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California Code online
by Hal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For the "book disadvantaged" among us, I saw a reference today to the California civil code online. It is at: http://www.law.indiana.edu/codes/ca/codes.html. The form of this URL suggests that other states might be there, too, but I didn't look. This is a very nice presentation, structured with each section in a separate page, and a nice table of contents. I was browsing the commercial code which has lot sof interesting info on commercial paper and other subjects of interest with regard to digital cash. Hal

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cyphertext-only remailers / cryptanalysis code ?
by L. McCarthy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Alex Strasheim writes: > One solution that I've thought about is only passing messages which are > composed of cyphertext. Does this make any sense? This sounds useful, but I'm curious how you would enforce it. I would think you'd need to do some nontrivial statistical analysis to be reasonably sure you weren't allowing various binaries, uuencoded files, etc. with faked PGP headers, without preventing people from using other encryption schemes. I'd say this is the flip side of the challenge faced by governments trying to outlaw transmissions using strong crypto. Incidentally, I'd love to get pointers to online pieces of code which perform various statistical tests on data to find patterns characteristic of particular encryption schemes, &c. for cryptanalysis. I want to cryptanalyze a couple of encryption algorithms and would like to do some experimental work. Please send me mail directly and I will summarize to the list later on. My starting points are Applied Crypto, the CEB, and Tim's Cyphernomicon. -L. Futplex McCarthy; use "Subject: remailer-help" for an autoreply PGP key by finger or server; "Better watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical...a liberal" --Supertramp "[CIA/KGB mole Aldrich Ames] took information in shopping bags out the front door" --miscellaneous Congressperson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBLtJ3tWf7YYibNzjpAQGOVwQApexTVG/PfeHNQcE+xr5lsCWxtnC13/EL GE8A8T77YavVQDUt3P7zWH8nw05OUosUgwe3QQKu+rRQGV1Y5dLcpxMQIk/iFSE1 3hMzZYCv6L6OQ0wyt8VOuEGmg8ffvBIod9C9i9PndmHZY73j3WPoSbDXLsBXlQu4 my8Oz2NLAP4= =Zxlu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Admiral Inman
by blancw＠pylon.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Our enemies are industriously corrupting the language in order to make the ideas of liberty inexpressible. In particular they are seeking to make the concepts behind the declaration of independence and the bill of rights unspeakably and therefore, they hope, unthinkable. .................................................... Do you think that 'our enemies' are doing this consciously, purposefully, deliberately? Do you think that they know these concepts well enough to apprehend what it is about their meanings that should be corrupted? Do you think that, having understood what these concepts represent, they are in such abhorrence of them that the only thing they can do, short of physical fighting against the promoters of the concepts, is disorient everyone into a confused state of cognitive indeterminancy & inefficacy? Maybe that's what happened to Inman during his rejection speech! Blanc

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Re: DC-Net implementation
by rishab＠dxm.ernet.in 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

acspring(a)knoware.nl (Andrew Spring): > >Using a central node to coordinate the DC-net traffic requires that the > >participants trust that central node. If the central node is evil, > A collation of N-1 nodes will always produce garbage; the whole set is > needed for the message to fall out. > Example > ... > A sends 14 - 5 = 9 to Central node > B sends 5 - 11 = -6 Central nodes are not nice for various reasons, including the usual networking and security (trust) advantages of wide distribution. IAC a central node is not necessary; for example, if each node were to output to the next: B sends Anum XOR Brnd (XOR msg) to C where Brnd is B's random number, msg is B's message (if any) and Anum is the similarly generated output of A. This is much closer to the original DCNet _bit_ flipping - the first XOR checks for equality while the second commits the 'lie' In this case whatever number A gets from D is the output of the net. There are lots of interesting cryptographic sub-protocols to make too much trust unnecessary. I also believe that error-correction is best left to lower levels of the network - there's no need for a DC Net not to assume a reliable data channel. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh "Clean the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! rishab(a)dxm.ernet.in take stone from stone and wash them..." rishab(a)arbornet.org Voice/Fax/Data +91 11 6853410 Voicemail +91 11 3760335 H 34C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA

