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A new classical cipher
by klimt gustav 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If answer please mail to : alexandermail(a)hotmail.com A new classical cipher by Alexandre PUKALL : This crypto is in Normal Pukall's Cipher mode 1 ( NPC mode 1 ) Try to break it ! ORISI / DERME / LOEEE / RNDNO / EEPRA / ITSUL / SEUOC / ELEDE / OSEGE / IRUEU / LTUUA / LEARP / RACLO / ROPRA / IETST / AUDEN / EUSMO / ROTTN / NNREF / NLEID / FEERE / EISNE / ROTO / This crypto is in Enhanced Pukall's Cipher mode 1 ( EPC mode 1 ) Try to break it ! REHUA / AVRLL / CELYU / CAICC / ATNOP / TGBEX / RMETE / LLSDO / SEEQE / MACVD / EDFVE / ESENE / MLMPL / EICPU / TEIEM / NCPAP / ELEHT / OPNRU / CAUEA / DFSNS / REANC / CCDLE / RISEU / USESA / EIDTS / MLTOA / MIOGF / ULORD / STHUA / LEUSU / CANIL / AOMUP / IEALS / BNXLD / RIUEI / EECOE / EITDN / GCLDE / JENKE / GOEAP / ESLTD / IEZOR / SEELM / AO / --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------

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Your Site Builder Network Membership!
by Site Builder Network 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: [OFF TOPIC]Comments about CFP '97
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green wrote: > At 08:55 PM 3/25/97 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote: > >At 4:07 PM -0800 3/25/97, Bill Stewart wrote: > > > >>>--Tim May, who was comped into the conference and who only paid for one > >>>night at $130, preferring to drive in from elswhere and use the saved money > >>>for something permanent, a new Stihl chainsaw. > >>Just in case the Assault Rifle and pistols aren't enough? :-) > Stihl chain saws are *the best*. Stihl chainsaws are the choice of serial killers from Texas to Xenix. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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game theoretic analysis of junk mail
by Wei Dai 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The junk mail problem (also known as spam) is well known to just about everyone who receives e-mail. There has also been many solutions proposed. Noticeably, the idea of having e-mail senders include ecash payments with their mail has come up several times (I believe as the result of independent discovery). In order to evaluate the effectiveness of this proposal, I will construct a game theoretic model of the interaction between the sender and the recipient of an e-mail, and compare the solutions with and without the ecash payment option. The Model Players: A - Sender, B - Recipient A: Send mail? / \ no / \ yes / \ (0,0) B: Read mail? / \ no / \ yes / \ (0,0) B: Accept offer? / \ no / \ yes / \ (0,-c) (s,r-c) Assumptions: - sending the e-mail is costless to the sender - c (the cost of reading a piece of e-mail) is known to both the sender and the recipient. - s and r (the profit of the proposed deal to sender and receiver, respectively, both assumed to be non-negative) are distributed according to the probability density function f(s,r). The sender knows s and r before sending the e-mail, but the receiver does not learn s and r until he reads the e-mail. Solution of the game: To solve this game, we apply the method of backward induction. In the last stage of the game, B decides whether to accept A's offer. Clearly he always accepts since r-c >= -c. Therefore, in the next to last stage, B knows that the expected payoff if he reads the mail is the expected value of r-c, E(r)-c, so he will read if E(r)-c > 0. Finally, we come to A's decision. If A knows that B will not read, then he is indifferent between sending and not sending. However, if we assume that there is a small probability that B will read and accept irrationally, then we can conclude that A always sends the mail. Conclusions To summerize, if E(r) > c, B always reads the mail and accepts the offer, otherwise B never reads. A always sends regardless of the value of the parameters. Now we can see the outcome is not socially optimal. For example if E(r) < c, both A and B would be better off if A only sends when r>c. The above model is not very realistic. The most unrealistic assumption is that the sender knows the exactly value of his offer to the recipient. However I believe the model captures the essence of the junk mail problem. Next time I will analyze the proposed solution of adding the option of a pre-payment. For those who want to try it themselves, I give the game tree here: A: Send mail? / \ no / \ yes / \ (0,0) A: Decide pre-payment p | | | B: Read mail? / \ no / \ yes / \ (-p,p) B: Accept offer? / \ no / \ yes / \ (-p,p-c) (s,r-c)

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Re: [OFF TOPIC]Comments about CFP '97
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:55 pm -0500 on 3/25/97, Timothy C. May wrote: > Yes, inasmuch as I already have a Troy-Bilt chipper/shredder for disposal > of the byproducts of home defense. > > (Bought even before I saw "Fargo."] Actually, what you *really* want is one of those 400-lb-flywheel jobs that the tree surgeons use to mulch big tree limbs up with. I worked behind one one summer in college. They are *indeed* impressive. Don't forget to freeze everything before you put it in there, though. Works cleaner and faster. Actually, there was a case a few years where a guy did exactly that with his wife, her deep-frozen and all. Only problem was the cops figured it out after they found out he had rented one of these things shortly before she disappeared. Though they didn't find anything of her after the critters in woods behind his house had their "one *tasty* burger", John Law did break the tree mulcher down and find DNA-confirmed microscopic bits of her in the machine's um, interstices... Remember, return the tools clean folks, or you don't get your deposit back. Reminds me of the headless biker we talked about here a while ago. Whoops! Gotta run. Time for lunch! I *love* this list... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by stupidity." -- Jerry Pournelle The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/rah/

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Re: KRAP
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jeremey Barrett wrote: > > Key Recovery Agents Plan > I dunno, but they couldn't have picked a better acronym :-) Good eye. I read about it and never noticed their truth-in-advertising acronym. You are hereby awarded 50,000,000 Toto Eca$h credits. (1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = 1 peso) -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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Re: [Proposal:] Revolving Web Mirrors
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill Stewart wrote: > > >> Maybe a mailing list/news group that could > >> post current URL's for the mirrors? > > Having the pattern matcher look for (and delay) potential mirror lists > is more productive, since you can catch them at the Nationalist Firewall > before they get into the country. Maybe. If readers know what to > look for in their news postings, censors probably do to. > > Email is tougher - the Bad Guys don't need to find the source of the > mirror listings (presumed to be in a non-cooperative country, > if you can find it at all) - they can find the recipients of the lists, > and go beat them up. Maybe it's time to set up an "InterNet Free Europe" type of program. Crypto and remailers seem to be well-suited to the task of implementing the dissemination of information and protecting identities of the many individuals who would be involved. CyberHackers could compromise a few systems, to turn them into innocent remailers, and this would open the door for the administrators of other systems to 'fake' system attacks, and do some remailing themselves. CryptoRebels could disseminate encryption programs containing the public keys that would be used for the InterNet broadcasts in certain cases. One of the keys to "InterNet Free World" (a better name?) would be to make a habit of disseminating a plethora of 'false' encrypted messages with little or no meaning, and no available key, as a cover for the messages that are actually targeted for certain users or systems. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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Re: PKC
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Warning: if you fuck Tim Maya in the ass, a rabid tapeworm might bite your penis. /\ _ /\ | | 0 0 |-------\== \==@==/\ ____\ | \_-_/ _|| _||

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ZDNet Members-Only: JavaOne Discount!
by announce＠lists.zdnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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WebWorld 19
by Bubba Rom Dos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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