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More snake oil: ENIGMA
by Steven Weller 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Seen on usenet. I'm not currently subscibing to the list, so I hope it's not old news. ----------------------------------->8-------------------------------- Can You KEEP a SECRET? Doctor? Lawyer? Accountant? Executive? Or even Politician? -- you know there is some information your clients don't want to fall into public hands. Can you keep a secret? They want you to. Let's face it, you want to keep some things a secret as much as they do! Now you can. Now there is an unbreakable version of ENIGMA which is so easy to use that a child can send messages the CIA can't break. Perhaps you remember the original version of ENIGMA used so successfully by the Germans during World War II. Hundreds of cryptologists worked for thousands of hours to unscramble the secret orders being flashed openly over the air waves by the Germans. In the end, allies cracked the code only by stealing one of the machines. With ULTRA ENIGMA 2.0 stealing the machine won't do your enemies any good at all. First, the New ENIGMA is a thousand times more complex. Yet it only takes a matter of minutes for you to lock up whole directories of your secret files securely. Then your secrets are safe. They are secure, Now and Forever. Your secrets are safe because there is no place for cryptologists to begin, no way they can tell which part of the code is part of the secret and which part is garbage, no way of telling if the file is long, or short, or a drawing, or a picture, and it might even be in a foreign language for all they know. Yes, the new ENIGMA really can encode drawings, pictures, X-Rays and absolutely anything else you can put into a computer. Can You keep a Secret? With ENIGMA you can... ENIGMA is so secure that not even the producers can crack your secrets open. ENIGMA is seamless. Nobody can crack the codes you set but you. Now that's a Secret you can tell everybody! Your clients will be glad to hear it, and you'll sleep better knowing it is true. Let us spill out the Secret Details of ENIGMA for you to examine. Take just a moment to glance through our pages. We'll show you how it works, and explain why it works. Then, especially for Governments and other high risk situations,, we reveal why even the weak link, (knowing the encoder) can be eliminated with a Fortune Cookie blindly selected from a randomly available jar with thousands of cookies shuffled back and forth at the company. Think about it;, if YOU don't pick the keys, how can ANYONE guess which keys You Pick? And we are sorry, but NO... the company won't have any idea which keys you pick either..! -- Think of it this way, some things are best kept a secret between you and you. As an added bonus, we'll also show you some other professional ways you can guard your secrets. http://www.enigma-co.com will bring you to our front page. ENIGMA 5525 McMurtrey Drive North Little Rock, AR 72218-5248 For Support use these numbers http://www.enigma-co.com Phone (501)758-8040 8am-10pm CST Fax (501) 758-8016 All our sales are maintained by WorldWide Sales Depot So,,, For Foreign Dealership information, Sales and Orders .... use these special numbers 104344.2000(a)compuserve.com Fone: (401) 945-4262 ** FAX: (501) 945-4203 Sales literature, web page design and layout © copyright 1996 by WorldWide Sales Depot -- "Arkansas Showcase" lists the major links, features, fotos, and fun you can have outside on the run in Arkansas. Drop by and sign my guestbook posted at http:www.cris.com/~Talewins ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Weller stevenw(a)best.com "There was really no reason why we did anything the way we did. But, of course, there was a reason why we did things for no reason at all". -- Michael Palin

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Re: RSA and me...
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:14 AM 11/10/96 GMT, Gemini Thunder wrote: >'Lo. >Is the "RSA in 3 lines of Perl" a munition (under ITAR)? >What if I got it as a tatoo? Its been done. (Someone got it a year or so back...) What was funny about it was that i remarked (in jest) "what if the tattoo artist made a typo? Would it still be illegal?". Seems the tatto artist *HAD* made a typo and had to go back and fix it. I think that the person with the tattoo would be thrown in the LaBrea ITAR pits just to be safe... --- | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD." - alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano(a)teleport.com |

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Why Crypto Is Hard
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

See the final version of Bruce Schneier's essay "Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks ... " at: http://www.counterpane.com/whycrypto.html

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Re: Sliderules, Logs, and Prodigies
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:30 AM 11/9/96 -0800, Dale Thorn wrote: ... >FORTH has fallen out of favor for most PC users of the mid 1990's, but then >again, so have computer languages as a whole, since few persons write software >today as compared to the early 1980's. ... I was tinkering around in Basic back then, I wasn't writing much of my own, but I did know a few commands. I remember when using "canned" software had a certain stigma to it, like saying "you are not a true computer afficinado, you don't even type in your own code." I also remember that my dad taught computer programming out of the back of magazines, ones with names like TI/99er, Home Computing (is it still out there?), and K-Power. Heck, even 3-2-1 Contact, the PBS based magazine had a source code section for a while. I'm afraid I don't remember Forth, though I have heard of it, about as much as my friends have heard of PGP.

