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CDR: Transvestite TLD ;-)
by George＠Orwellian.Org 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB975376877752666821.htm # # November 28, 2000 # # VeriSign Invests in dotTV, # Enters Marketing Alliance # # By NICK WINGFIELD # # Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL # # VeriSign Inc., a leader in handling registrations for ".com" # Internet addresses, Tuesday announced it is investing in a small # firm that controls Internet addresses ending in ".tv". # # VeriSign, Mountain View, Calif., is the largest investor in a # $28 million round of venture capital raised by .TV Corp. # International, a closely held firm in Los Angeles that goes by # the name of dotTV. International cable concern UnitedGlobalCom # Inc., investment firm Munder Capital Management and other # investors contributed to the funding, according to dotTV # executives. # # VeriSign, through its Network Solutions subsidiary, also plans # to begin allowing registrations of .tv Internet addresses on # the Network Solutions Web site. Network Solutions also will store # .tv addresses in a collection of 13 industrial-strength computers # around the world that handle look-ups of Internet addresses. # # Network Solutions is the world's largest registrar of Internet # address or "domain names" ending in .net., .org and .com. VeriSign # and dotTV don't plan to disclose the financial terms of their # marketing alliance, though VeriSign is expected to get a cut # of the $50 annual fee dotTV charges customers for registering # .tv domain names. # # The marketing deal could be a big boost for tiny dotTV, which # wants to establish .tv as an alternative domain name aimed at # Web companies that feature hefty doses of multimedia programming # on their sites. An oversight body called the Internet Corp. for # Assigned Names & Numbers, or Icann, hopes to finalize a plan # by the end of the year to create a number of new Internet address # suffixes, including ".info," ".pro" and ".biz". # # In the meantime, dotTV was able to license rights to the ".tv" # domain name from Tuvalu, a small Pacific Island nation for which # the suffix is an abbreviation. Under its agreement with dotTV, # Tuvalu receives a minimum of $4 million a year during the next # 10 years, according to dotTV executives. Tuvalu also owns about # 20% of the company and has a seat on the dotTV board.

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CDR: huffman decoding
by Tom Vogt 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

this is probably too "low-level" for "applied cryptography", but it's still a real-world problem for me: - I have a datastream (just a couple bytes) that I know is huffman encoded. however, I don't have the tables or know anything else. - I do not only know parts of the plaintext, but can generate it at will. however, I do not know for sure where in the ciphertext it will end up and I know for sure there is other information in the datastream. given this, it shouldn't be too difficult to derive the tables, right? especially not if I can generate ciphertext at will with known plaintext inside. so, aside from staring at long rows of binary and waiting to spot the pattern, is there a well-known approach to this? (I want to remotely query a closed-source server software that uses this system to report to an also closed-source client software. I know which information it transports (at least parts) and I have control of the server so I can have it include arbitrary strings (there's a "comment" field that is freely available to me and gets transmitted).) -- "The net treats censorship as a malfunction and re-routes around it." (John Gilmore)

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28 Nov '00

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CDR: RE: Internet anonymity/pseudonymity meeting invitation
by Trei, Peter 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

> jbash-nymip-dec2000-meeting(a)velvet.com wrote: > > The NymIP Research Group will hold its first physical meeting on Sunday, > December 10, 2000, from 14:30 US/Pacific (22:30 UCT) to 17:00 US/Pacific > (01:00 UCT December 11), before the IETF meeting in San Diego, > California. We invite interested parties to attend, either in person or > by telephone. > > The NymIP-RG is a newly formed entity dedicated to studying anonymity > and pseudonymity in Internet communication. [...] > This first meeting is a brief, relatively unstructured get-to-know-you > affair, designed to identify those interested and start them talking to > one another. [...] > -- J. Bashinski > Secretary, NymIP-RG > Does anyone besides me find irony in having a 'get-to-know-you' session for a group studying anonymity? Will they allow masked attendees? Will the mailng list allow posts from anonymous remailers, or is it closed? Is there a website to allow anonymous reading? Practice what you preach.... Peter Trei 'The anarchists were highly disciplined....'

