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CDR: Book & Open Source code announcement: Cryptography for Visual Basic
by Richard Bondi 20 Sep '00

20 Sep '00

Dear All, John Wiley & Sons has just published my new book "Cryptography for Visual Basic: A Programmer's Guide to the Microsoft CryptoAPI." Bruce Schneier has kindly endorsed it: "This is essential reading for anyone who needs to understand Microsoft's CryptoAPI,its strengths and its limitations." The book includes open source COM objects with a simple interface to help VB programmers use the CryptoAPI. For the actual code, links, and other information, see www.geocities.com/richardbondi. Best, Richard Bondi

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CDR: Re: would it be so much to ask..
by Reese 20 Sep '00

20 Sep '00

At 08:31 PM 20/09/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, William H. Geiger III wrote: > >> Subscibe to a list that filters out the CDR: from the subject as Jim has >> made it clear that he is going to continue adding this to the subject >> line. On the openpgp.net list the subject is: > >You've got a right to filter, I've got a right to give you something to >filter... Logical fallacy alert - you have reversed the time-sequence of these events. Before you started adding the idiotic tag, there was no need to filter it out.

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Re: CDR: More COTUS rants...
by Reese 20 Sep '00

20 Sep '00

At 08:39 PM 19/09/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: > >And they say I'm half-baked?...I'm not alone. > ^^^^^^^^^^ >Findlaw: The Constitution and your CD's > >http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/09/columns/f1.hamlton.copyright.09.19/ 404.

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CDR: pro se fights v smith and wesson
by billp＠nmol.com 20 Sep '00

20 Sep '00

When I visited google I was agast what the cypherpunks had done. But, of course, we live on the far side. Keep it up! I am. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/8327/smithandwesson.htm Smith and Wesson and Sandia Labs have partnered to put microcontrollers into guns. Well, Sandia screwed-up the US nuclear arsenal with an 1802 and about 112k lines of assember so we might guess that Sandia will also screw-up handguns too. Short time here. Long time gone. http://www.geocities.com/computersystemsdocumentation/

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CDR: Re: would it be so much to ask..
by A. Melon 20 Sep '00

20 Sep '00

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Asymmetric wrote: > My mistake, I misread. I thought you were asking how many > anonymous-remailed messages I had seen to the list. I would still group > that as "a small handful" which was my point; That these messages don't > come all that often, and the benefits of allowing them when they do come > seem outweighed by the sheer volume of spam. You're probably one of those people who think that A. Melon, Nomen Nescio, An Metet, Secret Squirrel, etc., are actually individuals' personas. Are you subscribed to toad.com? A *lot* of legitimate posts are dropped by that server. I see at least 10 anonymous posts a day. -S.R.

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CDR: Re: would it be so much to ask..
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 20 Sep '00

20 Sep '00

Steve Furlong wrote: > Call me a moron, but what do you mean here? I had figured that "A. > Melon" was the nym of one individual, "Nomen Nescio" was the nym of one, > probably other, individual, and so on. Are "A Melon" etc group nyms, > like "Publius" of the US Federalist Papers? Does some anonymizer give > the same name for everyone who uses it? ALT.PRIVACY.ANON-SERVER FAQ (http://www.almostnotcrazy.org/b/apasfaq/apas-faq.html) [snip] 13) Who is Nomen Nescio? Secret Squirrel? Nomen Nescio is Latin for "I do not know the name." This is the X-Loop: openpgp.net From: header emitted by the Dizum Remailer remailer(a)dizum.com .This is simply a replacement for the more common "Anonymous" or "Anon User" X-Loop: openpgp.net From: header. Secret Squirrel is the From: header emitted by the Squirrel Remailer mix(a)squirrel.owl.de. Other alternative IDs include: An Metet, (Egyptian for "not spoken") From: header for the Shinn Remailer remailer(a)mixmaster.shinn.net. Jiggs McManus, From: header for the Eelbash Remailer eelbash(a)bigfoot.com Mr. Seppo, From: header for the Septic Remailer septic(a)home.com A. Melon, From: header for the Randseed Remailer randseed(a)melontraffickers.com .

