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zip version for pgp2.2?
by John.Nieder＠f33.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG 10 Mar '93

10 Mar '93

* Reply to msg originally in Cypherpunks <INET> BK> I just downloaded pgp22.zip from soda, and pkunzip complains about BK> every file having a bad checksum. I'm still using pkunzip 1.1, and I BK> know that pgp20 had problems with some versions of pkunzip. Do I need BK> to get pkunzip 2.04g? The problem I found was that the file was not only compressed with the 2.04? PKZip, but that the -d option had been invoked to preserve a very silly \DOC subdirectory for the documentation. The result was that PGP22.ZIP could not be unZIPped with _either_ version's simple PKUNZIP command, but required the 2.04 version with the -d switch in the command line. I finally got the file unZIPped, but rezipped it as a simple .ZIPfile - without the ridiculous subdirectory - with v 1.10, which will unpack with either version. It's this package that I'm passing along. Hope this helps. JN ... When the going gets tough, the smart get lost. --- Blue Wave/Opus v2.12 [NR]-- John Nieder - via FidoNet node 1:125/555 UUCP - ...!uunet!hoptoad!kumr!fidogate!33!John.Nieder INTERNET - John.Nieder(a)f33.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG

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Steve Jackson Games - Legal issues resolved?
by fergp＠sytex.com 10 Mar '93

10 Mar '93

This text was extracted from RISKS DIGEST 14.39 - 8<------- Cut Here ----------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 93 10:25:35 -0500 From: Eric Haines <erich(a)eye.com> Subject: Steve Jackson Games/Secret Service wrapup [Eric Haines, erich(a)eye.com, sent me a Houston Chronicle article by Joe Abernathy, a sometime contributor to RISKS, which Eric found in the electronic mail magazine "Desperado" ("no, it's not a magazine about hacking"). "There can be justice in the world, after all..." EH. I cannot include the long copyrighted article here, but have excerpted from the beginning, as follows. It's a good article. Alas, no date. But Joe may still be available at Joe.Abernathy(a)houston.chron.com if you want to dig up the whole thing. Also, see RISKS-9.95,96;10.01,ff. for the earlier history. PGN] Steve Jackson Games/Secret Service wrapup By JOE ABERNATHY Copyright 1993, Houston Chronicle [no date given] AUSTIN -- An electronic civil rights case against the Secret Service closed Thursday with a clear statement by federal District Judge Sam Sparks that the Service failed to conduct a proper investigation in a notorious computer crime crackdown, and went too far in retaining custody of seized equipment. The judge's formal findings in the complex case, which will likely set new legal precedents, won't be returned until later. [...] The judge's rebuke apparently convinced the Department of Justice to close its defense after calling only ... one of the several government witnesses on hand. "The Secret Service didn't do a good job in this case. We know no investigation took place. Nobody ever gave any concern as to whether (legal) statutes were involved. We know there was damage," Sparks said in weighing damages. The lawsuit, brought by Steve Jackson Games of Austin, said that the seizure of three computers violated the Privacy Protection Act, which provides First Amendment protections against seizing a publisher's works in progress. The lawsuit further said that since one of the computers was being used to run a bulletin board system containing private electronic mail, the seizure violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act in regards to the 388 callers of the Illuminati BBS. The testimony described by Joe was rather strange. Agents testified that there was no criminal connection, they were not even trained in the Privacy Protection Act, and it took them only an hour to discover the true nature of the situation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation spent over $200,000 bringing this case to trial. The legal ramifications are considerable. Perhaps someone from EFF will contribute an analysis to RISKS, although many EFFers (and I) are at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 93 this week. Don't hold your breath, but perhaps we need to wait for the judge? PGN 8<------- Cut Here ----------------------- Cheers. Paul Ferguson | Network Integration Consultant | "All of life's answers are Alexandria, Virginia USA | on TV." fergp(a)sytex.com (Internet) | -- Homer Simpson sytex.com!fergp (UUNet) | 1:109/229 (FidoNet) | PGP public encryption key available upon request.

