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Re: Tell me whats wrong with this
by tallpaul＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Feb 09, 1996 06:39:28, 'Duncan Frissell <frissell(a)panix.com>' wrote: > >"Your Honor, I plead necessity. The reason I violated this law was so that >I would have plenty of practice in case I ever find myself in a totalitarian >state. Since the laws of the US and International Law permit (and in some >cases require) me to violate the laws of a totalitarian state, I need to >practice law violation under the less stressful circumstances of the current >US. Without practice, I won't be able to violate totalitarian laws smoothly >and thus might have to obey them. This could put me in jeopardy under >International Law. Necessity defense." > Perry: I plead necessity. "The reason I posted my latest tract on why all men are rapists to the cypherpunk list was so that I would have plenty of practice in case I ever find myself in a society trying to argue against fundamental rights. I need to practice arguing against these things under less stressful circumstances of the current US. Without practice, I won't be able to argue for civil liberties smoothly and thus might have to obey bad laws in a society without those liberties. This could put me in jeopardy under those laws. Necessity defense." ==Andr*a Dw*rk*n Other than that, nothing is wrong with it, Duncan. Within limits you can argue in court whatever the judge lets you argue. I am not sure that the judge would even listen. I also suspect that if you relied on this defense you would rapidly be convicted. But that,of course, is something you have the freedom to do. --tallpaul

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Re: Wassenaar Statement
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If these reports are correct, the United States could end up being one of the countries with the most LIBERAL export controls. In the United States, it is currently legal to export any cryptographic software you like - as long as it is in printed form. This is because of fears of violating the First Amendment. Not all countries have such strong conventions for protecting the printed word. PGP source code is being exported in printed form, scanned in overseas, and then distributed from there. If the Wassenaar Arrangement prevents it from being exported from its current overseas distribution site, a solution can be to ship it in printed form from the U.S. to a wide range of other countries. As long as those countries don't prohibit domestic distribution of crypto software, strong cryptography can still be made available almost everywhere. The PGP source code books begin with a section that is, in effect, a "how-to" for printing software in such a way that it can be reliably scanned. Each page and each line has a checksum. The books come with a Perl script short enough to enter by hand that does basic checksum verification. This is used to read a second, longer Perl script that can do error correction; and this is then used to bootstrap into the full script which will read the books, create all the files, organize the directories, and reconstruct the entire source code tree. It may be that in the future this will be the most effective way to communicate internationally about security software. It would be good for other groups to become familiar with this technology which has been pioneered by PGP.

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Ethical programming guild? [/.]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://slashdot.org/features/98/12/04/1158251.shtml > The following was written by Slashdot Reader James Moyer . > > In proposing this idea, I think that it would a little bit of > background would be appropriate. I am a student at Ohio State, and I > have a strong interest in civil liberties and privacy issues. In fact, > I am now in the process of organizing an on-campus student > organization to criticize Ohio State's overuse of the social security > number, biometric identification and other related issues to privacy > directly concerning the university. > > Here on Slashdot I use the nickname JimBobJoe posting from email > address vampire(a)innocent.com. > > I also consider myself a Libertarian, and from many of the postings on > Slashdot, it appears that there are quite a lot of Libertarians out > there too. There is no coincidence, in my mind, that some of the most > stringent privacy laws in the nation hail from a highly technical, > Libertarian state, being Washington state. In the same vein, it is > rather amusing to see countries such as Malaysia attempt to draw > computer professions into their country, where the severity of their > laws turn many away. [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Mixmaster client 4 the Mac OS?
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: loki(a)sirius.infonex.com Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:08:01 -0800 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com>, mac-crypto(a)vmeng.com From: Lance Cottrell <loki(a)infonex.com> Subject: Re: Mixmaster client 4 the Mac OS? Sender: <mac-crypto(a)vmeng.com> Precedence: Bulk Several people have offered, but none have produced a fully functional version. -Lance At 8:53 PM -0500 12/3/98, Robert Hettinga wrote: >--- begin forwarded text > > >Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 01:42:19 +0100 >From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> >Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above. > It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software. > Please report problems or inappropriate use to the > remailer administrator at <abuse(a)replay.com>. >Subject: Mixmaster client 4 the Mac OS? >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Precedence: first-class >Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> >X-Loop: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > >I heard sometime last summer that the mixmaster client was being ported to >the Mac. Does anyone know the status of this project? > >--- end forwarded text > > >----------------- >Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> >Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> >44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA >"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, >[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to >experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' ---------------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell loki(a)infonex.com PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. http://www.infonex.com/~loki/ "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche ---------------------------------------------------------- --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: RC2 technical questions
by wlkngowl＠unix.asb.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 02 Feb 96 10:02:37 PST, "baldwin(a)RSA.COM" wrote: > In a shameless attempt to move the discussion of RC2 into >a more technical arena, here are some interesting questions to >explore about RC2. > --Bob Odd. You're from RSA.COM... It would seem that you're better able to find these things out than the rest of us. Make that Alleged RC2, BTW. ;) I'm rather curious about implementing known plaintext attacks. The reliance on addition and anding doesn't make me feel too confident. For example, the ciphertext produced by the input of all zeros (plaintext) is basically the added/anded (with rolls) skey bytes. With a bit of probabilistic analysis one could work at determining the skey[] bytes. Weaknesses in the key expansion may help this further... Rob.

