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Re: Remailers not heard from; info?
by Bruce Baugh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:52 PM 2/19/96 -0600, "David E. Smith" <dsmith(a)midwest.net> wrote: >Don't some remailers support the "Cutmarks" >header, which does essentially that? Yup. I clean forgot about it, truth to tell. -- Bruce Baugh bruce(a)aracnet.com http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce

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Re: Optical repeaters
by Phil G. Fraering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: tcmay(a)got.net (Timothy C. May) Newsgroups: hks.lists.cypherpunks \Given that a quantum cryptography system depends on *single photons* to /work, I'm not sure that talk of amplifification makes sense. Between source \and receiver, a photon either makes it or doesn't. If it makes it, it makes /it will its full "quanta" of energy, of course. If it doesn't make it, due \to tunnel-penetrating the walls of the fiber or scattering off an impurity /in the fiber, then it just doesn't make it, so no \amplification/regeneration is possible. (Regenerate _what_?) /But the quantum measurement issue, aside from the above, is an \interesting one. We have to be careful here (and I'm including /myself, not just using the royal "we"). It isn't clear to me that the \amplification/regeneration process counts as making a measurement, /from some recent work I've read (sorry, don't recall the references, \but could be a recent issue of "Scientific American"). In interference /measurements, the wave function collapses if individual photons are \counted and recorded (whatever "recorded" really means...) and the /interference pattern vanishes. If the photons are not counted and/or \recorded, the pattern reappears. /By analogy, it is not clear to me that a simple regeneration mechanism, \with no local observer or recording apparatus, will collapse the wave /function. I'm sorry I quoted so much, but let's think for a second: what is a regeneration mechanism going to do? Idea number one: It could act on an individual photon. This photon could have its energy per photon increaced. Except for doppler effects or possibly some wierd non-conservative electric/magnetic fields (and I'm just starting again, and can't remember if there are some obscure non-conservative electric fields), I don't think there are any methods that don't involve <<measurement>> of the photon. Please note that the known ways of "pumping" a photon's frequency, such as interaction with electrons in the orbitals of atoms in a crystal lattice, involve <<measurement>>. Please note I'm using the term <<measurement>> in brackets so that the physics-challenged here will realize that what is being discussed is the Q-M concept of measurement and not the sending out of some guy with a yardstick to look at photons. Another idea that occured to me is that the number of photons are being manipulated: one photon spawns many. As a practical example, check any image-intensifier tube. \Seems to me an experiment may have already been done along these /lines: separate fibers producing an interference pattern and then these \inline amps added...if the interference pattern remains, as I would expect, /then the amps/regenerators did not constitute a "measurement" in QM terms. I'm getting the impression of an optical-loop interferometer that relies on the timing of a photon's arrival as the first-order effect in the generation of an interference pattern. I'm not sure if it'll work, but I'm willing to bet there are some useful optical-loop interferometer experiments that don't rely on preserving all the states of the photons in question. Don't ring gyroscopes rely on measuring path length? Other than the two examples I mentioned above, the only things I could think of involved modifying quantum parameters themselves, which is what's supposed to be avoided, right? BTW, since I'm not on cypherpunks and am reading this sporadically thanks to news.hks.net (thanks guys!), could y'all email any responses to me? I think I need that refresher course in electrodynamics and Q-M pretty bad. \--Tim May /Boycott espionage-enabled 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." I'd delete that but it's a work of art... Getting back to more real-world applications, anyone out there have any ideas why netscape's stock is still so high when all the stuff they came out with that was allegedly secure basically wasn't? And more immediate than that, I was thinking of ordering some textbooks using a borrowed credit card from a bookstore in Oregon. Is it safe now? ;-) If it turns out to not have been safe, can I sue Netscape for false advertizing, even if I knew it was false? Phil Phil Fraering "Nice shark... pgf(a)srl03.cacs.usl.edu _pretty_ shark..." ======================================================================== is it just me, or is everyone else having bsd flashbacks too?