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CDR: mailing list cleanup
by ichudov＠Algebra.Com 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

Just wanted to clarify something for subscribers of cypherpunks(a)algebra.com. If a message posted to cypherpunks and then sent to you bounces, and if the bounce looks like a permanent problem (no such user, relaying denied, etc), your adress will be removed from cypherpunks(a)algebra.com. feel free to resubscribe whjen you resolve your problems. - Igor.

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CDR: Can Internet Voting Restore Electoral Process Integrity?
by R. A. Hettinga 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

http://www.internetweek.com/columns00/frezz111500.htm November 15, 2000 Plugging In Can Internet Voting Restore Electoral Process Integrity? By BILL FREZZA As I was gleefully reviewing the wreckage of the presidential election the other night, two juxtaposed Yahoo headlines caught my eye. The first read, "Internet News Sites Crushed By Election Traffic." It described the abysmal performance of every major election-results Web site as the surge of traffic overwhelmed all preparations to scale up in anticipation of the load. The second read, "Internet Voting Could Have Saved U.S. Election Day." In it, the CEO of VoteHere.net was confidently opining that voting over the Internet could be used to avoid incidents like the Florida recount fiasco. Let's hope not. I wouldn't have missed the great Election Day meltdown of 2000 for the world. For the 50 percent of the eligible electorate that stayed home--100 million of us--the food fight in Florida stands as a resounding victory for the forces of "none of the above." It would be a shame to replace all those paper ballots, punched cards and decrepit voting booths with modern digital technology. Not that it would be easy to develop a nationwide Internet voting system. It's one thing to run a small-scale experiment whose results don't count, but quite another to develop a ubiquitous system that doesn't suffer from security, reliability, privacy and performance problems of its own. Should such an eventuality come to pass, as it probably will someday, we may never again enjoy the spectacle of a bunch of befuddled grandmas suing for a do-over. Or the delicious irony of watching the son of Mayor Richard Daley, one of the most effective machine-politics election riggers of all time, demand redress for "voter irregularities." Worse yet, an effective Internet voting system would never be limited to use only in national elections. Its very existence would inspire direct democracy zealots to introduce electronic voting into all levels of government. For a taste of what this might be like, take a look at the rule-by-referendum circus in California. This is a state where voters haven't allowed any new power plant construction in a decade yet profess to be mystified as to why they face an electricity shortage. It's a state where busybody Internet millionaires spend fortunes backing one ballot initiative or another, proving that money can do more than buy a Senate seat, as it just did for the 60 Million Dollar Man in New Jersey. After all, beyond the ego gratification of being a senator, why bother when you can just pay to have your pet law put directly on the books? Do you really want your neighbors voting to tell you what color to paint your house, what kind of taco shells you can buy, how many hours of volunteer community service you owe or what kind of clothes your kid is allowed to wear? If we are ever foolish enough to embrace Internet voting, there will be no area of life that will be safe from the meddling of an empowered electorate. Democracy is surely broken. After spending the last century shedding its constitutional limitations, it spent the past eight years escaping the rule of law, substituting a virulent form of partisanship under which any excess can be justified because the other side is "bad" and our side is "good." While the Internet has done a fine job of breaking the cozy relationship between politicians and the established press, showing us the gory details of how Washington really makes its sausage, technology cannot fix the sausage factory. It can only make the political machinery more efficient, which in the end will just churn out more sausage. Oddly enough, this is why watching the American political system get mired in a broken election is good news for anyone who believes in freedom. No matter what happens in the weeks ahead, the next president will serve under a cloud of questioned legitimacy. Underneath this cloud will be a Senate more or less evenly divided between two warring parties, including a stand-in for the first dead man to win national office and a former first lady who will surely surpass Newt Gingrich as a lightening rod for divisiveness. No one will be able to break the gridlock as the Clinton legacy of politicizing anything and everything comes to be seen not as a temporary aberration introduced by a self-absorbed moral cretin but as a permanent way of life. Welcome to the permanent campaign. May all professional politicians spend 100 percent of their time tearing each other's lungs out. Pass the cigars and brandy; the American people have spoken. Let's hope they keep mumbling incoherently as we all get back to work building our real future. With a little luck it will be a future in which few people care or even know who is president. Bill Frezza is a general partner at Adams Capital Management. He can be reached at frezza(a)alum.MIT.EDU or www.acm.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'

