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Re: [IRS] Elvis in Escrow
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:40 AM 4/16/96 -0700, Dave Del Torto wrote: >[from SF Examiner somewhere around 12-14 April 96] > >.............................................................................. > >"IRS Worker Took Peek at Celebrities' Records" >[Associated Press] > Memphis - A former IRS employee who said boredom had led him to peek at >the tax records of President Clinton, Elvis Presley and other famous people >has been acquitted of federal charges. > > > >Hmmm. _We_ do it, it's "malicious cracking/hacking" and they toss us in the >clink... _they_ do it, and it's "practice" (and they get acquitted). And >_these_ are the people who want to escrow _my_ keys? As IF! I wonder, how much is NSA's secret key worth? You know, the one they use to grab the extra key bits that Lotus Notes sends them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Oklahoma City - One Year Later - The Coverup Continues !
by ssalgaller＠CCGATE.HAC.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Suggested Reading: Oklahoma City - The Suppressed Truth By Jon Rappoport Blue Ocean Press 2633 Lincoln Blvd., Suite #256 Santa Monica, CA 90405 (213) 243-9005 copyright 1995 $12 (post paid) At 9:02 AM on April 19, 1995, the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was damaged in an explosion that also left 168 dead and 600 injured. If you look closer at this case, as investigative reporter Jon Rappoport has, you start asking some questions about the "official' story: The damage was supposedly caused when thousands of pounds of a fuel oil and fertilizer mixture was ignited in a truck parked near the building. Talk about "oil and water never mixing". This mixture would have to be either stirred or mixed just before use. It would also have to be detonated without any air spaces, such as the gaps between the fuel drums, in order to work. Even if the mixture detonated, it should leave traces of oil. none was found. Even if it detonated perfectly, the explosion was 3 times too weak to damage the building's reinforced concrete support columns. Especially column "B3". This column was sheared off at the 3rd floor level. Only a shaped charge placed directly on the column at that level would be able to cause this to happen. That section of the column was cut out and removed as evidence. Will we ever see it again at the trial ? Local seismometers noted *two* explosions, 10 seconds apart. This was "explained away" as reflections of the explosion by underlying rock strata. Ask a geologist if this sort of time delay has ever been observed before you decide if someone is "underlying". What ever happened to "John Doe #2", seen with Tim Mc Veigh that morning ? What happened to John Doe's #3 and #4, seen leaving the area soon after the explosion? Speaking of Tim, why (if the official story is true) did he advise the officer who stopped him that he had a concealed weapon ? Supposedly, he just killed 168 people, including 19 children. What's one more if it means he could get away ? And what about Terry Nichols ? He was advocating killing Federal employees at a public meeting in Estes, CO a year before the bombing. The FBI is very efficient, yet no one seems to have paid any attention to Terry to prevent loss of life. What about the reported financial links to the bombing, not from right wing causes, but from the Brittish Government ? Finally, what happens if and when the truth comes out in open court at Tim and Terry's trial ? One could guess that the real suppressed story will be one more casualty of the bombing. Unless we demand that someone explains column "B3". It *can* happen here - and it *did* a year ago ! Book "review" by Stephen S. salgaller(a)aol.com