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Test 4
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Test / multiple posts Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 2 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 03:33:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)basement.replay.com> To: <wombat(a)bc.sympatico.ca> The original message was received at Thu, 3 Jul 1997 03:33:42 +0200 (MET DST) from wombat.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.5.136] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/usr/home/replay/.mixmaster/mixmaster -R | /usr/home/replay/.remailer/remailer || exit 75" (expanded from: <remailer(a)REPLAY.COM>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Cannot fork 554 "|/usr/home/replay/.mixmaster/mixmaster -R | /usr/home/replay/.remailer/remailer || exit 75"... unknown mailer error 2 Cannot fork ----- Original message follows ----- Return-Path: <wombat(a)bc.sympatico.ca> Received: from wombat.sk.sympatico.ca (wombat.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.5.136]) by basement.replay.com (8.8.5/RePlay, Inc.) with ESMTP id DAA15223 for <remailer(a)REPLAY.COM>; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 03:33:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from default (lohner31.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.98.31]) by wombat.sk.sympatico.ca with SMTP (8.7.1/8.7.1) id TAA13669 for <remailer(a)REPLAY.COM>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 19:30:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <33BB013D.1242(a)sk.sympatico.ca> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 19:32:45 -0600 From: Rabid Wombat <wombat(a)bc.sympatico.ca> Reply-To: wombat(a)bc.sympatico.ca X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-SYMPA (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: remailer(a)REPLAY.COM Subject: Kent finally comes around / Re: NRA and National Online Records Check bullshit References: <v03102805afdee15fe080(a)[207.167.93.63]> <3.0.2.32.19970702205025.03d40f54(a)panix.com> <19970702180331.11847(a)bywater.songbird.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ;; Anon-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Kent Crispin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 1997 at 08:50:25PM -0400, frissell(a)panix.com wrote: > >Quite simple. Eliminate prison, encourage everyone to carry weapons, wait 6 > >months, then well behaved people will predominate and many of the maladjusted > >will find themselves well-adjusted or dead. > > Along with a far larger number of well-adjusted innocents. And the > maladjusted who aren't dead will be in power. I believe you meant to say "will _remain_ in power." > No question about it, the only hope for the human race is wide > dispersal. Everybody should join the L5 society, if it still exists, > or become a terrorist Luddite, and bomb us back to the stone age. Are you finally coming around to a cypherpunk frame of mind, Kent, or is this a cheap political ploy to get the "Cypherpunk of the Year" award? > But the Earth is doomed, anyway, in 5 billion years. And we have > either the grand crunch or the heat death of the universe to contend > with after that. Hopeless. The religious right is working to get a law passed to prevent this from happening, since it is evolutionary hocus-pocus that goes against belief in God as the Creator. The law will no doubt be nullified by the Supreme Court as violating the separation of church and state. > Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", > kent(a)songbird.com Tim May, he kindly spoke... TruthMonger

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Test 3
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Test name/spaces no quotes

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Mixmaster status changing
by loki＠obscura.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I recently promised to release the next version of Mixmaster (V 2.0.2) within 48 hours. The situation has changed. The release of the next version of Mixmaster will be indefinitely delayed. There has been an offer to purchase and commercially develop Mixmaster. This will hasten the development of Mixmaster for other platforms (e.g. Dos, Windows Macintosh), and bring significant improvements to the interface, but I will not compromise on the level of security provided by Mixmaster. Free client software will continue to be available. This could be the big breakthrough for remailers, finally thrusting them out of the hobbyist's closet into the corporate world. We have all known that remailers would not become widely used by the rest of the word until they were easy to use. Many corporations also fear freeware because of its unknown provenance and its lack of support. I apologize for the delay, but I think that the wait will be worth it. -Lance M. Cottrell <loki(a)obscura.