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Re: FCPUNX:Passphrase entropy
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:04 PM 4/18/97 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: > If this is true then how much passphrase entropy is enough to thwart, > for example, an NSA crack attempt? Seems to me it needs to be equal > to or greater than the encryption key. What are some good, practical > ways of achieving this? Long keys or random keys. Suppose you need 80 bits of entropy. If your passphrase is truly random, for example 9kDt3fagWxglr You have about six bits a character, so you only need thirteen characters. If, however, your pass phrase is an intelligible english sentence, for example Wandering past Saint Ives, I saw many fine buildings covered in ivy across the road. You only have about one bit per character, so you need an eighty character sentence. If your passphrase is a short intelligible english phrase, as most of them are, it will succumb to a dictionary attack. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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commercial web remailer myemail.net
by null＠myemail.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

www.myemail.net is a commercial remailer service; you can get an account for $5/month for some services, and use their web form free to send email and post news. Some parts of it are still under construction. Email has a nice attention-getting footer that gets put on each message to indicate that it's anonymous mail (so if you want to chain through other remailers, you'll need cutmarks), which says there's no sender identity logging. On the other hand, there's an interesting pixel in the web form that you use to send the email: <img src="/stats/makelog.cgi" height=1 width=1> Blocking is available both for email addresses and newsgroups. For email, just fill in your address in a form; it's not verified (my attempted mail to testme(a)bogus.com was rejected). The blocking works immediately, and since you submit email via a web form, reject messages get presented directly rather than being emailed to the bit bucket at some remailer. For news, the policy is that newsgroups will be blocked if there are requests from 12 different people (as distinguished somehow from 12 different requests by the same person forging headers.) Encryption: If you connect to https://www.myemail.net/, the button for anonymous email will fetch the form using https: ; if not, then not. So you'll have to remember to use it correctly. It's 128-bit RC4, which may affect some non-US users who haven't gotten SafePassage yet. It's a good start. Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com ************************************************************************ This Anonymous email has been relayed by http://www.MyEmail.net/ MyEmail.Net is a free anonymous mailing service. No records indicating the identity of person(s) who originated this message are retrieved electronically, or as a requirement to submit. Your email address can be blocked to prevent further contact from this service, please refer to the URL above for instructions on how to do so. ************************************************************************

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Re: SSL weakness affecting links from pa
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steve wrote: > > If the Netscape folks would integrate digicash into Communicator, > > then I could program my browser to only send referer to sites that > > paid for the information, and rent cookie space. Want your cookie to > > live till 1999? Thats 24 months, at 50 cents per month...do you want > > to pay? > > That would only work until someone abuses it. People could create web > robots to run around selling referers and several gigabytes of > worthless cookie space. Worthless, because nobody cares about the web > browsing habits of J. Random Robot, and they certainly don't want to > blow $50 e-bucks on the bot's repeated visits. Why doesn't somebody come up with a program that gives identity probing programs the identity of browser programmers/executives, and make a cookie file that indicates visits to hate-group and hard- core porn sites? Not that Toto's a troublemaker... NoTot[h]o[mo]

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17 Dec '03

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How to download our REMOVE (500,000 entries) list
by delete＠netchem.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Militarily Critical Technologies
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:37 PM 4/20/97 GMT+0200, you wrote: >> Unique Equipment: Computers of 10,000 CTP, or greater, > >Pardon my igorance: What is CTP? >Who is the author of that list? > CTP is an acronym for Composite Theoretical Performance, a definition of computer capability used in the Export Administration Regulations. See EAR Section 740.7 Computers (CTP) at: http://jya.com/740.htm The US Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, is the author of the Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL). See attribution at: http://jya.com/mctl08.htm This should not be contrued to mean that I'm not also ignorant of what I quote and quack about weird lists of holy-shit technology.

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Re: SSL weakness affecting links from pa
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>| That would only work until someone abuses it. People could create web >| robots to run around selling referers and several gigabytes of >| worthless cookie space. Worthless, because nobody cares about the web >| browsing habits of J. Random Robot, and they certainly don't want to >| blow $50 e-bucks on the bot's repeated visits. > > Thats true, but can they avoid it? I'm considering writing a >database pollution bot, which runs around, claiming to be Mozilla or >IE, and randomly following a link once per minute. Why? Database >pollution. If there are a few thousand of these randomly collecing >links and creating arbitrary (or perhaps biased) viewing habbits in >the databases of the advertisers, then their individual data becomes >worth less. They'll need to actively solicit peoples permission to >collect data before doing so, to avoid people polluting their >databases. > > Similarly, putting a randomly generated email address in those >sign up fields produces pollution in the data used by spammers, which >costs them (and no one else) money. If you run your own site, you can >even bit bucket the email, trading their bandwidth for yours, and >making them think they're delivering more junk email than they are. > >Adam Now that's the CP spirit! Whenever you wish to influence policy, follow the money. --Steve

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17 Dec '03

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Re: David Friedman and assassination politics
by jimbell＠pacifier.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 19:51 4/20/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote: >Bell sees AP as a means to a freer society. But libertarianism is all >about how means (Hillary's health care plan) don't justify the ends >(everyone has health care). AP is not about libertarianism, it is about >anarchism. I disagree with the implications of that last sentence. For as long as I can recall, there has been an ongoing debate in libertarian circles between "minarchists" (those that believe in a minimal government) and "anarchists" (those who believe in no government.) I was once a "minarchist," simply because I couldn't figure out a logical way to totally obsolete government functions. Then, I did, so I became an anarchist. It sounds like you are still a minarchist. Now, I could just say, "go ahead, be that way", but the thing to acknowledge is that there is, at least, a DEBATE on this issue. I didn't deny it back when I was a minarchist; I don't deny it today, as an anarchist. Neither should you. AP is, implicitly I believe, an anarchy-producing system. That is (or at least, may be) a libertarian position, particularly for an anarchist-libertarian. _Minarchists_ may be bothered by it, but that doesn't (necessarily) make it non-libertarian. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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No Subject
by camcc＠abraxis.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

0 X-Sender: camcc(a)smtp1.abraxis.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:15:55 -0400 To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> From: Alec <camcc(a)abraxis.com> Subject: Re: Missing Jet Cc: Jordan <jordan(a)macandco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Subject: Re: Missing Jet >Date: Mon, 21 Apr 97 11:59:16 -0400 >x-sender: jordan1(a)macandco.com >From: Jordan <jordan(a)macandco.com> >To: "Alec" <camcc(a)abraxis.com> >Check this out: > http://cnn.com/US/9704/20/plane.found/index.html > >The USAF probably went to a junkyard and dumped srap metal on the ground. > >- Jordan Where do folks get such wild ideas? Alec

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