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Fw: CWD-Pool Cool
by Lou Zirko 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thought some of you might enjoy this. I sure some of you have already read it, and if so, sorry for the excess noise. - -----Begin Included Message ----- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 05:34:40 -0700 From: "Brock N. Meeks" <brock(a)well.com> To: cwd-l(a)cyberwerks.com Cc: CyberWire Dispatch // Copyright (c) 1996 // Note: This is a re-issue of Dispatch. An earlier attempt to send to the CWD list was tanked by a glitch in the software. You may have seen this as reposted from another Newsgroup. If so, disregard and accept our apologies for the redundency; however, lots of CWD list subscribers have asked for this reposting and we are compl=07=01=D46=82 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMXVkqRKvccEAmlQ9AQHihwf7BItG4dpM564IQAUtbaQzFfjkJcfLvnrn 4OVJ98LgWEKa1mjqU728hp4g32lBfjYqcHC1Teh1vs4KTWSSM+Oz9fHA6NUNrgdX MgZkNqSqOx7J+QRfssIb9GgBoh/WA51cjU3r6LZcI4vviuTBx/+tBXkvmpDs3txS DJYKejwwKorOc3rq0Ro3BrSRDcC2aQdgkyetOwDA26uSC0tqp0OX2FLGi7XTmmqX mdE5gIs+OflImRBV23L+bTGy47C5qOQ5MaqYiSw5ka7360O1g5PHXZ/yCguyHCwd Dnx2hr4L7PbHi91Dg0EdYHUhyhRH9CFAm9xJ4Few5znrqI6kCqKAiw== =AcaM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Dictionary searching code
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone have some code that will search a dictionary, and tell me *quickly* if an arbitrary chunk of text is in the dictionary? Pre-indexing steps are fine, as is using big chunks of disk for hash tables. The point of course, is to check arbitrary possible plaintext that a test decryption produces. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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Bernstein ruling meets the virus law
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It should be interesting to see what happens when the Bernstein ruling (assuming it is further upheld as the court case and appeals proceed) meets the proposed law making the writing of virus code a crime. If crypto software is essentially speech, albeit in a non-traditional human language, then virus software is no different. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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FW: "CyberPayment Infrastructure"
by Blanc Weber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>---------- >From: Dick Moores[SMTP:rdm@netcom.com] >Sent: Sunday, June 30, 1996 2:13 PM >To: SEASIGI >Subject: "CyberPayment Infrastructure" > >"CyberPayment Infrastructure" is the title of a new article from the >Journal of Online Law. I have an email subscription, but there's also >a >web site, http://www.wm.edu/law/publications/jol . The new article >should be on the web site soon, but if it's not, I'll send it to anyone >who asks. It's about 20k. Here's the abstract: > > {Article 6} > > CyberPayment Infrastructure > Henry H. Perritt, Jr. [NOTE 1] > > [Cite as Henry H. Perritt, Jr., > "CyberPayment Infrastructure," > 1996 J. Online L. art. 6, par. ___] > >Abstract > >{par. 1} An essential requisite for commerce on the Internet >is the existence of a reliable and secure system to handle >payment for goods and services purchased. The basic >technology for such systems is public key encryption. >Professor Perritt explains how this technology can be used >to create a variety of "payment infrastructures." Any >payment system must meet certain requirements: merchants can >depend on it to be paid; consumers have access to the means >of payment through intermediaries like "certificate >authorities;" these intermediaries understand their >responsibilities and risks; and existing financial >institutions understand their responsibilities in the world >of non-paper-based financial instruments. Much of what is >necessary can be accomplished within today's legal framework >without need of new laws. > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >Dick Moores rdm(a)netcom.com > >

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Technology and Privacy
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Washington Post, July 1, 1996, p. A16. Technology and Privacy [Letter] In reference to the May 31 editorial "Plant Lights and Privacy" commenting on an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to uphold the use of thermal imaging in cases involving indoor marijuana growing operations: The U.S. Supreme Court had just declined to review that 11th Circuit decision. On June 11, The Post published a letter from Jack King ["When Government Can Look Through Walls"] warning us that thermal imaging, as developed by the military and as used by civilian law enforcement agencies with the cooperation of the military, posed an Orwellian threat to citizens because the government could use the technology to tell if two people were making love in the privacy of their bedroom. To set the record straight, military thermal imaging is used to support civilian law enforcement only after other probable cause for a search warrant, such as power bills, observation of boarded-up windows, vents on the roof to draw away heat and buys by confidential informants, are documented. The military is then called in, using thermal imagers, to determine if there is an unusual heat source in the house as detected by heat escaping from the house. In dozens of cases where thermal imaging was used, I have not observed one case where it could detect the activity of people in a house, let alone a bedroom. I also have not observed the technology to have the ability to detect what people are doing in any room behind closed doors, covered windows and walls other than to detect blurs or shadows moving around behind light curtains. The United States v. Cusumano language quoted by Mr. King was reversed last month by the court because the original three judges decided it was an issue that didn't need deciding, i.e. the constitutionality of thermal imaging absent a search warrant, and did not exercise "judicial restraint." The trend to Mr. King's "militarization" of the war on drugs, based on a decision by then-secretary of defense Richard Cheney that drug use represented a threat to our national security, is being carried out with restraint, respect for the law and an appropriate appreciation for the privacy of our citizens. Barrie A. Vernon Alexandria The writer is an attorney with the National Guard Bureau at the Pentagon working in support of the counter-drug directorate. [End]

