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Re: back to programming projects...
by Jeff Gostin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim choate <ravage(a)bga.com> writes: > 2. messages will be cached and re-transmitted after a random delay. I intend > to generate a random number between 0 and 24. When the appropriate hour > arrives all messages with that time stamp will be sent encrypted. I would suggest getting a random number between 0 and 1440. This will allow messages to be sent out every minute. Of course, you could just make it once every 15 minutes (0-360) or every half hour (0-180). The idea is that there could be a rather large delay introduced to the process, and might make the remailer unpopular as a result. Mind you, I appreciate the effort and generosity. I'm just making suggestions. :-) --jeff

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Remailer List & Numbers Request
by Mark Terka 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Could someone tellme where I can find a current list of the remailers and their related numbers? Any help would be greatly appreciated! ************************************************************************* Mark Terka | werewolf(a)io.org | public key (werewolf) at Toronto,Canada | dg507(a)cleveland.freenet.edu | pgp-public-keys(a)demon.co.uk *************************************************************************

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SLACKER JOB
by ss 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT Reply to: sandfort(a)crl.com 401 Merrydale Road * San Rafael, CA 94903 * USA * +1 415 472 6525 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, Would you and your SO like a great slacker job in the San Francisco Bay Area? Yes? Well, have I got a deal for you! I will be leaving for Hongkong (by way of Madison, Wisc., it would now appear) in the latter part of July. I'm looking for someone to take over my slacker job managing a self-storage facility in lovely Marin county. Here's the deal: WHAT YOU GET -- Two bedroom, two bath, 1200 sq.ft. house (rent free) with large living and dining rooms, porch, covered carport, big backyard and garden, in a fenced compound. -- Washer and dryer, dishwasher, disposal, gas range and electric oven. -- Free electricity(!), water and garbage pick-up, plus $25/mo. towards gas. -- All of the above, is within a short walking distance of shopping centers, supermarkets, restaurants, parks, government offices and public transportation. WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO -- Be on site from 8:00am to 6:00pm, M-F. -- Walk the self-storage yard several times per day. -- Answer the phone and give information about storage (averages less than 10 calls per day). -- Assist potential and current customers (averages about once per day). -- Misc. duties (averages less than 20 minutes per day). Most of the time in this position is your own. You can read, watch TV, eat, work on your computer--whatever. Of course because there is no pay, you much have another source of income. This could mean having an SO with an outside job, you doing shift work, telecommuting or running your own at-home business. In addition, this is a stealth position. It has an extremely low profile if you manage things properly. If you're interested, call, write or e-mail me at the address at the top of this message. S a n d y S a n d f o r t Reply to: sandfort(a)crl.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Cops on the net
by jamesh＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Let's try this again... > CYBERCOP > A former New Jersey police officer now spends his time cruising for > suspects in cyberspace and has been involved in dozens of criminal > investigations, including a sting operation that nabbed a pedophile who > lured young rape victims via a bulletin board service. (Tampa Tribune > 6/8/94 BayLife 5) And the pedophile was named Craig Shergold? Seriously, this "Pedophile uses net to lure rape victims" is reaching the status of some kind of Law Enforcement/Urban Legend. Sort of the Willie Horton of the nineties. And as you'll remember, (at least those of you who follow US politics,) Willie Horton was some kind of convicted bad guy that then-governor Mike Dukakis released from prison on some kind of early-release program who then went on a crime (rape? murder?) spree. This was used as a rallying point by Dukakis' opponents when he ran for president some years later, and was arguably the one thing that insured his defeat. (The above was from memory -- feel free to flame^H^H^H^H^Hcorrect me if the facts aren't straight.) Now the same technique is being used against the proponents of strong crypto. And why not? It worked so well last time... We need our own Willie Horton, some blatant example of why strong crypto is a Good Thing. It would be nice to be able to pull a few examples of Gov. wiretap abuse or mail tampering (electronic or otherwise) out of the hat whenever that pedophile story gets an airing. Can anyone point me to something along these lines? JJH -- My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -Vladimir Nabokov

