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PGP key servers
by L. Detweiler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Uh, I must have missed something, but a lot of the servers seem to be down. Is there a problem here?

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T-Shirt Ordering Information
by Christian Void 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Cypherpunk Criminal" T-shirt Ordering Information --------------------------------------------------------- Part I: Where to get a preview of the design The front of the t-shirt can be obtained via anonymous FTP at netcom.com in pub/cvoid/cypherpunks. The filename is "front.gif" which is based on Jef Poskanzer's "CRYPTO-DATA" DOT warning logo (this file is available as well as "logo.gif"). The back of the t-shirt consists of the upper banner, "cypherpunks(a)toad.com", and the lower banner, "There is safety in large numbers". In the middle is a listing of 7-digit primes in a large block. The typestyle is Fusion and Fusion bold. Outputting this to a GIF is next to impossible due to the resolution needed to reproduce the text. Trust us, it's cool. Part II: What kind of t-shirt is it? What color? Sizes? Custom? Availability? The t-shirts are Hanes Beefy-T's, which are a very strong and durable. The t-shirts will be black, with white and yellow screened on to it. We were unable to come up with a practical way to customize the t-shirts on an individual or group basis, so we opted for this design instead. We will only be making as many as we get orders for, and have no plans to do a second printing. Sizes available are S, M, L, and XL. We may be able to get XXL, XXXL and XS shirts as well. We will post an update in regards to the additional sizes. Part III: How much do they cost? Ordering deadline? The t-shirts will cost $10 each, which will include shipping and handling to anywhere you want them sent (except Mars). We will be accepting orders until February 15th. The t-shirts will be shipped out before February 28th. Part IV: Ordering Information Please make all Money Orders out to "Inky Fingers" (the screening company we use). Please specify the number of t-shirts, and what size you need, and where you want them shipped. We cannot (for obvious reasons) accept personal checks. Cashier's Checks and Money Orders only, please. Orders can be mailed to: V/M/R Attn: Cypherpunks T-Shirt P.O. Box 170213 San Francisco, CA 94117-0213 If you have any further questions, you can send me e-mail here at <cvoid(a)netcom.com> or <cvoid(a)albemuth.tatertot.com>. Anyone who sent e-mail in regards to this will also get this e-mailed to them directly, in case they do not have access to the list. Feel free to forward this to any interested parties. Thanks. -- Christian Void /T71 | "I don't like it, and I'm sorry I | V/M/Research, Inc. cvoid(a)netcom.com | ever had anything to do with it." | P.O. Box 170213 Tel. 1+415-998-0774 | -Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) | SF, CA 94117-0213 * PGP v2.3a Public Key Available Via Finger *

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Re: SecDrv and Win95
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In article <199808050819.KAA06317(a)replay.com> you wrote: : I'm looking for a good HD encryptor. The best one seems to be secdrv, : Is this compatoble with win95? I'm asking because I know secdrv uses : tsr programs and drivers, but I am not familiar enough with win 95 to : be sure they will work together. In win programming you don't use : interrupts and I'm sure that the drivers try to capture interupts. it : could still work if win95 calls int's to do it's work though. Any info? Checkout: ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/crypto/disk/{SdWin32Src.zip,SdDriveSrc.zip} -aj-

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META: Filtering/Posting advice
by Leslie Todd Masco 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "I have a concern..." Cypherunks First: Stipulated that any traffic has a 'right' to be on cypherpunks. However, cypherpunks is what we make it. Every time you post a message, consider the desirability of seeing a hundred or so messages just like it from every other readers' point of view. Content control begins at home. Second: I'll remind the reader that one can easily evaluate an individual's past contributions to cypherpunks by looking at the archives' "by author" listing. If you post to cypherpunks, I'd suggest that you go back and look at what you've posted in the past to get a feel for how other people on the list see you. Third: Filtering isn't just a game for the vocal: as noise begets noise, I'd encourage everybody to filter out people whose prose they simply can not stand. While this is an important aspect to creating a more readable list, I can't imagine anybody really caring who else has been "plonked": to me, in seems no more than a preadolescent "nyah nyah, I'm not listening..." I'm half- (only half-, as I'm a free-speech absolutist) tempted to write a tool that would automatically remove any person from cypherpunks who posts a "plonk" message. Until the total lack of security in majordomo is addressed, this is a game that anybody who can telnet to an smtp port can play. Fourth: Cypherpunks is fast becoming a ghetto. My first reaction (which I did not follow) to several crypto posts in the last few days has been to refer the posters to coderpunks. While there is some signal that will always remain uniquely suited to cypherpunks (Tim May's contributions, Strata's response to JPB, and Jim Bell's Assassination idea -- though not all of the messages he's sent since -- immediately come to mind), any signal that has another place to migrate will do so if the noise issue isn't addressed better. Words of wisdom from the past: This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing. Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny] IE, please... if you aren't adding *new* *signal* to the list, please refrain from posting. If you must flame a person, do it in private email. -- Todd - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMR/CnioZzwIn1bdtAQEG6gGAsw6qzFNpiRLGRW0n7qdHDIJ+Yf+XmBIC dnntiQ+UbXODeNLwsp4jVPSFVETAkCJj =GAYX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Sex change op to be shown live on web/Dog gets bionic balls
by STUFFED/EUREKA! 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Welcome to today's issue of Stuffed. To read it you should click on the URL below. If it is not made clickable by your email program you will need to use your mouse to highlight the line, copy it and then paste it into your browser (then press Return). http://stuffed.net/98/8/5/ If you have an email program that can display web pages you will find today's front cover should have already been disp- layed and can be clicked on to take you straight to Stuffed. This email is never sent unsolicited. Stuffed is the supplement for the Eureka newsletter you subscribed to. Full instructions on unsubscribing are in every issue of Eureka!

