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MIME
by Peter shipley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

it would be nice if people who send PGP's email would also place the appropriate "Content-Type" in there headers so there email in a easy manor. -Pete

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Prime Numbers
by garet.jax＠nitelog.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm presently trying to generate a list of prime numbers on a friend's 486 DX2 66mhz computer, but that is rather slow going as you might imagine. I'd like to get a list of all the prime numbers up to 80 digits in length, and I know these numbers must have already been computed by someone... atleast for cryptography purposes. Does anyone know where I can get such a list, or a portion thereof? Thanks in advance, -Garet {Garet.Jax(a)nitelog.com}

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Re: Prime Numbers
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I'm presently trying to generate a list of prime numbers on >a friend's 486 DX2 66mhz computer, but that is rather slow going >as you might imagine. I'd like to get a list of all the prime >numbers up to 80 digits in length, and I know these numbers must >have already been computed by someone... atleast for cryptography >purposes. Let us know when you're done -- or even half-way done. Thanks, Carl

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SecureDrive 1.3A Verified available via mail server
by edgar＠spectrx.saigon.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I have just verified that SecureDrive 1.3A, previously announced here, is available not only at the following public BBS's as SECDR13A.ZIP: Eagle's Nest (408)223-9821 Flying Dutchman (408)294-3065 But I have now verified that Version 1.3A may now be obtained from a mailserver. Send mail to Server(a)Star.Hou.TX.US with body text that looks like this get /files/public/secdr13a.zip quit Please attempt to use the mailserver or the two BBS's above before requesting a copy directly from me. Note: Attempts to use either the above BBS's or mail server to transmit SecureDrive 1.3A (or any strong cryptographic product) outside the USA and/or Canada may violate USA law, which the USA may elect to enforce by arresting violators overseas and bringing them to the USA for trial without benefit of extradition proceedings. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLVisz94nNf3ah8DHAQHG2AP9HichQaiTd1T/W+NLkmdqUGauexI2gXeh MfyO5SVkpWDYgZzfVmZnAKv7O6OUuj87qZvxnLv4BebWV01zUJ4aml5NJM97yZm7 m/cnhzSGqEIfQifOREfsmkh5hoV4pGgBYjuVDVxpzlWog+5go1tQOcbJF8sSSzEx Ez0iZpTGmLw= =ZyrH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- edgar(a)spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Cupertino, Ca

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CFI- Foreign Available Cryptography Resources
by cfrye＠ciis.mitre.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Clinton Administration has transformed its Clipper/Capstone proposal into a definitive policy that could pave the way for banning all non-Clipper crytography in the United States. I agree with most everyone who reads these groups: the thought scares the hell out of me, especially given the "fight crime" mandate from recent public opinion polls. I posted some of these thoughts in response to David Banisar's 7 February press release on CPSR's reaction to the announcement. In that post, I offered to compile a list of cryptographic tools and resources that were available outside of the United States (i.e., machines not physically located in the US) if such a list hadn't already been done. Stanton McClandish indicated that it hadn't and urged me to "GO FOR IT!". I'm going for it, but I need your help. My work account with ftp access will go away this Friday and the dial-up lines to my school account are constantly busy. I should have a digex.com account within the next two weeks, but until then I won't have reliable archie/veronica/gopher access to the Internet. That's one reason I'm asking for help (the other is the sheer enormity of searching every non-US machine). If you live outside of the US or visit non-US machines on occasion and know they store crypto resources, please send me a directory listing at this email address (for now). Also, if there are any readme files or other program descriptions in those directories, I would appreciate receiving an electronic copy of them as well. Furthermore, if any of you have product information about foreign-made cryptographic equipment or software, I would be interested in seeing that as well. I can be reached by snail mail at: Curtis D. Frye 100 Yeonas Cir. SE Vienna, VA 22180 USA I look forward to your support and hope to report back in a few weeks with some preliminary results. Curtis D. Frye PRIVATE! Citizen I don't speak for MITRE, they don't speak for me.

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thanks for prodigy info
by jdblair＠nextsrv.cas.muohio.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to everyone who squashed Prodigy hard drive scan rumour. -john.

