- cypherpunks-legacy - lists.cpunks.org

DES CRACKING SCREENSAVER, was: Can we kill single DES?
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Frank Andrew Stevenson wrote: > >> DES CRACKING SCREENSAVER >[...] >>the screensaver itself can simply display a rotating globe, >> where the different densities of global usage is given in colour shades, >>showing >> an inverse sunclock of sorts. I think such a concept might give the >>DES-cracking >> screensaver a critical mass. Suggest you make it a plug-in module to one of the popular screen savers (e.g., After Dark). I'd run it. PGP Fingerprint: FE 90 1A 95 9D EA 8D 61 81 2E CC A9 A4 4A FB A9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Snoop Daty Data | Internet: azur(a)netcom.com Grinder | Voice: 1-702-655-2877 Sacred Cow Meat Co. | Fax: 1-702-658-2673 7075 W. Gowan Road, #2148 | Las Vegas, NV 89129 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Just say NO to prescription DRUGS. "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." -- C.S. Lewis "Surveillence is ultimately just another form of media, and thus, potential entertainment." -- G. Beato

1 0

Crypto Boundries
by ratak 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Tue Oct 01 12:38:37 1996 Hello All... A few questions here... The idea of a Crypto programming division has been tossed around over here, and was wondering... Does anyone have any serious hard facts on what crypto is allowed in which countries? How about Crypto development within Canadian Boundaries, are there any limits/concerns? Are any of the Crypto systems subject to different laws i.e 3Des/IDEA/MD5/Blowfish etc.? Later ___________________________________________________________________ GarGoyle Securities - -Intrusion Assessment Systems - -Security Consultation/Education/Curriculum Development - -Project Management/Research/Analysis World Wide... - -Member of CITDC (Canadian International Trade Development Council) - -Email 1: <ratak(a)escape.ca> Jason E.J. Manaigre - -Email 2: <ratak(a)GargSec.mb.ca> - -Email for PGP key with phrase 'Get Public Key' as Subject - -2048 PGPKey iD E2 FA 30 E5 F5 AD EC F3 00 9A 9D 33 59 FC DF AD ___________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMlFXIfqtmO8M92GRAQF2tgf/aZ1bATXGeE8jK309T1gcnl25cogE0I0a pO1hAtgtBedSO56XBas0bwhJD5tWeNuR46uQNKNH3hX7MeJN1wAKGg5o7sBsf4k0 J1ApRTXt2DsbELkYdIkcMVsTf1W40AimormYDKq2DPqSg7b9C1n1vQe/uDkDxDN3 aT/MOl7YLH1d31TffF7zwOLmcs1d0qZ8n0w//QcGwOI9l1Q2i0hc98DW6qYwdpJG Zg+rZzt7jWJxICufh43AABs3j1X7FBsN+g0zBVrLmBK+I55/cHoxAg0uK+b1umTJ eetc2GyjtO3H7uzpFDBZLJ3bTamm9nyA6fmYgjKm0dXpfYPlR5UBpw== =BjRl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

1 0

Hey, there's a camera in that palm tree!
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

LANGHORNE, Penn., Sept 30 (Reuter) - Digital Descriptor Systems Inc said on Monday that it had received the first $140,000 phase of a proposed $1.4 million contract from IBM. The money is to be used by the Bahamas for the installation of imaging identification systems. The first segment of the imaging program will be installed in the Bahamas by the end of this year. Digital Descriptor, in a three-year partnership with IBM to create a program needed on a country-wide basis by the government of the Bahamas, manufactures and markets imaging systems for municipal and private criminal enforcement markets.

1 0

The Impact of Cybercommunications on Traditional Financial Services
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/citi/cybercom.html http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/citi/cybcompap/ravi.htm Abstract: This paper presents a framework that provides a conceptual understanding of electronic commerce-based financial services. The paper then discusses some of the research issues that need to be addressed in this emerging area. Systematic research o n online financial services is virtually non-existent. Most of the early work consists of anecdotal evidence from individual companies, usually in the form of trade journal articles which have no empirical basis. Clearly there is a need for industry-acade mia collaboration to understand the online financial services area better. There is also a need to develop methods and tools for measuring the effectiveness of these services. Traditional effectiveness measuring methods will be of limited use in cyberspac e as banks enter an era in which financial products are treated as information commodities and banks are in competition with non-banks to serve customers with the best bundle of information _______________________ Regards, An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. -? Joseph Reagle http://rpcp.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E

1 0

Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:57 PM 10/1/96 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT) >From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> >To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu >Subject: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late [snip] >What's even more disturbing is what the administration might do >next. After the roundtable broke up, I chatted with Michael Vadis, one >of the assistant deputy attorneys general who oversees national >security issues. He said an international consensus is forming that >terrorists can use crypto; therefore crypto must be controlled. The >U.S. is certainly pushing this line at the OECD talks. > >"But it just takes one country to decide to export strong crypto," I said. >"You're missing something," said Vadis. >"What?" I asked. "Unless you're talking about import restrictions." >"Exactly," he said. >-Declan An import restriction would be even less effective than the current export restrictions. With an import restriction, a person need merely receive a given piece of software in the mail from an "unknown" benefactor, software that (surprise!) would have been illegal to import. (the software doesn't even have to be mailed from outside the US, merely trucked in by a wetback and anonymously mailed by tossing it into the ubiquitous USnail PO Box.) Redistribution of this software would have to be legal, if for no other reason than nobody could prove it was imported illegally. Nobody outside the US would have any standing to sue for copyright violation, because they couldn't import it and sell it without restrictions. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

