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premail www interface
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have worked the kinks out and now announce the premail www interface. The interface uses preamil to send you mail anonymously without fuss or muss. If you are not familiar with premail, check the page out and see what is all about. You can find the premail script on Raph's pinging page. The interface should be bug free, but if you find any, let me know. I welcome comments/flames/criticisms. If there are suggestions for upgrades or future ideas, let me know. The cpremailer that I have up is still there. These two www interfaces should serve many people well. The suggestions I received for the cpremailer have been implemented so that you, the user, selects the number of remailers to use. No more hardwiring and there is nothing that forces you to chain. http://miso.wwa.com/~dochobbs/premail.html <-premail interface http://miso.wwa.com/~dochobbs/cpremailer.html <- nate's www remailer If anyone has designed a similar remailer interface for premail, let me know. I would like to know how you did it differently. Of course this email is coming to you from the premail gate. Michael Hobbs dochobbs(a)wwa.com

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Re: Are we forming the "social sector"? FYIntrospection...
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> "the post-capitalist polity needs a 'third sector,' in addition > to the two generally recognized ones, the 'private sector' of > business and the 'public sector' of government. It needs an > autonomous social sector." (Drucker 1993) This is a quote from the following: "The Age of Social Transformation", Peter Drucker, _The Atlantic Monthly_ 11/94, pp 53-80. ... which I just read this weekend, coincedentally. Yes, it's statist. Still, it's a good read. I learned something from it, even if I found myself talking back a little. ;-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 323-7923 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell >>>>Phree Phil: Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf <<<<<

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Re: My pseudo-anonymous dream list
by dochobbs＠wwa.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Gary wrote, I would add a few more suggestions of my own to your wishlist. 11) Seamless integration with existing mail programs, such as Eudora. what about...pine, pegasus, sendmail, airmail, news mail programs... I think this would be up to the individual user or for someone to develop the perfect pgp mail program. 12) Notification that your message has been received (I'm not sure how to do this and maintain anonymity) I don't know either if you chain your mail before it gets to the nym server. The idea of chaining is to keep the sender anonymous. Maybe if the nym server send mail to your reply block every time your alias and password are used to send mail. Though it would have to be something like "your alias has sent mail to the following xxx(a)xxx.xxx. 13) Ability to handle very large encrypted files (binaries). Why? I think this would either 1) cripple the server from the load 2) make it easier to track back to the sender. If you are comparing 1 meg files against 1000 byte files it would be much easier to filter out what you are not looking for. 3) give anon mailers the reputation of porn/warez/church of scientology document distibuters and not privacy mailers which defeats some of the things that are trying to get done. 14) Perhaps increasing security by breaking messages into several parts, routing them through different chains, and reassembling them just prior to transmission to recipient. Ouch. I think that would be hard to manage :) Can you imagine thousands of users sending tens of thousands of messages a day and having more than one remailer having to keep track of hundreds of thousands of 'chunks' of mail. That would start to resemble tcp/ip in complexity. Keep up the good work! The concepts are good, I just don't think the implementation would be very easy. You should sign up on the nym server mailing list that was posted here a few days ago if you are interested in pursuing these ideas. _____________________________________________________________ dochobbs(a)wwa.com M.D. Hobbs mhobbs(a)rad.rpslmc.edu http://miso.wwa.com/~dochobbs finger for my pgp key I am human and nothing human do I count alien.

