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Re: Forbes article on Financial Cryptography is coming
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

All right! Congrats to all. Hail, to Sameer the Overthrower. And to Adam Shostack, now daily distinguished bullseye spit-eye at bug-eyed authority. Hettinga and Greenspan, assuring the end of greenbacks, uh huh.

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Welfare / Norplant
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Several years ago I came up with a little variation on the Welfare Mother problem which I thought was a lot more palatable. Offer a 'birthday present' program, under which *any* female over the age of 11 who has not yet had a child or become pregnant, on her birthday, gets a cash award. The award should be high enough to encourage participation; $250 seems about right. A woman who can deliberatly turn down a $250 lump sum every year for the rest of her life is almost certainly able to afford to raise a child. This scheme: * Is entirely voluntary; no one has to use contraceptives, stay off welfare, or anything else. * Targets young women who would be likely to become 'welfare mothers'. The parents of such young women would be highly motivated to have their dependent daughters participate. I haven't worked out the costs, but suspect that the net savings would be quite substantial. Peter Trei trei(a)Process.com Disclaimer: The above is my personal opinion. I dont suggest that any other person or oganization shares it.

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Monkey Wrench into the works
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Reply-To: "Myron Lewis" <mrlewis(a)keygen.com> From: "Myron Lewis" <mrlewis(a)keygen.com> To: "Robert Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: Monkey Wrench into the works Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 22:25:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOle: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.1008.3 We communicated today about the DCSB luncheon at the Harvard Club and I have been looking at some of the e$pam traffic. I am somewhat amused because our company is about to throw a monstrous perturbation into Public-Private Key encryption. We invite you and everyone on the list (Please send this invitation out to them as the info on how to do that didn't come through.) to visit the KeyGen webpage, www.KeyGen.com and learn about Automatic Synchronized KeyGeneration(TM). If you think you recognize it as something you have seen before, you're close but wrong. We are obviously biased, but we feel strongly and so do many others, that ASK will solve many of the security problems presently under discussion. In time, it will probably sink Key Management and Certificate Authorities. We welcome everyone's comments as long as they keep an open mind and don't feel cemented in to key management. I would like to respond to your request for speakers and offer to speak at one of the luncheons about Automatic Synchronized KeyGeneration. Regards, Myron Lewis President KeyGen Corporation The Key to Secure Communications --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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(Fwd) U.S. Judge Rules Encryption Regulations Invalid
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "Jim Broderick" <jfbroderick(a)hotmail.com> To: RWright(a)adnetsol.com Subject: Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:38:52 PDT Tuesday August 26 9:39 AM EDT U.S. Judge Rules Encryption Regulations Invalid SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. government regulations on the export of encryption software are unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel said licensing requirements for the export of encryption software and related devices were an unconstitutional prior restraint on First Amendment free speech rights. Patel also issued a permanent injunction barring the government from enforcing the regulations against plaintiff Daniel Bernstein or anyone who sought to use, discuss or publish his encryption program. Encryption involves running a readable message though a computer program that translates the message according to an equation or algorithm into unreadable "ciphertext." "By the very terms of the encryption regulations, the most common expressive activities of scholars -- teaching a class, publishing their ideas, speaking at conferences, or writing to colleagues over the Internet -- are subject to a prior restraint by the export controls ...," Patel wrote in a 32-page ruling released in San Francisco. Patel said that, having found the regulations to be invalid, she could have issued a nationwide injunction barring their enforcement. But she said she had kept the injunction as narrow as possible pending appeal because "the legal questions at issue are novel, complex and of public importance." The ruling is important because the computer industry sees use of encryption technology across country borders as essential for advancing electronic commerce and private communications over the Internet. The government has previously cited national security concerns over the export of encryption programs. As a graduate student, Bernstein developed an encryption algorithm he called "Snuffle." In 1992, Bernstein asked the State Department whether Snuffle was controlled by export regulations then in force which classified cryptographic software as "defense articles." The government told him his program was subject to licensing by the Department of State prior to export. Alleging that he was not free to teach, publish or discuss with other scientists his theories on cryptography embodied in the Snuffle program, Berstein sued the State Department in 1995, challenging the regulations on free speech grounds. Bernstein is now a research assistant professor of mathematics, statistics and computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Patel ruled last December that the old regulations limiting the export of encryption software violated the First Amendment. But late last year, President Bill Clinton issued an executive order transferring jurisdiction over the export of nonmilitary encryption products to the Commerce Department. Patel's latest ruling was on Bernstein's amended lawsuit which included the new regulations and new defendants. Patel said that her finding that encryption source code was speech protected by the First Amendment did not remove encryption technology from all government regulation. Cindy Cohn, a lawyer for Bernstein, called the ruling a "very big victory" for free speech advocates. "This brings us a step closer to people being able to freely publish ideas about encryption," she said. A U.S. Justice Department lawyer who defended the regulations could not immediately be reached for comment. The government could appeal the ruling. Copyright, Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: (408) 259-2795