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new remailer remail@c2.org
by sameer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is a new remailer, remail(a)c2.org The remailer is running a slightly modified version of the remailer(a)soda.berkeley.edu code. finger remail(a)c2.org for a list of active remailers and instructions. The key: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAi35KJAAAAEEALwgQD6LN+XzSd5K0soe2sc1soMV0Yrjjm6JpqKZeyvrz4SN nss0mDqcUgUKtb7Hl5vN4gf6zTiAsqJ5AlZWGn+U096h4oUwswX1DCByaqr15psS y8A8V4dUlawvOYEbLnbfVAFhRbmvarpQwc6uP0BiUkisoRQ6A02Bean+V8xhAAUR tCdORVhVUy1CZXJrZWxleSBSZW1haWxlciA8cmVtYWlsQGMyLm9yZz6JAJUCBRAt +TvgeLt40V1eml0BAWPaA/9Ly4d98VhNoBbfWXKJ1SgIuauvs/slVe/WNhUKY4D1 Z6A8Pht865CHfKQTWMSGQN/L/KEAyJTLMP3yjMpvU8u40wb9kVDqZKzln9k2pmaT yg3PG/x2B7jQW9QsYxLSPcxEG0B0xQr03GKo8Evb9eQVXAGnwFgJkcTVGV702Old Bg== =YDgO -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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*&^%#@! Old-timers... NOT.
by Jeff Gostin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

tcmay(a)netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes: > I've found that posting comments about early work generates > ill-tempered "you old-timers have no respect for the enthusiasm of > newbies" posts. (Well, a slight exaggeration, perhaps.) Let me be the first to comment that anyone who says this is a fool, and is too arrogant to realize the value of an informed opinion. Unless the post takes the tone of "If you were around as long as I was", or something similiar, an informed, experienced, opinion is always appreciated -- at least by me. Hey, I don't know everything (don't let that leak out... *smirk*), so I'm happy to learn from those who know more than I do. Everyone learned from someone, and it's their net.obligation to pass on that knowledge. It's the way the net works, with everyone helping someone less experienced. It worked for me, and I'm happy to share information with people who know less than I do. All I ask for is patience and a genuine interest in learning what I have to teach. I try to show that same interest when dealing with those who know more than I. --Jeff

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crypto in the NY Times
by smb＠research.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The magazine section of tomorrow's N.Y. Times has a good story on cypherpunks, Clipper, crypto, etc. Whit Diffie adorns the cover.

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Re: Delayed self-encrypting messages
by kentborg＠world.std.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>An interesting research project would be to construct one of these to >sit in orbit. And I would even trust it to be pretty safe from physical tampering. The cost would be so high and the exposure from various space watchers rather certain. Good enough for me. Seems there are two ways so far mentioned to do this "embargo" trick: 1) Have a trusted and secure party hold your key until time. 2) Hide a key inside an expensive computation and then figure out how to get the NSA *really* interested in finding and publishing their crack of your code. If you estimated their abilities correctly your fuse will burn at the right speed, the time delay will be as you intended. (Gosh, is there a thriller novel in here some place?) I think I see a third: 3) Kinda "security through obscurity", but a dollop of "trusted" third party too. a) Encrypt the key and instructions for its distribution with Trent's public key. b) Add a message asking him not to open 'til Christmas. Encrypt again with his public key. c) Send it off on a remailer-goose chase to delay and further confuse the TLAs. Hell, maybe just skip "c". Or... Split the key into a n-of-m set of sharing fragments. Send each off to each of m Trent's. Hope that no more than m-n get lost, hope that the TLAs can't find/turn n of your Trents. -kb, the Kent who isn't as devious as he would like to be--but he is still reading cypherpunks. -- Kent Borg +1 (617) 776-6899 kentborg(a)world.std.com kentborg(a)aol.com Proud to claim 28:15 hours of TV viewing so far in 1994!

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crypto in the NY Times
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

And yet again: Attention - Steven Levy - The most common use of crypto from the dawn of time to the present has been to protect commercial information. There were always more traders than governors and they had more need to read or count. Writing was a commercial invention and coding is just another form of writing. How much are we paying these guys department: Attention - Jim Kallstrom, Fibbie - who argues (correctly) that strong crypto is just the same thing as if a criminal gang could build an unbreakable fortress in the Bronx and stash Polly Klass inside and the government could do nothing... If the bad guys have an unbreakable wall, the *victims* have an unbreakable wall too. The criminals gain nothing. They are, in fact, worse off since it becomes *harder* to 'break the close.' DCF There'll be more I'm sure. --- WinQwk 2.0b#1165

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No Subject
by nobody＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just read an interesting product announcement: "The RF-5151DE digital encryption option is designed for all RF-5000 FALCOM Series HF-SSB radio systems. The module provides an embedded voice-data encryption system which can be programmed with up to six of 1 X 10^52 key codes. The encryption algorithm is driven by a pseudo-random key generator possessing a key stream length requiring millions of years for recursion. [Harris RF Communications Group, Rochester, NY, (716) 244-5830.] This was in one of those military hardware magazines. Does this sound like a piece of military gear? Is this key length adequate for that? If it were approved for the protection of classified information, which was never mentioned one way or the other, would a detail like the key length be allowed to be disclosed publicly?

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