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Re: 56 kbps modems
by declan＠well.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From "Technical Aspects of Data Communications" by John E. McNamara: BAUD: A unit of signaling speed equal to the number of discrete conditions or signal events per second. In asynchronous transmission, the unit of signaling speed corresponding to one unit interval per second; that is, if the duration of the unit interval is 20 milliseconds, the signaling speed is 50 baud. Baud is the same as "bits per second" only if each signal event represents exactly one bit. A baud is the reciprocal of the unit interval. In other words, McNamara says (p148), in common 2400 bps modems, the "baud rate" is 1200 baud. -Declan Chris writes: >On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:16:08 +0200, Gary Howland wrote: > >>craigw(a)dg.ce.com.au wrote: >>> well here in Australia Telstra our national carrier only "garantees" >>> 2400 baud to work. >>As I am sure has been discussed at length before, baud does not equal >>bps. AFAIK, V32bis is only 2400baud. >This is correct. The difference is in the number of values for each of the >2400 signals sent per second. > ># Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | >http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp ># cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 >"I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to play games on >a computer in any case when the whole system is a game. Word processing, >spreadsheets, telecoms -- it's all a game. And they pay you to play it." > -- Duncan Frissell

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a simple cypher scheme
by sjohnson＠packetengines.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

all, i've been on cypherpunks for about a year a half now, and have wacthed many interesting threads pass by but i've never posited anything. what has brought me out into the open is this : i work for an engineering firm doing asic design, i use pgp ( as do all rational persons ), a co-worker here has come up with a 'cypher' scheme that he would like to use to send code to our clients. the scheme is this : he would take the file of code and pad all lines to the length of the longest line, he would then preform column swaps, and then row swaps, to 'mix up' the file. the person receiving the file would then preform the opposite functions to recover the file. it seems so simple that it can't be good. i've convenced him to use pgp, but i would like some input if possible on why his cypher scheme is not a good one. thanx -stuart Packet Engines - The Industry leader in Gigabit ethernet / o o o o o o o . . . o o ______ _________ ________ ________ __=====__T___ o |DDD[ _______ | | | | | | | |_|| .][__n_n_| | | 802.3 | | ATM | | MPEG | | FDDI | | SCSI | >(________|___|__|_______|_|_______|_|______|_|______|_.|________|_| _/oo OOOOO oo` 'o^o o^o 'o^o o^o`'o^o o^o`'o^o o^o`'o^o o^o` -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+--+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ | "all sufficiently advanced || Stuart Johnson | technologies are indistinguishable || Lead Asic Engineer | from magic," || Packet Engines Inc. | --Arthur C. Clarke || sjohnson(a)packetengines.com

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Re: Fuckhead
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From xreznorx(a)ix.netcom.com Wed Sep 18 21:32:01 1996 Received: by bwalk.dm.com (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Wed, 18 Sep 96 22:11:56 EDT for dlv Received: from dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via SMTP; id AA27000 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com; Wed, 18 Sep 96 21:32:01 -0400 Received: from (xreznorx(a)dby-ct1-15.ix.netcom.com [205.186.164.47]) by dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA12134 for <dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com>; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:31:52 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:31:52 -0700 Message-Id: <199609190131.SAA12134(a)dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com> From: xreznorx(a)ix.netcom.com (The ReznoR) Subject: Re: Fuckhead To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) uh, who the fuck r u? You wrote: > >>From varange(a)crl.com Wed Sep 18 10:09:35 1996 >Received: by bwalk.dm.com (1.65/waf) > via UUCP; Wed, 18 Sep 96 11:07:01 EDT > for dlv >Received: from mail.crl.com by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via SMTP; > id AA17484 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com; Wed, 18 Sep 96 10:09:35 -0400 >Received: from crl11.crl.com by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA03230 > (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for <dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com>); Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:10:02 -0700 >Received: by crl11.crl.com id AA21359 > (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com) Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:08:08 -0700 >From: Troy Varange <varange(a)crl.com> >Message-Id: <199609181408.AA21359(a)crl11.crl.com> >Subject: Fuckhead >To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) >Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:08:08 -0700 (PDT) >Priority: Fuckhead >Precedence: Fuckhead >Reply-To: dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com >In-Reply-To: <Fuckhead> >X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Length: 10 > >Fuckhead. >

