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CDR: [No joke] Want to buy radome
by Lucky Green 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

I am looking for a surplus radome. The minimum diameter is 20 meters, but the bigger, the better. The disassembled radome will need to fit into standard ISO dry cargo containers. Alternatively, I am looking for manufacturers of new radomes. Any pointers are appreciated. Feel free to forward this inquiry to more appropriate fora that you might be aware of. Thanks, --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06

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CDR: Cypherus, new encryption suite
by brflgnk＠cotse.com 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

I saw in one of the tech email newsrags that F. Lee Bailey was at Comdex promoting a package called Cypherus. Their website, http://www.apmsafe.com/, is a little light on details. It only mentions that Cypherus uses Blowfish with up to 448-bit keys. There's some blather about a "Key Manager" and self-decrypting envelopes, but nothing about asymetrical crypto. No evaluation version that I could find. They claim they'll be shipping in Dec. Anyone heard anything at all about Cypherus?

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CDR: [Fwd: About dem keyboards]
by sunder 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

Also Sprach sunder: > > > 2. If you protect the cable as well, they can use a keyboard capture > program, or they can tempest detect your keystrokes. Tempest works not on just the keyboard but the entire machine. Monitor, system unit, cables, and keyboard all give off tempest emissions. The usual way this is handled is to have the room the system(s) are in shielded, and or completely underground, or both. The Zenith "tempest" 286 PC had 72 screws and a very solid steel CPU casing, and it's cables were completely unshielded. Your tax dollars at work. D'oh! :) -- "You know you're a geek when you log onto IRC | Do not CD c so you can tell your friend halfway across the | taunt --------P===\==/ country which HTML hex code to use for the | happy fun /_\__ color of your wedding dress." -- Me | fencer! _\ \

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CDR: United States Domain Registry - Important New Information (fwd)
by Greg Maxwell 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

This might be of intrest to ICANN and NSI watchers. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:49:29 -0500 (EST) From: US Domain Help <usdomhelp(a)verisign-grs.com> To: gmaxwell(a)martin.fl.us Subject: United States Domain Registry - Important New Information ========================================================================= To all administrative and technical contacts: As you may already know, since 1993 the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California has administered the .US domain under a subcontract with Network Solutions, Inc. through its cooperative agreement with the U.S. Government. USC has chosen not to renew its subcontract, and therefore VeriSign Global Registry Services, a division of Network Solutions, Inc., will assume direct administration of the .US domain as of Tuesday, November 28, 2000. Please note that no changes will occur to syntax, and the standards established by RFC 1480 located at http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1480.txt will continue to apply. VeriSign Global Registry Services will forward its revised standard interim service agreement to you via email shortly for your review. We will also post the agreement on our web site at http://www.nic.us. Should you have any questions, you may email them to usdomhelp(a)verisign-grs.com. Best regards, United States Domain Registry VeriSign Global Registry Services www.verisign-grs.com usdomhelp(a)verisign-grs.com =========================================================================

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CDR: Re: Florida Vote
by Ken Brown 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

Posted without permission. You've probably seen it before & it probably isn't funny but I'd been drinking beer when i saw it & I laughed: > NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE > > To the citizens of the United States of America, > > In the light of your failure to elect a President of the USA and thus to > govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your > independence, effective today. > > Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchial duties > over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, > which she does not fancy. Your new prime minister (The rt. hon. Tony > Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that > there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for > America without the need for further elections. Congress and the > Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year > to determine whether any of you noticed. > > To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following > rules are introduced with immediate effect: > > 1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. > Then > look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed > at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. Generally, you should > raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". > Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such > as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of > communication. Look up "interspersed". > > 2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know > on > your behalf. > > 3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. > It > really isn't that hard. > > 4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the > good guys. > > 5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The > Queen", > but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get > confused and give up half way through. > > 6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind > of > football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good > game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your > borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. > You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play > proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the > girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in > time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American > "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty > seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are > hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by 2005. > > 7. You should declare war on Quebec and France, using nuclear weapons if > they give you any merde. The 97.85% of you who were not aware that > there > is a world outside your borders should count yourselves lucky. The > Russians have never been the bad guys. "Merde" is French for "shit". > > 8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 8th will be a new > national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive > Day". > > 9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for > your > own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we > mean. > > 10. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy. > > Thank you for your cooperation.

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by newsletter＠easywinning.com 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

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CDR: Duking it out with the FBI, or, Saving the White Race
by George＠Orwellian.Org 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

[very slightly snipped] http://foxnews.com/national/112000/duke.sml # # David Duke Phones Home, Learns of FBI Raid # # Monday, November 20, 2000, By Brett Martel # # # NEW ORLEANS - White supremacist David Duke finally called home # from Russia to learn that federal agents raided his home last # week and carried away boxes of materials, a spokesman said Monday. # # "He was outraged at this invasion of his home," said Vincent # Edwards, a spokesman for Duke's National Organization For # European-American Rights. # # The FBI is investigating whether Duke gambled away hundreds of # thousands of dollars he solicited from supporters of his white # supremacist cause. He has not been charged with a crime. # # Duke has been in Russia to promote his new book, The Ultimate # Supremacism, in which Duke argues that Russia and the former # Soviet bloc can save the white race from Jewish oligarchs and # organized crime. The book is being published in Russian. # # Edwards said he has never known Duke to visit a casino in the # two years he has worked for him, but said it would not be a crime # if he had. # # "He has been very clear in his mailings that the money is for # his work and to sustain him personally," Edwards said. "If he # accepts a supporter's check for $25 and happens to go out to # dinner that night and it costs $25, it's not a crime." # # Edwards also said he suspects the FBI's investigation is largely # based on the claims of disgruntled employees who have no # credibility.

