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CDR: House scheduled to vote Tuesday on sex-wiretapping bill
by Declan McCullagh 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.03484: SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF INTERCEPTION OF COMMUNICATIONS IN THE INVESTIGATION OF SEXUAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN. (a) CHILD PORNOGRAPHY- Section 2516(1)(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting `section 2252A (relating to material constituting or containing child pornography),' after `2252 (sexual exploitation of children),'. (b) COERCION AND ENTICEMENT TO ENGAGE IN PROSTITUTION OR OTHER ILLEGAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY- Section 2516(1)(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting `section 2422 (relating to coercion and enticement),' after `section 2321 (relating to trafficking in certain motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts),'. (c) TRANSPORTATION OF MINORS TO ENGAGE IN PROSTITUTION OR OTHER ILLEGAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY- Section 2516(1)(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the matter added to that section by subsection (b) of this section the following: `section 2423 (relating to transportation of minors)'.

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CDR: US crypto on classified info
by Steve Furlong 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

John Young wrote: > > The AES Q&A notes that the technology will be used > to protect non-classified government material. What > cryptosystems are used to protect classified information > -- that is, either with hardware implementation or with > software only? Or are these methods themselves > classified? Yep, for the higher-classified material, anyway. And having said that, I'm going to have to weasel out. I don't remember what I can talk about and what's classified. Sorry for my bad memory. Ta, SRF, former Captain, MI, US Army -- Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel 518-374-4720 sfurlong(a)acmenet.net

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CDR: Rumkowski and the Lodz ghetto
by billp＠nmol.com 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

Interesting history http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/8327/ http://members.tripod.com/bill_3_2/ http://www.nmol.com/users/billp/ We must be careful. Keep up-wind

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CDR: Down with techno-egalitarinism, from a reluctant cpunk
by Declan McCullagh 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

I spoke Thurs night at the University of Virginia (http://www.politechbot.com/p-01393.html) I talked a lot about cypherpunkly topics (added some stuff that I haven't seen here, and plan to turn into an article) and even gave the how-to-join address of the cpunx list. Below is a response from one of the students, forwarded here with permission. -Declan ****** >From: "Christopher Fazekas" <chrisfazekas(a)prodigy.net> >To: <declan(a)well.com> >Subject: Your speech last night. >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:23:41 -0400 > >Dear Mr. McCullagh: > > I thank you for a wonderful presentation last evening. It is rare > that I am presented with a political subject that grabs my attention. > Though I participate actively in political forum, until your speech last > evening, it had begun to feel as though I was "going through the motions" > so to speak with the boring, redundant ideological pissing matches that > characterize University discussion. Thank you for the new subject matter > to tackle. > > However, what makes this topic interesting, bothers me as well. I was > the individual who asked the "prepayment" question concerning > intellectual property and proper remuneration thereof. Fantastic new > economic models would be forced to be created to describe this "market > response" to the dissolution of intellectual property rights. So, I will > not venture an opinion on such subject. Yet, I think it is important to > mention that there is a fine line between anarchism and libertarianism. > At least I find there to be one. Hence, when we talk about the overthrow > of the nation state, it sets off quite a few bells. I do not believe > judicial systems should be cast to the wayside in favor of > techno-egalitarianism, and I feel that the dissolution of intellectual > property would sincerely stress current social institutions which I do > not believe need to be overthrown, but strengthened as government power > is retracted. However, a case could be made that the two are intricately > connected to one another. > > I realize all this is speculation. So, I will leave it at that. > Suffice to say I'm not sure the world is intellectually or socially > prepared for anarchy, though I believe it to be our saving end. Once > again, thank you for a wonderful discussion and keep in touch. > > Please keep me in your list of contacts. As I will be entering law > school next fall, I hope to devote a great portion of my career to the > preservation of liberty, and make way for this great anonymous freedom. > >Sincerely, > >Christopher Fazekas >Chairman >Classical Liberal Roundtable at the University >2432 C-4 Arlington Blvd. >Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

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CDR: CDF releases "data" on "child" gun deaths.
by Anonymous 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

In conjunction with First Monday's "Unite to End Gun Violence" campaign, the Children's Defense Fund (motto: Defend Children, Not Guns) released a report today on "Children and Guns." http://www.childrensdefense.org/youthviolence/Gun-report-2000.htm Readers will be unsurprised and unimpressed by the CDF's usual tactics, including definition of 19-yr-old gang bangers as "children." ObCrypto: Children should have widespread access to *all* munitions... not just naughty handguns.