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ENT_ice
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

11-11-96. WaPo Page One: "Preventing Terrorism: Where to Draw the Line? With Militias, U.S. Adopts Preemptive Strategy" This strategy requires aggressive and potentially controversial tactics as investigators infiltrate groups and bring charges on the basis of allegedly criminal plans that are conceived but not carried out. Federal agencies are more willing to launch investigations when people talk about committing violent acts, and investigators are more prone to use ordinary citizens as informants. According to legal experts, the mere discussion of a crime, no matter how fanciful it may be, can constitute a criminal conspiracy. "The classic example is that you are guilty of a crime if you conspire with someone else to stick pins in a voodoo doll in the belief that your enemy will fall dead," said Albert Alschuler, a law professor at the University of Chicago. ----- http://jya.com/entice.txt (13 kb) ENT_ice

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Re: Rarity: Crypto question enclosed
by Hal Finney 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, David K. Merriman wrote: > > My simple question is regarding key/certificate distribution: > > Is there any particular reason that such can't be accomplished via > on-line lists, and made available via a service on a port, using standard > (textual) commands, like mail and such are now? There are a few things available or in the works right now. Most of the PGP key servers respond to WWW requests already. You connect to them on a port, the HTTP port, send some standard textual commands following the HTTP protocol, and get the requested PGP keys back in text form. How does this differ from what you were thinking of? Other proposals, including Ron Rivest's SDSI, envision an environment where most people make their own keys available via a URL. Certificates would have this URL in them and you could check it to make sure the key has not expired or been revoked. Then the only problem is distributing the URL... John Gilmore's SWAN project is working to put keys into Domain Name System (DNS) databases. He has sample code which will get keys dynamically via DNS calls, and DNS servers are now available which will support the new data types necessary. You can actually get his own key right now from toad.com via this method. This is a binary protocol rather than a textual one but could be a good way to do it. So I think you are right that on-the-fly key grabbing is the direction in which things are moving, replacing large local databases of keys. Hal

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Kriegsman Furs Website hacked...
by Eraser 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hey all.. Another commercial hack. http://www.kriegsman.com/ which is still live at this posting. if it goes down, or is fixed, a mirror exists on http://www.skeeve.net/kriegsman/ nicely done... one for the furry creatures. ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Skeeve Stevens - MyInternet personal.url: http://www.skeeve.net/ | | email://skeeve@skeeve.net/ work.url: http://www.myinternet.net/ | | phone://612.9869.3334/ mobile://0414.SKEEVE/ [753-383] | -------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: His and Her Anarchies
by jbugden＠smtplink.alis.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

jbugden(a)smtplink.alis.ca wrote: >Most reasonable sophisticated men are happier in an environment that >included women. Dale Thorn <dthorn(a)gte.net> wrote: >I think if people were really honest, they'd admit that, by and large, >men like men and women like women. Well, ignoring the narcissistic overtones of your comment, and the fact that I was quoting David Gelernter from Yale, I could point out the qualifier "reasonably sophisticated" or the relative comparator "happier", but I think it will suffice to say that an environment that included women may just include your mother. And wouldn't we all be happier with our mommy around? Ciao, James You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool mom.

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Enabling Electronic Commerce
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Would anyone know of a source for the "Enabling Electronic Commerce" paper listed below? The hyperlink gave a 404 but identified the document as "iiicecom.htm." ---------- http://www.x3.org/itic/961031.htm [Excerpt] World's Leading IT Industry Associations Reach Accord On Global Information Society Policy Issues October 31, 1996, Napa, California The world's leading information technology industry associations completed work today on policy recommendations to stimulate the realization of a Global Information Society. These recommendations, or common views papers, were adopted by the group at the conclusion of this week's International Information Industry Congress (IIIC) in Napa Valley, California. They cover the following issues: Enabling Electronic Commerce -- discusses the requirements for successful international electronic commerce: cryptography policy; acceptance of electronic proofs; digital signatures; and electronic contracts and receipts. [Snip balance of document]

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Re: Why is cryptoanarchy irreversible?
by Murray Hayes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 08 Nov 1996 14:46:56 +0100, Matts Kallioniemi wrote: >At 17:12 1996-11-07 -0800, jim bell wrote: >>Simple analogy: Suppose you put two people into a room with a deck of >>playing cards and a table, instructing "Person A" to build a house-of-cards, >>and telling "Person B" to stop him from achieving his goal. Who do you >>think will win? Obviously, the latter will win: It's vastly easier to >>knock such a structure down than to build it in the first place, and all >>"Person B" has to do is occasionally take a whack at the structure. > >What if Person A is better armed? Could that change the outcome? > > > What if person A has a pack of chewing gum? mhayes(a)infomatch.com It's better for us if you don't understand It's better for me if you don't understand -Tragically Hip

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