5 4

[SPAM] Timmy May's tentacle thinks I'm Timmy May's tentacle?
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timmy May lies, rants, posts off-topic, and pollutes the cypherpunks mailing list with his kinky sexual phantasies. Why is this cocksucking limey faggot dying from the combination of AIDS and the mad cow disease accusing me of being Timmy's tentacle? How could Timmy create a tentacle that knows something about crypto when Timmy doesn't? >Comments: Authenticated sender is <paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk> >From: paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk >To: "Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com> >Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:40:49 +0000 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT >Subject: Re: [AP] Afghanistan >Priority: normal >X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.31) >Message-Id: <844193561.12763.0(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk> > > >> > And this would accomplish???? And this has what to do with cryptography?? >> >> Nothing, of course - neither do Timmy May's stupid rants, lies, and personal >> attacks. >> >> By the way, your abuse of your native language suggests that you're probably >> a product of U.S. public education. > >Then it would appear that you are ranting here, your post is off >topic, you are lying, and in addition you have posted a personal >attack.. Haha! - I`ve found Tim`s secret pseudonym!!!! > > > > Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security > Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk > Paul(a)crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul(a)cryptography.uk.eu.org > Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ > Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 > "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"

1 0

Civil rights and double jeopardy
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:51 PM 10/1/96 -0700, Dale Thorn wrote: >Once they could no longer look the other way, those higher-level >authorities should have proceeded against the local governments as I >specified, rather than undermining the Constitutional enumerations. The protection against double jeopardy is constitutionally based and cannot be modified by statute, e.g., the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The various civil rights acts, movements, and statutes did not make Congress nor the executive adopt a loophole around the double jeopardy protections; the loophole existed considerably prior to then. The double jeopardy clause is interpreted (and has been since at least 1922) so that it only bars multiple prosecutions (or punishments) by the same sovereign. In _US v. Lanza_ 260 U.S. 377 (1922), the Supreme Court wrote: ". . an act denounced by both national and state sovereignties is an offense against the peace and dignity of both and may be prosecuted and punished by each." Where an act violates both federal and state law, both the federal and state governments think they get an opportunity to prosecute. Thus, racial violence or murder which violates state assault or homicide laws gets a state prosecution; and where it also violates federal civil rights laws (18 USC 241 or 242) it is also prosecutable federally. Ditto for many drug crimes. An act which does not violate federal law (say, jaywalking) cannot be prosecuted federally; this limits the situations where multiple sovereigns can lead to multiple prosecutions. (but with Congress expanding federal criminal law ...) (There's an exception to the dual sovereignty exception to the double jeopardy clause, the "Bartkus exception", where the second prosecution is a sham or a fake undertaken to serve the interests of the first sovereign; but it's very hard to win a _Bartkus_ argument. Stacy Koon (one of the cops convicted for the beating of Rodney King) tried to argue Bartkus and lost.) Sorry for wandering off into legalpunks land but it's simply not the case that the civil rights movement caused the erosion of the double jeopardy clause, or that there's a magic "civil rights exception". Dual-sovereign double jeopardy is alive & well in drug prosecutions today. Civil rights just gets all of the press. -- Greg Broiles | "We pretend to be their friends, gbroiles(a)netbox.com | but they fuck with our heads." http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | |

1 0

REM_ail
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-8-96. VV: "The Remailer Is Dead, Long Live the Remailer. Life After Penet." By Dave Mandl (Excellent, Dave, yes!) By the strict standards of the cypherpunks, a loosely knit affinity group of the Net's most radical and technoliterate privacy advocates, Penet's security was actually on the flimsy side. Its Achilles' heel was the file -- just begging to be subpoenaed -- that linked users' real names to their Penet pseudonyms. Cypherpunk-run remailers, on the other hand, generally leave no trace of the sender's true identity. In addition, cypherpunk remailers can be "chained" -- messages can be routed through several far-flung remailers before reaching their final destination, making message tracing all but impossible, even for the remailer operators. ----- http://jya.com/remail.txt ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/remail.txt REM_ail

1 0

new mailing list: solving spam problem
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

a new list dedicated to trying to solve the problem of spam just popped up, and may be of interest to some here-- ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:01:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Rapier <rapier(a)psc.edu> To: ietf(a)IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US Subject: Anti-Spam BOF Mail List I've decided to take some initiative and set up a real mailing list for the discussion on spamming. I would like to see us take some sort of action at the next IETF and maybe get some rough ideas about what is and/or isn't possible in dealing with this problem. If you would like to join the mailing list send mail to majordomo(a)psc.edu with subscribe spam-list [prefered address] in the body. If you have any problems subscribing let me know. Also, this mailing list superceeds the one I set up and announced around an hour ago. Anyone who has alrteady sent requests to that mailing list will be added to this new one. Chris Rapier Senior Sysadmin/Cabin Boy 2nd Class Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center MI 230B ------- End of Forwarded Message

2 2

Censorship?
by camcc＠abraxis.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What say ye?? :From: Zimm2(a)gnn.com (Zimm2) :Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp :Subject: Cypherpunks engaged in censorship? :Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 08:39:50 : :It has come to my attention that Cypherpunks no longer allows users of :Microsoft browsers to access their archives. : :Is it contradictory for an organization who proclaims an interest in the free :exchange of ideas through the mechanism of the Internet to limit the exchange :of ideas using an individual's software decisions as the criteria? : :Are issues of annonymity and privacy and the encouragement of private use of :powerful encryption and remailer tools secondary to and less important than a :crusade against a software manufacturer? : :Should corporate users of the Internet or individuals unable to access the :Internet through any other means than corporate or public computers be denied :access to information because the computer owner insists on a particular, and :freely chosen software package? : :Will the Internet continue in the direction of propagating propaganda or will :the original rule of releasing all information to the public and letting the :public decide be the rule of the Internet? : :I, of course, know my own feelings on these issues but want to know how far :out of the pale I am. :

1 0