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PGPFOne article in MacWeek URL
by tbyfield＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

MacWeek News Aug 7, Vol 9 No 31 "PGPFone locks down phone conversations," by Robert Hess <http://www.zdnet.com/~macweek/mw_08-07-95/news3.html>

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Re: How To Spot a Spook page
by merriman＠arn.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Uh, if you look at that, that is EXACTLY identical to the majority of >computer geeks :-) > er, ah, um...... Well, then I guess we need more identifiers then, don't we? Dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMChKgsVrTvyYOzAZAQH8uAP+MRbza+ttgJCOqXlgtfwI1vTcYjAWzAm0 8EK5L/83iXhYhGuZIR44YqGdwGGkSeC0lqaZDaYqQFH8W/SMcPJYyOPbAzEv/5a4 uYNW8qx/YcLwUPsr/4K6Vwd+yg4Es/sT3cxzwZdbKL8sRInN6dv32Y89pIf/FURy mietqXnCwOY= =Hijl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- This is a test (3 UUE lines) of the unconstitutional ITAR - 1/713th of the PGP executable. See below for getting YOUR chunk! ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [015/713] ------------------- M=$<(&L`#*IPP",(G6(,,S,`P](<2RWU96XCW86/JBYV8A\D8@X'HB_9H#&\X MX'PCUB.,13B"X8`R?^J-:UB.M_`U\>[#)BS&5$0C,Y#^1CS>1`\T1QTXX6!3 M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> My web page: http://www.geopages.com/CapitolHill/1148

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Re: Dir.Byway Virus (NewsClip)
by ab411＠detroit.freenet.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Subject: Dir.Byway Virus (NewsClip) > From: anonymous-remailer(a)shell.portal.com (unknown) > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You misspelled VIRUS-L(a)lehigh.edu > Burlington, Mass. Aug. 7 -- A new, hazardous computer virus is A news story, with all *that* entails. > virus, dubbed "Dir.Byway," is described as a super-fast, > polymorphic infector affecting desktops, notebooks, and even > computer networks. So it's a polymorphic fast infector that attacks EXE and COM files. So what's new? File infectors are never as successful as boot sector infectors, anyhow. > Dir.Byway triggers if the current DOS date is set to the year > 1996 or above, and the day of the month is equal to the > month's number multiplied by two and two is added, like in > 01-14-96 or 12-26-96. The first date should obviously be 01-04-96, based on the description given. Do you trust someone who can't multiply and add to correctly report on something technical, like computer viruses? -- David R. Conrad, ab411(a)detroit.freenet.org, http://web.grfn.org/~conrad/ Finger conrad(a)grfn.org for PGP 2.6 public key; it's also on my home page Key fingerprint = 33 12 BC 77 48 81 99 A5 D8 9C 43 16 3C 37 0B 50 No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government.

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Re: Trouble accessing archive with Netscape
by cactus＠hks.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199506281259.AA03051(a)bear-gate.bear.com>, David Mandl <dmandl(a)bear.com> wrote: >> From: shamrock(a)netcom.com (Lucky Green) >> >> Am I the only one that has problems accessing the archives using Mac >> Netscape 1.1N? > >I had the same problem. (And Tim reports the same). Huh. Since I only use lynx and arena, I haven't seen this. But I'll take y'all's word for it. Since I'm about to toss hypermail out the window and replace it with my own code (that I'm working on anyway for a consulting gig -- one of the benefits of running the archives is having a test-bed for large archives), you can reasonably expect the problem to go away in the not-too-distant future. I'll probably ask for people to test the new HTML when it's ready. - -- Todd Masco | "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've cactus(a)hks.net | constructed." - Darth Vader Cactus' Homepage - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMCj7BSoZzwIn1bdtAQEVRgF5AXaw25/1H4dfrGGuCtNhXm4wg23f9nnR q8HOzsnbVkznKal8wtzvgblofYtjekTK =ZC4N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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No Subject
by Harry Tuttle Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

someone wrote: >>A. It's unsolicited spam. Not a big deal. >>B. The way they gathered the list of addresses is questionable, >> and likely off Jim's HD. Its pretty straightforward for interested perties to get a list of everyone on a mojordomo mailinglist even if the who command is disabled as long as we have our old friend sendmail and his trusty sidekick expn. nc toad.com 25 220 toad.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.7.5/8.7.3; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:59:12 -0700 (PDT) expn cypherpunks 250-<"|/u/majordom/bin/wrapper resend -p bulk -l cypherpunks -f owner-cypherpunks-unedited -h toad.com -s cypherpunks-unedited-outgoing"@toad.com> 250 </gnu/mail/cypherpunks-in(a)toad.com> expn cypherpunks-unedited-outgoing 250-<jxx(a)pipeline.com> 250-<sxxxxx(a)slecrs2.sbc.com> 250-<sxxxxx0(a)laf.cioe.com> 250-<wmxxx(a)direct.ca> 250-<toxx(a)sk.sympatico.ca> 250-<zacxx(a)netcom.com> 250-<waxx(a)mls1.HAC.COM> 250-<dm+cypherpunks-unedited(a)amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu> 250-<paxxx(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk> ------ more addresses cut ---------- I have xed out the names but you get the picture. no need to go through the effort of watching a list for posts or searching through someone's old mail. If you have any complaints email: expn owner-cypherpunks-unedited 250 Cypherpunks Admin <cpadmin(a)toad.com>

