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PRA_fix
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

8-4-95. NYPaper: "A Contract Is Awarded To Improve Navigation." The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday awarded a contract to greatly improve a navigation system that would let civilians pinpoint their locations anywhere in the United States to within 21 feet. The augmentation would consist of 36 receiving stations in the United States, each fixed in a precisely surveyed spot. Each station would listen electronically for the signals given off by the halo of satellites, and calculate what the satellites were saying about the station's location. But the station, bolted down, would not rely on the satellites to determine its location; it would already know that precisely. The central office, listening to all 36 stations, would establish a correction factor. It would radio the correction factor to a different satellite, one in geosynchronous orbit over the United States, meaning that its position did not change relative to the earth's surface. The geosynchronous satellite would radio a correction factor back to planes in flight, or any other user. The plane would also receive signals from the G.P.S. satellites, calculate a position, apply the correction factor and fix its location. PRA_fix

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SURVEY: Money on the Internet
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I saw this in sci.econ. I filled it out, but mostly I'm interested in the results. The survey seems pretty thorough, mostly crypto-aware, and it includes a question about the value of anonymity... Cheers, Bob Hettinga : From: weiler(a)ic.ac.uk (Mr R.M. Weiler) : Newsgroups: sci.econ : Subject: SURVEY: Money on the Internet : Date: 31 Jul 1995 11:15:02 GMT : Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London : Lines: 18 : Sender: r.m.weiler(a)ic.ac.uk : Followup-To: : Message-ID: <3vidvm$lnm(a)oban.cc.ic.ac.uk> : NNTP-Posting-Host: sg1.cc.ic.ac.uk : : Hi there! : : I am doing a research on the use of money on the Internet. I would : appreciate it if you could answer a short survey on this subject, found at : the following Web site: : : http://graph.ms.ic.ac.uk/money : : I would also appreciate any remark on this survey. Please tell your friend : about it, too. : : Many thanks! : : Roy Weiler : The Management School : Imperial College : e-mail: r.m.weiler(a)ic.ac.uk -- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) "There is no difference between Shipwright Development Corporation someone who eats too little 44 Farquhar Street and sees Heaven and someone Boston, MA 02331 USA who drinks too much and sees (617) 323-7923 snakes." -- Bertrand Russell Phree Phil: Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf

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FIPS number for SHA - The Next Generation
by Perry E. Metzger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Since I last asked a while back, have the folks at NIST published a new version of the SHA FIPS with the small modifications made to it to "repair" the defect? I need the information for an RFC that is being submitted to the RFC editor today so its kind of important... Perry

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PC E-cash (NewsClip)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Secret Service Says Student Used PC To Print Money Lubbock, Tex., Aug. 3 -- PC graphics programs have come a long way since their inception, but not far enough to fool the Secret Service. That's what a Texas Tech student tried to do when he used his personal computer to print counterfeit money, according to Secret Service agents. "He really put his whole heart and soul into it," according to Lubbock, Texas Secret Service Resident Agent David Freriks. Freriks said the man is an engineering student at Texas Tech, but told agents he plans to change his major to computer science. The 20-year old student hasn't been identified by name since he hasn't been formally charged yet, according to Freriks. But officials apparently aren't concerned that he will flee. "At this point, he's more afraid of his dad than anything," said one agent. Freriks said the Pakistani national, who resides in affluent southwest Lubbock, scanned a real $50 bill into his PC, then printed the image to an Epson inkjet color printer. Agents said the money looked real at a distance but up close the designs were blurred, the coloration was faulty, and the paper was slick and didn't have a watermark strip. Freriks said agents are confident that all of the approximately $3,300 that was circulated has been recovered except for about $1,000 which he said he is sure will show up eventually, since the quality makes it easy for bank employees to spot. ... Investigators seized the home computer, printer and scanner from the student's home. They said they also found a suitcase containing almost $260,000 in fake $50 bills. --

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Re: PRA_fix
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> 8-4-95. NYPaper: > > > "A Contract Is Awarded To Improve Navigation." [snip] > The geosynchronous satellite would radio a correction > factor back to planes in flight, or any other user. The > plane would also receive signals from the G.P.S. > satellites, calculate a position, apply the correction > factor and fix its location. This is called an active location system, and it was originally disigned by G.K. O'Neill (The Princeton Physics Prof., Space Studies Institute founder, the guy who came up with all those spiffy space-settlement ideas in the late seventies -- see Babylon 5 for a picture ;-) -- and the inventor of the mass driver, among other things), under the name of Geostar, in the early 1980's. It's accuracy was supposed to be 6 inches in 2 dimensions, and 6 feet in 3 diminsions. The FAA didn't like it because they didn't invent it, the DOD hated it because they wanted to commercialize GPS and they didn't want anything so accurate for civilian purposes. The transponders were going to be beensy little things about the size of pagers relying on high-energy burst transmissions. ObCrypto/Privacy: It relied on a fast computer on the ground to calculate where you were, it allowed short messages, and presumably it was going to send them in the clear. It also had a "panic" button function, where someone in trouble could summon help no matter where they were. ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 323-7923 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell >>>>Phree Phil: Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf <<<<<

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SYN_tax
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