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by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

... > A few rules of thumb result from even cursory examination > of the likely environment: > ... > 5. Ultimately, the only way the remailers will provide > what might be described as Pretty Good Security will > be when we have software that maintains a regular > or random rate of messages to and from the remailer > cloud, a stream into which the meaningful messages > can be inserted with no visible change in traffic. > Until then, the best we can do is try to keep traffic > levels up, and to send and receive frequently enough > to frustrate end-to-end traffic analysis. Well, the existing remailer net doesn't make "Pretty Good" anonymity very feasible. I'd think something based on the general idea behind Crowds. (Furthermore, most remailer structures still can't erase some other security concerns -- 1: remailers acutally can be hacked or physically compromised 2: clients really can be screwed 3: etc. To help solve the first, you'd want a two-box setup doing remailing, with the security-critical stuff loaded on a box not directly connected to the Net with something 140-1ish to make tampering harder, a secure OS, etc. -- or, of course, you can scrap all that to get really big remailer count. To help solve the second problem, there needs to be a better web-of-trust setup -- that is, one which applies to code as well as keys. Those who wish to verify code get a .sig-verifying program from a trusted source then use a WoT to authenticate various facets of the program necessary for security. A solution to the third problem is expected RSN.) > > 6. Don't send anything that can have grave consequences. Remember the consequences to an adversary who uses its secret decoder ring, though: the more plausible it becomes that a certain source is being used for intelligence-gathering, the more likely it is that that source will promptly begin to run dry as the spied-upon realize that Something Got Broke. My advice, however, agrees with that of the other Anonymous. That is, unless you've really thought things out, think of an remailed message as merely .sigless, not anonymous. > > 7. Take names. Always take names. Some day... > > FUDBusterMonger > > It Ain't FUD til I SAY it's FUD!

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PGP Disk
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Has anyone had the chance to try out the new McAfee PGP disk? >It seems pretty straightforward, allowing for the creation of >encrypted "drives" using the CAST algorithm. Is anyone aware of >any security flaws with it? I'm sure somebody will check if they are bored some day. Where can we find the source code? If the source code isn't available, don't trust it. That's a good general rule.

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Re: y2k/gary north delusions (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: y2k/gary north delusions (fwd) > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 18:46:17 -0600 (CST) > From: ichudov(a)Algebra.Com (Igor Chudov @ home) > > Paris and London had populations of over a million each and didn't have a > > sewer system. It was traditional for people to throw their chamber pots out > > into the street along with the offal from the various animals. > > Guess why they had those devastating epidemics. True enough, but that sort of stuff takes more than a week or two. The various cities could go around setting up port-a-potties and latrines in parks with plastic liners for easy removal, etc. It isn't nearly the civilization shaking event some would make of it. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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pgp disk
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:05 AM 12/5/98 +0100, Anonymous wrote about some new product: >If the source code isn't available, don't trust it. That's a good general >rule. Where is the source for pgpfone?

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