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Canadian voice recognition article
by Prof. L. P. Levine 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

May I post this in your name in my comuter privacy digest? I got this from a source here on campus. Do I have your permission? ---------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Leonard P. Levine | Moderator of Computer Privacy Digest and Professor of Computer Science | comp.society.privacy. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Post: comp-privacy(a)uwm.edu Box 784, Milwaukee WI 53201 | Information: comp-privacy-request(a)uwm.edu ---------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Craig McKie muttered something about... >From owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Thu Feb 3 19:52:39 1994 From: cmckie(a)ccs.carleton.ca (Craig McKie) Message-Id: <9402040124.AA03270(a)superior.YP.nobel> Subject: Canadian voice recognition article To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 20:24:59 EST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Spy Agency works on eavesdropping device for phones, faxes New snoop gadget would identify voices carried through air The Canadian Press Used on page 1, Ottawa Citizen, Monday January 31, 1994 An elite wing of Canada's spy agency is secretly developing devices that can monitor and identify voices carried through the air by phone, fax and radio signals, according to a broadcast report citing government documents. The Communications Security Establishment is a super-secret branch of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service that specializes in gathering signals intelligence - SIGINT to insiders. Since 1989, the CSE has awarded three contracts worth $1.1 million to a Montreal firm to make machines that can quickly isolate key words and phrases from the millions of signals the CSE monitors each day, CTV reported Sunday. In May 1983, the CSE awarded the Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal a contract to develop a "speaker identification system," which can pick voices from the electronic haze and identify them. "Its frightening," says Bill Robinson, a researcher with the peace group, Project Ploughshares. "It has Orwellian potential to sweep through everybody's conversations. As computers get faster and faster, theoretically, one would be able to keep records of all conversations." The CSE is supposed to provide the federal government with foreign intelligence, but parliamentarians have often voiced concerns about the agency's potential to violate the privacy of Canadians. Liberal MP Derek Lee, the head of a Commons committee that oversees Canada's spy agency, said the CSE is overstepping its mandate. "Have they been asked, or have they decided for themselves to take on a new role that requires them to analyse the human voice? And if they have, they've gone beyond what I think they've told us." The CSE is accountable to Parliament through the defence minister. But Defense Minister David Colonette told CTV her was unaware of the CSE's latest electronic snooping projects. "This is the first I've heard of this," Collenette said. "It is certainly something I'll discuss with my officials." While in Opposition, the Liberals pledged to make the CSE more accountable. With a budget of about $250 milliojn and more than 800 employees the CSE operates out of a building on Heron Road in Confederation Heights surrounded by a barbed-wire fence. Its work is considered so sensitive that employees are told not to take commercial flights, in case the plane is hijacked and they are held hostage. -- e x t r a p o l a t e steve j. white _____________________________________________________________________________ Gort, klatu barada nicto. aragorn(a)csd4.csd.uwm.edu

