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A Distributed Network Cache Service
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've been thinking a bit about the micropayment-based distributed network file system of the future. It should be scalable, with the addition of servers being a simple process. Anyone should be able to run a server. Kidnapping a server should disclose nothing about the contents of files stored there. Which files are stored on which servers should be concealed from mere users of the network. Anyone should be able to use the system by connecting to the server nearest them. Deterministic routing between servers should be used by servers to provide files to other servers. The system should provide for replication of files on a fixed number of servers, with "k of n" parts being sufficient for reconstruction. Aside from replication done for reliability, there should be only one copy of a file in the system at any time. If multiple users submit the same file, there should be no more copies than if one user submitted it. The architecture of the system should be completely independent of any specific file system organization, and any user should be able to sync all or any part of his file system with the network file system, or cache against the network file system on his local machine. The system should be completely secure, even from operators of servers. The person submitting a file receives a secret necessary for its reconstruction, and the file may only be accessed by the owner and those to whom the secret is communicated. The war room at the Pentagon and TCMay should be able to use the same server as an extension of their local file systems without any security worries. Let's consider the following service... Bob has an string of 100,000 octets he wants to make available to Alice and a few of their closest friends. Bob makes a secure connection to a Trusted Agent doing business with the network file system, and gives the Trusted Agent the string, and a micropayment of $1/MB or 10 cents. Working in a secure box, the Trusted Agent batch compresses and scrambles Bob's string into a much smaller string of seemingly random bits, and gives Bob two 128 bit values, a TAG, which will identify Bob's data to Bob, and to anyone else Bob may wish to share his data with, and a CONTEXT, which will unravel Bob's data back into its original form. The Trusted Agent then signs Bob's data, declaring that the resulting digital coccoon produced from Bob's data is associated with the TAG, and that the CONTEXT necessary to recover the data has been communicated to Bob and all copies destroyed. The agent gives Bob the TAG and CONTEXT, and sends the processed data and the TAG to the distributed file system, and it is stored on one or more of its servers for the next 100 days, after which it expires. For the next 100 days, Bob and all of his friends may use the 256 bit TAG/CONTEXT pair in place of Bob's data and may serve that data for free any number of times off any network file system server. They simply make a secure connection to any server, and send the TAG. The server returns to them the seemingly random stream of bits, after which a freeware program takes that data and the CONTEXT, and regenerates the original data. After 100 days, bob may fork over another 10 cents for another 100 days, or his data will disappear. The TAG assigned to an Octet String is unique, and no two strings have the same TAG, and no string is ever assigned multiple tags, no matter how often it may be entered and purged from the system. Now, almost everything you could want from a network wide distributed file system can be carried on top of this simple service, which might be considered a system of temporary lodging for popular Octet Strings. You rent your Octet String a room, where you and people you authorize may have unlimited visits for 100 days, and at the end, your Octet String checks out for parts unknown. One can do an almost unlimited number of useful things with such a service which, given a fast network connection, allows you to store any file in 256 bits for a period of time ranging from 100 days to forever, for a small fee. Bob could back up his entire file system to the network, sending each individual file or directory as an Octet String, with hard links to files replaced with TAG/CONTEXT pairs. The TAG/CONTEXT pair for Bob's root directory would then be used to access Bob's file system off any network server. If Bob changed some files, he could resync his FS with the server by only updating a few Octet Strings. If Bob synced his FS with the network daily, and jotted down the TAG/CONTEXT pair for his root directory, Bob could mount his file system as it appeared at backup time for any of the last 100 days, with no replication of material on the servers that contained it. Bob could write a "compression" program, Bobzip, which would produce an "archive" where each file only took 256 bits of space, and which could be "unBobzipped" on any machine connected to the Network for the next 100 days. Bob could mail this small "archive" to his friends. If browsers understood URLs referencing the distributed file system, Usenet binaries could be replaced with appropriate pointers in Usenet articles, ending the endless replication of binaries on thousands of machines, and reducing Usenet back to a managable volume of data. Users could boot their machines off the Network, and instantly see gigabytes of software available to them. After syncing their cache file system with the network, they could drop their PC off the roof, buy another one, and by typing in just one TAG/CONTEXT pair, see all their files again. Cache proxys could be set up which would grab files from the servers and provide NFS access to them, permitting other hosts to export NNTP, HTTP, and FTP access to the distributed network data. I would imagine a typical useful node in such a distributed system would need about 10 gig of disk, a fast network connection, and a reasonably fast processor. Such a node could hold 100 meg of compressed data for each of the 100 days until the space was reused. At full utilization, each node would generate in excess of $100 a day of revenue at $1/MB. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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hello
by Alexis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hello, Can anybody teach me the abc's on Hacking, Cracking, Phranking, Cryptomography, I know that to be a good hacker you have to know all, but speciallize on one. Or do any of you are in the LA area that willing to teach me face to face. Thank you Alexis.

