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Re: A helluva way to run a country, er, a world
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan wrote: >The CDA list has been moribund since its inception. A waste of time. My >list, f-c-a, has covered recent crypto events exhaustively. Even those who >are far from cypherpunkish in their views enjoy it; Mike Nelson, a former >White House crypto-lobbyist, told me at my party yesterday that it was the >best list of its type out there. > >http://www.well.com/~declan/fc/ Gosh, Declan, isn't Mike Nelson's endorsement a bit awkward for an fight-censorship list? Not to mention his show and slather the host at your do? That's assuming your bash was not a Time-reimbursible. If it was, then the WH rub-down and suck-up fits, and may god deliver the heaven-on-earth reward: White House Correspondent, spin navvy to the free world leader.

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Re: Show Me the Warheads!
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May espoused: > I'm surprised this wasn't hushed up. The U.S. intelligence community has > known this for a long time, and reports to Congress have alluded to this. Why hush it up? Odd, isn't it, that this interview will air on TV just as Freeh is pushing for mandatory GAK to 'protect' us from nuclear terrorists with suitcase bombs? I bet it's just one of them coincidences... SynchronicityMonger

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Re: Gao's Chaos Cryptosystem
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>At 12:37 AM 9/6/97 PDT, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote: >>GCC(Gao's Chaos Cryptosystem) >>GCC uses the newest chaos logic and is conventional cryptosystem >>stream cipher encryption. It is high speed and allows variable-length keys, >>making it very reliable and suitable for use in multimedia. >>http://www.iisi.co.jp/reserch/GCC-over.htm >>[Products using it, user-friendliness, etc.] > >Good user interfaces and high speed are important, but not enough. >How strong is the cypher? Where is the academic research behind it? >What is the algorithm? Why should we trust it? Who else has tested it? >Other people have built cyphers based on chaotic systems, and found >they were weak when analyzed properly. Building good cryptosystems is >difficult. > >The web page doesn't give any details about the algorithm, >except saying that it uses chaos and strange attractors, >uses variable-length keys, and has a structure that uses >XOR of the stream cypher with the plaintext. >It does say the algorithm has a 0-1 balance of 0.5/0.5 >(which any good cryptosystems do) and has a medium-sized state space (2**96). > >It claims that because it's a one-way stream cypher, that makes it >safe against chosen plaintext attacks. That's not true. >Choose a plaintext of all zeros, and that gives you the >output of the chaotic system which you can analyze for patterns. >If you know the structure of the chaotic system, you can >analyze the mathematics to see how to find the state space, >and how to find the future output from the current output and >the state space - if the algorithm is strong, this is difficult, >but if the algorithm is weak, this is easy. If you don't publish >the algorithm, nobody can prove that it's strong, and in the >world of cryptosystems, that means nobody will trust it, >because we know how weak many other strong-looking algorithms are. > > > Please see http://arrirs02.uta.edu/ccc/upcoming.html. and,I have thesis of this algorithm write in Japanese language. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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InfoWar (2) / Part III of The True Story of the InterNet
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Show Me the Warheads!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Chief Cypherpunks Spokesperson Mixmaster wrote: > > Tim May espoused: > > I'm surprised this wasn't hushed up. The U.S. lying fucks > > intelligence community has known this for a long time, and reports > > to Ratfuck Congress have alluded to this. > > Why hush it up? Odd, isn't it, that this interview will air on TV > just as Lying Fuck Freeh is pushing for mandatory GAK to 'protect' us > from imaginary nuclear terrorists with suitcase bombs? I bet it's > just one of them coincidences... > > SynchronicityMonger Lying Nazi Ratfucker Freeh has known about these allegations for a long time, but it seems that it was not much of a threat until the release of the book by his co-conspirator schill, the Russian General. Isn't it amazing how long-standing threats to National Security only become _real_ threats when it is convenient for those in power? It was only a 'coincidence' that I happened to be standing in that bank that had been broken into, with a handful of cash. SynchronicityCriminal

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Re: FUCK! how do i unregister from toad.com or the 2 other server ?%
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cypherpunks Chief Spokesperson Martin M wrote: > > I am tired, i am registered to 3 cypherpunks server and tired or receiving > 40-50 new message each day! > > Please someone reply! Martin, If you are retiring as Cypherpunks Chief Spokesperson then I guess we will have to hold a new election. Do you have anyone in mind as your replacement? A Registered Cypherpunk Voter

