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RE: Crypto, anyone?
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Name <m.d.allen(a)csu-e.csuohio.edu> wrote: > i need off this mailing list now No one can take you off this list. We don't know or care how you got onto this list. This is an intelligence test. Until you can prove that you are not a clueless fuckwit by disappearing, we will continue to laugh at your sorry whines. Life's a bitch. Deal with it.

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[Fwd: CypherPunk Road Rangers]
by Six 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----- Begin Creating Forwarded Message ----- [Bienfait Nutly News] THE RECENTLY DISBANDED CANADIAN CYPHERPUNK ROAD Rangers drown their sorrows at the First Daily Bienfait Wine Tasters Keg Party, held at the Coaldust Saloon in DoWell, Saskatchewan. The RoadPunks were the toast of the town last week, when they acquired the Road Rage Control Contract awarded by the Canadian Emotional Crimes Commission. They were also the toast of the town last night (any excuse for a party, eh?), when the contract was revoked as a result of an internal argument within RoadPunk ranks that turned into an ugly free-for-all on the TransCanada Highway which quickly became a real-life demolition derby which injured many innocent, passing travelers, as well. The trouble started when some of the Canadian CypherPunks took offense to some of the actions by various of their American counterparts, who had been invited up to participate in enforcement of the new Emotional Crimes Laws. Tim May, the !Diplomatic Representative of the American faction, angered the Canadians when he stopped a man who had cut him off in heavy traffic and told him, "You drive like a Chinaman, chop, chop." The Canadians were momentarily appeased after May agreed that, while in Canada, he would treat people of Oriental ancestry with respect, and discriminate against wagon-burners and rag-heads, according to local customs. All hell broke loose, however, when May then fired several shots into the side of a passing car which was driving in a perfectly normal fashion, explaining, "He might not have cut me off, but you can bet your ass he cut off someone, somewhere, sometime..." and then refused to allow the Canadian CypherPunks to borrow his illegally imported gun to play with. Local and federal law enforcement officials were persuaded to drop all charges against the RoadPunks, in return for Peter Trei signing over the Canadian rights for use of the Adrenalyzer, which measures the amount of adrenaline in a driver's blood. It is reported to be an early prototype of the Trei Transponder, developed in a secret underground CypherPunks laboratory, by Reptilian CypherPunks. ----- End Forwarding Created Message -----

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Fwd: Re: Possible out-of-US remailer sites, 2nd edition
by Chris Adams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >From: "Chris Adams" <adamsc(a)io-online.com> >To: "cypherpunks" <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> >Date: Fri, 31 May 96 23:06:02 >Reply-To: "Chris Adams" <adamsc(a)io-online.com> >Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: PMMail 1.5 UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Subject: Re: Possible out-of-US remailer sites, 2nd edition > From: stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com To: Adamsc Date: 31 May 1996 05:28:24 pdt Subject: Re: Possible out-of-US remailer sites, 2nd edition >_Country/Area_ _Name_ _Email_ >Anguilla Cable & Wireless webmaster(a)candw.com.ai >Anguilla Offshore Information Services*** info(a)offshore.com.ai There are a number of small countries that aren't part of the US/European/Chinese/Singaporean Hegemonies, where telecom is expensive and Fidonets and uucp are the way to get email there. If you're willing to pay some money to support one, you might get some real anonymity for financially critical data. Also, there are periodic articles in magazines like Wired about how George Soros is wiring the Balkans; perhaps someone there would like to make some money running remailers. If you are willing to go that route, you can setup a Fidonet mailer VERY easily, and send mail that looks like it is from any of the 36000 bulletin boards in the nodelist. Generally it will be refused by a board that has a session password. However, it is exceedingly unlikely that a bbs in Singapore would have a passworded session with a bbs in Texas. You could send it randomly to a BBS using the name of another random board. However, this would probably be very very very UNPOPULAR, particularly if someone got nailed because of it. It would be better to work it out with some sysop in a small 3rd world country... Alternately, if you were to run a board, it is VERY simple to fake the addressing on a Fidonet mail packet...

