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addresses
by Alan Pugh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

thanks much to all who responded to my query on the problem i was having with the strange address. i think i have more than enough information to resolve this problem. amp ********************************************* * / Only God can see the whole * * O[%\%\%{<>===========================- * * \ Mandlebrot Set at Once! * * amp * * <0003701548(a)mcimail.com> * * <alan.pugh(a)internetmci.com> * * PGP Key = 4A2683C1 * *********************************************

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www remailer interface
by nobody＠valhalla.phoenix.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

c'punks, Please check out the new www remailer interface at http://miso.wwa.com/~dochobbs/cpremailer.html It is based on nate's code with one addition for security and contains info from other places. I would appreciate some visits and comments/criticisms before I place it in the general population. Again, give it a thorough test because I want it to be good and secure for me and those using it. It's in its final testing phase (mainly because I haven't got the news instructions just the way I want them) and will be set to go soon. I am, of course, sending this message through the page. Michael Hobbs dochobbs(a)wwa.com

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Re: www remailer interface
by futplex＠pseudonym.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous/Michael Hobbs writes: > Please check out the new www remailer interface at > > http://miso.wwa.com/~dochobbs/cpremailer.html [...] > I would appreciate some visits and comments/criticisms > before I place it in the general population. I'm a bit uncomfortable about the hardwiring of a particular remailer into the chain, according to the Web page: "Select your remailers [...] Your mail will be automatically sent to the remailer hfinney(a)shell.portal.com and at least one other remailer that you choose." (Nothing personal, Hal :) Why was this done ? -Futplex

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Where to find Internet growth stats?
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I read in a speech by Rutkowski that the latest Internet growth stats are published twice a month. I search at the Internet Society site, and other usual suspects, but to no avail. URL, anyone? TIA, -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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Re: Triple-DES controlled?
by Rich Salz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I have not heard of export licenses being granted for 3DES. Didn't the ANSI financial committee just adopt 3DES (over NSA objections)? Presumably they consider the export situation solved/solvable. /r$

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Re: RSA/Perl Shirts
by Paul Foley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One thing I have to ask: Does wearing one of these shirts under something else count as carrying a concealed weapon? :-) -- Paul Foley <paul(a)gec.co.nz> PGP key 0x0D1C0E75 -----------------There's no government like no government---------------- Where they burn books, in the end they will also burn people. -- Heinrich Heine

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Re: RSA/Perl Shirts
by aba＠dcs.exeter.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Schultz <jschultz(a)coins0.coin.missouri.edu> writes on cpunks: > On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, Rev. Ben wrote: > > Has Joel Furr shipped his shirts yet? > > > > I see some people on the list have gotten shirts and i was wondering as > > I still have not gotten mine. > > I was wondering the same thing myself. I know my check was cashed over a > month ago, but no shirt has arrived. There are 2 (well 4 actually) suppliers of shirts: 1) (US/Canada) Joel Furr at Josh Osborne's instigation (no current offer, but still to send out shirts from first batch) OFFER PASSED 2) (free world :-) Me - Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa UK printing cost only - still taking orders 1st batch will be ordered RSN 3) (US/Canada) Don Henson <dhenson(a)itsnet.com> http://colossus.net/wepinsto/ 25% of proceeds to Phil Z legal defense fund - 1st batch shipped, taking orders next batch 4) (AU region of free world) Lucy Chubb <lucyc(a)suite.sw.oz.au> (no WWW URL yet) will soon be printing some in Australia cost only also send her email for status, starting soon The last I heard about the status of Joel's shirts was on the netstuff mailing list, some time ago, he said there had been delays due to various reasons, and that his shirst wouldn't be ready until end July. As July has ended, I'm presuming this will be RSN. The people who have their shirts are those who ordered through Don Henson, who has proceeded very quickly to ship shirts, he was the start of the 350 ordered thread. Adam -- HAVE *YOU* EXPORTED RSA TODAY? --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ --rsa--------------------------8<------------------------------- #!/bin/perl -s-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL $m=unpack(H.$w,$m."\0"x$w),$_=`echo "16do$w 2+4Oi0$d*-^1[d2%Sa 2/d0<X+d*La1=z\U$n%0]SX$k"[$m*]\EszlXx++p|dc`,s/^.|\W//g,print pack('H*',$_)while read(STDIN,$m,($w=2*$d-1+length($n)&~1)/2) -------------------------------8<------------------------------- TRY: rsa -k=3 -n=7537d365 < msg | rsa -d -k=4e243e33 -n=7537d365

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Re: Pat Robertson Fears E-cash?
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:41 AM 8/2/95 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >So, hearing that "Pat Robertson is warning against a digital cash society" >is not too worrisome to me. I suspect he means the stuff about Big Brother >tracking us and the Number of the Beast, and so on. Correct. I have in my hot little hands a book called "Racing Toward the Mark of the Beast -- Your Money, Computers, and the End of the World" by Peter & Paul Lalonde (hosts of "This Week in Bible Prophecy") published by Harvest House. They relate the story of their attendance at 1993's "Solutions for the Global Frontier" card technology conference in Washington, DC which happened to be held during the Waco Inferno. "This Week in Bible Prophecy" and CNN were the only electronic media represented. Waco encouraged discussion by the participants for electronic tracking of cult members. The book hits all the high points of privacy invading technology. But has nothing about our sorts of privacy techniques presumably because we are not yet well known in the Christian community. Chapters: 1. Boy, Have I Got Your Number 2. Kiss Your Cash Goodby 3. What's in the Cards? 4. Your Body: The Only ID You'll Ever Need 5. Will That Be Hand or Forehead? 6. If You're Not Paranoid, It's Because You're Not Paying Close Enough Attention 7. Bringing the World On-Line 8. 666: The System Is Born 9. The Chosen Generation 10. Where Will You Stand? I have generally found "Fundies" to be better informed about privacy problems and more protective of their own privacy than any other discrete group. DCF "60 million job changes per year + Federal Job Licensing (The Jordan Commission proposal to require employers to verify SS#'s) + the 25% error rate in the SS#-Name database = 15 million legally unemployable for a total unemployment rate of 18%."

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proving programs correct
by Perry E. Metzger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A boss of mine at Bellcore, and a very smart guy (B. Gopinath) once mentioned to me that (with the exception of scheme) he'd never seen a set of formal semantics for a language that were smaller than the largest program one would care to write in the language. He was, of course, slightly exagerating for effect, but his point was very simple: you can't even get the basis on which to write your proofs right. An interesting experience happened during the same project, as I recall: we attempted to prove a small bit of code correct. Unfortunately, the proof had a bug in it which meshed nicely with a bug in the program and a bug in the implementation. Proofs are no less large complicated formal constructs than programs are, and checking them is no less onerous, unless they are written in formal logic in which case they are not possible for human beings to produce. Perry

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alt.politics.org.cia
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I picked up a posting there which I forwarded to another list (skipping this slightly overloaded one :-) but it was cute/funny -- suggesting a project for finding unmarked spook buildings in your neighborhood and gathering a database (on the web?) of such. It's not a CP topic, but it's related and folks might want to check out that newsgroup. (Thanks to r$ for the inspiration.) - Carl +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme(a)acm.org http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/home.html | |PGP: E0414C79B5AF36750217BC1A57386478 & 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | | ``Officer, officer, arrest that man! He's whistling a dirty song.'' | +----------------------------------------------------------- Jean Ellison -+

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