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ACM/IEEE Letter on Crypto
by Dave Banisar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Reply to: ACM/IEEE Letter on Crypto Association For Computing Machinery Office of US Public Policy 666 Pennsylvania Avenue SE Suite 301 Washington, DC 20003 USA (tel) 202/298-0842 (fax) 202/547-5482 Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers United States Activities 1828 L Street NW Suite 1202 Washington, DC 20036-5104 USA (tel) 202/785-0017 (fax) 202/785-0835 April 2, 1996 Honorable Conrad Burns Chairman, Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee US Senate SD-508 Washington, DC 20510 Dear Chairman Burns: On behalf of the nation's two leading computing and engineering associations, we are writing to support your efforts, and the efforts of the other cosponsors of the Encrypted Communications Privacy Act, to remove unnecessarily restrictive controls on the export of encryption technology. The Encrypted Communications Privacy Act sets out the minimum changes that are necessary to the current export controls on encryption technology. However, we believe that the inclusion of issues that are tangential to export, such as key escrow and encryption in domestic criminal activities, is not necessary. The relaxation of export controls is of great economic importance to industry and users, and should not become entangled in more controversial matters. Current restrictions on the export of encryption technology harm the interests of the United States in three ways: they handicap American producers of software & hardware, prevent the development of a secure information infrastructure, and limit the ability of Americans using new online services to protect their privacy. The proposed legislation will help mitigate all of these problems, though more will need to be done to assure continued US leadership in this important hi-tech sector. Technological progress has moved encryption from the realm of national security into the commercial sphere. Current policies, as well as the policy-making processes, should reflect this new reality. The legislation takes a necessary first step in shifting authority to the Commerce Department and removing restrictions on certain encryption products. Future liberalization of export controls will allow Americans to excel in this market. The removal of out-dated restrictions on exports will also enable the creation of a Global Information Infrastructure sufficiently secure to provide seamless connectivity to customers previously unreachable by American companies. The United States is a leader in Internet commerce. However, Internet commerce requires cryptography. Thus American systems have been hindered by cold-war restraints on the necessary cryptography as these systems have moved from the laboratory to the marketplace. This legislation would open the market to secure, private, ubiquitous electronic commerce. The cost of not opening the market may include the loss of leadership in computer security technologies, just at the time when Internet users around the world will need good security to launch commercial applications. For this legislation to fulfill its promise the final approval of export regulations must be based on analysis of financial and commercial requirements and opportunities, not simply on the views of experts in national security cryptography. Therefore, we urge you to look at ways to further relax restrictive barriers. Finally, the legislation will serve all users of electronic information systems by supporting the development of a truly global market for secure desktop communications. This will help establish private and secure spaces for the work of users, which is of particular interest to the members of the IEEE/USA and the USACM. On behalf of the both the USACM and the IEEE/USA we look forward to working with you on this important legislation to relax export controls and promote the development of a robust, secure, and reliable communications infrastructure for the twenty-first century. Please contact Deborah Rudolph in the IEEE Washington Office at (202) 785-0017 or Lauren Gelman in the ACM Public Policy Office at (202) 298-0842 for any additional information. Sincerely, Barbara Simons, Ph.D.3 Chair, U.S. Public Policy Committee of ACM Joel B. Snyder, P.E. Vice President, Professional Activities and Chair, United States Activities Board cc: Members of the Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space