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CDR: Important Membership Information
by announce＠inbox.nytimes.com 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

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by Robert Huddleston 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

believer(a)telepath.com) Subject: ip: Know your enemy By Linda A. Prussen-Razzano http://www.enterstageright.com/1200freepers.htm Enter Stage Right Know your enemy By Linda A. Prussen-Razzano Senator Joseph Lieberman, Vice President Al Gore's running mate, publicly issued allegations that the Republican Party was bussing paid operatives to Florida for the expressed purpose of intimidating local election officials into stopping the manual recount. Other Democrat spinmeisters are now running amok on the airwaves decrying any public displays of Republican outrage as "dangerous." In effect, this is the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy revisited, where anyone uncomfortable with Democrat shenanigans is a vicious partisan; therefore, their indignation is evil in its intent. Not only is this approach pitiful, it reveals just how little they know about their "opposition." The rallies and protests I've seen on the television have all the hallmarks of a "FReep." FReep is a term coined several years ago by the registered users at FreeRepublic.com, a political action web-site for conservatives. The "Sore Loserman 2000" signs now peppering mainstream news casts were not compiled by the Republican Party. This ingenious phrase was coined by three registered users, "CPL Baum," "Registered," and "Mass Exodus." [Click here for the story or here to buy t-shirts] The now famous "Cops Cheer," heard in the background of Washington reporter's newscasts, originated in the weekly Washington, D.C. protests by, yet again, FreeRepublic. On their own time and their own dime, this loosely knit group of motivated citizens has been holding peaceful protests across the country for at least two years. If the Republican Party was actually paying protestors, as Senator Lieberman would have us believe, then "Angelwood" and several other "Freepers" have considerable back pay coming to them. Obviously, it's easier for Senator Lieberman to believe the Republican Party is bussing people in and paying them to protest; the alternative means that a genuine ground swell of disgust is now leaving the privacy of living rooms and spilling into the streets. Senator Lieberman would like to believe these protestors are simply cheap political hacks, ready to mouth any slogan for the almighty dollar; the alternative means that average men and women are using their holiday time to make their voice heard at such a critical juncture in our nation's history. After taking such a disastrous hit with their notorious 5-page military memorandum, they can't afford any more losses in the public relations war and must immediately attempt to discredit any voice of dissent. Their response backfired. The buzz is that several otherwise complacent groups are now active and outraged. Instead of sitting back, watching as "dimples" are divined while bona fide military ballots are discarded, they plan to also take to the streets in peaceful, but vocal protest. How many protestors will it take, Senator Lieberman, before you realize the Republican Party can't possibly be "paying" them all? The pinnacle of this debacle was Senator Lieberman's assertion that these protests were meant to intimidate election board officials. This, from the campaign that threatened and effected legal action against election board officials because they weren't following orders? This, from the campaign that excoriated Secretary of State Harris and maligned Republicans? This, from the campaign that is actively attempting to influence representatives to the Electoral College? If the allegation weren't so pathetic, it would be funny. Finally, these protestors are not "thugs." They are citizens of the United States. You presumably want to be our Vice President; that makes you our servant, not our master. When they, and others like them, peacefully protest, they are exercising their Constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights; only a fascist would consider this "dangerous." ========= web posted November 27, 2000 Linda Prussen-Razzano is an advisory board member and frequent contributor to Rightgrrl and a columnist for the American Partisan. --- 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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by Robert Huddleston 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