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CDR: would it be so much to ask..
by Asymmetric 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

That the list be changed so that unregistered email addresses cannot send messages to it? This spam is getting ridiculous. -------signature file------- PGP Key Fingerprint: 446B 7718 B219 9F1E 43DD 8E4A 6BE9 D739 CCC5 7FD7 "I don't think [Linux] will be very successful in the long run." "My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse." -Ken Thompson, Interview May 1999. http://www.freebsd.org FreeBSD - The Power to Serve http://www.rfnj.org Radio Free New Jersey - 395 streams - 96kbps @ 44.1khz

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CDR: Lucky People Center is Out There.
by lucky＠article27.com 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

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Rijndael is GREEN
by Ian Grigg 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

For Release 11.00 EDT Monday 2nd October 2000 Rijndael is GREEN NIST chooses Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard Announced today in Washington, DC, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Algorithm for the 21st century. Rijndael -- pronounced Rhine-Dahl -- is the creation of two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen. The Cryptix Development Team congratulates Vincent and Joan on their extraordinary achievement and announces the immediate release of the Cryptix JCE and Cryptix 3.2, both enabled with AES as Rijndael. International Cryptoplumbing An international team of open source crypto volunteers from The Cryptix Development Team supported the cryptographers participating in the NIST contest, efforts that were recognised with the award of a Certificate Of Appreciation from the United States Department Of Commerce. Raif S. Naffah, from Australia, led the Cryptix AES Support Project which provided the Java code and tools for most finalists, including Rijndael, for submission to NIST. Paulo Barreto, Brazilian mathematician and programmer, provided coding support for optimising Rijndael implementations; he has been coding and reviewing algorithms for the Belgian team for many years, including the predecessor to Rijndael, the Square cipher. Free Crypto Under the terms of the NIST contest, Rijndael is free and unencumbered for all purposes and all peoples. Cryptix developers have agreed to match this condition, and hereby place their Rijndael code in the public domain. Normally, all Cryptix code is free for all purposes, but requires acknowledgement of The Cryptix Foundation as owners under an extremely liberal "BSD licence." Even this condition is now dropped for the Rijndael code, so that all commercial providers of Java cryptography, including Sun, Baltimore, RSA Labs, and IAIK, may quickly offer their customers the best code. No Arms Race Need Apply Cryptography has long been treated as a munition by the US government. Today's decision marks the end of an era stretching back to the days of Enigma and Magic intercepts. The new algorithm and the accompanying code base is absolutely unimpaired by political or commercial limitations. As a science, cryptography is the special domain of mathematicians; formulas flow across borders as fast as emails. As an idea, the Rijndael cipher can be written out in 10 or so pages of paper, making it impermeable to regulations. Fuel For The Revolution As a tool, code for the new AES algorithm is less than 10,000 bytes, and thus cryptography slips into the average application with less implication on costs than the price of a new PC. As a building block, AES will help to fuel the new industrial revolution in electronic commerce. Ciphers such as Rijndael will keep valuable messages secure in the wild west of the Internet far better than the old methods of obscurity and regulation. Released by The Cryptix Foundation Limited, a Nevis corporation dedicated to the spread of strong crypto. Links: NIST announces the winner of AES as Rijndael: http://www.nist.gov/aes/ The Rijndael page of the Cryptography team, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/ Cryptix places Rijndael code in public domain: http://www.cryptix.org/aes/ Cryptix products JCE and Cryptix 3 now released with Rijndael as AES: http://www.cryptix.org/news/02102000.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/jce/index.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/cryptix31/index.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/aes/index.html About The Rijndael Team Dr Joan Daemen is currently employed by Proton World International. Dr Vincent Rijmen is a cryptography researcher with Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. About Cryptix Java cryptography was first provided under the label of Cryptix in 1996. The Cryptix Development Team now includes crypto- plumbers -- programmers who work with the algorithms and ciphers of cryptographers to produce code and applications -- from 8 countries and publishes the most popular Java cryptography suite. Cryptix products are generally published under the BSD licence, making them free for all purposes when used with due acknowledgement as to source. The Cryptix implementations of Rijndael, written as part of our AES support project, are now placed in the public domain so that all commercial suppliers can proceed to support the AES without having to give any acknowledgement. About National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department Of Commerce, is charged by the US Congress with developing standards for industry. Many of its standards achieve world-wide acceptance, and the predecessor DES has been accepted as the de facto standard for encryption for three decades, albeit with much controversy. About the Advanced Encryption Standard In order to allay concerns of interference, NIST sponsored the open competition for the new algorithm, encouraging entries from around the world. Some 21 submissions were narrowed down to five finalists. NIST encouraged competing cryptographers and the NSA (the world's largest employer of cryptographers and mathematicians) to critique the algorithms, building up a body of review that led to today's choice of the new standard. End. --- 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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Rijndael is GREEN
by Ian Grigg 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