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Navajo code-talkers
by Brian D Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May comments: >According to an episode of "The X Files," which dealt with Navajo >code-talkers, the answer is that young Navajo men are losing their >fluency in Navajo, especially of the nuances and double entendres >that code-talkers relied upon. (For those who scoff at using a >television show as a source, writers for shows like this often do >more interesting research than, say, the average encyclopedia >article will report.) Navajo also has something now it didn't have before WWII, a written language, and I believe a rudimentary dictionary. Brian

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Children of the Net
by jim＠bilbo.suite.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Did you here about the new Steven King novel? It called "Children of the Net". It about a group of children who stumble upon an obscure mailing list and come under the influence of the evil sysop. Lots of gore and suspense as parents try to regain control of their childrens' minds. I won't reveal how it ends, but it involves a lot of nifty government technology. :-) Jim_Miller(a)suite.com

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This stock up 250%
by oppykm＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: NYT on CFP
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:24 AM 4/1/96 -0500, John Young wrote: > The New York Times, April 1, 1996, p. A14. > Pioneers of Cyberspace Move Into Wider Arena, By Peter H. Lewis Cambridge, Mass., March 30 -- Cyberspace is dead, many of > its electronic pioneers said at a conference here this > week. [stuff deleted] > The proposals include the formation of > an Internet Caucus in Congress and a Senate blll to relax > the Government's laws restricting the transmission of > secrets over the global information network. This goes to show that export controls on encryption are going to have to go, Leahy bill or not. > "Washington is coming to thls conference in droves," said > Daniel J. Weltzner, deputy dlrector of the Center for > Democracy and Technology, one of several public-interest > groups that seek to influence Government policy related to > cyberspace, "and I think it's very exciting and promising. > It's the coming of age of this community." I don't think they have any choice! Washington is already bombarded with email within hours every time they do something stupid. > The Computers, Freedom and Privacy crowd included its usual > assortment of computer hackers, academics and self- > described crypto-anarchists, and even one man wearing video > goggles with an antenna apparently sprouting from his head. > But it also included others who wanted to assess the fusion > of cyberspace and real space: Federal judges, lawmakers, > White House policy experts, corporate executives and > law-enforcement agents. Some of whom might even be aware that they could easily lose their jobs as a consequence of what's happening now on the 'net. > Senator Conrad Burns, a Republican from the real frontier > state of Montana, chose the conference to announce, by > telephone, new legislation that would remove nearly all > current Government restrictions on the export of > mass-market encryption software, which is used to send > secret messages over computer and telephone networks. I sure wish they'd hurry up on this legislation. Hope it's not just vaporware...er... vaporbill, or whatever. > Senator Burns's legislation would also block the > Administration from imposing as a Government standard any > form of data encryption that would give law-enforcement > agencies the ability to decode messages. Gee, I thought the 1st amendment did that? Are our freedoms dependant on a bill that hasn't yet been passed, and may not even yet exist? > The Senator's bill places him squarely at odds with the > Clinton Administration and the Justice Department. But Mr. > Burns said the use of robust data encryption would foster > the rise of electronic commerce, distance education and > digital communicatlons, which his large, rural state > desperately needs in the 21st century. While the bill might > have little chance of passage this year, conference > participants were heartened by what appears to be growing > support in Congress for a relaxation of the Government's > cryptography policy. I'm anxious to see how many self-proclaimed supporters of the Leahy bill are going to do the right thing and drop their support of it once the text of this Burns bill has been released. (assuming the Burns bill turns out to be satisfactory, of course, and that it covers all the "good" parts that we wanted from Leahy as well as leaving out all the bad ones.) Though I was never happy about that "list of shame" idea, one of the tests that would partially confirm or deny the proper placement of any given name on that list would be that the person named would shift his support to a repaired bill. I can't see any logical reason to continue to support a flawed bill if and when a corrected bill appears. > The proposal drew some opposition. "I think we'll regret it > down the road," said Dorothy E. Denning, a professor of > computer sciences at Georgetown University and a computer > security consultant to the military. Dr. Denning and others > have argued that the use of unrestricted encryption would > thwart the ability of law-enforcement and intelligence > agencies to conduct wiretaps on messages sent by foreign > spies, terrorists, child pornographers and other criminals. Damn! They keep leaving me out of their short list! Maybe they meant to lump me in with the groups they mentioned. I'm an American, so I can't be a "foreign spy," and my supply of child pornography is at a constant zero level. I'd sure hate to be lumped into an ignominious position with the "other criminals," however: What an unimpressive title! Maybe I'll just have to settle for being called a terrorist. Harrumph! Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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