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CPEH announcement/statement
by tank 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Congress for Peace in Euskal Herria (CPEH) cpeh(a)aol.com The Euskal Herria Journal (EHJ), an Internet publication reporting on the Basque struggle for self-determination and independence, is available temporarily at the following "mirror" sites: http://osis.ucsd.edu/ http://www.desaparecidos.org/ehj/ http://www.easynet.co.uk/cam/censorship/ehj http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/comp_law/ehj/ http://zthomas.digiweb.com http://www.contrast.org/mirrors/ehj/ The mirror sites support free speech without necessarily supporting the views and goals of the Euskal Herria Journal. On July 18, 1997, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) suspended the EHJ web site for review. This occurred after IGC endured a virulent "e-mail bombing" attack promoted from Spain by political forces who opposed EHJ's reports on the Basque resistance movement and claimed IGC was hosting the Basque armed organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna itself. The attack overwhelmed IGC's ability to keep their system running and threatened to temporarily end services to other clients. IGC is "reviewing whether EHJ membership in the `progressive pages directory' promoted by IGC is consistent with IGC's mission." In light of the controversy surrounding the Euskal Herria Journal web site we state the following: First, we believe that Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA, Basque Homeland and Freedom) has a right to a web site just like the Zapatistas, the FARC-EP, the MRTA or any other resistance movement. However, EHJ is published by the Congress for Peace in Euskal Herria, an independent grassroots organization that promotes political negotiations and Basque self-determination. EHJ has historical information and documents about/from ETA but it would be presumptuous to speak for ETA. Second, we promote dialogue for a peaceful solution of the Basque conflict. And there cannot be real dialogue without including ETA, a principal antagonist in the conflict. Our campaign both in France and Spain includes seeking support for the restoration of key procedural rights and safeguards to comply with the international principles for the protection of people in detention or imprisonment in both countries, and the transfer of all Basque political prisoners to jails in the Basque Country--a first step to break the logjam conflict. Third, the intervention of the Spanish government--telling CNN to remove the links between its site and the Euskal Herria Journal--and the media that encouraged the "e-mail bombing," is a signal that EHJ is effective. Finally, we hope IGC restores the EHJ web site at the earliest possible date. We believe that no matter how threatening "e-mail bombing" was to IGC, the suspension of the EHJ web site gives into such attackers and endangers free speech. We appreciate IGC's difficulties but free speech does not come free. We remain committed to peace with JUSTICE and will continue--with or without a web site--to make known the struggle for civil and national rights in the Basque Country under French and Spanish rule and to get political negotiations started between the Spanish government and Euskadi Ta Askatasuna. Congress for Peace in Euskal Herria (CPEH) New York ENDS.

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Re: Sit, Bubu. Sit! / Re: Stay issued; modified stay to follow
by Sam Perry 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thank you for your e-mail message. Sam Perry (sam.perry(a)reuters.com) is on a sabbatical until late September. If this involves a pending news event before then, please contact my colleagues at kourosh.karimkhany(a)reuters.com and therese.poletti(a)reuters.com. In the Interim, I can be reached via e-mail at sam.perry(a)wynd.net. Thank you and all the best ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.