For Release 11.00 EDT Monday 2nd October 2000 Rijndael is GREEN NIST chooses Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard Announced today in Washington, DC, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Algorithm for the 21st century. Rijndael -- pronounced Rhine-Dahl -- is the creation of two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen. The Cryptix Development Team congratulates Vincent and Joan on their extraordinary achievement and announces the immediate release of the Cryptix JCE and Cryptix 3.2, both enabled with AES as Rijndael. International Cryptoplumbing An international team of open source crypto volunteers from The Cryptix Development Team supported the cryptographers participating in the NIST contest, efforts that were recognised with the award of a Certificate Of Appreciation from the United States Department Of Commerce. Raif S. Naffah, from Australia, led the Cryptix AES Support Project which provided the Java code and tools for most finalists, including Rijndael, for submission to NIST. Paulo Barreto, Brazilian mathematician and programmer, provided coding support for optimising Rijndael implementations; he has been coding and reviewing algorithms for the Belgian team for many years, including the predecessor to Rijndael, the Square cipher. Free Crypto Under the terms of the NIST contest, Rijndael is free and unencumbered for all purposes and all peoples. Cryptix developers have agreed to match this condition, and hereby place their Rijndael code in the public domain. Normally, all Cryptix code is free for all purposes, but requires acknowledgement of The Cryptix Foundation as owners under an extremely liberal "BSD licence." Even this condition is now dropped for the Rijndael code, so that all commercial providers of Java cryptography, including Sun, Baltimore, RSA Labs, and IAIK, may quickly offer their customers the best code. No Arms Race Need Apply Cryptography has long been treated as a munition by the US government. Today's decision marks the end of an era stretching back to the days of Enigma and Magic intercepts. The new algorithm and the accompanying code base is absolutely unimpaired by political or commercial limitations. As a science, cryptography is the special domain of mathematicians; formulas flow across borders as fast as emails. As an idea, the Rijndael cipher can be written out in 10 or so pages of paper, making it impermeable to regulations. Fuel For The Revolution As a tool, code for the new AES algorithm is less than 10,000 bytes, and thus cryptography slips into the average application with less implication on costs than the price of a new PC. As a building block, AES will help to fuel the new industrial revolution in electronic commerce. Ciphers such as Rijndael will keep valuable messages secure in the wild west of the Internet far better than the old methods of obscurity and regulation. Released by The Cryptix Foundation Limited, a Nevis corporation dedicated to the spread of strong crypto. Links: NIST announces the winner of AES as Rijndael: http://www.nist.gov/aes/ The Rijndael page of the Cryptography team, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/ Cryptix places Rijndael code in public domain: http://www.cryptix.org/aes/ Cryptix products JCE and Cryptix 3 now released with Rijndael as AES: http://www.cryptix.org/news/02102000.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/jce/index.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/cryptix31/index.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/aes/index.html About The Rijndael Team Dr Joan Daemen is currently employed by Proton World International. Dr Vincent Rijmen is a cryptography researcher with Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. About Cryptix Java cryptography was first provided under the label of Cryptix in 1996. The Cryptix Development Team now includes crypto- plumbers -- programmers who work with the algorithms and ciphers of cryptographers to produce code and applications -- from 8 countries and publishes the most popular Java cryptography suite. Cryptix products are generally published under the BSD licence, making them free for all purposes when used with due acknowledgement as to source. The Cryptix implementations of Rijndael, written as part of our AES support project, are now placed in the public domain so that all commercial suppliers can proceed to support the AES without having to give any acknowledgement. About National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department Of Commerce, is charged by the US Congress with developing standards for industry. Many of its standards achieve world-wide acceptance, and the predecessor DES has been accepted as the de facto standard for encryption for three decades, albeit with much controversy. About the Advanced Encryption Standard In order to allay concerns of interference, NIST sponsored the open competition for the new algorithm, encouraging entries from around the world. Some 21 submissions were narrowed down to five finalists. NIST encouraged competing cryptographers and the NSA (the world's largest employer of cryptographers and mathematicians) to critique the algorithms, building up a body of review that led to today's choice of the new standard. End. --- 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: Re: Lon Horiuchi freed
by Greg Broiles 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 08:39:44AM -0700, Marshall Clow wrote: > Real-To: Marshall Clow <mclow(a)owl.csusm.edu> > > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The FBI agent who killed the wife of white separatist Randy > Weaver during the Ruby Ridge standoff is immune from state prosecution in Idaho, a > federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. On September 29, the 9th Circuit voted to review this case en banc; Horiuchi's not done yet. -- Greg Broiles gbroiles(a)netbox.com PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604

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