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ANNOUNCE: February meeting--"True Names"
by hughes＠ah.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ANNOUNCEMENT ============ February 1994 Bay Area cypherpunks meeting Saturday, February 12, 1994 12:00 noon - 6:00 p.m. Cygnus Support Offices, Mt. View, CA, USA Our theme this month is "True Names", after the Vernon Vinge story. We'll be talking about pseudonymity in virtual environments, whose current implementations include MUD's, MOO's, Habitat, and various other shared online environments. The schedule as of right now includes Chip Morningstar, co-author of Habitat, speaking about that project and maybe what he's working on currently. I think some BayMOO folks are going to do something, but that's not confirmed. Other speakers will likely be added. Plus the usual mix of monthly progress reports and current events discussion. The March meeting theme is "Politics", a none-too-unusual topic, except next month it's featured. Start up the rhetoric-machines now; we're going to have a soapbox session and possibly prizes for best rant. Eric ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Directions to Cygnus provided by John Gilmore. -- EH] Cygnus Support 1937 Landings Drive Mt. View, CA 94043 +1 415 903 1400 switchboard +1 415 903 1418 John Gilmore Take US 101 toward Mt. View. From San Francisco, it's about a 40-minute drive. Get off at the Rengstorff Ave/Amphitheatre Parkway exit. If you were heading south on 101, you curve around to the right, cross over the freeway, and get to a stoplight. If you were heading north on 101, you just come right off the exit to the stoplight. The light is the intersection of Amphitheatre and Charleston Rd. Take a right on Charleston; there's a right-turn-only lane. Follow Charleston for a short distance. You'll pass the Metaphor/Kaleida buildings on the right. At a clump of palm trees and a "Landmark Deli" sign, take a right into Landings Drive. At the end of the road, turn left into the complex with the big concrete "Landmark" sign. Follow the road past the deli til you are in front of the clock tower that rises out of one of the buildings, facing you. Enter through the doors immediately under the clock tower. They'll be open between noon and 1PM at least. (See below if you're late.) Once inside, take the stairs up, immediately to your right. At the top of the stairs, turn right past the treetops, and we'll be in 1937 on your left. The door is marked "Cygnus". If you are late and the door under the clock tower is locked, you can walk to the deli (which will be around the building on your left, as you face the door). Go through the gate in the fence to the right of the deli, and into the back lawns between the complex and the farm behind it. Walk forward and right around the buildings until you see a satellite dish in the lawn. Go up the stairs next to the dish, which are the back stairs into the Cygnus office space. We'll prop the door (or you can bang on it if we forget). Or, you can find the guard who's wandering around the complex, who knows there's a meeting happening and will let you in. They can be beeped at 965 5250, though you'll have trouble finding a phone. Don't forget to eat first, or bring food at noon! I recommend hitting the burrito place on Rengstorff (La Costen~a) at about 11:45. To get there, when you get off 101, take Rengstorff (toward the hills) rather than Amphitheatre (toward the bay). Follow it about ten blocks until the major intersection at Middlefield Road. La Costen~a is the store on your left at the corner. You can turn left into the narrow lane behind the store, which leads to a parking lot, and enter by the front door, which faces the intersection. To get to the meeting from there, just retrace your route on Rengstorff, go straight over the freeway, and turn right at the stoplight onto Charleston; see above. See you there! John Gilmore

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Netcom remailers.
by qwerty＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Lucky me. I got my first complaint about my remailer today, as Eric Hollander told me I would eventually get. He says once a month Mr. Employee bashes Mr. Boss with his remailer 'cause Mr. Employee is too cheap for a stamp, and so he sends Mr. Employee a nasty warning from Mr. Remailer Operator. Me, no logs, yet, even assuming it wasn't just from another remailer. And the person didn't contact me, he contacted Netcom. Gee, maybe the guy made it up. No matter. It was an edu address, possibly a student. So now I get a terse, not too serious message from support(a)netcom.com mentioning "unsolicited mail" being against Netcom policy, so cut it out. I've blocked that outgoing address and sent the guy an explanation, and he hasn't responded to my asking what was up. I've added "Report Problems to qwerty(a)netcom.com." in my outgoing header too. But I have a question. I'm the quite type. I tend to ignore things like this, till say Netcom deletes my account, or at least demands an explanation. My question is, should this happen again, say tomorrow, should I tell support(a)netcom.com what's up? "I'm running an anonymous remailer, you know, like anon.penet.fi, the one that has 10,000 active users. Thus Netcom is now diverting CPU time to anyone who wants it." I wouldn't word it like THAT, but that's what they might truthfully assume. Sure would be nice if I could fully forge e-mail as coming from "nobody(a)nowhere.org". Alternatively I could just keep logs. Or I could just never log into qwerty again, and see how long it lasts ;-)! Hit and run remailer accounts. Centralized remailers on the internet. Bah! Nik (-=Xenon=-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3 iQCVAgUBLVhO0wSzG6zrQn1RAQEBfwP/YnMjuyphc2O8onhEHT6jH3qyDp0YPzgd JFRrJzZI/ZOCnqtR6+zyjKqDtXCbY4GvR29vAyyXIFmG4kxfMNBRmRr4lwzUxf7G quguvzMRxdOFencHxToxaoXqZ/4/tBI5O472c1hOtdvuHaFTPP+JOLpg18Git5AR e74uFtB7I4U= =eZsb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Don't call it "VGP".
by qwerty＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is not my idea, but it will sure "sell better" than "VGP" as a buzzword to describe a PGP version with an output that is indistinguishable from noise: "Stealth-PGP". -=Xenon=-

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