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Re: Private Idaho source code now available
by Lou Zirko 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lucifer(a)dhp.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Sun Jan 12 00:08:20 1997 It is just a front end for PGP. It requires that you have PGP installed in order to make use of its encryptiom services. There should be no export controls. Lucifer says: > > My understanding is that Private Idaho uses PGP internally > and provides the same functionality as premail, with an > easier to use GUI. > > Given that, it would still be export controlled, since it > enables cryptography. That is why Raph doesn't allow export of premail. > > Lou Zirko (502)499-8729 Zystems lzirko(a)c2.org "We're all bozos on this bus" - Nick Danger, Third Eye -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQEVAwUBMth/4MtPRTNbb5z9AQF62wf/anuZ3p8CHhnYGQhVkQXyT4zUppF2gc5H PyJJcXp1C2wMyw2INKBEHvjUGvtSkXXW2GOZaEgeUKR0rsmCSGqgtd9mrx0JZE/Y ue3g8EtaqiezUNsTq7ElNK1v0AW3b6/eIWFvG55dzEP5l2yOCD0Um+wa09Xh6YMY VsQJw32vnnxCroM/gPFqbtyhTw/F+oGOSCCxa8W8QGrtpWan3awMvavlhhSGrBDt elMRH+L03PebhJxajnLSz9+A5x0W+3rTzW+G8KUGDBqG/7DEppw7eltBw6K55LxJ IgTOi0kUbz9k9IsXG3HN9RPsJTGII4/UlrXJv05tpO1Qsihu0cln8Q== =j5i+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Satellite Gone (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, I just got this a few minutes ago and thought it migh be interesting. For obvious reasons I am not going to identify the source. Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:46:51 +0000 > To: Ravage(a)einstein.ssz.com > Subject: Satellite Gone > > dunoo if this might interest you > Last night at apx 10:00 satellite T1 (Telstar 401) went away... > > Fox and ABC News one channel are now over on T2 (Telstar 402) located at > 89 degrees west... > Fox is on transponders 1,2,7,10,13,17,20,23 > ABC has feeds on 8,21,22 > > I haven't yet found where the UPN feeds are going to be.... > > ATT Satellite Enginering support has said that it is gone with no hope > of recovery... > > Some ugly roumors are starting to float about alleged threats to FOX to > do this by unnamed Gov agencys due to the negetive views that FOX had > been reporting to the public about them.... > > Have you heard anything?? Jim Choate CyberTects ravage(a)ssz.com

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Re: What!
by Murple 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Excuse me? > > What is faulty about IMDMP? > > - Jeremy > The only people who can answer that question are you and the good people at DataET Research, the reason being that you are the only people who know what IMDMP is. A more appropriate question would be 'What is faulty about UDCM?' The problem is that to us, UDCM is like a 'black box' - we put data in, and data comes out, but we have no understanding of what goes on to produce the data which comes out. IMDMP could well be more secure than all the cryptographic algorithms in use today, but it could just as easily have huge security holes which we may never know about, or at least not until it is too late. The difference between this and public algorithms such as IDEA, is that we can obtain source code, descriptions, comments, and often detailed analyses of these algorithms, and we can decide for ourselves whether we want to entrust our privacy to them. With UDCM, and hence IMDMP, this is simply not possible, and this is where I believe you have gone wrong. Brian Herlihy

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Private Idaho source code now available
by Joel McNamara 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Private Idaho 2.8b3, a bug fix version of the popular Windows freeware PGP and remailer utility, is now available. This will be my last official release of PI for the foreseeable future. Due to other projects and new directions, I haven't been able to spend as much time as I'd like coding and supporting Private Idaho. Instead of seeing it die on the vine, I've decided to release the source code under the GNU General Public License (export disclaimer - the sources do not include, or have ever contained, cryptographic algorithms). I'm hoping one or more, like-minded, privacy-oriented developer(s) will step forward to continue with PI's evolution. There's a lot of functionality in the application right now, but there are still some enhancements to be made (localized and 32-bit versions, some more minor bug fixs, etc.). I'll still be maintaining the Private Idaho Web page, and if new versions do appear, they'll be distributed there. See http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/pi.html for complete details on getting the sources. Thanks for all the support and feedback you've provided over the past several years. Joel

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Try Before You Buy
by Capital Computer Concepts 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello, My name is Rich Williams, and I am the President of Capital Computer Concepts. I would like to offer you a try before you buy opportunity for our "Professional Home Business" software. That's right, a free trial offer with no risk to you. All I ask is that pay for the postage and handling in the amount of $7.95 US for Domestic orders and $11.95 US for International orders. Please understand that you will not get any of the hardcopy that goes with the program. But if you decide to buy the package, then I will send the paperwork after I receive your payment. Also with your payment I will send you a duplication license, which will allow you to make as many copies of the software and the information in the software, as you want. If you would like more information about the software, e-mail my auto responder at: richgw(a)erols.com with the word "Homework" in the subject line. You should receive the info package shortly there after. Thank You, for requesting information about some of our products. Sincerely, Richard G. Williams President, Capital Computer Concepts

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Re: The FAGGOT list
by Dave Hayes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I never thought the day would come when I would actually think that, however > much I disagree with them, the pro-censorship people may have some small > arguments on their side - but that was before I saw the sort of trash you > continually spew. Such trash should be an indicator to you of your -real- position on censorship. It is said that a supporter is someone who will say anything. Perhaps this is your position on free speech...a mere supporter? I invite your response to this question. > If you have something to say that is of interest, maybe you may gain some > credibility. As it is, I won't be holding my breath, waiting for such a > reversal of form. The interest you seek is most probably only words of support for your position. Aiming at truth is always discouraged from those who do not know how to seek it. If you truly had any real interest in the anti-censorship position, you would watch your reactions to words which you yourself dislike, and attempt to understand what it feels like to want words removed from your reading selection by some other party. In this way, you would understand the pro-censorship position and therefore be in possession of enough real data to make a real decision as to which side you are on, if any. > Flames welcomed, from such fools as you obviously are. No flames from me are appropriate at this time...but...when *I* flame you, you will know you have been flamed. I haven't bestowed that honor upon anyone in years, so don't get your hopes up. > ~ Have you noticed that people who are most unwilling to accept ~ > ~ responsibility for their own actions, are the most keen to regulate ~ > ~ everyone else's? ~ Examples seem to abound on this from Dr. Vulis's selections from cypherpunks that I have seen. Granted, this is his bias I am also seeing... ------ Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave(a)jetcafe.org Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet Reporter (n.) - 1. A cat waiting at a mousehole.

