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EAR cookbook anyone?
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We would like to distribute strong encryption (PGP, Netscape, MSIE, Kerberos, SSH, lynx-ssl, etc.) to people affiliated with our institution without prejudice to their current location, as the Fortune 100 can do with PGP. Today I got management to agree that it would be worth my time to ensure that we do so legally and publicly (though we had already decided to distribute said software to new and continuing affiliates worldwide regardless). There's a lot of examples of ITAR CJR's online, but I don't see any examples of EAR whatchamacallits. Are we really going to need some lawyer for this, or can't I just send Commerce a form letter, say, tomorrow afternoon? Form letters my department can fill in and sign, but paying a lawyer would require a level of bureaucracy that I'd rather not deal with. The deadline in any case would be August 25th. -rich i'm back... if i haven't responded to your mail sent the last week and a half, it's probably because it just wasn't interesting. nothing personal.

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Re: Bomb Making Info to be Illegal
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Paul Bradley <paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk> wrote: >I think I >may, if I have some time in the next few days, put together a quick >website telling people the best fish to use etc. and inciting them to use >this as a method of assasinating MPs... Surely oranges would be a better choice for MPs? Hell, dress them up in stockings and suspenders first and they'd probably write it off as accidental death. OrangeMonger

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Re: Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (NYT, 12Aug94)
by L. Todd Masco 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hart(a)chaos.bsu.edu (Jim Hart): >All in all a good article. I have a couple problems with it, >which may be due more to the people interviewed than to the >reporter: The biggest problem I have (obviously) with it is that the premise is wrong: NetMarket was *not* the first company to take a credit- card order via automatic encryption software. Over a month before the sale they site, Bibliobytes made its first sale with an automatic encryption program: the only real difference is that NetMarket used hhtp, where bibliobytes used e-mail -- so their interface is much prettier (and that we used RIPEM where they used PGP). Well before us, people were taking orders via PGP -- the thing about our client was that the user didn't have to know anything about encryption programs. We've contacted the author of the article and he claims that he'll be retracting the claim... we'll see. The Voice already snickered at the NYT's fuck-up in this week's edition. My other company (and the one I have the larger interest in), HKS, is about to announce a point of sale system (called ICE, for Internet Creditcard Encryptor -- don't blame me, I didn't name it) that'll be a drop-in solution for companies, end to end from customer to delivery for soft products and delivery lists for hard products. The problem here, and the one that's of interest to Cypherpunks, is how to change this system, using credit cards and all the loss of privacy they entail, into one using anonymous digital cash. HKS certainly has a commitment (though in word only at this point, since it's vaporware) to support digital cash, but as I've noted before it a very difficult bootstrap problem. There has to be some reason people would use digital cash over credit cards and frankly, I don't see it happening in the near future except by some large power (like banks) decided to support it. The american people keep claiming in polls that they want better privacy protection, but the fact is that most aren't willing to do anything about it: it's just a preference, not a solid imperative. Until something Really Bad happens to many people as a result of privacy loss, I really don't think much will be done that requires real work and inconvenience from people, like moving to something other than credit cards for long-distance transactions... and that's a tragedy. -- L. Todd Masco | "Large prime numbers imply arrest." - Meaningless cactus(a)bb.com | grammatically correct sentence. Right.

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No Subject
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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"Tin Drum" Obscene in Oklahoma
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It used to be that mainstream motion pictures were territory child porn hysterics didn't go near, for fear of losing high profile cases and creating case law detrimental to their cause. Yet, as the creeping definition of child porn has moved to include fully clothed children, and any simulated depiction of the sexuality of minors, it was inevitable that the child porn hysterics would finally feel powerful enough turn their crusade towards award winning motion pictures containing ideas that Bible thumpers and their ilk would rather not have available to the masses. It is therefore no huge surprise that an Ohlahoma Judge has ruled that the Oscar-winning film "Tin Drum" is obscene, and contains scenes that constitute child pornography. Police have seized videos of the movie from libraries and video stores, and have gone to the homes of people who rented the film to seize the tapes. The Oklahoma ACLU director has called the action "Gestapo-type tactics" and vows to fight the ruling in court. Should be Mapplethorpe all over again. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $