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Queries from a Cyper-newbie?
by Chris Avery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anybody willing to offer a bit of help to a cypher-newbie? I'm trying to sort out a few of the basics: (and if not answers, just a few pointers on where to go for info? ) Thnks. 1. PGP 5.0 -- good software? If not, what problems? Why to use DSS vs/ RSA keys? How is 5.0 different than 2.6.3i ? Which is better? 2. Are emails encrypted using PGP 5.0 decypherable by PGP 2.6.3i (and vice versa?) Using RSA keys? 3. I understand certain encryption s/w cannot be legally exported, I am aware that such s/w is nevertheless being used (and built) abroad. My queries: Is purely domestic use being threatened by the pending legislation? Is it already illegal to send an encrypted msg out of the US? If so, is it illegal to receive an encrypted msg from outside the US? 4. How strong is strong? My MS Explorer has the 128 bit encryption scheme to secure domestic financial transactions (such as credit cards). How "un-encryptable" is this? I read some recent postings here re difficulty of breaking 128 bit keys -- but this had reference to stronger methods of encryption than MS Explorer uses, right? So 128 bits is hard to break (umptyump years, terrawatts, etc.)? Then why does my PGP 5.0 software offer keys that are 768, 1024, etc. up to 4096 bits in length? Are these numbers on the same scale? Any "strength" differences between RSA, DSS, and Diffie-Hellman? IS there some layman-understandable difference between these? 5. Is international data traffic somehow monitored (or monitorable) to detect encrypted traffic? Thanks for any help.

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Doing the SSL challenge
by Eric Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Boy, go away for a weeks holidays and every-one else has all the fun :-). Just a few quick ramble about my searching of the top half of the key space in the first SSL challenge, please ignore if you are sick of this thread. All these estimates of the cost in CPU time are a bit silly. I started out using a few of our bigger machines at work but when people noticed I just stoped using them. My main workhorse machines became desktop boxes that nobody used at night. Quite a bit of my %50 keyspace was done by 5 dual processor sparc 20's that people around me had on their desktops. Most of the rest was done by about 50 486's that I rsh'ed to each night (I just tried to rsh to every Solaris/x86 box in the company :-). Out of a company of about 300 people, about 2 (who did not know about my attempt on the challenge) asked me about this processing and what was I actually doing, no-one else really noticed :-). I was making no particular effort to use every machine I could but I was still able to do about %2.5 of the key space each 12 hour night and %12.5 each weekend. If I made a real effort to harness the compute power at my work I would have probably been able to run at twice this rate but that would have required work on my part, alot more people would have noticed and it would have had an impact on people doing real work. The way I was seaching had no impact. I will also say that screen-savers running on the above mentioned 486's were a real pain, perhaps we will change xlock so they can only run the blank screen :-). I personally feel that using mas-pars is cheating a bit :-). People are aware that something is going on when a machine that big is grunting away all weekend :-). There is so much CPU sitting on people's desktops that is just unused that there is very little need to use the big central boxes. The relative speed on some of the machines I used is as follows (per CPU is in brackets) 6 CPU SGI challenge 37 (6.1) 5 (1.6) 2 CPU sparc 20 7 (3.5) 1 1 CPU 486 DX50 1 I could never realy get more that 1/2 the SGI but I could always get 5 sparc 20's and 50+ 486's without anyone noticing. So I was getting the 2.5 6CPU SGI challenge's from idle machines on people desks. eric -- Eric Young | Signature removed since it was generating AARNet: eay(a)mincom.oz.au | more followups that the message contents :-)

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NEXT CHALLENGE: plan of action?
by fc＠all.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I would like to offer all.net as a repository for the sources and executables for all platforms. We can put them in the gopher server for all to access. -- -> See: Info-Sec Heaven at URL http://all.net Management Analytics - 216-686-0090 - PO Box 1480, Hudson, OH 44236

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Quantum Computers for the 12th Time
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 7:00 PM 8/21/95, J. Kent Hastings wrote: >Doesn't quantum coherence require molecular precision if it >is to work on 1024 bit PGP keys? If it works, such keys can >be instantly factorized. It would be nice to follow that progress. > >If human engineered molecular nano works, we'll have much >more than PGP to worry about. Copies of copies of >replicating disassemblers could rip the Earth apart in three >days, assuming doubling every 20 minutes like bacteria, >but not limited to proteins. > >That would have a big impact on digital cash networks! I urge all those interested in quantum computers to consult the CP archives. Also, my FAQ has a couple of pages on it. Grep for the main topic, or for Shor. This comes up every 3-4 months and produces the same speculations. I think nanotech and quantum computers have even less to do with real concerns than Waco and Foster do. --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net (Got net?) | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Crack some code...
by Frank Knobbe 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Howdy folks. Who would be willing to try to crack a code that I implemented in one of my programs? The file is a simple index file containing ASCII characters besides pointers. If someone is interested in cracking that agorithm, simply send me a mail. I'm curious of how good that algorithm is... Greetings from Tennessee, Frank ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Knobbe: FKnobbe(a)ix.netcom.com (preferred), Frank(a)TechEx.com PGP 1024/26639025 fingerprint=7A EA FF 87 BF EA 00 CD 83 B1 89 81 7E D2 69 96 http://www.techex.com/~frank/home.html (<- Under Construction!) IPhone: Elwood(a)iphone.vocaltec.com, Ch: Tennessee ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signature Space for Rent! Imagine your signature here. For more info contact: Don(a)twr.ite.us

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