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CDR: E - mail Surveillance Tool Vindicated
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Chicago law school dean who reviewed the FBI's controversial e-mail surveillance tool said Monday his report concludes it works the way the bureau described and generally doesn't ``overcollect'' evidence as feared by privacy advocates. On the eve of the Justice Department's release of his review findings, Henry H. Perritt Jr., dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law, said the report contains recommended improvements to the Carnivore system -- both for efficiency and privacy -- that likely won't be made public Tuesday. ``I think that it's fair to say that it does pretty much what the FBI says it did. For the most part, it does not overcollect. There's certain recommendations as to how it could be improved,'' he said in an interview with The Associated Press. Perritt declined to list the recommendations or how Carnivore sometimes overcollected. Privacy advocates were alarmed by an FBI lab report last week stating that Carnivore ``could reliably capture and archive all unfiltered traffic to the internal hard drive.'' The FBI said that the lab report was the result of a test to determine Carnivore's ``breaking point,'' and that laws and court orders restricted Carnivore from being used so broadly. Privacy advocates, however, said the test shows that Carnivore is more powerful than the FBI has stated. Perritt said the FBI was ``completely open and cooperative'' during the review. Justice spokeswoman Chris Watney said Monday that the Carnivore report was received last week, and will be made available to the public Tuesday. The intervening days, she said, were needed to black out parts of the report that mention Carnivore's internal blueprints and other sensitive information. The recommendations probably will be held back as well, Perritt said. Carnivore was designed by the FBI to collect e-mail going to or from a suspect, in cases where a suspect may be using electronic communications. Privacy experts have worried about the breadth of Carnivore's capability and its ``black box'' nature. Shortly after IIT was chosen to perform the review, ordered by Attorney General Janet Reno, critics said the review would not be independent because the reviewers were government insiders. ``This important issue deserves a truly independent review, not a whitewash,'' House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, a longtime Carnivore opponent, said in October. Perritt advised President Clinton's transition team on information policy and performing other tasks for the Clinton administration, as well as previous Republican administrations. Associate Dean Harold J. Krent, another member of the team, worked at the Justice Department in the 1980s, and several team members have current or former security clearances from the Defense Department, Treasury Department or the National Security Agency. Perritt repeatedly affirmed that he was completely independent, and that his reputation would be damaged if he was anything but impartial. Most of the nation's elite academic computer departments -- including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University and the San Diego Supercomputer Center -- either declined to review Carnivore or withdrew their applications after objecting to the requirements the Justice Department placed on the review. The bureau says Carnivore has been used about 25 times, mostly involving national security. ^------ On the Net: Federal Bureau of Investigation: http://www.fbi.gov Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov Chicago-Kent College of Law: http://www.kentlaw.edu

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CDR: Whistler To Block Unsigned Code
by A. Melon 20 Nov '00

20 Nov '00

By David Raikow, Sm@rt Partner November 20, 2000 5:31 AM PT URL: Speaking at a London press conference earlier this month, Microsoft VP for IT Infrastructure and Hosting Jim Ewel announced that the upcoming Windows release known as "Whistler" will include a range of new security options, including one that will block any software lacking a valid digital signature. Though implemented in response to e-mail-attachment viruses like the Love Bug and Melissa, the new feature will extend to "every piece of code executing on the machine," Ewel told British reporters. A Microsoft spokeswoman says that Ewel's announcement was consistent with security features in Windows 2000. "This is part of our overall commitment to security. ... Signed drivers and trusted applications are features found today in Windows 2000, and this capability will be supported in future versions of Windows," she says. Fear Of Redmond's Reign Microsoft has not yet laid out details of the new feature, however, and some analysts fear that it could increase the giant's power over Windows software developers. Win2K currently recognizes two types of signed code. A "trusted application" is signed by the software publisher, allowing end users to determine its source and verify that it has not been altered or tampered with. Developers may purchase the cryptographic certificates used to create such a signature from Verisign Inc.--Microsoft has no say in determining who may receive such certificates or what software may be signed. Windows 2000 will not automatically warn or block users from using untrusted applications; end users must manually check applications to determine whether they have a valid signature. Windows 2000 does, meanwhile, include an option that will automatically warn or block users from installing unsigned drivers--the software code that allows a computer to control hardware like printers. Developers wishing to have their drivers signed must submit them to Microsoft for testing, which maintains complete control over the signing process. What The Analysts Say Internet consultant Richard M. Smith believes that the new feature could represent a significant advance in Microsoft's approach to security. "Security people have been suggesting that Microsoft do something like this for a long time. I think it could be a good thing, particularly when it comes to virus defense." Jon Callas, director of engineering at Counterpane Internet Security, is not so confident. "I think IT managers will absolutely love this ... until it blocks a shareware tool they need," he says. "Then, all of the sudden, it's preventing work from getting done, and it gets turned off. My guess is that it won't last more than a few months in most shops." Callas also is concerned about the impact of the new feature on software developers. "At best, small developers are going to have to go out and buy certificates--not a big deal for the big guys, but a significant cost for shareware developers and the like," he adds. "At worst, they are going to have to get Microsoft's official seal of approval, which could be a huge problem for software directly competing with Microsoft apps. This could be a whole, new antitrust issue." Smith concedes that tight control over the signing process could be a problem. "I seriously doubt Microsoft wants to look like it's exercising that much control over the Windows software market; this would almost certainly be done through the existing Verisign process. Something that looked like the driver signing process, though, could be different story. That could be a real mess."

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CDR: crypto
by Results＠TVEyes.com 20 Nov '00

20 Nov '00

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