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Re: www remailer interface
by dochobbs＠wwa.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It has been stated, :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 The code was written to be used with a local remailer that then sends it along the others that the sender chooses. I modified it so that I don't need to establish my own remailer by sending it to hfinney(a)shell.portal.com. I think this might provide better security for the sender due to the fact that you are forced to chain your letter thus providing more security. The argument can be made that if the initial hardwired remailer is compromised that this removes all security. I chose hfinney because 1. the turnaround time is good. I wanted the first to be fast because it is basically 'insurance' for the sender. 2. it was a remailer that I am familiar with and has been around (in remailer server time) awhile. 3. it was the one that I personally felt most comfortable with using as the hardwired mailer. Granted these might not be the best reasons, but this is the kind of response I was looking for. I can solve the problem by either 1. removing the hardwired 2. removing the hardwired and forcing you to chain 3. keep the hardwired in and use some 'established' remailer or one the group can come to a consensus on. Responses appreciated. I will gladly distibute the code if desired. Like the page states, it was originally written by Nate Sammons, but I can change it as needed. _____________________________________________________________ dochobbs(a)wwa.com M.D. Hobbs mhobbs(a)rad.rpslmc.edu http://miso.wwa.com/~dochobbs finger for my pgp key I am human and nothing human do I count alien.

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patent info URL
by tbyfield＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Since various intellectual property debates and questions come up ("plague") periodically, it seemed like it'd be a good idea to post the following URL: http://www.patents.com/ Its run by a small patent law firm and has a series of well-linked, snappy FAQs on issues pertaining to intellectual property, patents (including some on "I had a really clever idea--what should[n't] I do?"), relevant links, etc. etc Ted

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See y'all in a while....
by Phil Fraering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm leaving the list for a while while I try to work out a different way of accessing the net. In short, I've grown dissatisfied with my ISP and need some time to think things through before making other arrangements. It's too frustrating sorting through all of this mail without proper filtering scripts like I had set up back at srl03. And news is kind-of beside the point: the news server is always full, and rejects any attempt to post because of lack of space. In the meantime, while y'all discuss all that stuff about logical proofs and the like, please, _please_, stay away from crosswalks? I'll probably make another attempt at downloading pgp262s.zip before I shut this down... the first two times the modem (I think theirs) went flaky and dropped the connection on me. Okay. time to see if the signature service works. Later, dudes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMBwQDCoTheIowlstareqnot8whaththeyEseemMI5rculIym8xjzYV8C mErjcooperUcoopermcooperqBviplMp =aBGi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +----------------+Quote from _Infinite In All Directions_, F.J. Dyson-----+ | Phil Fraering / \"The English Hierarchy, if there be anything unsound in| | pgf(a)tyrell.net\ /its constitution, has reason to tremble even at an air | +----------------+-pump or an electrical machine."---Joseph Priestly------+

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Re: www remailer interface
by Will French 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> 1. removing the hardwired > 2. removing the hardwired and forcing you to chain > 3. keep the hardwired in and use some 'established' remailer > or one the group can come to a consensus on. Given the second possibility, I see no reason to hardwire a remailer. It really will make people suspicious! I can easily imagine someone deciding not to use that remailer again, just on general principles. And anyway, chaining is not always necessary, especially if the sender is at a public Web terminal or using an anonymous Web proxy. The remailers don't enforce chaining, why should you? Will French <wfrench(a)interport.net>

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Parental Advisory
by merriman＠arn.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just wanted to let folks know that I'm able to confirm that He is still monitoring the list. Got a response to my posting about my Web page :-/ I hope others will stop by and check it out - links to it welcome. Dave Merriman This is a test (3 UUE lines) of the unconstitutional ITAR - 1/713th of the PGP executable. See below for getting YOUR chunk! ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [015/713] ------------------- M=$<(&L`#*IPP",(G6(,,S,`P](<2RWU96XCW86/JBYV8A\D8@X'HB_9H#&\X MX'PCUB.,13B"X8`R?^J-:UB.M_`U\>[#)BS&5$0C,Y#^1CS>1`\T1QTXX6!3 M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> My web page: http://www.geopages.com/CapitolHill/1148

