqHWDVmPuIB2BTd2p 6aF4ioF4IUPKTydxJ4ZIVIyh9mV3QHQeJE1hbBb4AoDpxBp0Mrn7Cg== =Ek6e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Quadratic residues
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Now is the time for all good little boys to cum in Tim May's big mouth. \|/ /~~~~~~~\ | O O | -ooo-----U-----ooo- Tim May

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