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HTML browser/editor for MS Word 6.0
by xpat＠vm1.spcs.umn.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From PC WEEK, Nov 21, 1994, a summary: Bill Gates demonstrated an HTML browser/editor for MS Word 6.0. It is called Internet Assistant. It just entered beta testing, and will be available under the "What's New" heading of the Microsoft Home Page by the end of December, and later it will come with the 32-bit version of Word for WIN95. It will also include a viewer which will "display any Word document distributed across a network." I've read that the PGP code is not highly modular, but this is just one more indication of an OLE document centric universal editor based loosely on Word. I could eventually see their mail product calling most of the same code. Has anyone considered OLE compliant PGP encrypter/decrypter objects that would act on the contents of the document? A tool on this platform could be the most rapid path to widespread use of encryption. Almost everyone is able to use Word, and it comes bundled with a *lot* of new computers. And if it is OLE compliant, it can drop inside of your favorite OLE aware application. -pd-

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Cell Phones Security - NOT!
by cwalton＠earthlink.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:34 PM 11-21-94 -0500, Mark Terka wrote: >As one who will be shopping for a cell phone in the next week, what should >I look for in terms of security? What features are available in phones on >the market....if any? Well, as one who owns an AOR 1000 radio frequency scanner that can receive any and all cell phone conversations, I would have to say you have no security unless you use some kind of voice encryption. In order to make you can feel warm and safe, the manufacture or importation of scanners with cell phone capability was outlawed by congress earlier this year, which means that I can still listen to your call with my existing scanner while you feel protected. I bought guns with high capacity magazines this year after they were banned also. I wish I had enough money to buy a good assault rifle before they're all over priced (they'll never be all gone, just over priced.) Conrad Walton cwalton(a)earthlink.net **************************************************************** "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the ... people to carry arms. -- Adolph Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938

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Re: (Fwd) news spoke
by wcs＠anchor.ho.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is the infamous "CERT Monitoring Warning Meme". Essentially, it doesn't mean that your administrators *are* going to monitor you, it just means that you've been warned, so it's not illegal under ECPA to do it if they feel like, because you consented by using the system knowing it was one of the terms for use. Unfortunately, there's no very good way to implement "Authorized users will not be monitored but unauthorized users cracking in will be", which is the real intent of most people putting up the warning - any system which could implement that could have kept the crackers off in the first place.... Bill

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DNA Computation paper on Web.
by L. Todd Masco 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adleman's paper can now be found at http://www.hks.net/~cactus/doc/science/molecule_comp.html All typos are mine, Todd Masco, cactus(a)hks.net. Please send any corrections to me. -- Todd, cactus(a)hks.net (I'll be mailing out the Perspectives part tomorrow to anybody who's asked. Since I'm less certain of the copyright issues on that part, I'm only going to send that to individuals rather than putting it up on the web).

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Hows THIS For Some Human Interest!
by anonymous-remailer＠xs4all.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Its funny, but this girl I'm seeing will be getting some Internet training in the near future for the gov't job she holds. And in the course of talking about that this evening with her, I briefly chatted with her about cryptography privacy and PGP. But when we talked abit more on this subject, she revealed something I found to be pretty interesting. It turns out that her old man was an MI6 operative during WWII. That certainly caused me to raise my eyebrows a bit. He evidently was one of MI6's operatives in Iraq and did some pretty lethal shit. Apparently he was involved in some economic warfare (whatever the hell that means) aginast Axis interests in the area.She told me he still clams up REAL good about his wartime experiences and it takes quite abit of coaxing to get anything out of him. It sounds like his security clearance was pretty reasonable.....likely in the secret/top secret category. As somebody whose closest contact with an operative of an intelligence service has been the cover of a Len Deighton novel, I found this awful intriguing. MI6, from what I understand is one of the oldest and longest running agencies around. I think they started up (offically) in 1910, although Whitehall likely had some spooks earlier than that, given Britain's colonial exposure. And indeed, MI6 is one of the best. Maybe even THE best? Still, you can be damn sure I'm going to remain friends with this lady for some time. What her father has to tell is probably pretty enlightening, to say the least.

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Re: Remailer FAQ?
by dmandl＠bear.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim's cypherpunks FAQ ("The Cyphernomicon") covers remailers pretty thoroughly. As for actual code, there's code for several different types of remailers at ftp(a)csua.berkeley.edu. The code for Raph Levien's "premail" is also available at that site. --Dave. > Anyone know of a Frequently Asked Questions on remailers? Where is it available? > Thanks, > -R > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Reuben Halper I'm not growing up, I'm just burnin' out." > Montclair High - Green Day - > Montclair, NJ > E-mail: fhalper(a)pilot.njin.net PGP 2.6ui Public Key > available upon request > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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