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMFimnfPzr81BVjMVAQEfpQgAktbVCj3f39sXtTHPL/H2qh6xJuSvozv1 YXai2/NOh9Y5+qTYJS0R1u8+xSdzQlwfvbdteeXtqK0Ba9QBa2tIPwo0jVVvnano eyFSic0+FoPg33geVGO7Opn+RjOIsvz1MXD41mHxB7p9tRClnEuenvTKqjWovHwU wQX8mDRsz14cqN1x4YN5MtiFZwz+FgqD8r3O/u6eAT032X0KirfPkxwyIFbfOqz4 crxR/P6KJ7GZzxfyYjoAjOSSan1VkAcp11HzmFU37PA/LB8kbKyYxCrfg+grQu+x cDMGvb/xg6cwD+D/D7RTUT756m4TDpbgzaNy9SIQTAnbAAspZXZ1mA== =GIrJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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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update.328 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From physnews(a)aip.org Wed Jul 2 19:12:35 1997 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 97 11:02:31 EDT From: physnews(a)aip.org (AIP listserver) Message-Id: <9707021502.AA12498(a)aip.org> To: physnews-mailing(a)aip.org Subject: update.328 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 328 July 2, 1997 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE MARS PATHFINDER spacecraft arrives July 4 at its destination where, after firing retrorockets and deploying a parachute and numerous airbags, it will bounce to a halt on what was probably an ancient floodplain. After this, its missionary rover will venture forth to taste rocks and make movies. The local weather forecast calls for blue skies and wispy clouds with a small chance of a dust storm (currently 600 miles to the south), in which case the sky will be pink. In September another craft, the Mars Global Surveyor, will take up orbit around Mars. (For the latest update, view the JPL website: mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/) STORING AN OPTIMUM AMOUNT OF INFORMATION IN A PHOTON or any other quantum particle is possible even in the presence of noise, researchers have concluded (B. Schumacher et al., Physical Review A, July 1997; A.S. Holevo, upcoming in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory). A photon has many different quantum states, each of which can be made to represent a different digit. Furthermore, one can store many digits simultaneously in a single photon by putting it into a combination or "superposition" of many states. However, quantum mechanics prevents a measuring device from perfectly distinguishing between all these different states. Previously, physicists discovered that the maximum amount of information that can be read from a photon can be no greater than the amount of entropy, or disorder, it acquires when a range of quantum states is created to represent different digits. Now, the researchers show that this upper limit can be reached, even in a noisy environment, by utilizing several strategies, such as employing only those quantum states that are most distinguishable. These findings provide insights into how little energy is required to store a message. (For more details, go to www.aip.org/physnews/preview; Ben Schumacher, Kenyon College, 614-427-5832) HOLLOW NANOPARTICLE LUBRICANTS, consisting of fullerene-like tungsten disulfide balls, have performed well in friction and durability tests, and may be superior to other solid-state lubricants, which usually come in powdered form. The 100-nm WS2 balls (much smaller than conventional powder grains, microns across) are nested like some carbon nanotubes, but flexible. This, their chemical inertness, and the tendency to roll rather than slide when pushed, should make the nanoparticles a good lubricant at the micron scale, or as an additive in other lubricants. Scientists working at the Weizmann Institute and at the Center for Technological Education in Israel are now able to make gram amounts of the lubricant. (L. Rapoport et al., Nature, 19 June 1997.) ONE MEASURE OF A NATION'S SCIENTIFIC STRENGTH is the number of papers it generates and the citations those papers receive. For the period 1992-96, these were the top producers of papers in a select set of journals: US (1.3 million), UK (300,000), Japan (281,000), and Germany (259,000). Ranked according to citations per paper, the order becomes Switzerland (5.66), US (5.03), Netherlands (4.46), Sweden (4.38), and UK (4.19). The EU nations lumped together and the US each have a 36% share of total citations. The general trend these past 15 years has been for the US citation rate to remain high but for its citation share to give ground to the EU and to Asian/Pacific nations. (ISI ScienceWatch, May/June; also Nature, 5 June 1997.)