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Aussies discover regulatory arbitrage...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text >From today's Australian Financial Review. http://www.afr.com.au/content/970829/inform/inform1.html ATO urges no Internet slug _By Hans van Leeuwen_ The Australian Tax Office's attempt to tax electronic commerce should include no new taxes and as little extra red tape as possible, according to the recommendations of a major ATO report to be released today. The report, _Tax and the Internet_, urges close monitoring of some key industries with a growing Internet presence -- including computer software, news and information, recorded music, gambling, travel services and retail goods. But its emphasis is on creating a tax and regulatory environment that keeps the online industries in Australia, rather than driving them to more lenient tax jurisdictions. The report will be the basis for discussions with the information industry on how the ATO can prevent the undermining of the tax base by electronic commerce. The report said the ATO would need to tax and regulate the Internet only in concert with other countries if it was to encourage online businesses and industries in Australia. "As the Internet allows electronic payment system providers to locate their operations anywhere in the world, they might choose to flee a jurisdiction that unilaterally introduces a strong regulatory regime . . . Unilateral action may be more damaging than no action," the report said. But the tax base must be protected, with electronic commerce posing a significant threat in the longer term to the revenue base of many taxes. "There are not too many existing taxes worldwide that are not vulnerable," the Tax Commissioner, Mr Michael Carmody, said yesterday. The recommendations to strengthen the tax policing of the Internet included: * Numbers displayed on websites. * Licence commercial internet sites ("webshops") and webshop hosts. * Introduce denomination limits for electronic cash, like those already existing for physical cash. * Review the current wholesale sales tax categories, given that new products were being thrown up by the process of digitisation. But Mr Carmody ruled out introducing any taxes on data flows, such as a bit tax, in the short term. "We don't see major advantages to that at the moment. For Australia to jump immediately to a bit tax would just drive Australian business out of the country," he said. The report said electronic commerce threw up some tough challenges to tax administrations, including the difficulty in identifying the parties to an electronic transaction, the ability of cyber- businesses to store records offshore and encrypt them, and the removal of "middle men" -- such as wholesalers and brokers -- from the distribution process, who usually make the ATO's tracking of transactions easier. But Mr Carmody said the ATO would not be assuming that the reason businesses went online was to avoid tax. "It's just another medium of transacting business, which does not of itself say they're not going to meet their tax obligations," he said. "But there are concerns that the Internet opens up wider fields for those who are seeking to avoid their liabilities." _________________________________________________________________ [27]Back To Top _© This material is subject to copyright and any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited._ --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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Sit, Bubu. Sit! / Re: Stay issued; modified stay to follow
by Cypherpunks Mailing List 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cindy Cohn wrote: > > During a conference call with counsel today, Judge Patel issued a stay of > the injunctive relief issued in her Opinion of August 25, 1997, effective > until September 8. Why are these dinosaurs fucking away perfectly good taxpayer's money trying to shore up the walls of a crumbling civilization? NEWS FLASH!!! THE GENIE *WON'T* GO BACK IN THE BOTTLE --------------------------------------- Before the ink had dried on Judge Patel's ruling, 2,000,000 emails of Professor Bernstein's work were on their way overseas, to every port of call. (Courtesy of Email Blaster, that wonderful progam that tells us, fifty times a day, how to "MAKE MONEY FA$T!!!") > On September 8 (or sooner if we get the papers to her) the Court she will > issue a formal Stay Pending Appeal which will stay the injunctive relief > issued in her Opinion of August 25, 1997, except that an injunction shall be > reinstated to prevent the prosecution of Professor Bernstein for the > "unlicensed export" of Snuffle 5.0 (which includes Snuffle and Unsnuffle) > and any later versions of that program which he has developed. Hell, Professor Bernstein can _import_ it now! By September 8, the program will be obsolete, having been tweaked upward a few generations by Iraquian