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Re: GAK, GAP, GAY
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:52 AM 9/18/96 -0700, Tim wrote: >It doesn't matter if cash is still allowed if one cannot interact with any >health care person without a proper citizen-unit data base entry. They've >got you tracked even if you pay in gold dust. > >(Putting on my Duncan cap--not to be confused with dunce cap--I wonder what >will happen the first time someone dies because a hospital wouldn't treat >someone without a proper citizen-unit health care card?) By definition, without a citizen-unit health card number, a Health Status Transition Event can't be recorded, therefore nothing will happen. It's possible that some auditor may notice a short-term increase in the amount of hazardous medical waste disposal at the facility that can't be properly allocated to health-services-consumption-units for cost recovery purposes, but there are overhead accounts for such things, which are simpler than creating fictitious accounts for "un-persons" or some such. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> # You can get PGP software outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto

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Clickshare launches Internet's first multi-site micropaymentsservice
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:16:39 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "mpay list (MIT)" <micropay(a)ai.mit.edu> From: felixk(a)panix.com (Felix Kramer) Subject: Clickshare launches Internet's first multi-site micropayments service Sender: owner-micropay(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: micropay(a)ai.mit.edu Here are the first paragraphs of a press release, the rest of which can be found at: http://www.clickshare.com/pubpack/releases.html Clickshare launches Internet's first multi-site micropayments service "Internet Information Utility" delivers commerce a la carte WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Sept. 16 -- Clickshare Corporation's pioneering multi-site, single-ID, Internet micropayment system went live on Friday as users began clicking on -- and paying for -- information online. Purchases from Friday to Sunday by over a dozen first registrants totaled $62.60. "We're the web's first working multi-site distributed user-management and micropayment service," said Bill Densmore, Clickshare's chairman. "Now publishers can charge for valuable information on the Internet, rather than giving it away." "Now that 'The Internet's Information Utility' (sm) is up and running," said Felix Kramer, Clickshare marketing director, "we'll finally see whether people will buy information by the click." -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Felix Kramer, Marketing Director CLICKSHARE CORP. felix(a)clickshare.com Direct: 212/866-4864 www.clickshare.com Corporate: 413/458-8001 www.nlightning.com (personal) fax: 212/866-5527 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "'Bart Bucks' are not legal tender." -- Punishment, 100 times on a chalkboard, for Bart Simpson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/

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Re: DL in exchange for fingerprint
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> "We keep a memory bank that matches your fingerprints with your > license," [DoPS spokesman] said. "In other words, if you went to > get a new license with a false birth certificate and your > fingerprint didn't match the name, you wouldn't get a license. Totally bogus - _my_ birth certificate didn't have my fingerprints on it :-) Now, it may help stop people from getting duplicate licenses, assuming they use the same finger each time and don't have the sense to put rubber cement or ridge filler or something on their fingers first (and assuming, of course, that the system actually _checks_ the fingerprint in real time, rather than just recording it.) >Just what I would have called it: a great idea. Is it true that 31 >other states take your fingerprint as part of the license application? >I feel sick. Wouldn't be surprising; you didn't think you lived in America, did you? # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> # You can get PGP software outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto