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Purple Boxes vs. Native Signal Processing
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:12 AM 8/16/95, Lucky Green wrote: >I agree. You can easily do encryption and compression on the same chip. >There is no need for a separate DES/RSA chip. I only included some possible >DES chip manufactors, because the original poster asked for them. The trend is away from having two chips when one will suffice. Thus, the Macintosh 840av and 660av had a Motorola 68040 _and_ a Motorola 56000 DSP chip for speech processing and recognition, sound processing, etc....they were dropped and replaced by the PowerPC machines, which dispensed with the separate DSP chips. (The DSPs were never fully supported by software, especially from third party vendors....) And Intel is pushing "native signal processing," wherein DSP functions are pushed back into the CPU. If the CPU is fast enough, as the fast Pentiums are, this can work. This may be partly to sell more and faster Pentiums and partly because Intel has no effective DSP products at this time. (Intel has generally missed out on the DSP market, despite arguably having invented the first DSP chip. In 1977 I worked on the Intel 2920 signal processor, the first general purpose chip to do signal processing. Invented by Ted Hoff, the same guy who invented the microprocessor, it was abandoned a few years later. Then came the success of TI's TMS320 (or similar) DSP chips, the Motorola 56000 series, and Intel was out of the game.) Pushing DSP functions into the CPU can be taken too far. Apple, for example, had/has a "Geo Modem," or something like this, which does modem funtions in the CPU of some machines. Last I heard it was stuck at being too slow, with no software updates, and effectively is being abandoned. Modems have gotten so cheap that using the CPU makes little sense if it also complicates software. As in everything, the choice in partitioning is crucial. Of relevance to this list, I see no hope whatsoever that people will buy gizmos to do encryption if a software-only ("native signal processing") solution is within a factor of several in performance. After all, people complain that RSADSI wants "exorbitant" prices ($125) for public key ecryption and demand that "free" products are needed, so I can't see them spending $300 or even $100 for a hardware solution that does encryption a bit faster. If the Pentium + Soundblaster can do VoicePGP or PGPFone or Nautilus, then what's the incentive to buy additional hardware? Last I heard about CELP, it could handle "Pretty Good Voice" on a mere 66 MHz 486, and that's about 2-4x slower than what people are routinely buying today. (The situation may be slightly different for a fully-productized and consumerized "bump in the wire" secure phones, where the finished product will be sold to a different sort of customer than those clamoring for cheap crypto.) In conclusion, I'd always look to a software solution first. Anything that requires chips is automatically harder to build and to sell. Most importantly, a solution which runs on standard hardware available around the world will be trivially exportable (technologically) and will spread within days of availability, whereas a hardware-dependent solution will likely remain obscure and hard to export. Sofware solutions rule! --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net (Got net?) | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Phone Card Risks
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One of the plethora of TV Magazine shows featured Tim McViegh and phone cards last week. Maybe I should post to Risks. According to the story, Tim McViegh bought a bunch of phone cards from "The Spotlight" (famous Klan paper) which carried the Spotlight brand name. He made lots of calls. Later, the Fibbies who checked all the phone records for room and pay phones at the motels where TM was staying came up with lots of calls to the 800 number of the vendor who was actually switching calls for the Spotlight phone cards. The vendor found the card number(s) that matched those calls and all the other calls that matched those card numbers. They made it seem like such a match was a big thing. Perhaps their transaction database was not well developed. In any case, they wrote a little software and gave the Fibbies a list of all of TM's calls. There are supposed to be lots of calls to fertilizer dealers, his sister, and others. Very interesting. This is an obvious risk in the use of phone cards that anyone should be able to figure out for themselves since it is the same risk that pay phones have always had. If the Fibbies can find out what telephones you have used, they can get those records and trace things from there. This problem has occurred before for "right wing" nuts and the Mafia. Several years ago after members of The Order robbed an armored car in northern California, the Fibbies found a nearby motel where a bunch of suspicious characters had all stayed together and traced calls from the pay phone outside to various wives/girl friends and broke the case from there. Likewise Mafiosi in their NYC social clubs have often shown bad phone habits using the nearest pay phone, etc. If a pay phone is used enough and well-enough known to the Fibbies, it even becomes worthwhile to tap it. So buy lots of phone cards from different dealers (*never* The Spotlight), use phones unconnected to you, don't make too many calls from the same phone or using the same card, and be sure to destroy the card preferably before you use it (the only significant thing about phone cards are the numbers which can be stored in an encrypted file). An easy way to accomplish much of the above is to hang out in big cities instead of the boonies. It's a lot easier to find an unlinked phone (unlinked to you, that is) in the city than in the country. DCF "'Well, he hit what he was aiming at.' Marine DI discussing the fact that the guy up in the tower at the University of Texas shooting people was an ex-Marine."

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Re: PERRY METZGER: YOUR MOMMY IS CALLING YOU HOME
by lat＠iac.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous remailer? What a crock! In my book, you might as well have written this rant on swift moving water or the wind. Lynn TerWoerds Cincinnati, OH

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Name Overloading
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:54 PM 8/14/95, Bryce Wilcox wrote: >(Hm. "DC" -- "DigiCash" -- "David Chaum". I just noticed that...) Also "Dining Cryptographers," as in "DC-Nets," which DC invented. Chaum only smirks when asked about this multiple overloading. --Tim May, aka Marcus Registrada (overloaded with Trade Mark, Turing Machine, and maybe other things...) ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net (Got net?) | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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You are being monitored
by agent＠agents.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If anybody can determine who this came from pleez post a guess. This is an experiment from inside a program environment. I am serious. -- Tim May

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The Spotlight
by The Gate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Perry, just a brief correction to the original file > From: Duncan Frissell <frissell(a)panix.com> > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Phone Card Risks > > One of the plethora of TV Magazine shows featured Tim McViegh and phone > cards last week. Maybe I should post to Risks. > > According to the story, Tim McViegh bought a bunch of phone cards from "The > Spotlight" (famous Klan paper) The Spotlight is more of a rogue faction CIA/FBI Constitutionalist paper than a Klan paper, by my reckoning. Sources available on request.

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Re: You are being monitored
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:10 PM 8/14/95, agent(a)agents.com wrote: >If anybody can determine who this came from pleez post a guess. > >This is an experiment from inside a program environment. I am serious. > > > >-- Tim May Well, never mind, I guess. I don't think I added this, but I guess I did. So much for my experiment. My new SmalltalkAgents environment has a method for mailing from within a program environment, if a TCP/IP connection is open. This allows Smalltalk programs to directly send mail. On a Macintosh, this is not so trivial. The manufacturer is apparently acting as the collection point, and any name can be put into the From: field. --Tim ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net (Got net?) | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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