programmers. I respectfully requested that the Iraquis make any future versions of the program available to American youth who have to flee to Hitler's homeland with their website in order to avoid being persecuted for their sexual predeliction. {See - http://www.guidemag.com/newsslant/vigilante-censors.html } > This eliminates, at least for the meantime, the injunctive relief granted to > Bernstein as to any other computer programs which he may have developed or > otherwise wished to publish. It also eliminates the protections for persons > other than Professor Bernstein. No it doesn't. Haven't you heard of strong crypto? Thank you for pointing out that Phil Zimmerman wishes to protect me, and Judge Patel wishes, on behalf of the government, to "eliminate the protections" which strong encryptions affords me. The governement can't even protect themself, let alone the citizens, as evidenced by the fact that the current sport of teenage hackers across the nation is to send strong encryption overseas by way of the government's email systems. (Can you say FBI? Sure you can! Can you say IRS? Sure you can!) Yet these dweebs want to destroy an industry that *is* capable of providing the citizens protection? (Considering the INSLAW affair, perhaps it would be more fitting to say "destroy _another_ industry.") > The government has said that it may still challenge this more limited stay > in the 9th Circuit. Professor Bernstein may also seek relief from the stay > from the 9th Circuit. I hope these idiots are having fun and making lots of money playing their dinosaur games, because they are certainly accomplishing the opposite of what they claim to be trying to do. The most that the dinosaurs in D.C. can manage to do, is to drag all of the American business interests down into the ashes of history with them as they attempt to build an Electromagnetic Curtain behind which to imprison their citizens. Well, the CypherPunks were digging tunnels before the government even knew they were predestined to build the Wall, so the fascist censors are sucking hind-tit and will, in all likelihood, continue to do so. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TruthMonger, CoE <tm(a)dev.null> Official Spokesperson for: Cypherpunks Cult of One, DoWell, Saskatchewan Division "Give me bandwidth, or give me death." -Admiral B. d'Shauneaux

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17 Dec '03

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Snuffle Snuffed
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For those not on the cypherpunks@toad list, there have been a few messages on the Bernstein decision which seem not to have been forwarded to the other lists, apparently because they were sent directly by "bernstein-announce(a)toad.com." We've put them on our site and can be browsed at: http://jya.com/crypto.htm The latest last night from Bernstein's attorney is that the USG has gotten a stay from Patel's on her August 25 decision (see PGP Inc. message below). The stay removes protections from those who may have posted Snuffle to the Web (as JYA did). Hence, we've removed the two versions of Snuffle we had hosted. After, we note, DoJ and Commerce had downloaded the evidence and our vitae. DoJ's Anthony Coppolino would not discuss the stay when I called him at 202-514-4782. However, we would like to offer lieu of the Snuffle files links to offshore sites if there are any who wish to host the US national security threats. Adam Back posted one version here a few days back, and Purdue has Dan's 1990 original offer to sci.crypt. For leads to the two see: http://jya.com/snuffle-c.htm http://jya.com/snuffle-txt Here's a the message from PGP, Inc.: ---------- Return-Path: <cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com> X-Sender: kohn(a)mail.pgp.com Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 01:06:00 -0700 To: Cindy Cohn <Cindy(a)mcglashan.com> From: Bob Kohn <kohn(a)pgp.com> Subject: Re: Stay issued; modified stay to follow Cc: sadams(a)forbes.com, telstar(a)wired.com, plotnikoff(a)aol.com, Ewasserman(a)sjmercury.com, dang(a)cnet.com, steven(a)echo.net, abate(a)ccnet.com, wendyg(a)cix.compulink.co.uk, amy(a)netcom.com, courtm(a)cnet.com, alan.boyle(a)MSNBC.COM, declan(a)well.com, sep(a)cbsnews.com, kenc(a)cwi.emap.com, arb(a)well.com, exp(a)mk.ibek.com, bransten(a)interactive.wsj.com, TomBemis(a)pacbell.net, sam.perry(a)reuters.com, jimevans(a)aol.com, ljflynn(a)aol.com, wendyl(a)ljx.com, bernstein-announce(a)toad.com Reply-To: Bob Kohn <kohn(a)pgp.com> Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Too bad. Prof. Bernstein was perfectly positioned to become a great -- and the only legal -- exporting reseller of PGP software. (no, this is not off the record) Bob At 06:21 PM 8/28/97 -0700, Cindy Cohn wrote: >During a conference call with counsel today, Judge Patel issued a stay of >the injunctive relief issued in her Opinion of August 25, 1997, effective >until