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Re: Triple-DES controlled?
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> Didn't the ANSI financial committee just adopt 3DES (over NSA >> objections)? >> Presumably they consider the export situation solved/solvable. >There is the trivial solution of buying outside the US. The hardware >is actually better these days as the Germans and others have a >worldwide market and the economies that brings. Also. the ITAR rules give banks and financial institutions Extra Slack for exporting crypto gear for their own use. In some ways that makes sense (electronic bank robbery could be a very profitable business, and bankers are politically influential), and yet some of the government's biggest objections to free crypto seems to be that it allows people to have financial privacy... #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #--- # Crypto in 3-4 lines of perl --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/

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Prime Number Gen's.
by Rev. Ben 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone know of where I could get source, royalty free, in the US for a good Prime Number Generator? One that used a set of quick probabalistic algorithms would be cool. Thanks Ben. ____ Ben Samman..............................................samman(a)cs.yale.edu I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.-- K. Gibran. SUPPORT THE PHIL ZIMMERMANN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND! For information Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf

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Re: hardware encryption
by Kari Laine 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I'm looking for add-in cards that implement DES and/or RSA > for either a PC (ISA/EISA/whatever) or a Sun (S-Bus), > preferably a Sun. Also, the RSA card would need to implement > a 1024 bit modulus. uti-maco Belgium has some cards in that category: Contact information: uti-maco Belgium N.V. De Vunt 9 B-3220 Holsbeek - Belgium Phone +32-16-44 01 35 Fax +32-16-44 01 40 Compuserve: 100272,2772 (internet format: 100272.2772(a)compuserve.com) Best Regards Kari Kari Laine buster(a)klaine.pp.fi LAN Vision Oy Tel. +358-0-502 1947 Sinikalliontie 14 Fax +358-0-524 149 02630 ESPOO BBS +358-0-502 1576/1456 FINLAND

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PTM_kin
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

8-8-95. NYPaper: "War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality." [Book review] Ominous signs already exist, says the scholar Mark Slouka that virtual reality has begun to replace real life -- or "R.L.," as it is dismissively referred to by computer freaks. Even those poor benighted folks who have yet to enter the computer age appear to have started down "the road to unreality," says Mr. Slouka: PONA's (or "persons of no account," as they're known on line) can be found in front of their television sets, watching fictionalized accounts of real-life events, or at ballgames, listening to radio broadcasts of the very game being played before their eyes. As Mr. Slouka puts it, more and more of us "accept the copy as the original," a development that is sure to accelerate in coming years with lasting social, cultural and political effects. Mr. Slouka foresees a sinister new world in which telecommunications replaces physial contact and meaningless abstractions replace a sense of community and place: a solipsistic world turned in on itself and easily subject to manipulation by politicians. PTM_kin [Mark Slouka, John Perry Barlow, Kevin Kelly and Sven Birkerts beavis-butt and wayne-garth about cyber-duh in the August Harper's.]

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QAK_qak
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

8-8-95. NYPaper (for paleo-galactic quackers): "New Survey of Sky Finds Most Quasars Are Equally Ancient: The strange objects may be an early stage of galaxy formation." The discovery of new evidence for the epoch of quasar proliferation was one of the important results of a 10-year survey of quasars conducted by astronomers using the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory in southern California. The findings were reported in the July issue of The Astronomical Journal by Dr. Maarten Schmidt of the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Donald P. Schneider of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. James E. Gunn of Princeton University. Other astronomers praised the research and noted that it generally confirmed the results of a complementary survey of the southern sky by a team led by Dr. Patrick Osmer, an astronomer at Ohio State University. Those observations, reported last year, were conducted at telescopes in Australia and Chile. QAK_qak

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