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FWEE!: Re: F-117A post considered harmful
by jthomas＠mango.mitre.org 10 Mar '93

10 Mar '93

Hmm... I thought that was the point. When I read the F-117A message, I thought the poster was trying to point out that a "whistleblower"-type newsgroup could be abused by people trying to leak classified information (not that that should be news to anyone). I didn't take the information in it any more seriously than I took DeadBeat's request that I send him my e-mail address through anon.penet.fi, so he could describe a security hole there. Am I the only one who got that impression? Joe

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NSA TApping
by kelly＠netcom.com 10 Mar '93

10 Mar '93

Xref: netcom.com sci.crypt:12315 alt.privacy:6117 Path: netcom.com!netcomsv!decwrl!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!cs18.cs.aukuni.ac.nz!pgut1 Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.privacy Subject: NSA tapping of UK communications Message-ID: <1993Mar8.104302.10737(a)cs.aukuni.ac.nz> From: pgut1(a)cs.aukuni.ac.nz (PeterClaus Gutmann ) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 10:43:02 GMT Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland Lines: 26 The following appeared in the NZ Herald on March 4th - I thought it might be of interest to sci.crypt and alt.privacy readers. It backs up claims made in places like "The Puzzle Palace": " A former MI6 officer told the Daily Express that US agents tapped royal calls on behalf of the GCHQ spy centre. Mr James Rusbridger told the paper two top-secret listening stations - operated by the NSA - illegally tap large numbers of private conversations from their bases in Cornwall and Yorkshire. 'By getting the Americans to do it, the British Government is able to say truthfully, though misleadingly, that GCHQ does not tap domestic telephone calls', Mr Rusbridger said. 'The reason the Government is resisting an official investigation into the tapping of royal conversations is that it would be forced to admit publicly that these American owned and controlled listening stations exist on UK soil'. Incidentally, NZ has it's own NSA-controlled listening stations, the largest being at Tangimoana on the South Island. Peter. -- pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||p_gutmann@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||gutmann_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz peterg@kcbbs.gen.nz||peter@nacjack.gen.nz||peter@phlarnschlorpht.nacjack.gen.nz (In order of preference - one of 'em's bound to work) -- C++ will do for C what Algol 68 did for Algol --

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Re: Questions about PGP 2.2 compilation messages
by Eric Fogleman 10 Mar '93

10 Mar '93

Nickey, I recently compiled _pgp2.1_ on my sun4 and had a similar problem... I got a binary that seemed to work, but I got a list of warnings. In my case, the program actually had a bug in it; it was trying to compare an unsigned character variable (8 bits) for maximum path length to 256 (nine bits) as defined in the source code. I asked around on the list and I got the same sort of responses you did... I ended up redefining and changing the compare statement to make the compiler happy and still get the intended code... So, pgp may not be entirely bug free... The sun4 compiler may be more conscientious about flagging things. I'd suggest looking through the source to see if there's something simple. In my case, it was. Let me know how you fare; I'll be going through the same thing shortly... Eric Fogleman

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PGP: zip version for pgp2.2?
by Duncan Frissell 10 Mar '93

10 Mar '93

Even PGP2.1 wouldn't unzip with PKUNZIP 1.x. I had to use PKUNZIP 2.4. I assume PGP22.ZIP is the same. Duncan Frissell

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Questions about PGP 2.2 compilation messages
by Nickey MacDonald 09 Mar '93

