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Fertile ground for papers....
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:22 AM 11/30/95, Pete Loshin wrote: >In any case, using such a "public" and daily number >eliminates the problem of proving the game isn't fixed. Maybe. In passing, the whole field of cryptography is filled with interesting papers with titles like "How to toss a fair coin over the telephone" and "Avoiding double spenders in digital money systems." Meaning, how robust cryptographic protocols can be used to avoid scams familiar to the most junior grifter. The theme of "proving anonymous betting schemes are not fixed" is in the same vein, and could establish the reputation of any budding Amos Fiats or David Chaums out there. --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: politics aren't all or nothing (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 19:51:40 -0700 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Re: politics aren't all or nothing > Democracy is the problem, not the solution. A democracy which doesn't respect its limits of power is the problem. This has always been the problem with all forms of governments and will continue to be the problem with all forms of government (even anarchy). People are people, people are strange; it isn't a question of technology [1] or time. The solution is people taking more direct and immediate action in the first person. Always has been, always will be. Irrespective of all the spin-doctor protestrations to the contrary not withstanding. Governments are governed by the 3 laws of thermodynamics just like everything else. You can't get ahead You can't break even You can't quit the game The failing with the founding fathers is that there were not enough amendments in the Bill of Rights explicity listing citizen rights and federal duties and limits in the first place. THAT is the problem with our government today: even the harshest critics of their day trusted a federal government too much. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________| [1] Governments are a form of technology.

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Re: ecash lottery (Was: ecash casino)
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"tcmay(a)got.net" 29-NOV-1995 23:16:11.12 Personally, I have long had great _hopes_ for using crypto for non-sanctioned gambling, but I'm pretty skeptical that many people will do it. For one thing, anyone knowledgeable enough to be comfortable with the crytography knows that gambling when a house cut exists is a lose. (And gambling with no house cut is, at best, a wash.) ----------------------- How about gambling on something other than random numbers? Idea Futures are one instance, as is sports gambling for those interested in that sort of thing. -Allen

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Re: META: Lycos & Searchable archives
by loki＠obscura.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If you mail to an open list or post to news you are shouting through a megaphone on a street corner. If you don't want everyone to know what you said, use a remailer (this group above all others should do that). -Lance At 9:56 PM 11/29/95, Leslie Todd Masco wrote: > >Someone has expressed concern to me that the cypherpunks archives are >searchable via Lycos. Said person doesn't mind having the archives >searchable to the smaller audience of people who go to the we-site, >but is unhappy about net-wide searches turning up cypherpunks articles. > >Can we try to find a consensus on this? My initial inclination was to >shrug the concern off (properties of information, etc, as well as c'punks >being a more-or-less anarchy and the express desire for some sort of >searching mechanism for c'punks), but I thought I'd double check as I've >been mostly out of touch for the better part of a year. >- -- >Todd Masco | "life without caution/ the only worth living / love for a man/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell loki(a)obscura.com PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. Mixmaster, the next generation remailer, is now available! http://obscura.com/~loki/Welcome.html or FTP to obscura.com "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche ----------------------------------------------------------

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Spam the Sign II
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Looks like Spam the Sign I was a little premature.

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Top Ten Things to Give to Law Enforcement
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:09 PM -0700 9/18/97, Declan McCullagh wrote: >I just got off a phone with an industry lobbyist. The conversation went >something like this. > >"Can there be a compromise?" I asked. "I don't think there can be one that >will satisfy all three or four parties involved." (I was thinking: law >enforcement, national security, business, and privacy interests.) > >The answer: "I don't think compromise is the right word. But we need to >give something to law enforcement." > Top Ten Things to Give to Law Enforcement: 10. Our first-born children. 9. A lifetime supply of toilet plungers. 8. The Master GAK key Craig Livingstone was able to snarf off the IBM PROFS system before being fired at the White House. 7. A napalm strike called on their chief critics in Congress. 6. An 80-pound suitcase from Tajikistan, to be opened only by Lous Freeh. 5. .... etc. The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Applied Cryptography Questions
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A couple questions about Applied Cryptography (Second Edition) 1. What on earth is a Neural Net? 2. Consider the Chinese Lottery attack vs a processor bank. ADVANTAGES Distributed computing, no easy bombing target. DISADVANTAGES 39% inefficient Need specialized hardware [for speed] or transmission of alogrithms for any specific alogrithm Not on all the time If value(crack) * cracks/chip > cost of chip, then why not have the gov buy the chips? Its probably cheaper that way. 3. How does one cryptoanalyize a Feistel Network? Is there a general method? 4. Does there exist an n such that a keyspace of 2^n is trivial to crack [ie a matter of miniutes] on a PC but is difficult to crack for a big commercial company or even a major government? [this question relates to Merkle's puzzles, when a 40-bit key seems a bit weak.] 5. Is there an errata yet?

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Re: The future will be easy to use
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"jlasser(a)rwd.goucher.edu" "Jon Lasser" 29-NOV-1995 16:23:00.41 Not if you're encrypting a Credit Card transaction to ship physical goods. In that case, I'm going to certainly want to link a key ID to a physical body (or at least address) if I'm the seller, so as to limit liability as best I can. While this might not ultimately be important, early adopters of crypto on the net seem in general to be financially interested with an eye to limiting liability. They want linked keys. There's a public-relations aspect to crypto which most systems not linking name -> key id fail. This is the step necessary to get it out the door. Unfortunately, it also appears counter to CP philosophy. However, if you have optional linking of ID and name, shippers will only ship to keys with such attributes. Because just ID and address, it could be a "hit and run" type attack shipped to a safe maildrop. --------------------------------- If the transaction is via a Credit Card, it's the card issuer's liability (and responsibility to determine creditworthiness), unless I'm badly mistaken. If it's bank-issued ecash, then it's up to the bank to disgorge physical dollars when ecash is presented to them. What's the risk in either case? -Allen

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RED_sky
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

11-30-95. W$Jiver, Page One lead: "New Satellite Imaging Could Soon Transform The Face of the Earth. Big Worries About Security." Next time you gaze into the heavens, practice your smile. The ventures being backed by companies such as Lockheed Martin Corp., the E-Systems Corp. and Orbital Sciences Corp. will offer days-old digital images of unprecedented clarity. These corporate systems worry some scientists and federal policy makers concerned about privacy invasion and a free-for-all expansion of espionage. One notes that Lockheed Martin and E-Systems already have such systems in space. "They do this for the intelligence agencies. The very system that they're putting up there is a classified system now." A Senate staffer says that as budgets are chopped for the NRO and military satellite operators, the commercial systems will offer lower-cost images for government needs, preserve jobs and know-how in a vital area of technology and ensure U.S. leadership in the imaging industry. Nations such as France, Russia, South Africa, India and Israel are contemplating expanded use of their high-resolution systems. RED_sky (16 kb)

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AUTHOR A VIRUS, GO TO JAIL
by OpsAn＠gnn.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Found this intersting too. US Position? AUTHOR A VIRUS, GO TO JAIL A computer cracker last week became the first virus writer sentenced to a jail term under Great Britain's Computer Misuse Act. The 26-year-old perpetrator was sentenced to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to 11 charges connected with placing virus-infected programs on computer bulletin boards. (Investor's Business Daily 29 Nov 95 A6)

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