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TINSIGN: Simple script for PGP signing messages in Tin 1.22
by Robert A. Hayden 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Howdy, me again. In keeping with my wish to make PGP signing of transmissions simple and commonplace, I've got another script for y'all. This is for the Tin Newsreader. I hope you find it useful. Comments appreciated. ============================================================ #!/bin/sh # TinSign v1.0 # Written by Robert A. Hayden <hayden(a)krypton.mankato.msus.edu> # Based in part on the PGP editor wrapper, Version 1.0 (editpgp) # Copyright (c) 1994, Mark Lewis <nostra(a)city.ac.uk>. # TINSIGN is a simple program that will allow you to automatically sign # your news messages composed with the TIN 1.2pl2 news reader. It # may also work with other news programs, but it has not been tested. # INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONFIGURING TIN # # You need to define the following options in Tin. This is done via # editing the $HOME/.tin/tinrc file. # # A) start_editor_offset=ON # B) default_editor_format=<path to this script> +%N %F # Example: /users/foo/bar/tinsign +%N %F # C) default_sigfile=/dev/null # NOTE: I have been unable to get my copy of tin to read # any file other than $HOME/.signature, no matter # what this parameter is set to. The solution I # found was to remove $HOME/.signature and create # another file that is read in by defining the # variable below. You may want to experiment with # this to find out what works best for you as this # might be a bug specific to our local compilation. # INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONFIGURING TINSIGN # # The PGP program must be in your path, and the PGPPATH environment # variable must be defined. See the PGP documentation for details. # # In addition to PGP and the editor you define, TinSign also will use the # following programs: # awk # cat # echo # egrep # mv # rm # sleep # # Double check that the first line of this program points to sh. # # Execute the command "chmod 700 <path/to/tinsign>". # # Edit the SIGPATH and TINEDITOR variables to point at your signature # (if any) and the editor you wish to use for your Tin messages. Default # signature will be the file .signature-tin in your $HOME directory. # Default editor is pico -z -t. # # Define SIGPATH=/dev/null if you do not have an ASCII signature to # append. SIGPATH=$HOME/.signature-tin TINEDITOR='pico -z -t' # INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING TINSIGN # # When you compose a message, you will compose your message as normal. # # When you exit your editor (control-X in Pico), you will receive a # prompt asking for your PGP passphrase. Type this in. # # At this point, if you have defined one, your ASCII signature will be # appended to the message AFTER the digital signature. # # You will then be put into the Tin menu asking if you wish to edit your # posting some more, quit the post (ie, abort it), or post it. ### DO NOT TAMPER BELOW THIS LINE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING ### # Define internal variables filename=`echo $2 | cut -f$# -d' '` tmpdir=/tmp #Run editor $TINEDITOR +$1 $2 # Split the headers from the body of the article awk '{ print }; /^$/ { exit }' $filename > ${tmpdir}/tmp$$.hdr awk 'body == 1 { print }; /^$/ { body=1 }' $filename > ${tmpdir}/tmp$$ # Remove "--" egrep -ve '^--$' ${tmpdir}/tmp$$ > ${tmpdir}/tmp2$$ mv ${tmpdir}/tmp2$$ ${tmpdir}/tmp$$ # Sign the message pgp -sat +comment="PGP Signed with TinSign 1.0" +clearsig=on ${tmpdir}/tmp$$ if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then cat ${tmpdir}/tmp$$.hdr ${tmpdir}/tmp$$.asc > $filename else echo ""; echo "*Error in signing. Aborted." sleep 5 fi # clean up any files in temp space rm -f ${tmpdir}/tmp$$.hdr ${tmpdir}/tmp$$.asc ${tmpdir}/tmp$$ # append your ASCII signature to the message echo " " >> $filename cat $SIGPATH >> $filename -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: PGP Signed with PineSign 2.1 iQCVAwUBMA1AZjokqlyVGmCFAQGv4QP/XB8BU91sU0KlzWTKkyZaW4j2KYKDzGin SgbFtdd9KdcoalhLU0myzOvMcpr3QAhAbaXN4Zq56IE/OYm5WL0MUJnJ6GF7kdEc F2r0vC9Nt7iZrWoG7LsqJrKrlLDp8eFhcWrpkwhH7trWA2jAjqHzof4Gy0fr8LD0 Xc1KEPpQ+JA= =Jsj3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ____ Robert A. Hayden <=> Cthulhu Matata \ /__ -=-=-=-=- <=> -=-=-=-=- \/ / Finger for Geek Code Info <=> hayden(a)krypton.mankato.msus.edu \/ Finger for PGP Public Key <=> http://att2.cs.mankato.msus.edu/~hayden

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[shofar@Rt66.com: LEGISLATIVE WATCH AD]
by David Taffs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

fyi... Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:35:45 -0600 (MDT) From: DJABS <shofar(a)Rt66.com> To: apologia-l(a)netcom.com Subject: LEGISLATIVE WATCH AD _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ LEGISLATIVE WATCH ___________________________________________________________ Subscribe Direct >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shofar(a)RT66.com Interested in catching the political wave? "Legislative Watch" is an electronic newsletter with a focus on First Amendment concerns, religious liberty and other Constitutional issues. Subscribe direct at: shofar(a)RT66.com subject line: <subscribe LW> message line: <email address> <name> ____________________________________________________________________ -- david taffs <dat(a)ebt.com>

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Commercenet document on cryptography
by stevenw＠iglou.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I found the following on CommerceNet: http://www.commerce.net/information/position/position.062695.html Toward Enabling Secure Electronic Commerce: The Need for a Revised U.S. Cryptographic Policy by CommerceNet Network Services Working Group It seems to address all the issues. -- Steven Weller <Windsor Consulting Group> +1 502 454 0054 (voice) OS-9 Consultancy and Software +1 502 451 5935 (fax) Finger for public key 00 02 3C 2F 83 76 D3 77 2A 95 E8 90 94 9A 9D 74 http://iglou.com/windsorgrp stevenw(a)iglou.com or realtime(a)well.sf.ca.us