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Miscellaneous Debris
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Our old pinko buddy Vigdor Schriebman is the latest to attack Old Media's definitions of "journalist" at http://www.MediaINFO.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/090597n3.htm Another self-contradicting bunch of viewpoints on net.telephony at http://192.215.107.71/wire/news/1997/09/0905telco.html New technology being put to old tricks as students plaigarize at http://cnn.com/TECH/9709/07/illicit.papers/index.html "The Internet Ushers In New Age Of Personal Diplomacy" at http://www.infotech.co.nz/current/ntchil.html "Individuals around the globe can reach a consensus and make contact with others despite the differing political views of their governments. They can become "personal ambassadors" for their countries." And the Infowarspooks are back for another round of "the Internet is so important the government needs to do SOMETHING" at http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/info/090697/info7_3765_noframes.html Enjoy! All of the above links courtesy of http://www.newslinx.com/ -- Tell your friends 'n neighbors you read this on the evil pornographic Internet "Where one burns books, one will also burn people eventually." -Heinrich Heine People and books aren't for burning. No more Alexandrias, Auschwitzs or Wacos.

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Redhat crypto archive on replay
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I forget where I saw the below message announcing stext for Linux, but there is a nice collection of crypto packages at http://www.replay.com/redhat . Unfortunately, they're in RedHat Package Manager format, so they may be a shade difficult to use for non-Redhat users, but Redhat does seem to be a fairly popular Linux flavor. >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Hans Zoebelein <zocki(a)goldfish.cube.net> >To: redhat-announce-list(a)redhat.com >Subject: stext-1.0 stegano crypto package uploaded >Resent-Date: 4 Sep 1997 03:28:09 -0000 > >Hi, > >there is a nice crypto rpm, which uses steganograpic techniques >to hide a file in another text file which looks like normal text. > >The packages are stext-1.0-1.i386.rpm and stext-1.01.src.rpm >Binary and source should be dloadable from > >http://www.replay.com/redhat > >the next days. Or check ftp.replay.com/pub/crypto/linux/redhat. >This package might be useful to handle crypted files in countries, >where authorities love their citizens so much, that they want to >know everything about them and have forbidden strong crypto >(Hello China, Bon Jour France :) > >Enjoy! >Hans > >Hans Zoebelein * You are interested in Linux blind support? >zocki(a)goldfish.cube.net * Join the blinux mailing list and mail to: >"Please enter my parlor!" * blinux-list-request(a)redhat.com > said the spider to the fly.* with subject line: subscribe > > >

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Weasel nymserver closed due to child porn investigation
by Johannes Kroeger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Monday, September 1st, 1997, a police officer from the German "Internet Patrol" in Munich contacted my provider and me by phone and informed us that he investigates a case of child pornography posted through weasel.owl.de and the nym.alias.net mail-to-news gateway on August 17th. Today my provider officially told me to close my nymserver because they fear legal hassles if more illegal material is sent from weasel during the present investigations. I've taken the following measures to comply with their request: 1. Mail to send(a)weasel.owl.de bounces with the error message: "Sending mail from weasel.owl.de is disabled until further notice." Remailer operators, please add send(a)weasel.owl.de to your destination block lists. 2. Weasel.owl.de does not allow creation of new accounts. 3. Mail to weasel.owl.de users will be remailed as usual, until I have transferred the accounts to another nymserver. I would be very grateful if the admins of nym.alias.net or anon.efga.org are willing to host weasel's nyms until the investigations are closed and weasel is hopefully up again. Last but not least: the only police contact until now was by phone; neither my provider nor I were forced to copy or decrypt anything. -- Johannes Kroeger <hanne(a)squirrel.owl.de> Send mail with subject "send pgp-key" to get my PGP key

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MORE DISINTERMEDIATION
by frissell＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:33:33 -0400 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com From: Duncan Frissell <frissell(a)panix.com> Subject: More Disintermediation According to Monday's USA Today, the Customs Service has come up with a plan to stop stopping international travelers arriving at US airports. Apparently they can't afford "personal" service any more. With 60 million arrivals, Customs has decided to mingle a bit in luggage claim, look for those meeting its profiles, and use drug- and food-sniffing dogs to catch smugglers. Note that international travel has doubled in the last few years. What is Customs (and La Migra) going to do when it doubles again. It is much easier for market phenomenons like this to double or triple than it is for government agencies to double or triple. Markets scale well. Governments don't. DCF "When foreigners steal 'our' jobs, our labor is freed for other tasks and total world product increases. Jobs can no more 'run out' than desire for things in general can 'run out'."

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