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INT_mes
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The WP, Dec 15, 1995: Internet Mess: Return to Sender [Editorial] The negotiations between House and Senate conferees on the restriction of pornography in cyberspace have gone from bad to worse. A tentative accommodation arrived at last night, which the conferees must still vote to accept or kill, combines some of the worst of a broad array of misguided restrictions on speech, none of them likely to protect children. INT_mes Digital claims that its new crawler called Alta Vista, can find data on the World Wide Web at speeds of up to 100 times faster than currently popular crawlers from Yahoo Corp., Open Text Corp. or Lycos Inc.

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Re: e$: Seven Days
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:36 AM 12/16/95, Timothy C. May wrote: >By the way, in honor of the "geodesic network" and "geodesic payment >systems," and the geodesic dome the party was in, I propose we rename "e$" >with a more fitting name: "buckybucks." Or just "buckys" for short. ("Did >you remember to replenish the buckybits?") Snoop Bucky Bucks? Sounds like a Cyberdog part to me... <ducking many tomatoes> Maybe not... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 958-3971 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell The NEW(!) e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/ >>>>Phree Phil: Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf <<<<<

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Re: Netscape announces position against GAK
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:16 AM 12/9/95 -0800, you wrote: >http://home.netscape.com/newsref/ref/encryption_export.html > >> NETSCAPE PRESENTS POLICY ON ENCRYPTION EXPORT TO KEY MEMBERS OF THE >> ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> This week Netscape representatives attending a government presentation >> of the administration's proposed Key Escrow Policy for Export detailed >> the company's firm opposition to the proposed policy. Netscape is >> opposed to this type of proposal for a number of reasons including its >> failure to adequately address the issues of acceptability by foreign >> governments and corporations, significant personal privacy concerns, >> and the mandatory nature of tying the Exportable Key Size to the Key >> Escrow Proposal. [rest of position deleted] While this may be a reasonably good start, what I would have preferred that you say is that if any kind of GAK system is adopted, either foreign or domestic, you as a corporation would ENTHUSIASTICALLY do everything in your power to (_legally_) circumvent, undermine, sabotage, neutralize, and counteract whatever goals the US government has with reqard to implementing GAK. In other words, while you might stay barely within the letter of the law, you would tirelessly exploit every possible loophole (both legal and technical) to ensure that the government NEVER gets its way. I feel certain that with a few imaginative lawyers and programmers (both foreign and domestic), it should be possible to turn this into a "nightmare scenario" for the government.

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Re: The Elevator Problem
by wlkngowl＠unix.asb.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:11:45 -0600, David E. Smith wrote: [..] >The way I understand the system, in order for Alice to have Bob's key (and >vice versa) they each have to transmit a considerable amount of data about >their keys. Even if those data are in the form of "twenty questions," neither >knows anything about the other's key at the start. Is there something >painfully obvious that I'm missing? Oddly enough, I saw this posted the same night I saw the timing-attack against RSA announced. Is there a connection here? If we assume a hypothetical future where the current families of public key encryption can be easily broken, anyhow... --Mutant Rob

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Java scripts to caputure remote timing info?
by jim＠bilbo.suite.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I don't enough about Java to know if it is possible, but it's something to think about. Jim_Miller(a)suite.com

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taking electronic privacy into our own hands
by Eric Anderson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Would it be possible to write a program ( i.e. a worm or Trojan) to ferret out personal information that is stored in databases and encrypt it? I was just wondering what such an undertaking would entail. Eric

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Is ths legal?...
by Jay Holovacs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I was told today that students at Oklahoma University have their computer accounts subject to administrative inspection and that encryption (even email) without escrow is prohibited. Maybe the story is not quite straight but federal law supposedly protects personal electronic communication and I somehow don't think OU can overide this simply because it passes thru their computers. Sounds like another job for PGP. Jay Holovacs <holovacs(a)ios.com> PGP Key fingerprint = AC 29 C8 7A E4 2D 07 27 AE CA 99 4A F6 59 87 90 (KEY id 1024/80E4AA05) email for key

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Re: Is ths legal?...
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:18 AM 12/17/95 -0500, you wrote: >Exactly. If Oklahoma University is private, it can establish and enforce >policies that would be unconstitutional at public schools. Those >policies become part of the contract and a student must abide by them, >except when they are administered arbitrarily and capriciously. At a >public universities, students probably would have more freedom to >challenge this policy. In looking at their homepage, it appears to be a state funded school. (There is not alot of background on the school history or affiliations on their homepage except for a note that it was founded by the territorial legislature a number of years before becoming a state..) | What is the Eye in the Food Pyramid? | alano(a)teleport.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmerman unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | <fnord> |

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Re: Political Cleanup program
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:04 AM 12/17/95 -0800, you wrote: >It occurs to me that it would be a major advance if a system could be set up >that would "blind" campaign donations as to their source: The donor could >be satisfied that his donation gets to the candidate or cause, but the >candidate couldn't know who actually paid the money (and the donor would be >unable to prove that he made a donation, for example). Admittedly there are >a lot of details that need to be worked out, but if this could be >accomplished it would change politics as we know it. I think you would see alot less donations by the corporate powers that be and the favormongers. (Which is why such a system will probibly never come into existance.) It would be a good step in the right direction. However... I live in a state which just inacted a series of campaign reforms. The first thing the lobbyists did was find a way to exploit every loophole possible to get around that legislation. Such a system would have to be pretty tight and pretty specific. (And therefore will be fought against by almost every politician ansd lobbyiest on the planet.) The fundraising dinners will certainly have to go... > > > > > > > | Remember: Life is not always champagne. Sometimes it is REAL pain. | |"It's only half a keyserver. I had to split the | Disclaimer: | |other half with the government man." - R. Rococo | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano(a)teleport.com |

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GLO_bul
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

12-18-95. NYPaper: "His Goal: Keeping the Web Worldwide." An adoration of selfless Tim Berners-Lee with a pan gloss of the World Wide Web Cartel. "From Mainframes to Global Networking." I.B.M.'s selfless strategy for Net supremacy, hand-in-hand with altruistic AT&T and eleemosynary Microsoft. GLO_bul (17kb)

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