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CDR: Regresso às Aulas
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05 Sep '00

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CDR: <no subject>
by Kathy Pinckert 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

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CDR: about this list, and a poor man's crypto
by Marcello 'R.D.O.' Magnifico 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

I'm telling you I'm leaving, and why. 1. The list appears to be USA-centric, and Internet covers the whole world. 2. I'm not bragging around about what illegal I did (if I ever did) and why I think I'm right (of course I am! ;->) and why the other guys are wrong (of course they are, indeed! ;->) 3. I expected a lot of tech issues and found instead a bunch of: -discussions on racism, religion, gov't behavior worldwide -"we hate pigs" -US local laws discussions (see 1) -simple fluff and/or flaming. 4. Some smeghead is boycotting the list by subscribing it to other lists, or the list address went into some spammer's archive spreaded worldwide. Sorry, but I don't like all that and can't stand the flow of a list that massively talks about anything else than crypto: that's why I'm leaving (now). For the nuisance of having read this apparently off-topic e-mail message, you should be at least rewarded with a poor man's crypto solution. :-) In Italy we don't seem having a corpus of laws about/against crypto, so it's possible to develop almost anything. Not being linked to general concepts and standards about what crypto is or should be, that's how I figured out the concept of "brute-force key". It's the trivial usage of large keys in non-public key environments, at the expenses of weakening the encryption algorythm. It may seem stupid, but current technology makes it possible and very effective, depending only on the ability of generating good random byte sequences. Let's say you store your key on a diskette that carries at least 170Kbytes (I can, so you should, too ;->). Well, a 170Kbytes key _is_ strong, and performance can be achieved by using a trivial XOR algorythm, in circular or bustrophedic (back-and-forth) sequence if the message to be sent is larger. XOR implies that the key MUST be a long random string, because you might want to transmit a file with long 0x00 sequences, too. XORing 0x00 exposes parts of your key, so they should look undistinguishable from non-null encrypted data, that will appear as random rubbish (that's the purpose of crypto, right? :->). Let's say someone sent you an encrypted file via e-mail. After the file is decrypted (you met in person one night, let's say eating some pizza, and passed the key; it's safer than passing it via modem), you can simply pass it through a Unix-like 'file(1)' utility and establish which program should read it (the message can be a text file, an archive or an executable; cryptanalysis is almost impossible when the spy doesn't know what the output looks like). A neat trick could be using a random sequence that is larger than any message you'll ever transmit (let's say you're using a Zip cartridge, a tape or a CD-Rom instead of a diskette). Another one would be interleaving random "disturbing" data while producing the encrypted file, by all means inflating it, in order to make cryptanalysis much harder. Fantasy is the only limit. Pass the encrypted stuff under stego, and you're 99% save because few people can detect stego and the transmission itself will be hidden for most Bad Guys. If you don't care about ITAR laws (and it seems that you, being the Cypherpunks, actually don't), then you can start developing your own "final" encryption system at any time, being sure it has no backdoors. 1M44, a nowadays' diskette size, is a very good key size that is REALLY impossible to brute-force attack by Your Enemy (that can be, i.e., your Big And Bad rival corporation on the market). For any developer not at a beginner level, the key doesn't need to physically fit in RAM memory and can be directly read from its physical support at need. For smart and very distant geeks, it's possible to use as a key some compressed (pseudo-random) files widely available (a game, an MP3 or such; even operating system portions) and use that "safer-than-nothing" channel to exchange the big key. bye, and have fun with crypto stuff! RDO P.S.- Legal disclaimer: this message and its contents were not developed in the United States. In no way the author is responsible for the use or misuse of this message or contents, nor for the message itself.