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Re: Netly interviews Donna Rice-Hughes and Sen. Coats staffer
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <v03007812afda0e1988c9(a)[168.161.105.191]>, on 06/27/97 at 08:41 PM, Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> said: >[The day before the CDA decision came down, I interviewed David Crane >from Sen. "CDA II Real Soon Now" Coats' office and Noah interviewed Donna >Rice-Hughes. Recall Coats was the chief GOP sponsor of the original CDA. >Here are excerpts. --Declan] Hi Declan, What Noah forgot to ask: "Ms. Rice, considering your previous occupation as a two-bit whore during the '88 election why should the American public take anything you do seriously?" - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM7Rn1Y9Co1n+aLhhAQFONQQAmXFnvVB91lciCIYIGQv9y8fq+j5zwbz3 r+BE0Q0VpXc+APVpUxqbO5OEb0NRO6+epRgkXn09hInpXFiqnPegprh2otuEPsKP 4IeMOBullzkI1CvXWNBNDZ5Xd9Q9IGWX1Qax7Xi3Dou6UlFQ+3LI3/F2Vn/fqWZv seogXEJLtYY= =U+/2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Cray/NSA Info
by Anonymous User 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

SUBJECT: CRAY COMPUTER CORP. AWARDED DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT FOR CRAY-3/SUPER SCALABLE SYSTEM COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ via INDIVIDUAL, Inc. -- Cray Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: CRAY) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have entered into a joint development contract, valued at up to $9.2 million, to produce a CRAY-3/Super Scalable System (SSS). The CRAY-3/SSS will be a hybrid high performance system that will offer vector parallel processing, scalable parallel processing and the combination of both. Under the terms of the contract, Cray Computer Corp. will be paid up to $4.2 million for development costs, and the Government will provide approximately $400,000 in software consulting services. The company is responsible for the balance of the development costs. In addition, the company will have rights to use certain Government technologies. George Cotter, chief scientist for the NSA stated, "NSA selected Cray Computer Corp. to develop the CRAY-3/Super Scalable System because of its advanced technologies and the CRAY-3 architecture. This is an important initiative of the Federal High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program." Chuck Breckenridge, executive vice president for Cray Computer Corp., noted, "The CRAY-3/SSS will provide unparalleled performance for many promising applications. We are pleased to participate in this transfer of Government technology and we are eager to help potential customers explore and develop appropriate applications." This development project is based on a September 1993 feasibility study recommending a hybrid supercomputer composed of a CRAY-3 and a large number of Processor-In-Memory (PIM) chips, developed by the Supercomputing Research Center (SRC: Institute for Defense Analyses). The SRC will provide significant technical assistance in both the software and hardware aspects of the system. The Government's technology transfer program is intended to maintain the country's technology leadership position by providing a cost sharing arrangementfor development and commercialization of advanced Government technologies. The high performance system will consist of a dual processor 256 million word CRAY-3 and a 512,000 processor 128 million byte Single Instruction- Multiple Data (SIMD) array. This CRAY-3/Super Scalable System will provide high-performance vector parallel processing, scalable parallel processing and the combination of both in a hybrid mode featuring extremely high bandwidth between the PIM processor array and the CRAY-3. SIMD arrays of 1 million processors are expected to be available using the current version of the PIM chip once this development project is completed. The scalable array will connect to the CRAY-3 memory interface and will be addressable as standard memory to facilitate use of the SIMD array with minimal delays for data transfer. The PIM chip, containing 64 single bit processors and 128K bits of memory, was developed by the Supercomputing Research Center for NSA, and tested on a Sun/SPARC workstation with a parallel version of the C language. Cray Computer Corp. will package PIM chips utilizing its advanced multiple chip module (MCM) packaging technology that allows the CRAY-3 to operate with a record breaking 2.08 nanosecond clock rate. The PIM chips are manufactured by National Semiconductor Corp. The CRAY-3/SSS is expected to be demonstrated in the first quarter of 1995. After this initial demonstration, interested parties will be invited to try out other applications. The CRAY-3 memory interface bandwidth will allow the application specific SIMD array to provide dramatic performance improvements over existing architectures for bit and image processing, pattern recognition, signal processing, and sophisticated graphics applications. A notable strength of the SIMD processor array is variable precision floating point for those frequently occurring applications requiring less (and sometimes more) than the standard 64 bit IEEE floating point arithmetic. A substantial applications base is available for the CRAY-3 and Cray Computer Corp. is committed to working closely with customers to develop traditional high performance vector and scalable applications. For suitable applications, the SIMD processor array option offers up to 32 Trillion Bit Operations per Second and provides price/performance unavailable today on any other high performance platform. The CRAY-3 system with the SSS option will be offered as an application specific product and will be well positioned in the evolving supercomputer marketplace. Seymour Cray stated that, "The CRAY-3/SSS development project leverages the Company's existing technologies and accelerates our program to develop parallel architectures and software to reach the TeraFLOPS performance level. I see a strong SIMD architectural component as crucial to a complete parallel supercomputer capability." Cray Computer Corp. is engaged in the design, development, manufacture and marketing of CRAY-3, CRAY-3/SSS, and CRAY-4 supercomputer systems. /CONTACT: Terry Willkom, president, or William Skolout, CFO, 719-679- 6464, both of Cray Computer; or Mary Ann Phillips, director of Corporate Communications, of National Semiconductor, 408-721-2646/ (CRAY)

