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Re: (fwd) Wolf's got a thing or two to say here...
by edgar＠spectrx.Saigon.COM 11 Aug '93

11 Aug '93

I was able to decode the message from "wolf" posted to Newsgroup alt.sexual.abuse.recovery and then posted here by Ed Carp, who said Here's something I found on another newsgroup. Any ideas what it is? It was a public posting... I've tried uudecoding it and playing with it, running it through uncompress, gunzip, and pgp (all with appropriate headers, of course - I'm not a total idiot!), but I can't make heads or tails out of it. Just curious if anyone found this familiar-looking... Procedure for decode is: Extract message to file xxx.asc Add -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- and -----END PGP MESSAGE----- to start and end of file. Change PGP's CONFIG.TXT file to de-comment KeepBinary = on # Decrypt will not delete intermediate .pgp file verbose = on # verbose diagnostic messages [this is probably the step Ed missed] Then just run PGP against the file PGP XXX.ASC The result will be found in XXX.PGP which is now not deleted. I won't repeat the long message here. It's apparently from a fag (Wolf) who was beat up by his lover (David) whom he had arrested. Here are the first few lines: Hello friends. I hope you are all well. I am doing better today than before. I get a little more livelier every day. I am not in the mood to talk about the situation right now, though. I would like to first of all thank each an every one of you for the SCADS of mail I have recieved in response to my post about what happened last Monday night. I'm not sure how this message was produced. Maybe not by PGP. I tried reversing the encoding with pgp -a xxx.pgp, but a different encoded file is produced, which PGP decodes with no problems. -- edgar(a)spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Cupertino, Ca

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So. Cal. Cypherpunks
by Kent Hastings 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

So. Cal. Cypherpunks CYPHERPUNK-RELATED MEETINGS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: J. Kent Hastings (Hey-that's ME!) will flame on about: "CYBER CASH: FREE MARKET MONEY COMES OF AGE." Wednesday, September 22, 1993: H.L. MENCKEN FORUM At The Old Spaghetti Factory in Los Angeles 6:30 pm Libations, 7:00 Supper, 7:55 Announcements, 8:00 Speaker, 10:00 Adjournment 5939 Sunset Blvd. near the Hollywood Fwy at Gordon Los Angeles, CA 90028 Restaurant: (213) 469-7149 RESERVATION/PRICES/INFO LINE: 1-310-289-3234 Just as Christ descended into Hell (mythically-don't want any of you to get upset about theism), an anti-Party speaker, J. Kent Hastings (hmm, that guy sounds familiar), will address: LIBERTARIAN PARTY REGION 62 - LOS ANGELES WESTSIDE Thursday, September 23, 1993 at Chris's Italian Restaurant, 10105 Venice Blvd. at Clarington Ave. on the same old Digital Cash topic. Cocktails are at 6:30 pm, dinner at 7 pm, and talk is at 8:30 pm. LP info: 1-310-477-6491 The ALBERT J. NOCK FORUM and Southern California Supper Club is another club that may be of interest to you, run by the host of the H. L. Mencken Forum. Albert J. Nock wrote essays (An Anarchist's Progress) and books about government like Our Enemy, The State and Mr. Jefferson. The Nock Forum has been in operation for over 10 years, hosting speakers on engineering, scientific, financial, and political issues. Controversial figures, on and over the cutting edge of toleration and civil liberties, have also graced the forum, but nobody more outrageous than you'll see on a given day's Geraldo, Oprah, Donahue, or Montel Williams show. I DON'T remember a speaker having had a sex change from male to female, then discovering she was a lesbian, but I was in Northern California for a while and may have missed it. Past speakers at Mencken and Nock include: Max More (Extropy), LiberTech's Chuck Hammill, Wendy McElroy (Freedom, Feminism, and the State), David Justin Ross (Calera), J. Neil Schulman (author of Alongside Night and Rainbow Cadenza), Vic Koman (Jehovah Contract), Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus!, Natural Law), L. Neil Smith (Confederacy SF novels), Dr. Sharon Presley (Libertarian Psychology - Obedience to Authority), Samuel Edward Konkin III (New Libertarian, Agorist Institute), Brock Meeks (Computer Privacy), Burt Rutan (Voyager, FreeWing), Paul Macready (Gossamer Condor and Albatross) and many others on topics like nanotechnology, public key crypto, artificial intelligence, immortality, informal markets and other topics that look like Tim May's tag line. BTW, Tim has a standing invitation from the host to speak about "Crypto Anarchy" and get a free dinner (He's gotta be in town and schedule ahead). The latest speaker was Richard Grant, author (Incredible Bread Machine, Trashing Nuclear Power, Rent Control and the War against the Poor), on "Bring Us The Head of Michael Milken." Date/time/location of the next ALBERT J. NOCK Forum, now in its 11th year: STEVEN W. MOSHER "The Future of 1/4 of the Human Race." ACAPULCO at Cerritos Plaza 1800 West Whittier Blvd., La Habra, California, East of Beach Blvd. SAME INFO LINE AS MENCKEN: 1-310-289-3234

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ftp access to the Silk Road Paper
by norm＠netcom.com 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

The Digital Silk road paper is now availnle in three forms at netcom.com:pub/joule/DSR1.ps.gz, DSR1.rtf.gz and DSR1.txt netcom.com may sometimes be too busy and then direct you to one of several other machines any of which can access the files.

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Re: August Bay Area cypherpunks meeting
by plmoses＠unix.cc.emory.edu 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

the directions to Cygnus remind me of something from "The Crying of Lot 49"

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Re: getting wired #2
by plmoses＠unix.cc.emory.edu 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

Isn't Wired magazine available on America Online? I think AOL was promoting it as a new set of text files it was offering. Check there.