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Re: whitehouse web incident, viva la web revolution
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Bruce Baugh, wrote: > > Fascism [...] is a theory of economics, > > basically, in which the state has ultimate authority over production and > > distribution without (as in socialism) actually _owning_ the means of > > production or distribution. . At 11:18 AM 6/6/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote: >Yes, I'm afraid these ahistorical myths are widespread. What _do_ they teach >in these schools? As usual you display profound ignorance of history and politics. Far from being an ahistorical myth, this is an entirely accurate description of fascist ideology: Or do you claim that Mussolini, Peron, etc, were not fascists? Mussolini was the one who coined the name fascism. The theory and ideology of fascism was developed by the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, and there is nothing particularly racist or right wing about either Gentile or Mussolini. Fascism is not Republicanism on steriods, nor is it racism. Fascism is basically romanticism plus socialism plus nationalism. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Re: [crypto] crypto-protocols for trading card gam
by Chris Adams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 29 May 1996 18:57:58 pdt, alanh(a)infi.net wrote: >What _did_ Solitaire do for Windows 3.1? Distract the attention of >the unwashed masses away from the actual merits of the beast? Actually, I believe it covered a direct lack thereof. (Of course, you could have been intending this in a heavily sarcastic form. In that case, I agree entirely) This Message Was Sent With An UNREGISTERED Version Of PMMail. Please Encourage Its Author To Register Their Copy Of PMMail. For More Information About PMMail And SouthSide Software's Other Products, Contact http://www.southsoft.com.

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Re: Norton Eyes only
by minow＠apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >Has anyone been able to analyse the 'patent pending', 'on-the-fly' >encryption in Norton's 'For your eyes only'? > Why bother? If it's freely exportable, we have a good estimate of it's cryptographic strength :-) Martin.

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No Subject
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C'punks, At 08:29 AM 6/7/96 -0700, you wrote, re: using ATM machines instead of couriers: >Sounds like you are suffering caffeine withdrawal. Try >wondering again after you have had some coffee. Gosh, I don't even drink coffee and I think Duncan is absolutely right on point. Snide remarks notwithstanding, what substantive critique do you have of Duncan's remarks? S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Cost of brute force decryption
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:44 PM 6/5/96 -0700, you wrote: >> > "For example a 40-bit key takes about $10,000 worth of supercomputer >> > time and two weeks to crack. Although this key may be adequate to >> > protect my checking account, it's probably not large enough for the >> > accounts of a major corporation. >> The figures look familiar. No references around. I'm not sure it would >> require a whole two weeks for 40-bits, though. Possibly less than a >> day? (Or was that why you asked baout the figures?) It was from The Newspapers, of course :-) The "$10,000 of supercomputer time" was in an initial press release description by somebody in Netscape or RSA after the RC4/40 Netscape crack, and was way high. (Check Altavista...) However, it's not too far off for the cost of a DES crack, where "supercomputer" is defined as "a special-purpose cracking machine" rather than "a Cray".. (Maybe an order of magnitude high for that.) And the description of $10,000 as "maybe enough to protect my checking account, but not large enough for the accounts of a major corporation" is about right. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs # Rescind Authority!

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Re: Class III InfoWar
by Chris Adams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 2 Jun 1996 03:06:14 pdt, hal9001(a)panix.com wrote: >At 21:33 -0400 6/1/96, winn(a)Infowar.Com wrote: > > >>The article discussed the advanced information warfare techniques used by the >>perpetrators. "According to the American National Security Agency (NSA), they >>have penetrated computer systems using 'logic bombs' (coded devices that >>can be >>remotely detonated) > >Unless the definition has changed recently, a "logic bomb" is normally a >piece of code in a program that is triggered when a specific event occurs >(such as the programmer's name not appearing in a payroll file for a >designated period of time [which might trigger a salami round off routine >to start cutting checks 2 months after s/he is no longer working for the >company]). I believe that is what they were referring to. However, the press garbled it as usual. It seems like the original was something like 'logic bombs' (bits of code that can be triggered remotely). Probably sounded more impressive the reporter's way... This Message Was Sent With An UNREGISTERED Version Of PMMail. Please Encourage Its Author To Register Their Copy Of PMMail. For More Information About PMMail And SouthSide Software's Other Products, Contact http://www.southsoft.com.

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Re: WWW servers.
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Black Unicorn: >> Does there currently exist a system which permits webservers to restrict >> access to clients who have a given certification? Sameer: > Yup. .... > =) Stronghold: The Apache-SSL-US, coupled with XCert >Sentry. What else? Of course, there's a simpler approach; restrict access to people who have logins and passwords, and only give those to people who have the certification... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs # Rescind Authority!

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