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CDR: Confirm your request to register for eGroups
by eGroups 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

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CDR: Is PGP broken? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:22:18 -0500 (EST) From: Russell Nelson <nelson(a)crynwr.com> To: cryptography(a)c2.net Subject: Is PGP broken? Is it just me, or is PGP broken? I don't mean any particular version of PGP -- I mean the fact that there are multiple versions of PGP which generate incompatible cryptography. Half the time when someone sends me a PGP-encrypted message, I can't decrypt it. Presuming that I'm right, is anyone attempting to fix PGP? Not to mention anything about PGP keyservers, or the utter and complete absence of anybody doing point-source PGP signing. -- -russ nelson <sig(a)russnelson.com> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | The best way to help the poor 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | is to help the rich build Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | up their capital.

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CDR: THE OFFICIAL EASYWINNING.COM NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 28, 2000
by newsletter＠easywinning.com 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

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CDR: Extortion Explosion
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

This great anonymous posting from **1992** shows just how farsighted the cypherpunks list was in its early days. Enjoy... Extortion Explosion Introduction: Governments are in the extortion-and-protection racket, as are some well-known smaller ventures. Why do these major organizations spend effort on protecting, instead of just extorting? Current protection rackets maintain a monopoly and manage "their" resources for sustained yield. Without protection, their revenues would decline through a tragedy of the commons mechanism. Other rackets would threaten the same victims, piling extortion on extortion, until the economic field is bare. Crypto technologies promise to liberate us from government extortion and the "protection" of victimless crime laws by enabling the growth of a new sphere of economic activity based on voluntary, secret transactions. But are these technologies so limited in their power? New opportunities in the extortion industry: Old problem: the victim may inform the police, making it risky to pick up the money, which will likely be watched. New solution: demand payment via cryptomoney. Old problem: if you build a reputation for carrying out your threats, parasitic competitors can issue threats in your name, collecting while your reputation is good but destroying your reputation by not following through on threats. New solution: authenticate your threats and demands with digital signatures. Old problem: you may be caught firebombing the house, shooting the victim, slashing the victim's daughter's face, or whatever; if you subcontract to a thug, the thug may be caught and inform on you. New solution: use cryptomoney (and a reputation for paying) to hire thugs while maintaining anonymity. Old problem: providing protection, so that you keep a supply of economically viable victims from whom to extort. New solution: Please find one! If the government can't protect victims from you, how can you protect them from competitors? If this analysis is correct, then crypto technologies will make extortion a highly profitable growth industry, making the security of property and persons (outside tightly-knit walled communities?) incompatible with the continued existence of free computer networks as we know them. Rather than suffering from a single oppressor with an incentive to keep us productive, we would become prey to an unbounded number, each competing to strip our assets before they vanish. Society will surely suppress free networks once this starts to happen; the harder it is to suppress free networks, the greater the oppression will be. Some objections and answers: Q:Isn't it too bleak and pessimistic to believe that the best we can do is to help our oppressors to maintain their monopoly on oppressing us? A1: The Soviet Union was established as a result of a movement that aimed to overthrow an oppressive order. Millions then died under an even more oppressive order. This was bleak, but it happened anyway. A2: Better one oppressor than many, all competing to be the first to kill and eat the goose, knowing that they can't get the golden eggs anyway. A3: Profit is a powerful motive, and conventional profitable activities are imitated and expanded until demand saturates. Crypto-extortion should be highly profitable, but the "supply" is delivered by force, so there is no problem with competitors saturating the "demand" until the victims are drained quite dry. This gives grounds for pessimism. Q: Doesn't the enormous potential of this technology for expanding liberty outweigh these theoretical dangers? What about our hopes and dreams, our vision of a better world? A: These hopes spring from a theoretical social and economic analysis of the impact of crypto technologies, and cryptomoney in particular. The above line of reasoning extends the same analysis. I hope it is wrong, and would be greatly relieved to hear a convincing reason for dismissing it. If it stands, the prospect seems to be either the destruction of society by free networks, or the destruction of free networks by society. The longer we can postpone this choice, the better. Q: Won't cryptomoney be so hard to establish that there's no point in worrying about this? A: If so, then there is equally well no benefit in attempting to implement it. The question is, are there any conditions for "success" that don't generate disaster? Saying the gun probably isn't loaded isn't an argument for putting it to your head and pulling the trigger. Q: Isn't it too late to stop these technologies? A: For public key communication (secrecy and authentication), probably yes. For cryptomoney, possibly no. Most of the benefits of crypto technology seem to come from the former, and most of the danger of an extortion explosion seems to come from the latter. Wishful thinking in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue; realism in the defense of imperfect liberty is no vice. Free-lance oppression isn't freedom, and I don't want it. Cassandra 9531290065272860 P.S. Your neighbor didn't pay me, and his house is ash. Will you pay me? All I ask this month is $100, which you can well afford. (Next month is negotiable, and I can't speak for my competitors.)