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We appear...
by perry＠imsi.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We appear to have an nntp/mail loop in progress. I believe the problem is at mnemosyne.cs.du.edu -- its posting cypherpunks back to the mailing list (ugh!). .pm

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Government Mandated Keys
by hoz＠univel.telescan.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I want to register the 1-bit key of "1". I expect to send about half my message bits encrypted, the rest will be clear-text. Rick F. Hoselton (who doesn't claim to present opinions for others)

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Re: The Net (short movie review)
by cwalton＠earthlink.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:11 AM 7/31/95, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > >I hope the movie is very popular. It helps us by inducing >healthy cynicism with a dash of paranoia. I've been talking with a friend for years about PGP and crypto stuff. He wasn't interested. Yesterday, he saw The Net. Now he can't wait to learn how to use it. This is a good thing. I hope it's a popular movie too. Conrad Walton | cwalton(a)earthlink.net | http://XXX.XXXXXXXXX.XXX/~XXXXXXX/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Without JOY, there is no STRENGTH. Without STRENGTH, all other virtues are worthless. Edward Abbey

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Re: Free The World Web Server project.. :)
by monty.harder＠famend.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PE> Rather than spend five minutes writing something on your own you'd end PE> up something that looks totally fake. I believe that what is going on No, that's "rather than not writing anything at all". I know how to call and write to my congresscritters. The idea of the WWW page is for those who wouldn't take the initiative to do it in the first place. PE> would be discerned by a staffer in moments. Crap like this is called They should know, because they send form letters to constituents all the time, only they don't bother to vary it a bit. PE> "astroturf" by staffers, to distinguish it from "grass roots" efforts. Meanwhile, back at the ranch... If one of our DC members can set up an Imail-FAX gateway, we can publicize some nifty Iddresses for folx to send things in their own words, if possible, and if they don't have any words of their own, they can borrow some. Boilerplate has to be better than nothing. * Is there such a thing as a "gruntled" Postal employee? --- * Monster(a)FAmend.Com *

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Quantum computing/crypto
by cjl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

C-punx, Before the list cratered I had been intending to respond to Doug Hughes post about the quantum computing news piece by James Glanz in SCIENCE magazine, 7th July, vol. 269, pg. 28-29. If you are reading this thread you may be aware of Peter Shor's development of an algorithm that uses quantum logic to factor large numbers. This was discussed on the list last year and the general take on it was that there was no way to build a functioning quantum computer, and even if there were the code-maker would end up ahead of the code breaker. Well, it seems that his work stimulated some further interest in the design and construction of quantum computers and even a conference in Torino, Italy a few weeks ago. In the 15th May Physical Review Letters ther are a number of papers on QC's, including one by Ignacio Cirac & Peter Zoller that describes the construction of a quantum logic gate. This builds on an article in same issue of PRL by Artur Ekert, David Deutsch and Adriano Barenco describing how by trapping ions in an electric field just above zero degrees Kelvin one can build a "quantum wire" which will pass information without measuring it (and therefore collapsing the quantum uncertainty). Chris Monroe and David Wineland at NIST in Boulder have already built a simplified version of this quantum logic gate device, and have written a proposal to factor the number 15 using the technique. The hardware involved will be about 10 mercury atoms. There is airtime at the end of the piece for skeptics citing the calculations showing that "small errors in a QC can accumulate exponentially and no one has figured out a satisfactory way of reaching into the quantum world to correct them". As I mentioned before there is a sidebar talking about the successful demonstration of quantum cryptography over 14 kilometeres of fiber optic cable in Los Alamos by Richard Hughes and colleagues, apparently announced at a conference held last month at the Univ. of Rochester in New York. Alice and Bob can swap bits encoded in the quantum properties of photons that can't be intercepted with out them knowing that something is amiss. C. J. Leonard ( / "DNA is groovy" \ / - Watson & Crick <cjl(a)welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> / \ <-- major groove ( \ Finger for public key \ ) Strong-arm for secret key / <-- minor groove Thumb-screws for pass-phrase / )

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Mandatory key registration
by hoz＠univel.telescan.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the event of legally required key registration, I would like to continue to use PGP. My private RSA key is my own business, so I would like to comply with the requirements by registering my IDEA keys instead. There are approximately 2**128 of them, and I'm not quite sure which one will be used next, so can I just register ALL of them? Can I do this on-line? If all the cypherpunks use the same key set, must we each register all of them, or will a single list do? Rick F. Hoselton (who doesn't claim to present opinions for others)

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FWD:Speaker needed
by corbeau＠seanet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Sender: html-authors-guild-owner(a)lists.Stanford.EDU >Status: > >Two topics to this post: > >1. I have been asked to speak at an Internet/WWW conference that will be >held in Charlotte, NC on October 23rd. Is the SC gonna jump on me for >mentioning my membership in the Guild in the bio that they will print in the >advertising flyers? <g> > >2. I have been contacted by the producer of the conference and asked to >contact the Guild for help in finding an Internet Security Guru to speak at >the conference... If interested, point of contact is: > >rstoker(a)accunet.com > > >I will be posting more info (costs, location, times, etc.) as they come to me. > >BTW: Speaking of security, I have asked a question that has gone unanswered >(possibly due to being sidetracked by flamewars & whatnot)... anyone out >there know how to set up password security on pages running off >MacHTTP/WebStar servers? Any help is appreciated! > >TIA > > -AL GORDON > ProEMail Internet Services **************************** Thot one o' y'all might fit this bill... -corbeau

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