8-4-95. W$Japer: "Cyberpoliticking: Presidential Races Are Being Changed By Latest Technology. Internet and Other Sources Can Tailor Information, Sway Voters' Decisions." This kind of campaign foray into cyberspace is but a small slice of a much bigger revolution. The explosion of new avenues of information -- digitized, computerized, cabled and broadcast -- will change the way Americans gather the information they use in picking their leader next year. Campaigns are struggling to figure out how to cope with this static-filled world, in which they can use new technology in unprecedented ways to reach both mass audiences and ever-narrower niches of specific voters. For voters, the difficulty will be to distinguish between the information and misinformation inevitably mixed into the avalanche. LYN_jrk "Silicon Forest: For Oregon, the Boom In High Tech Brings Jobs and Handwringing." The quest for cheap land, cheap labor and tax breaks has led most of the world's biggest chip makers here, more than $13 billion in high-tech construction is either under way or proposed for the 100-mile swath of rural landscape stretching from Portland to Eugene. But surprising resistance is cropping up. In May, Yamhill County, at the western edge of Silicon Forest, rebelled against Sumitomo Sitix Corp.'s demand for an $58 million tax break for its proposed $912 million chip plant. In June, several hundred people turned out to cheer speeches opposing plans by Hyundai Electronics America to build a $1.3 billion chip plant. KIK_but Ev & Ad's kids: SYN_tax

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"The Net"
by monty.harder＠famend.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

TC> logic, especially the notion that one can be "vanished" by having computer TC> records changed--I can believe that such changes would screw things up, but TC> surely even the character played by Sandra Bullock (nicely) would have TC> human friends and associates to vouch for her. I would have thought so, too. But recently, my boss's sister-in-law tried to get a Kansas drivers' license. She had allowed her Missouri license to lapse before she moved, and some glitch in the MO computer left her as a non-person. Now, in order to get the new license, she will need a photo ID (and her expired "foreign" license doesn't cut it, althought if it were a KS license, it would.) The burrocraps at the DMV won't accept any "vouching" whatsoever. * A man's house is his hassle. --- * Monster(a)FAmend.Com *

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Re: Using MacPGP to revoke a key...
by Robert A. Rosenberg 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:13 8/3/95, Adam J. Gerstein wrote: >Sorry to bother y'all with such an amateur question, but I can't find this >in TFM, so I figured I'd ask those who are more in the know..... > >Anyway, I'm considering revoking my public key because it's been out there >a while and I'm feeling the urge to change to a larger key, but I'm not >clear on how to revoke the old one. Do I just make a text file with my new >key in it, explain that I'm revoking the old one, sign it with my new key >and then post it to the list? Or do I just send it to a keyserver? > >Again, I'm sorry to be asking y'all about something so easy. I don't want >to start a whole new thread about this, so if you've got something helpful >to add, please send it via private mail. There is no need to revoke the old key - you just create a new key with both the old and new keys and send it to the KeyServer. The normal PGP "Default" when there are more than one key with the same Email Address is to use the last one (which would be last in the keyring as well as have the latest date). By leaving the old key as NOT revoked it can still be used but will tend to be replaced by the new longer key as people get your key from the Server. If you DO want to revoke the old key, you just send the Revocation Certificate to the KeyServer along with the new longer key (but note that then, I think you will not be able to decode messages sent with the old key).

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JIL_ted
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

8-5-95. NYPaper: "Esoteric Wedge of Academia Is Roiled by Hunt for Bomber." Last October an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation showed up in New Orleans and subpoenaed the History of Science Society's membership records and questioned scholars for clues to the identity of the the Unabomber. That subpoena, and the disclosure that the F.B.I. believes that the bomber is immersed in the most radical interpretations of the history of science, has roiled the usually placid waters of the discipline. And across the country, professors have begun reconsidering old suspicions, acquaintances and tracts to help solve the crimes. ROL_aid "Obscure Global Bank Moves Into the Light." In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive that for many years visitors got lost looking for a small plaque next to an otherwise undistinguished doorway. Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen. Now, however, the bank is stepping out of the shadows a bit. Last September, the Federal Reserve, the United States' central bank, officially joined -- quietly and discreetly, of course. DON_ask Buda-Pest: JIL_ted

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Re: building libraries
by Marius 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Perhaps we could convince Bill Gates to bundle RSAREF with all his > Windoze OS's? Ditto for Apple? > If Bill Gates handed out cryptography in Winoze he wouldn't be able to read the mail of all the lamerz who are going to be on the Mircrosoft network. The poor rich bastard needs something to do in his free time other than fish in the pond that he had built under his house... Marius(a)doulosgeri.com No opinions expressed by the author are shared by Doulos Productions, The Third Wave, or any affiliated parties. The author doesn't see why not... PGP public key follows... -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzAbrGoAAAEEAMiOnJQHn7aVRa0B0TjYdFXcR7SAqTg4+WCmA6iOiL03I9zX GFWjFaW6Tdj5oymJeGP/YT8W1w151W530HZ3kF4OR15X/POv8OwQt8yOFnvhfhus 40KA4Fab3IHI7asIhEPVsgqhgqcHeTgyeqaSPubhVBizoQqvGmad4RK84ehhAAUR tB5NYXJpdXMgPE1hcml1c0Bkb3Vsb3NnZXJpLmNvbT6JAJUDBRAwG82eZp3hErzh 6GEBAcY4A/9kteskcaUVbOsdcY/y/2tOzqBZFfBLPtq4PUGExZp5f3ir4RlpX9eb HylWcnnYCTmnvW+7Hsx3rmS6sTRnyO4ajYVnpEMeuhTp9j4bswqj5f1xSz3RK7qJ WRxf04rQVGv/PyFNK/pskY1BaBYyw9p1czdh8sPiLD0OeLEeKkZndA== =Q7Hx -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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