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20 Sep '00

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CDR: Re: Would it be so much to ask...
by Anonymous 20 Sep '00

20 Sep '00

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Riad S. Wahby wrote: > Asymmetric <all(a)biosys.net> wrote: > > As for my being naive as you claim in a second here, who is really being > > naive here? You think that just because the remailer doesn't maintain an > > active database of nym mappings that it's immdiately impossible for it to > > be reversed? You implicitly trust anyone who says "here, use my remailer, > > I guarantee it's anonymous?" Get with the program. One fucking line on a > > console, in a firewall rule, anywhere along the way could fuck you into > > losing your anonymity, unless the message was sent encrypted to the > > remailer, and that's just to start with. > > You should read up on Type 1 and Type 2 remailers. Both involve > encryption. In the case of Type 2 remailers, you only need to trust > one in the chain that you use in order to be sure that your identity > is securely hidden. That's not even 100% correct. If you are chaining, and the first server in the chain is evil, all that the admin can tell is that you are using a remailer. The content of the message, and the final recipient, are not known. (A good case for generating random cover traffic...) -S.R.

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CDR: Re: CueCat tells tales...
by Declan McCullagh 20 Sep '00

20 Sep '00

Peter, this deal was inked by Wired magazine's marketing folks, and I have precisely zero contact with them. In other words, I have no clue, but can probably forward you in the right direction. --Declan At 12:15 9/20/2000 -0400, Peter Trei wrote: >Well, well well, this is interesting.... > >Along with my most recent issue of Wired (yes, >I subscribe) I got a a little box containing >a 'CueCat'. This is a barcode scanner shaped >like a stylized kittycat, made by >Digital Convergence. > >See: >www.digitalconvergence.com, >www.crq.com, and >www.cuecat.com > > >The idea is that I hook this up to my computer, >install Digital Convergence's software, register >with DC online (through, I note, a completely >unsecured web form), and then, if I see an >interesting ad, I can swipe the barcode in the >ad instead of laboriously typing in a URL (at >least some of the ads in this issue of Wired >have only a barcode - no URL). > >Well, it turns out that it does a little more >than just point my browser at an advertiser's >site. It apparently also sends a per-device >serial number (bound to my registration, >including the usual sacrifice of personal data) >along with the barcode data, back to Digital >Convergence. This functionality is not spelled >out on their web page, which talks of taking >users 'directly' to vendor websites. > >DC thus gets to build a profile of my interests, >bound to the name, address, etc I provided at >registration. > >DC does have a moderately good privacy policy >stated on their web page, and claims they >will never voluntarily release per-person >data to third parties. > >[It's a good thing that they say 'voluntarily', >since the biggest item on their home page is a >confession that they were successfully hacked >and all the personal data may already have been >copied! To their credit, they are up front about >this.] > >A lot of people have been looking at this >device for purposes not sanctioned by DC. >I'll leave it to the intelligent reader to >find pages which tell you how to: > >* read the barcodes with your own software, > which need not bother telling DC what you're > doing. > >* generate your own barcodes - this is the neat > application, because the CueCat becomes a > general purpose BC reader. > >* disable the serial number with a stroke of an > Xacto knife. > >or > >* re-prog the EEPROM with a new serial number. > >DC has been sending out Bigfoot letters to some >of the amateur developers, and appears to think >that these have actually had a significant >effect. > >----- > >A question for Declan: Has Wired supplied DC with >serial number <-> subscriber binding data? > >FWIW, I have decided NOT to install this device. > >Peter Trei

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CDR: Canada outlaws anonymous remailers (was Re: GigaLaw.com Daily
by Adam Shostack 20 Sep '00

20 Sep '00

I don't think it does anything to us. I think the title of the email is more interesting than the article, which is about a company being forced to hand over information that they have. We've always believed that this was the case under Canadian law, and are unsuprised. We designed our systems so that this isn't a worry, and are comfortable that thats a fine stance under Canadian law. Adam | I wonder what this does to Zero Knowledge Systems? | | Cheers, | RAH | | At 3:52 AM -0700 on 9/15/00, GigaLaw.com wrote: | | | > Canadian Ruling Could Unmask Anonymous E-mailers | > Canadian e-mailers can no longer hide behind a cloak of anonymity if | > reasonable grounds exist to show they've distributed defamatory statements | > over the Internet. The change in Canadian law came after a landmark court | > ruling this week when an Ontario Superior Court Justice ordered Internet | > service provider iPRIMUS Inc. of Toronto to reveal the identity of an | > anonymous e-mailer. | > Read the article: Wired News @ | > http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38734,00.html -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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