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Re: I@Week on crypto export loophole 6/24/96
by tien＠well.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am fairly sure that at least one U.S. district court (the case name escapes me) held that the AECA has extraterritorial application. Lee Tien

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Abuse Complaint out of homer@rahul.net
by Homer Wilson Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Oh, Goody. I get to deal with my first abuse complaint for my remailer. Seems to me that letting others decide what is or is not abuse without at least being able to see the abuse myself would be wrong, that opens the door to just anyone claiming they were abused and my taking action against the alleged abuser. Clearly though if some admin of a system considers something an abuse, one can not just blow them off, we are all responsible for responsible use of the net. Even if this posting came through a chain, this admin is going to try to trace back the chain through the other remailers. So if I give him the remailer it came from, he is going to pester that remailer operator who won't appreciate it. I will soon be able to install blocking on the To: or From: lines. Blocking the From lines is hard, because usually abuse comes through other remailers, so I can't just block that. I can however block To: lines if the person is abusing one particular usenet newsgroup or end receiver. It would seem that if I am going to take action against someone with blocking of some sort, then I have at least a right to see the full posting that is claimed to be abusive. By the way, rahul.net keeps syslog files world readable which I find to be a security leak, as anyone (specifically the Church of Scientology) could find out who is in communication with me and start to harrass them too. Comments on ethics and diplomatic handling of this would be appreciated. Homer

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Re: Spoofing Clipper
by koontzd＠lrcs.loral.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>With enough of these traversing the ether, the chaff/wheat noise ratio >goes down to where having a source identifier (ID in the LEAF) gets >real hit or miss - to where it loses traffic analysis value. Sort of >growing weeds intentionally on the information superhighway. If the adversary learns to distinguish false clipper transmissions, you could always use a fake one to lull him into not listening further.

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Re: Jude Milhon in WIRED
by ddt＠lsd.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anyone with any dang sense left at all knows that St. Jude is the secret CypherGoddess behind this whole eff-in' thing, besides being the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes... ;) dave _________________________________________________________________________ "There are three sides to every issue: my side, your side and the side of the truth." -Babatunde Olatunji

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Premail PGP Keys
by Michael L. Acklin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ralf, I hate to bother you, but I am setting up your premail program and tried the "premail -getkeys" but it never works. I tried to manually finger Matt's Pub Key area, but looks like he is down or has a different address. Is there somewhere else I can try to get the PGP Keys for the remailers, or does Matt have a different address? Any help would really be appreciated. Also does anyone have a patch for PINE 3.9X to get premail to work. I know I am kinda behind but just starting out and would really appreciate any help I can get. Again Thanks in Advance.... Mike Acklin ----------------------> hroller(a)metronet.com

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Re: Is this as insecure... (really "Fax crypto")
by thad＠hammerhead.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Shamir did a talk on fax crypto in May, 1994. There is no reason that this can't be completely secure, the overlays could be one-time pads. Bill Sommerfeld posted a description of the technique to the list after he went to a presentation on the technique, I'll forward it to anybody that needs a copy. Using the same overlay multiple times, though, would make it completely insecure. I can't believe that they are recommending that that could be a possibility. thad -- Thaddeus Beier thad(a)hammerhead.com Technology Development 408) 286-3376 Hammerhead Productions http://www.got.net/~thad

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Internet News: NNBC News Story moved to tonight (Tuesday) (fwd)
by Brad Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 14:23:11 -0500 From: Craig Peterson <craig(a)Mainstream.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <rkba-alert(a)gatekeeper.nra.org> Subject: INFO: NBC Nightly News Story moved to tonight (Tuesday) A story regarding the Internet, with some sort of mention of NRA.org, should be on the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw tonight. Craig.

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What is this? Anonymous message failed
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Just got back a message from Julf's remailer that my Anonymous message failed (wrong password). Needless to say, I didn't try to send one through the remailer. The message it was refering to is the one I sent to the list earlier. Is this a repeat of the an/na problems we had in the past? Confused, - --Lucky -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Not-the-Real MacPGPv262 iQCVAwUBLxzKlQSQkem38rwFAQGaYAP+MGfUN1Vv7SWR2WX0i/XYCYbwOVPTYj1v Bkld6/rbrzW1SZ+nriQe1OP/ktuoTG5vO281brfIdNA4SQPK6MGf7JdU4AiXL/dQ UE/nuE+UN60jL1leZngG717QBUTUetfj8npilfgv74EE0QDlStItP+MntrMspl6D goePQCSfe5Q= =69Tv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Borders *are* transparent
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:32 AM 7/22/96 -0006, Peter Trei wrote: >Any one up for a distributed brute force attack on single DES? My >back-of-the-envelope calculations and guesstimates put this on the >hairy edge of doability (the critical factor is how many machines can >be recruited - a non-trivial cash prize would help). My Mac 9500/132 is chomping at the bit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Cave ab homine unius lebri | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | [Beware the man of one | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | book] - Anonymous Latin | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Encrypted FS for Linux
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I know this was discussed recently, but I don't recall seeing the answer. Are there any recent cryptographic filesystem patches for Linux (preferably later 2.1 kernels) which implement at LEAST CAST-128 and IDEA?

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