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CYPHERPUNKS PARTY -- invite to party in DC on September 6
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You are cordially invited to a DC cypherpunk working meeting and patent expiration party on September 6. On Saturday, September 6, the patent on the Diffie-Hellman public key cryptography system expires. Along with the Merkle-Hellman patent (which expires on October 6), this patent is key to the future of public key crypto. Now programmers can write strong encryption software without worrying about patent licensing. But the expiration of the patents doesn't guarantee the future of strong cryptography. Proposed laws could restrict its use. So the party has two portions: -- 5:30 pm: a DCCP working party and potluck supper. Topics include discussion of the patents and regulation of cryptography. Guest speakers will discuss legislation in Congress and the Bernstein case. A speaker from the administration will provide a regulator's perspective. (Please contribute to the potluck dinner!) -- 8:00 pm: a post-meeting party to celebrate the expiration of the patents. (Please bring snack foods and beverages/drinks...) To RSVP, and for directions and details, e-mail Declan at declan(a)well.com with DCCP-DH in your Subject: line. The party will be held in Adams Morgan in Washington, DC. -Declan

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need confirmation of DVD/CSS crack in China ...
by Ernest Hua 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is this true? Does anyone have confirmation of this crack? Or is C/NET being a bit liberal on word choice? Ern > full article: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,13651,00.html > > Hundreds of films come to DVD > By Michael Kanellos > August 22, 1997, 4:35 p.m. PT > > UPDATE A raft of new DVD movies from major Hollywood studios could provide a > boost to the fledgling digital video disc industry, which has been in dire > need of more titles. > > < lines deleted > > > Third, the entertainment industry giants will have to improve and agree on > an encryption technology. The current 40-bit encryption standard used on DVD > discs, which is supposed to stop copyright pirates, has already been cracked > in China. Stronger encryption, however, forces PCs and players to run at a > crawl. Partially as a result, Fox, Paramount, and Disney have not committed > to producing materials on DVD, Burdon noted. > > < lines deleted >

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Re: Socio-Economic Cults (Re: Cypherpunk Cults)
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:10 PM 8/27/97 PDT, John Smith wrote: > >William H. Geiger III: > >>In the Salem witch trial they were government trials (which were >based >on >>a political power struggle in Salem at the time) not lynch mobs. > >And how about our gun-crazy friend, who'd shoot anybody who messed >with him, his family, or his property. What do you think he's going >to do when that witch down the street puts a hex on his cow and it >dies? Sounds to me like we've got another shooting coming. Is that >the kind of world you want to live in? > >"John I like the little comment made in the first of MIB. And I paraphrase. Individuals are intelligent, people are stupid. That is the defining element of mass hysteria. The invidiual, if left alone would probably settle down, maybe even realize that he or she was wrong. The group with its anonymity in numbers, snowballs the emotions beyond the control of one person. I unfortunately chose bad examples. Better ones would be the LA Riots and the famous broadcast of War of the Worlds.

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Bernstein decision: image files upgraded
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If you couldn't read the decision because the original image files were too fuzzy, try them now. They're wider and longer, and a lot easier to read. They're almost as small as the previous ones, because we encoded them better. We're still working on scanning it in to plain text. http://www.eff.org/pub/Legal/Cases/Bernstein_v_DoS/Legal/970825_decision.im… John Gilmore

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Govt seeking emergency stay in Bernstein case
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:43:36 -0700 From: Cindy Cohn <Cindy(a)mcglashan.com> Hi all, Just talked to Mr. Coppolino at the Justice Department. They are filing ex parte emergency stay papers tonight or tomorrow morning to try to stay the impact of Judge Patel's ruling pending appeal. He'll be faxing me the documents when they are ready. He said yesterday that they would seek to stay the "export" of crypto source code, although not the teaching or discussion (whatever that means). Cindy A. Cohn [Update: We received the faxed papers about 8PM; images of them will be in a sub-directory of http://www.eff.org/pub/Legal/Cases/Bernstein_v_DoS/Legal/ on Thursday morning. The Bernstein team is opposing their motion; our filing will also be on the Web site. It was reported by C|Net that the government is "appealing"; this is not true. They are asking that Judge Patel to "stay" her own ruling -- hold it in abeyance -- to prevent Prof. Bernstein from exercising his First Amendment rights before they can appeal. But they have not filed an appeal, or formally indicated their intent to do so. --gnu]

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by luciana luciana 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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