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CDR: C&W blocks Internet phone calls in the Caymans
by Private User 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=30234&pub=tt&categoryid=626 Internet & E-commerce C&W blocks Internet phone calls in the Caymans By Rick Catlin, Reuters 24 August 2000 Officials of communications giant Cable & Wireless , which has a monopoly on the Cayman Islands, have begun blocking Internet subscribers on the islands from using the U.S.-based Net2Phone long distance phone service that charges a fraction of what C&W charges Cayman customers. The move came after C&W sent an e-mail to its Internet subscribers on the islands, a major financial centre, earlier this month advising them they were breaking their contract with C&W by using the Internet for phone services. The Net2Phone system uses the Internet to make long distance calls, by-passing the traditional telephone service and charging far less. C&W spokesperson Tina Trumbach confirmed the blockage on Wednesday, adding that any other similar system that can be detected will be blocked. She noted that company officials last year indicated publicly they would not be blocking Net2Phone at that time as long as usage did not seriously affect C&W revenues. Since then, the technology to block systems such as Net2Phone has become available as C&W's long distance revenues have been declining and Net2Phone usage has increased. UK-based Cable & Wireless is one of the world's largest telecommunications companies and in the Cayman Islands alone, the company generates more than $50 million in net profits annually, according to government figures, from a country of just 45,000 people. C&W has an exclusive 25-year contract with the Cayman government signed in 1991 to be the sole provider of telecommunications service to the Cayman Islands. In return, C&W pays 6 percent of its gross revenues to the government annually, which two years ago amounted to about US$10 million. Recently, the company has indicated a willingness to accept competition in a "structured" and "regulated" environment. Trumbach said the company will soon offer further price reductions on Internet service to various business customers. But the company said it could not sustain a trend of lowering prices if there were a proliferation of "prohibited usage." The Cayman Islands, a British colony of three islands in the western Caribbean, have a population of about 45,000 and more than 40,000 registered companies, including nearly 600 banks and trusts and nearly 500 captive insurance companies. It has been estimated that about 2,000 C&W customers in the Cayman Islands used Net2Phone or similar service. C&W could not confirm that number. Businessman William Peguero, whose company was selling "YapJacks" - the device that enables Internet telephone communication - vowed to fight C&W in the courts. He said he has already obtained more than 1,000 signatures on a petition calling for an end to the C&W monopoly in the Cayman Islands and open competition to lower rates. "Jurisdictions including Jamaica, Bermuda, Hong Kong and others around the world have ended the Cable & Wireless monopoly on telecommunications through the introduction of competition," he said. "In each case, the services offered are better and the pricing for those services lowered for the citizens and businesses in those countries." He also claimed C&W has no legal right to block access to any Internet service. The current C&W long-distance rate for a business hours call to North America is $1.50 per minute. Peguero said he was able to make calls on Net2Phone for about 13 cents per minute. Net2Phone attorney Steve Dorry in New York said his company had no comment on the matter "at this time." He added, however, that the company would be addressing the legal issue "in the proper forum" in the very near future. Dorry said he expected similar action by C&W in other jurisdictions where it operates as a monopoly, particularly in the English-speaking Caribbean. Several years ago, when some Cayman Islands businesses bought in to a call back system in the United States to provide long distance service cheaper than normal C&W rates, the company was able to effectively identify and block call back usage from specific telephones.

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CDR: Re: Treatment of subjugated people (and bagpipes)
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

At 07:42 PM 9/4/00 -0400, Tim May wrote: At 4:38 PM -0400 9/4/00, Steven Furlong wrote: Ray Dillinger wrote: >>There are good reasons for the governments of the world (even Italy's, for our Italian friend who is insulted that we don't write enough about Italy) not to want to test the limits of the law: adhocracies like ambiguity. >What about the right to remain silent? How does the Fifth Amendment impinge on this issue? >A criminal defendant has the right to remain silent. He cannot be compelled to tell where evidence is located. He cannot be compelled to testify against himself. Although this list is mainly focused on the social implications of crypto and privacy. It has also been a frequent forum for libertarian ideals: like smaller government. There can be no greater lever to reduce the size of government than "...to cut off its oxygen," that is revenue. One of the better examples of the intersection of the Fifth Amendment and taxes involves W4 and 1040 U.S. federal tax forms. For many years legislators have publicly maintained that we have a nation of voluntary tax compliance. (Yet woe onto those who decide not to volunteer.) Widely accepted federal court rulings consider statements on these tax forms as testimony (not evidence) in a court of law. Since under our Constitution one cannot be compelled to testify against himself it seems reasonable that one cannot be compelled to submit to endorsing either form. Only one case I know of (Conklin vs. U.S.) has been adjudicated on this issue. Conklin won but the case. The federal court ruled that submission of tax forms was voluntary, but the ruling was suppressed by a legal procedure which allow courts to selectively deny its citing in subsequent cases. Adhocracies like ambiguity Napster has tapped into a broad reservoir of resentment and resistance to paying too much for music. I believe all U.S. libertarians on the list should be considering how a high profile test case of the constitutionality of the U.S. federal tax system might tap into a similar disdain for taxation and achieve substantially more constraint of government encroachment on civil liberties than our valiant crypto coding efforts. ks

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CDR: ADV - 10 MILLION ADDRESSES!
by emailingswork＠postd.com 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

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CDR: Re: Whipped Europeans
by Steve Schear 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

At 06:15 AM 9/3/00 -0400, you wrote: >On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, David Marshall wrote: > > >Not to mention that there exists a certain peptide, the name of which > >escapes me at the moment, which is naturally occuring in the > >brain. It is five amino acids long, and exerts an effect about 5000 > >times stronger than that of Heroin. There are far more where that came > >from. > >Of course. Just as there is anandamide, the transmitter which hemp compounds >mainly mimic. Only you do not easily get such substances into the brain >without using a needle - proteins generally do not get through the >blood-brain barrier absent active transport. Most inhaled substances can easily circumvent the brain-blood barrier through a nasal path (forget which). Its now become a common dosage approach for certain brain medicines. steve

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CDR: Bruble2 is back
by Admin of Bruble Anonymous Remailer 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

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CDR: "..do not count on the anonymity of the Internet to serve as a shield for your illegal conduct"
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

>"Anyone who would use the Internet to commit a crime should understand one thing -- do not count on the anonymity of the Internet to serve as a shield for your illegal conduct. As technology advances, so do our investigative techniques and our abilities to protect the public." Quite true. However, any well informed LE-type will tell you only amateurs are likely to be caught. I dare say if we select one of this list's more informed members, say Black Unicorn, and assume he intended to engage in a similar exploit as this fellow from Bloomberg. I would find it highly unlikely that BU would ever be apprehended for the deed (assuming he didn't brag). ks

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by waterhouse 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

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