September 8. > > On September 8 (or sooner if we get the papers to her) the Court she will >issue a formal Stay Pending Appeal which will stay the injunctive relief >issued in her Opinion of August 25, 1997, except that an injunction shall be >reinstated to prevent the prosecution of Professor Bernstein for the >"unlicensed export" of Snuffle 5.0 (which includes Snuffle and Unsnuffle) >and any later versions of that program which he has developed. > >This eliminates, at least for the meantime, the injunctive relief granted to >Bernstein as to any other computer programs which he may have developed or >otherwise wished to publish. It also eliminates the protections for persons >other than Professor Bernstein. > >The government has said that it may still challenge this more limited stay >in the 9th Circuit. Professor Bernstein may also seek relief from the stay >from the 9th Circuit. > >Cindy >************************ >Cindy A. Cohn >McGlashan & Sarrail, P. C. >177 Bovet Road, 6th Floor >San Mateo, CA 94402 >(415) 341-2585 (tel) >(415)341-1395 (fax) >Cindy(a)McGlashan.com >http://www.McGlashan.com > > > Robert H. Kohn Vice President, Business Development PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY, INC. 2121 S. El Camino Real, 9th Floor San Mateo, California 94403 Direct: (415) 524-6220 Cellular: (415) 297-6527 Main: (415) 572-0430 Fax: (415) 572-1932 kohn(a)pgp.com PGP Home Page: http://www.pgp.com Personal Home page: http://www.kohnmusic.com/people/bkohn.html "If all the personal computers in the world - ~260 million computers - were put to work on a single PGP-encrypted message, it would still take an estimated 12 million times the age of the universe, on average, to break a single message." -- William Crowell, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, testifying before the U.S. Congress on March 20, 1997

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Update on "news rating," Internet Content Coal mtg, from Netly (fwd)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 05:02:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Update on "news rating," Internet Content Coal mtg, from Netly ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 18:48:22 +0000 From: Noah Robischon <noah(a)pathfinder.com> To: declan(a)well.com Subject: ICC UPDATE The Netly News http://www.netlynews.com Afternoonline August 28, 1997 ICC You Later The Internet Content Coalition has rolled over, but it's not dead yet. In today's closed-to-the-press meeting, most of the two dozen news organizations in attendance opposed the rating of news sites on the Web -- whether from third parties or from the Coalition itself. This sharp turnabout followed criticism of the Coalition's attempts to establish voluntary ratings guidelines for the industry. "Everyone in the room agreed to a general statement that as news organizations we will not rate our content and we oppose the efforts of others to rate our content," said Dan Okrent, Time Inc. New Media's Editor In Chief. But self-labelling is not totally dead: today's membership was divided between those who still want to work with filtering software and browser companies and hardliners such as Times-Mirror who don't want to negotiate with Microsoft and Netscape at all. Such divisions lead to questions about the structure of the ICC, which is still struggling to define its membership, its mission and even its ability to speak on behalf of the world's media giants. Members of the press were barred from today's meeting, a semmingly paradoxical move given the nature of the discussion. Acting president Mark Bailey told The Netly News that reporters were barred from the proceeding so that an open and broad-based debate could take place. "We also have not invited ratings people and we also have not invited a lot of browser people," he said. "We really wanted this to be a news publisher meeting." -- By Noah Robischon

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Re: hello
by Feanor 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Aug 28, 22:22, Alexis wrote: } Subject: hello > hello, > > Can anybody teach me the abc's on Hacking, Cracking, Phranking, > Cryptomography, I know that to be a good hacker you have to know all, > but speciallize on one. Or do any of you are in the LA area that > willing to teach me face to face. Boy, you're a fucking loser. Hacking = expert/geeky computer usage. Cracking = breaking into computer systams. Phranking = some stupid fucking word you made up. Cryptomography = some other stupid fucking word you made up. So, you use 4 major terms, get two of them wrong, and can't use basic grammar. Even if I know the first thing about cracking (which I don't), I would never teach you that or anything else in a million years because you are obviously too stupid to be worth wasting my time on. Hell, you're even too stupid to troll well, if that's what this is...

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