09 Mar '93

Sorry for the large size of this post, but I want to make sure I'm not the only one who has seen this... This is a log of my compilation of PGP 2.2 on a Sun4... There are some warnings that don't look that serious, by should there be any warnings at all? (I'd prefer the docs mentioned them if they're supposed to be there... but I didn't see any mention in any of the docs...) --- Log Starts --- jupiter [/tmp/i6t4/pgp/pgp22/src] {i6t4.50}% make sun4cc cd unproto && make `cpp' is up to date. make all CC=cc LD=cc OBJS_EXT=sparc.o \ CFLAGS="-Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32" cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c pgp.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c crypto.c "crypto.c", line 910: warning: & before array or function: ignored cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c keymgmt.c "keymgmt.c", line 471: warning: statement not reached "keymgmt.c", line 478: warning: statement not reached "keymgmt.c", line 490: warning: statement not reached "keymgmt.c", line 497: warning: statement not reached "keymgmt.c", line 508: warning: statement not reached "keymgmt.c", line 516: warning: statement not reached "keymgmt.c", line 519: warning: statement not reached "keymgmt.c", line 524: warning: statement not reached "keymgmt.c", line 529: warning: statement not reached "keymgmt.c", line 534: warning: statement not reached "keymgmt.c", line 538: warning: statement not reached "keymgmt.c", line 587: warning: statement not reached cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c fileio.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c mdfile.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c more.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c armor.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c mpilib.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c mpiio.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c genprime.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c rsagen.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c random.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c idea.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c passwd.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c md5.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c system.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c language.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c getopt.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c keyadd.c "keyadd.c", line 760: warning: statement not reached cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c config.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c keymaint.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c charset.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c zbits.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c zdeflate.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c zfile_io.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c zglobals.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c zinflate.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c zip.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c zipup.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c ztrees.c cc -Qpath unproto -O -DUNIX -DHIGHFIRST -DIDEA32 -target sun4 -c zunzip.c as -sparc -o sparc.o sparc.s cc -o pgp pgp.o crypto.o keymgmt.o fileio.o mdfile.o more.o armor.o mpilib.o mp iio.o genprime.o rsagen.o random.o idea.o passwd.o md5.o system.o language.o g etopt.o keyadd.o config.o keymaint.o charset.o zbits.o zdeflate.o zfile_io.o zg lobals.o zinflate.o zip.o zipup.o ztrees.o zunzip.o sparc.o --- Log Ends --- Anyone care to comment? --- Nick MacDonald | NMD on IRC i6t4(a)jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca | PGP 2.1 Public key available via finger

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Re: PGP: zip version for pgp2.2?
by dclunie＠pax.tpa.com.au 09 Mar '93

09 Mar '93

> Even PGP2.1 wouldn't unzip with PKUNZIP 1.x. I had to use PKUNZIP 2.4. > I assume PGP22.ZIP is the same. I would not make this assumption ... I will try it when the zip files have finished ftp'ing across and let you know. david

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SUBSCRIBE
by shawn mic ael larsonneiolaings 09 Mar '93

09 Mar '93

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Fwd: cyberspace, congressional hearings
by fen＠genmagic.genmagic.com 09 Mar '93

09 Mar '93

> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 17:51:38 -0800 > From: Bruce Smith <bruce(a)wri.com> > Subject: cyberspace, congressional hearings The following is quoted/paraphrased from a column by Brian Robinson on page 26 of the 1 March 93 Electronic Engineering Times. By passing it on I imply no specific attitude of my own. I don't know the date of the hearings, but if someone finds out if/when it will be viewable on C-Span, I'd like to know. Feel free to pass the following info to individuals, mailing lists, or newsgroups. --- The House Telecommunications Subcommittee, chaired by Edward Markey (D-Mass), will soon be holding hearings on the relationship of future communications technologies to modern culture. In particular, it will be looking at the not-so-far-off universe of cyberspace. Some of the issues the panel will be considering are (in Markey's own words): + Are the fundamental values of our society so universal and enduring that they will not be threatened by the advent of new technologies or any new subcultures such technologies produce? + Will cyberspace instead become some lawless place, where the Constitution is cracked open by fiber fissures created when trying to convert a 200-year-old parchment document into a binary world of 0s and 1s? Can it continue to be a "living, breathing document"? + Will cyberspace develop its own distinct laws? Will it develop "digital vigilantes" to patrol and police the electronic bulletin boards and electronic highways?

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