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Privtool 0.85 Released
by Rev. Mark Grant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi, I've just released a new version of Privtool, with a large number of bugfixes and new features. It's available from ftp.c2.org as /pub/privtool/privtool-0.85.tar.gz, and in Europe from ftp.dsi.unimi.it in /pub/security/crypt/code, or from ftp.ox.ac.uk in /pub/crypt/pgp/utils. DUE TO US ITAR REGULATIONS, IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE THE US YOU SHOULD DOWNLOAD PRIVTOOL FROM A NON-US SITE. Dumb, but true... Documentation is also available on the WWW at http://www.c2.org/~mark/privtool/privtool.html. Mark Privtool Beta Release @(#)README.1ST 1.34 9/12/95 ----------------------------------------------------- Privtool ("Privacy Tool") is intended to be a PGP-aware replacement for the standard Sun Workstation mailtool program, with a similar user interface and automagick support for PGP-signing and PGP-encryption. Just to make things clear, I have written this program from scratch, it is *not* a modified mailtool (and I'd hope that the Sun program code is much cleaner than mine 8-) !). When the program starts up, it displays a list of messages in your mailbox, along with flags to indicate whether messages are signed or encrypted, and if they have had their signatures verified or have been decrypted. When you double click on a message, it will be decrypted (requesting your passphrase if neccesary), and/or will have the signature checked, and the decrypted message will be displayed in the top part of the display window, with signature information in the bottom part. The mail header is not displayed, but can be read by pressing the 'Header' button to display the header window. In addition, the program has support for encrypted mailing list feeds, and if the decrypted message includes another standard-format message it will replace the original message and be fed back into the display processing chain. When composing a message or replying to one, the compose window has several check-boxes, including one for signature, and one for encryption. If these are selected, then the message will be automatically encrypted and/or signed (requesting your passphrase when neccesary) before it is sent. You may also select a 'Remail' box, which will use the Mixmaster anonymous remailer client program to send the message through one or more remailers. Being an Beta release, there are a number of bugs and nonfeatures : Known Bugs : When you save changes to the mail file, it throws away the signature verification and decrypted messages, so that the next time you view a message it has to be verified or decrypted again. Privtool requires that the /usr/spool/mail directory is world-writable. Some versions of Linux are set up to have mail programs setgid mail, and have write access only to mail and root, causing hangs when saving changes. This will be fixed in the next release. Header window is not updated if left open. Date parsing on Linux is not quite correct. Problem with compose window layout if using Bcc: or extra header lines. Crashes if you tab from the Cc: field to the message body. Known Nonfeatures : Currently if you send encrypted mail to multiple recipients, all must have valid encrpytion keys otherwise you will have to send the message decrypted. Also, the message will be sent encrypted to all users, not just the one who is receiving each copy. Only one display window. Code should be more modular to assist with ports to Xt, Motif, Mac, Windows, etc. Not very well documented ! Encrypted messages are saved to mail files in encrypted form. There is currently no option to save messages in decrypted form. No support for anonymous return addresses. Not very well tested on Solaris 2.x, or Linux. Changes for 0.85: Support for Reply-To: addresses in message headers. If you have PGP Tools, then the passphrase is now stored in MD5 form rather than as ASCII text. This will make it harder to steal your passphrase if you're running on a multi-user machine (which you shouldn't be, but many of us are). Improved documentation. 'New mail' indicator in icon now goes away if you open the window and close it again without reading any messages. Support for multiple compose windows - no more pressing 'Reply' and screaming because you deleted the message you were editing ! Query on exit if any compose windows are open. Show busy cursor for time-consuming operations. Kill-by-name and Kill-by-subject now work correctly. 