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Re: In Search of Genuine DigiCash
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:06 AM 8/21/94 -0700, Hal wrote: >One difference between ecash and bonds is that bonds generally pay interest >(to the bond holder, not to the lender!), while ecash may not. I also >suspect that most ecash will have a fixed maximum lifetime beyond which it >is no good, due to technical problems in keeping lists of spent notes. So >it would not necessarily be callable in theway Bob describes. We could equivocate back and forth about who the lender is in this case. It's the behavior of the financial instrument I'm talking about. At some point, the principal goes away and has to be called from wherever it is (a bank account, the money market, etc.) to meet a cashed-out piece of digicash. In the meantime it earns interest. Thus it has principal, and interest, and it is called. It's a callable bond. If it has a fixed maturity, it's still a callable bond. If it's a perpetuity, it's a callable bond. It doesn't matter who gets the interest. It doesn't matter what the exchange fees are, it still behaves like a callable bond. The market will pay discounts or premia on them, and thus price them, just like any other fixed income instrument with a call provision. A callable bond, in other words. I'm not sure the lifetime issue is a big deal now, because the durations on these instruments are probably going to be pretty short. Like I said before, people will eventually get used to hanging on to digital cash until they need to spend it. That keeps it out of circulation longer, and the duration up. At some point in time people will spend a piece of digital cash several times before it goes back to the bank. That will keep the duration up also. >Fair? Who cares? The question is, is it useful? Sure it is. I'd rather >use cash which bore interest than that which didn't! Sure, it's a little >more complicated to buy something with notes which are worth $1.05 - $1.10 >than $1.00, but that's what computers are for. The value increase accrues >to whomever holds the note during the time they hold it. I think the complexity is probably not worth it. Suppose you get a piece of digital cash that's been out there a while, say 10 years (it's not likely, ever, but I'm using it to make a point). 1 dollar at say 10% compounded for ten years is 2.59. It's like winning the lottery, for no reason except the person you last transacted business with paid you old cash for what you sold him. It's not fair. That's what I meant by not fair. >>The solution is, keep the interest, use the money to fund the issuer's >>operations. If that's not enough, charge exchange fees. A competitive >>market will sort out who's got the most efficient operations, and thus >>ecash users get ecash at its most efficient price. > >Sure; just don't say "the solution is". You issue non interest bearing >notes and live on the float; I issue interest notes and live off the >exchange fees. Let the market decide. Agreed. "A solution is", then. There are many ways to skin a cat. I think you'll find that the overhead of my system beats yours, and lets me price my cash more competitively in an efficient market. That's why I said "the solution is". Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) "There is no difference between someone Shipwright Development Corporation who eats too little and sees Heaven and 44 Farquhar Street someone who drinks too much and sees Boston, MA 02331 USA snakes." -- Bertrand Russell (617) 323-7923

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Details of HR 666
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Under clause 0 of rule XYZ, the following action was taken by the > Speaker: > > H.R. 666. A bill to amend title 0, United States Code, to > affirm the rights of U.S. persons to breathe the air around > them and to relax export controls on wind; with an > amendment; referred to the Committees on Commerce, National > Security, and the Permanent Select Committee on intelligence > for a period ending not later than September 5, 1997, for > consideration of such provisions of the bill and amendment > reported by the Committee on the Judiciary as fall within the > jurisdiction of those committees pursuant to clause 0(e) and > (k), rule XYZ and rule XLVIIIX, respectively.

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