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Re: At the risk of getting flamed :)
by Dave Hayes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dr. Vulis writes: > Cypherpunks have been forging Usenet posts from "freedom-knights(a)jetcafe.org" > to alt.business.* et al, asking for business opps in e-mail. I'm thinking of > forwarding the resulting spam on f-k back to cypherpunks. Two things about this, to BOTH lists. As a Freedom Knight, it is my opinion that the appropriate demonstration for Freedom Knights is to ignore this junk email. This appears to be proceeding quite well, if a minor annoyance to some. However, I cannot in good conscience personally accept a "J'accuse" cypherpunks of forging Usenet posts to freedom knights. Since we have no proof of this action, it is my opinion that we must adhere to "innocent until proven guilty". I would like everyone to understand that this accusation is not shared (nor even considered until seeing the above quote) by myself, nor should it be shared by anyone who is or who calls themself a "Freedom Knight". Honor before blind support, Observation before belief, Truth before justice. Those who understand these principles will not be harmed by the net. ------ Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave(a)jetcafe.org Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet What we see depends on mainly what we look for.

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Igor asks what these examples prove...
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's another article from s.c.r.m where one of the moderators verbally abuses a person banned from posting in that forum (myself :-). The gratuitous abuse is totally off-topic and has no connection to the flame thread it's in. That's what the lying cocksucker John Gilmore wants to be able to do on his private mailing list - to post more lies which the victims of his libel will not be allowed to refute. ]X-SCRM-Policy: http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/usenet/scrm/index.html ]X-SCRM-Info-1: Send submissions to scrm(a)algebra.com ]X-SCRM-Info-2: Send technical complaints to scrm-admin(a)algebra.com ]X-SCRM-Info-3: Send complaints about policy to scrm-board(a)algebra.com ]X-Comment: moderators do not necessarily agree or disagree with this article. ]X-Robomod-Version: STUMP 1.1, by ichudov(a)algebra.com (Igor Chudov) ]Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 05:27:03 CST ]From: vladimir(a)chinook.physics.utoronto.ca (Vladimir Smirnov) ]Message-ID: <199701121028.FAA06007(a)chinook.physics.utoronto.ca> ]Subject: Re: Russian diplomats are pigs ]Newsgroups: soc.culture.russian.moderated ]X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP soc.culture.russian.moderated ] ]rqk10(a)oes.amdahl.com (Roman Kostin) wrote: ]> Po suschestvu, govorish'? Ya sejchas tebe skazhu po suschestvu. ]> ]> Tvoj kommentarij byl tsinichen, tup i beschelovechen. I kogda ]> tebe na eto ukazyvayut, tebe sleduet izvinit'sya i zatknut'sya, ]> a ne ogryzat'sya kak shavka. ] ] Narod, ja vas ubeditel'no proshu ne ustraivat' gryznju v ]moderiruemoj newsgruppe. Kommentarij u Sashi, konechno, byl ]tak sebe, no sobak na nego naveshali po polnoj programme, ]kak budto on dejstvitel'no uzh chego-to takoe skazal. ]Idi von (eto Kostinu) Dr. D.V.Ulissa popinaj, esli principial'nost' ]v golovu udarila. Ili stremno? ] ]- Smirnov ] ] ]

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Product Manager for hire.
by Geoff Klein 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, coderpunks(a)toad.com Date: Mon Jan 13 15:45:49 1997 Product Manager with extensive experience in messaging and security is seeking a challenging position in a warm climate. For resume see: http://members.tripod.com/~geoff_cv/ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geoff Klein, Pronto Secure Product Manager http://www.commtouch.com, Tel: 972-9-963445 (ext 130), Fax: 972-9-961053 For my PGP public key send mail with subject: Get Key - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMto8kULv5OMYFK1FAQHChwP/a5d7lG7jD7ULMlfsh5Cfo4DsShbwuTij EB2C/8G0fvg4uGlhMDWr+q2u2R5K5laEM/a9yySn79iBpLQ+viDOphUC5vfTknbo trqggHQUhjlDYftwTAJdnBNXh/XAfGCgoPpHJ4pYOEYs+mVpsla1a9w7SFuQUb18 zKwP1hKlacI= =F8SZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Why are 1024 bit keys the limit right now?
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I am just starting at this. I know that part of RSA/PGP's strength comes from > the size key you choose. What prevents someone from writting a 2048 bit key? > Is it because computers can't handle it? Is 1024 top of the prime number > size right now? Am I way off track? 2048 bit keys are quite commonly used but the reason that arbitrarily large keys are not good is because of the amount of time taken to generate the keys then encrypt and decrypt messages with them, PGP uses a hybrid system whereby the rsa algorithm encrypts a one time session IDEA key, a longer RSA key would result in unacceptably long waits for most users when encrypting and decrypting messages. In the end it comes down to a trade off between speed and security and 1024 bits is a sensible compromise for most uses. 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"

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