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Re: Judge Kozinski Responds
by E. Allen Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"liberty(a)gate.net" "Jim Ray" 17-SEP-1996 02:14:28.24 To: IN%"cypherpunks(a)toad.com" CC: Subj: Judge Kozinski Responds >The statement about anonymous remailers was largely >accurate. I'm not sure that the fact that you (or some of >your associates) are willing to block people from getting >anonymous mail is a sufficient safeguard. Some may not be, >and it only takes one or two who do not adhere to the code >to make life miserable for the rest of us. > >We agree about the need for privacy, but I'm not at all sure >why the right to send messages anonymously trumps the >recipient's right to know who's addressing him. Getting an >anonymous message--even one that is not harassing or >threatening--is an invasion of my privacy. As for The essential problem with this viewpoint is that the right the receiver has is to ignore the message. If he doesn't want to receive anonymous messages, he should set up a mail filtration program that will do a good enough job of filtering them out. Spammed messages can be countered with Internet charging (neccessary anyway for the long-term health of the Net), as can mailbombing. That leaves individual messages that may be offensive (including, apparantly in his case, offensive by virtue of being anonymous), but if offensiveness meant someone should have the right to stop the emission of speech, that would mean the Christian Coalition would have the right to stop speech on evolution, the PC types would have the right to stop speech on genetic differences in intelligence (see Stephen Jay Gould for them on this issue - even leaving aside racial questions which are separate from the individual ones), etcetera. -Allen

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Stego inside encryption
by Mullen Patrick 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

My apologies if this shows up twice. I got an error message from my first posting. *************** I know a lot of times the idea behind steganography is to hide the fact that a secret message is in a seemingly normal file/mail/whatever. This is good for avoiding unwanted interest in your file. The benefit of not having people attempt to crack you code, added to the strength of the cryptosystem is wonderful. However, I propose this-- Don't hide that anything's encrypted! Rather than hide this fact, throw it in their face! I propose hiding an encrypted message inside another encrypted message. Set bits in specific places to data in the real message. The benefit is Oscar not only doesn't know what the crypto is, he attacks the wrong message. Hiding statistically random bits from the true message in statistically random bits from the masking message shouldn't be too hard. Granted, this scheme doesn't get you past measures designed to keep out all encrypted messages, and it surely wouldn't keep you message from generating interest, but it would be very hard to decrypt the message, especially when some algorithm is used which (seemingly) randomly selects which bits to use for the stego. Just a thought... My apologies if someone has already proposed this method. Patrick

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No Subject
by mixmaster＠remail.obscura.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Drivers Must Allow Fingerprinting" By Ralph Ellis _The Atlanta Constitution_ 9/19/96 "Georgians renewing or getting a new driver's license after Sept. 30 will have to provide the state with two fingerprints. "The right and left index fingerprints will be taken with an inkless scanning device that is part of a digital imaging system being installed in 82 driver's license examination offices across the state said Gordy Wright, spokesman for the Georgia Department of Public Safety. SNIP "The fingerprints will make it difficult for people to obtain licenses with falsified identification papers, Wright said. "Teresa Nelson of the Ga. Civil Liberties Union said the fingerprinting invades the privacy of law-abiding citizens. "'I have grave concerns,' she said. 'When we think of giving a fingerprint, we think of being arrested. We feel like we've done something wrong, not because we are complying with the law and are doing something right.' "There will be no exceptions to the fingerprint requirement..., Wright said, adding that 'having a driver's license is a privilege,' not a right. SNIP "Wright said...the fingerprints eventually will be available to other law enforcement agencies and courts.... SNIP "The new licenses will include an instant photo....A bar code on the back will contain a laser recording of the driver's index fingerprints...."

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CNET Digital Dispatch Vol. 2 No. 38
by Rick Osborne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This week's c|net digital dispatch had the following top ten list. For number 8, did they mean DES or is the EDS something I'm not aware of. I figure it has to be because what does DES have to do with chat rooms? >9. TOP TEN REASONS WHY THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES WON'T TAKE >PLACE ON THE WEB > >10. Kemp would fight with Dole over who gets to > "quarterback" the keyboard. >9. Oops: Gore plugged information superhighway cable > into White House central vacuum system. >8. Perot's crack team of EDS hackers would get him > in somehow. >7. Hotwired editors say presidential candidates not > hip enough. >6. Hillary doesn't let the President in ANY chat rooms. >5. Debate commission insists: event must be on Prodigy. >4. Bill Gates owns the rights to online debates. >3. Dole's Selectric won't connect to the Net. >2. Chelsea is using the White House PC to write a > book report. >1. In cyberspace, no one can feel your pain. ____________________________________________________________ Rick Osborne osborne(a)gateway.grumman.com "The universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy."

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