'Add Key' button now works. Optionally beep on bad signature. Added various changes from Anders Baekgaard (baekgrd(a)ibm.net) we can how use a more normal icon if preferred, pass arguments on the command line, specify the font to use, support the 'showto' option, allow X-resources to be set up, fix a bug in Linux which showed the message list as a black box, cleaned up some warnings from x.c, support bcc:, and have an option for a simplified, smaller, display layout for machines with small screens. Fixed some memory leaks in deliver_proc (). Anders finally got the scrollbar to go to the right place when opening mail files ! Yay !!!! Fixed bad arguments that were being passed to bzero() in pgplib.c and potentially causing random memory overwrites. Fix for Linux icon corruption from A J Teeder (ajteeder(a)dra.hmg.gb) Added 'resend' to resend a message that failed the first time. Added Linux-specific Makefile, now that I have my own Linux box to test it on. Fixed SEGV when delivering messages (with some .mailrc files), caused by a bug in the alias-handling code. Privtool can be compiled to either use PGP Tools, or to fork off a copy of PGP whenever it is needed. There are also a number of different security level options for the passphrase, varying from 'read it from PGPPASS and keep it in memory' to 'request it every time and delete it as soon as possible', via 'request it when neccesary and delete it if it's not used for a while'. Unfortunately, PGP Tools (or at least the version that I have) does not appear to work correctly on Linux. See the README file for information on compiling the code, and the user.doc file for user documentation (the little that currently exists). You should also ensure that you read the security concerns section in user.doc before using the program. Mark Grant (mark(a)unicorn.com) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQEVAgUBMFileFVvaTo9kEQVAQFU6ggAk9MWUkT3b6b6dGpzZSiCR/pGM6SMdXIP ZCcE546a65cOl3esgdVSSUlaw3SDGt1FxuHB/pzPqTJBqaZNsPoSrvZbPSz0Fcl7 GjuDCGFIm4vPYi8tgoTc2WPbj4E0w1O5+vZvZWwvm/TrzfYNeMnlI3wWb18U+TXF hj9tOKbd1rmzx3an/ZGgfFzwlKtidPbLhOPxxv7XWFkpZAXbKAesKPw85sNilxy4 NwerRu9OAXBVNHGgJfM6S6+qfYygCuzIodseMwpOU+7uL1MfvB6LFJ5WL3di3FdA Hnv2CKbqmEVWlFc1TIY0mK6Ze+U/uRlgbM04/GLk1X3qM8r4SQUqwg== =jd5V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: Censorship on cypherpunks
by blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Will French .........In any case, it's an admission on John Gilmore's part that libertarianism can't work without some measure of authoritarianism; the only argument is over _just how much_ authoritarianism we need. .............................................. Well, as Ludwig von Mises [an economist] would put it, "The issue is not _some_ authoritarianism vs _no_ authoritariansim, but *whose* authoritarianism." Libertarianism is about individual authority. John Gilmore acted as the individual that he is. If he shouldn't act upon under his own authority, he being in the position that he is relative to the existence of the cpunks, then the list doesn't represent libertarian ideals. The list is not an institution representing a philosophy to which all participants must subordinate themselves. Au contraire, it represents an opportunity for the free exercise of reason and one's personal judgement. I think this has been a good example of that. (obviously the venerable and computer-knowledgeable Dr. Vulius can find ways to sneak back in and continue to play his fun games, thus evidencing _his_ .... judgement.) .. Blanc

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Japanese Balloon Bomb Special - Info
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, During the discussion of the Japanese Balloon Bomb's and their history I mentioned a special on the Discovery Channel (TDC). That show is 'Discover Magazine'. Jim Choate TAG ravage(a)ssz.com

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They want your keys
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A former federal organized-crime prosecutor in Los angeles has pleaded guilty to three felony charges in a scandal involving death threats, hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of fraud and the acceptance of cash payments from defendants. The former prosecutor, Andrew Pitt, 39, faces between 24 and 30 months in a federal prison. Last month Pitt filed a sworn statement admitting, among other things, that he had taken $98,000 from one infrmer facing criminal charges and $35,000 from another. He said he then recommended probation, instead of a prison sentence, for the first informer and repeatedly asked that the second informer be given additional time at large before reporting to prison. In addition Pitt admitted taking $33,000 from an illegal stock deal and transferr it to his own account. But Securities and Exchanges commission charged that Pitt also obtained at least $400,000 in illegal profits by manipulating stock in a company he controlled while serving as a prosecutor. And federal officials also charged that Pitt was associated with a group of stock swindlers who went to Montreal in 1995 with $350,000 to bribe people described in an indictment as "belived to be" Quebec government officials. A former assistant Los Angeles district attorney, Pitt was hired in 1988 as a prosecutor with a federal organized-crime task force The task force was merged the following year with the U.S. attorney's office. Pitt was the lead prosecutor in a high-profile case lining organized crime to the recording business. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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