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LOS_tit
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

7-2-96 UST, page one: "Companies fear losing privacy, customers' trust." In a show of self-reliance reminiscent of the old West, companies are taking matters into their own hands, hiring security firms to protect their computer systems and ignoring the convention that law enforcement is the best defense. It's a stance that has implications for law enforcement and commerce, raises broad questions of privacy and control, and pits the philosophy of the Clinton administration directly against that of many Fortune 500 companies. "An organization has very little to gain" by reporting, says Lloyd Hession, of IBM's Business Recovery Services. There seems to be universal agreement that the strongest means for securing computer data against theft lies in cryptography, but the Clinton administration, citing fears that criminals would use cryptography to cloak their activities, is setting regulations slowing development of cryptography software. The Clinton administration is to announce, as early as this week, a commission to determine the federal government's role in securing cyberspace, from terrorism to petty crimes. http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/lostit.txt (13 kb) Go via www.anonymizer.com. Pipeline now belongs to Mindspring, an Atlanta company. LOS_tit

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Re: rsync and md4
by David Rosoff 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 11.36 AM 7/1/96 -0400, David F. Ogren wrote: >2. >(quoted from Mr. Perry in an article entitled "MD5 breaks, etc.") > >> checked. However, the result is widely known. MD5 is *not* >> something that should be trusted going forward, and I hope the next >> version of PGP uses SHA-1. > >As I understand the current plans, PGP 3.0 _will_ incorporate a SHA option. >In fact, I believe that there may already be "bootleg" versions that >incorporate SHA. What is the difference between SHA and SHA-1? Is this algorithm subject to the same licensing as MD5? Could someone point me to such a bootleg version for DOS, please? Thanks. =============================================================================== David Rosoff (nihongo o sukoshi dekiru) ----------------> drosoff(a)arc.unm.edu For PGP key 0xD37692F9, finger drosoff(a)acoma.arc.unm.edu 0xD37692F9 Key fingerprint = 25 7D AA 01 85 41 43 89 50 5A 33 76 F1 F1 99 67 Non-technical beginner's guide to PGP ---> http://www.arc.unm.edu/~drosoff/pgp/ Anonymous ok, PGP ok. If it's not PGP-signed, you know that I didn't write it. === === === === === === === === === === === === === === === === === === === === "Truth is stranger than fiction, especially when truth is being defined by the O.J. Simpson Defense Team." -Dave Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMdiLyBguzHDTdpL5AQHACgP/dmJJ6aQ0ZVlHN3WcAsPkaGoAypU/iCz4 F8HSK6nxbmG+pBd5+82Flzqpquy23Wfp+uk2l+CIv7oygoOMXVvadRLTQKXZEe+h 8/rk0pLATszwLakwa427P5xgGs4mfwvKjzBi0LpEIu1qkUmWYGQphl7KPAumdLc+ +3Wpc0INmHY= =qXUq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: SAFE Forum (We sell decryption hardware)
by Jean-Paul Kroepfli 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill Frantz wrote >We sell RC4, 40 bit decryption hardware (based on AMD29000) for $16K. FPGA >devices for breaking DES in 7 days for $1M. [Eric Thompson, Access Data] What? Do you have some information about this ad (e. g. eMail)? I know some bank that would be very interested about this possibility (not for use it, but as an impulse to change their systems). Best regards, Jean-Paul ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Jean-Paul et Micheline Kroepfli (our son: Nicolas and daughter: Celine) eMail: JeanPaul.Kroepfli(a)utopia.fnet.fr Also Compuserve and MSNetwork Phone: +33 81 55 52 59 (F) PostMail: F-25640 Breconchaux (France) or: +41 21 843 27 36 (CH) or: CP 138, CH-1337 Vallorbe Fax: +33 81 55 52 62 (Switzerland) Zephyr(r) : InterNet Communication and Commerce, Security and Cryptography consulting PGP Fingerprint : 19 FB 67 EA 20 70 53 89 AF B2 5C 7F 02 1F CA 8F "The InterNet is the most open standard since air for breathing"

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