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CDR: NRO Secrecy
by Harmon Seaver 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

New NRO Mandate Raises Secrecy Flag http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001128S0003 A commission created to examine the future of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) wants that agency to set up a highly classified office to spearhead advanced research. The commission also concluded that the NRO -- arguably the largest intelligence agency in the United States in budget terms -- should outsource more of its satellite intelligence from commercial companies. The National Commission for the Review of the NRO recommended that an Office of Space Reconnaissance be established that would be granted top-secret procurement status, with oversight by only the highest levels of government. The plan is drawing criticism from some groups, who warn that increasing the secretive nature, scope, and budget of the NRO without instituting new accountability measures is risky. ............

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CDR: EARN $50,000.00
by Elizabeth Bright 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

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DCSB: Win Treese; So, Where's All the Financial Cryptography?
by R. A. Hettinga 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

[Note that the Harvard Club is now "business casual". No more jackets and ties... --RAH] The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Win Treese, Fellow, VP Technology, Open Market, Inc. Fermi's Revenge: Systems Thinking for Financial Cryptography Tuesday, December 5th, 2000 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The technology of financial cryptography has promised many changes for the way that individuals and organizations do business, yet little progress has been made in real systems. In part, this is because the technology proposals--the crypto, the protocols, and occasionally code--are usually presented with little or no context for the total system in which they play. This talk will look at some of the systems issues, both technical and non-technical, that are critical for successful implementations of financial cryptography. Win Treese is a Fellow and Vice President of Technology at Open Market, Inc. At Open Market, he has contributed to the architecture and implementation of many of its products, with a particular focus on security. Before co-founding Open Market in 1994, he was a member of the research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory. In 1999, Win was named a "High-Tech All Star" by Mass High Tech. He is co-author of the book "Designing Systems for Internet Commerce" and chairs theTransport Layer Security (TLS) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, December 5th, 2000, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $35.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, December 2nd, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $35.00. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: TBD Ted Byfield Decentralized DNS Control TBD Scott Moskowitz Watermarking and Bluespike As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com>. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 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' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe from this list, send a letter to: Majordomo(a)reservoir.com In the body of the message, write: unsubscribe dcsb-announce Or, to subscribe, write: subscribe dcsb-announce If you have questions, write to me at Owner-DCSB(a)reservoir.com --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 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'

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DCSB: Win Treese; So, Where's All the Financial Cryptography?
by R. A. Hettinga 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

[Note that the Harvard Club is now "business casual". No more jackets and ties... --RAH] The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Win Treese, Fellow, VP Technology, Open Market, Inc. Fermi's Revenge: Systems Thinking for Financial Cryptography Tuesday, December 5th, 2000 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The technology of financial cryptography has promised many changes for the way that individuals and organizations do business, yet little progress has been made in real systems. In part, this is because the technology proposals--the crypto, the protocols, and occasionally code--are usually presented with little or no context for the total system in which they play. This talk will look at some of the systems issues, both technical and non-technical, that are critical for successful implementations of financial cryptography. Win Treese is a Fellow and Vice President of Technology at Open Market, Inc. At Open Market, he has contributed to the architecture and implementation of many of its products, with a particular focus on security. Before co-founding Open Market in 1994, he was a member of the research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory. In 1999, Win was named a "High-Tech All Star" by Mass High Tech. He is co-author of the book "Designing Systems for Internet Commerce" and chairs theTransport Layer Security (TLS) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, December 5th, 2000, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $35.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, December 2nd, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $35.00. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: TBD Ted Byfield Decentralized DNS Control TBD Scott Moskowitz Watermarking and Bluespike As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com>. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 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' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe from this list, send a letter to: Majordomo(a)reservoir.com In the body of the message, write: unsubscribe dcsb-announce Or, to subscribe, write: subscribe dcsb-announce If you have questions, write to me at Owner-DCSB(a)reservoir.com --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 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'

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CDR: Today on Abuzz: Election 2000
by foster＠staff-abuzz.com 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

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28 Nov '00

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