believer(a)telepath.com) Subject: ip: Know your enemy By Linda A. Prussen-Razzano http://www.enterstageright.com/1200freepers.htm Enter Stage Right Know your enemy By Linda A. Prussen-Razzano Senator Joseph Lieberman, Vice President Al Gore's running mate, publicly issued allegations that the Republican Party was bussing paid operatives to Florida for the expressed purpose of intimidating local election officials into stopping the manual recount. Other Democrat spinmeisters are now running amok on the airwaves decrying any public displays of Republican outrage as "dangerous." In effect, this is the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy revisited, where anyone uncomfortable with Democrat shenanigans is a vicious partisan; therefore, their indignation is evil in its intent. Not only is this approach pitiful, it reveals just how little they know about their "opposition." The rallies and protests I've seen on the television have all the hallmarks of a "FReep." FReep is a term coined several years ago by the registered users at FreeRepublic.com, a political action web-site for conservatives. The "Sore Loserman 2000" signs now peppering mainstream news casts were not compiled by the Republican Party. This ingenious phrase was coined by three registered users, "CPL Baum," "Registered," and "Mass Exodus." [Click here for the story or here to buy t-shirts] The now famous "Cops Cheer," heard in the background of Washington reporter's newscasts, originated in the weekly Washington, D.C. protests by, yet again, FreeRepublic. On their own time and their own dime, this loosely knit group of motivated citizens has been holding peaceful protests across the country for at least two years. If the Republican Party was actually paying protestors, as Senator Lieberman would have us believe, then "Angelwood" and several other "Freepers" have considerable back pay coming to them. Obviously, it's easier for Senator Lieberman to believe the Republican Party is bussing people in and paying them to protest; the alternative means that a genuine ground swell of disgust is now leaving the privacy of living rooms and spilling into the streets. Senator Lieberman would like to believe these protestors are simply cheap political hacks, ready to mouth any slogan for the almighty dollar; the alternative means that average men and women are using their holiday time to make their voice heard at such a critical juncture in our nation's history. After taking such a disastrous hit with their notorious 5-page military memorandum, they can't afford any more losses in the public relations war and must immediately attempt to discredit any voice of dissent. Their response backfired. The buzz is that several otherwise complacent groups are now active and outraged. Instead of sitting back, watching as "dimples" are divined while bona fide military ballots are discarded, they plan to also take to the streets in peaceful, but vocal protest. How many protestors will it take, Senator Lieberman, before you realize the Republican Party can't possibly be "paying" them all? The pinnacle of this debacle was Senator Lieberman's assertion that these protests were meant to intimidate election board officials. This, from the campaign that threatened and effected legal action against election board officials because they weren't following orders? This, from the campaign that excoriated Secretary of State Harris and maligned Republicans? This, from the campaign that is actively attempting to influence representatives to the Electoral College? If the allegation weren't so pathetic, it would be funny. Finally, these protestors are not "thugs." They are citizens of the United States. You presumably want to be our Vice President; that makes you our servant, not our master. When they, and others like them, peacefully protest, they are exercising their Constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights; only a fascist would consider this "dangerous." ========= web posted November 27, 2000 Linda Prussen-Razzano is an advisory board member and frequent contributor to Rightgrrl and a columnist for the American Partisan. --- 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: Wanted TLD operators for the ORSC
by Joe Baptista 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

I'm looking for people who want to operate tlds in the orsc zone. You need to know BIND, and have a familiarity with database programming like mysql. If anyone is interested - send me a private email and i'll followup on it this weekend and we can start getting you online. The orsc needs new blood. It's stagnated at 380 member tlds. regards joe baptista -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot.god/ dot.GOD Hostmaster +1 (805) 753-8697

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