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Re: re: Secure voice software issues
by Claborne, Chris 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

>The problem with this is that public-key encryption is slooooow. I >never thought of having a fixed key for each user; even the STU-III >ignition keys get reloaded every so often. The slow part is the RSA encryption. The conversation doesn't need to be encrypted with RSA, mabe IDEA or something else. All you really need to do is create a session key for each side once with RSA then you are done (similar to PGP). 2 -- C --

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Software Patent Institute
by Anonymous 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

I saw this recently and thought it might be of interest to some people on the list with strong feelings about IP. -S.? Software Patent Institute c/o Industrial Tech Inst. 2901 Hubbard St./ PO Box 1485 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1485 (313) 769-4083 Fax: 313-769-4064 spi(a)iti.org SPI "folklore" database The SPI is now operating, and we are asking the software community to help us build, our "folklore" database by sharing with everyone the concepts and techniques which they find so familiar, but which the US Patent and Trademark Office generally cannot identify as prior art, since they lack any specific reference to the technique in question. We must help the USPTO do its job better, so that patents are not granted for techniques that have already been invented but were lost in the "folklore" prior to the creation of our SPI folklore database. [There's more to the letter, but I just wanted to give an idea. Contact them for more information if you want. -S.] ------- End of Forwarded Message

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August Bay Area cypherpunks meeting
by Eric Hughes 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

ANNOUNCEMENT ============ August Bay Area cypherpunks meeting Saturday, August 14, 1993 12:00 noon - 6:00 p.m. Cygnus Support offices, Mt. View, California Topics this time include the usual assortment of mailer topics, politics, protocols, and rant. There will be a discussion of the Twain privacy service and privacy.net, among others. Meetings are the second Saturday of every month, at the same location and at the same time. There is frequently an informal dinner at a restaurant chosen by concensus at the meeting. DIRECTIONS ========== [Directions to Cygnus provided by John Gilmore. -- EH] Cygnus Support 1937 Landings Drive Mt. View, CA 94043 +1 415 903 1400 switchboard +1 415 903 1418 John Gilmore Take US 101 toward Mt. View. From San Francisco, it's about a 40-minute drive. Get off at the Rengstorff Ave/Amphitheatre Parkway exit. If you were heading south on 101, you curve around to the right, cross over the freeway, and get to a stoplight. If you were heading north on 101, you just come right off the exit to the stoplight. The light is the intersection of Amphitheatre and Charleston Rd. Take a right on Charleston; there's a right-turn-only lane. Follow Charleston for a short distance. You'll pass the Metaphor/Kaleida buildings on the right. At a clump of palm trees and a "Landmark Deli" sign, take a right into Landings Drive. At the end of the road, turn left into the complex with the big concrete "Landmark" sign. Follow the road past the deli til you are in front of the clock tower that rises out of one of the buildings, facing you. Enter through the doors immediately under the clock tower. They'll be open between noon and 1PM at least. (See below if you're late.) Once inside, take the stairs up, immediately to your right. At the top of the stairs, turn right past the treetops, and we'll be in 1937 on your left. The door is marked "Cygnus". If you are late and the door under the clock tower is locked, you can walk to the deli (which will be around the building on your left, as you face the door). Go through the gate in the fence to the right of the deli, and into the back lawns between the complex and the farm behind it. Walk forward and right around the buildings until you see a satellite dish in the lawn. Go up the stairs next to the dish, which are the back stairs into the Cygnus office space. We'll prop the door (or you can bang on it if we forget). Or, you can find the guard who's wandering around the complex, who knows there's a meeting happening and will let you in. They can be beeped at 965 5250, though you'll have trouble finding a phone. Don't forget to eat first, or bring food at noon! I recommend hitting the burrito place on Rengstorff (La Costen~a) at about 11:45. To get there, when you get off 101, take Rengstorff (toward the hills) rather than Amphitheatre (toward the bay). Follow it about ten blocks until the major intersection at Middlefield Road. La Costen~a is the store on your left at the corner. You can turn left into the narrow lane behind the store, which leads to a parking lot, and enter by the front door, which faces the intersection. To get to the meeting from there, just retrace your route on Rengstorff, go straight over the freeway, and turn right at the stoplight onto Charleston; see above. See you there! John Gilmore

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getting wired #2
by Steven Levy 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

>Can anyone tell me how to get a copy of Levy's "Wired" article? If it's any comfort I can't get any myself. The issue is sold out and there are very few even in the WIRED office, so few that they won't spare 'em. What's worse, it's very hard to Xerox the article since it is printed on a weird background. If you can't get it anywhere, let me know and I'll try to get one to you, but I would appreciate it if you (and anyone else) wrote the editors at wired.com and told 'em you would like to see reprints of the story. Steven

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Cypherpunks write code
by fergp＠sytex.com 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

Can I entice someone to post the Cypherpunk charter statement again? I've been looking at the FAQ that Eric Raymond started, and need to to fill in some gaps.... This has taken way too long and I thought perhaps I might toss a few free moments into adding some text. Cheers, Paul Ferguson | "Government, even in its best state, Network Integrator | is but a necessary evil; in its worst Centreville, Virginia USA | state, an intolerable one." fergp(a)sytex.com | - Thomas Paine, Common Sense Type bits/keyID Date User ID pub 1024/1CC04D 1993/03/15 Paul Ferguson <fergp(a)sytex.com> Key fingerprint = EE D2 93 7D 04 6D C6 05 AC 36 AD 9D 8E 4F 41 58

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