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Internet Gateway for Bletchly Park Trust
by pjb＠ny.ubs.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am trying to setup an Internet gateway for BP Trust. I will either convience Sun to donate a SparcStation for this purpose, or I will donate one myself. What I need is a contact in the UK for some ISPs, or a University or somesuch that would consider hosting their domain/address. Will anyone having any information that might be of use to me in this endevour please email me at: pjb(a)ny.ubs.com and/or pjb(a)23kgroup.com. I have just returned from a trip to BP, and there are many new and exciting things going on there. I will (RSN) post an article re: the current state of affairs at BP. Cheers, paul

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Re: Compuserve grovels to foreign censors
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:47 PM 1/5/96 -0500, Gordon Campbell wrote: >At 12:56 AM 1/5/96 -0500, Larry Sudduth wrote: > >>Attachment Converted: C:\WORK\WINMAIL.DAT > >What, pray tell, is this? > When a MS Mail attachment wanders around the world, it is accompanied by a data file of some kind. That is winmail.dat. So every MS MAIL attachment is really two attachments. Try to ignore it. DCF "Windoz. It may not be an operating system but at least it's out there on the hardware."

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Re: Massey, CEO of Compuserve, on Internet
by Robert A. Rosenberg 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 13:55 1/4/96, Tony Iannotti wrote: >On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > >> Yes it would require that the Node be checked in the Software. What I was >> responding to was a claim that there is no way of telling where I am >> connecting from (which I disproved). As to calling a non-German Node, that >> is always an option. > >Yes, I agree. I think the real difference is that they really cannot tell >where you are calling from, even though they know where you are >connecting. Since the German Government (or the local "DA" who is claiming to represent the National Government <g>) is talking about delivery of banned items in Germany, I think that the relevant location is the node that is being used not where the other end of the call to that node is located. What is being requested is that CIS refrain for delivering the stuff to the Nodes in Germany (they are not being told to monitor someone in Germany who is trying to get it by calling LD to a node in France (or the US for that matter).

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An open letter to Commtouch
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi Commtouch people, I am intrigued and hopeful about your secure e-mail product, Pronto Secure. However, I am puzzled about its support for POTP encryption. The other encryption protocols (PGP, PEM, MOSS, and S/MIME) have all been reviewed carefully by outside experts, and there is general consensus that these protocols embody state-of-the-art cryptographic technology, and that there are no known major security flaws. POTP stands out on your list because such a review has not been carried out. In fact, grave doubts have been raised regarding its security, and (to my taste, anyway) not satisfactorily answered. I do not wish to raise those points here, nor do I wish to claim here that POTP is insecure. However, I believe the reputation of your product is drawn into question by association. Should POTP be definitively demonstrated to be weak, then it would not be the case that using your product according to the instructions would provide "security." Further, I would consider it slightly misleading to describe it as "mission-critical." I feel the situation is analogous to that of a hypothetical networking company claiming that their product delivers high bandwidth by offering the choice of ATM, Myrinet, 100Mbps Ethernet, or string and tin cans. That said, I applaud your multiprotocol approach in general. In fact, I feel it is the future of Internet security tools. I hope your product gains widespread acceptance, and helps to further the cause of deployment of strong crypto. Raph Levien

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No Subject
by Marc J. Wohler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Anyone know of the staus of the Phil Zimmermann Grand Jury investagation? Is there a Statuate of Limitations or what? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMO2XK2eikzgqLB7pAQE6wgQAg7bs/b9qkayCQSUz8Ql8vcVNF74cSAl+ TRs/HQWA8g99x5j0Boircf7kpO8LR8orFkHdsSApYWCOCTDTHpiQNmcLYcSbTiFn td3cJsponuKLa0qTjRpo3e+yIo8ebDC1tCrJaFXTZD8hHGLchr+rz8CLJR8R7pLS LxYr3TFMM3s= =x1Al -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***Preserve, Protect and Defend the private use of Strong Crypto*** * * * PGP for the masses * * * Finger mjwohler(a)netcom.com for Marc Wohler's public key fingerprint= F1 70 23 13 91 B5 10 63 0F CF 33 AD BE E6 7B B6

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Mixmaster In a Box
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Towords the goal of making Mixmasters in a box, I've written an installer script for mixmaster. If you're running on one of the supported platforms (alpha, bsdi, hpux, linux, sunos, solaris), the script will walk you through everything from the make to setting up cron jobs & /etc/aliases. If you've been putting off setting up a remailer because its a pain, give this a shot. Lance will probably be including it in the next release of mixmaster, but you can get it now by sending me a message with the Subject: get mix-installer. Comments, bugs, bug fixes are welcome. Thanks to Rich $alz for a extensive comments & suggestions for portability. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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Re: 2047 bit keys in PGP
by futplex＠pseudonym.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Jiri Baum writes: > This is not really the case. The way PGP is set up, the operations > that take a long time are those that involve the secret key - signing > and decrypting. Encrypting and checking signatures are much quicker. > > In other words, the person that chooses the key is the one that'll > be most delayed. > > (I think it's something to do with the relative sizes of the exponents.) Right. We can (generally) make a "small" choice of the public exponent e, with a corresponding "large" choice of the private exponent d, rather than having them both "medium-sized". A "small" choice of d, however, would be easy to guess, which is a Bad Thing (tm). Futplex <futplex(a)pseudonym.com> *** Welcome to Cypherpunks -- Now Go Home *** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMO2jkinaAKQPVHDZAQF7BAf/XrZ+abVfAw2Vle/8yomUZkC1Ol35g2yf gx6QKEkPDwEhw2B1qUJPA0veJmU4wGoXO5dOjsDkUtPtCU4StBVu2Axo2Hf1cknz raBWi/htN7xxKdeZ9+xiYduN3QQxwAhot8yTuaXqwswgjDwWjS4JJvfMG49lEqEN PGVHbYHKYlIumjzgLE5TbQ58EkNWmOw/BqojniTDyf98+5tZz0t2gx+ezLMG1S9C b12uCrw+EMmS7JDM+197xP+7JenXJUL41REVUAOVlcKh4TBLVFkRtzWa8Bt6vbPk A7XiFKE9PdjzaOOUo1M2lI8ocz5nq7PysghSt8UzBGDDvUmIWd+0RQ== =h4Li -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RSA's Art gallery is now on the web
by baldwin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Are you tired of the clip art you downloaded last week? Do you need a new background screen for you PC? Does your cubicle need something to give it character? Look no further. Visit the RSA Data Security Art Gallery and download to your hearts content. We have such classics as the "Sink Clipper" T-shirt image, and our latest "We Hear You" poster by the famous political cartoonist, Dan Perkins (a.k.a. Tom Tomarrow). Don't miss the our rendition of the NSA logo ("We read your mail, so you don't have too"). More art will be coming soon. Feel free to send us your favorite images, or ideas (webmaven(a)rsa.com) --Bob Baldwin RSA Data Security

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Re: Representations of Pi, etc.
by goedel＠tezcat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

tcmay(a)got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote: >I didn't see this result you mention, but it surprises me. The part about >how it works in some bases, but not in decimal. > >The "hand-waving" (motivational/informal) explanation for why I am >surprised is that "Nature doesn't care about bipeds with 10 digits vs. >bipeds, or whatever, with 2 digits or 16 digits." That is, results >applicable in base 16, hexadecimal, should be easily applicable in base 10. Since we're talking about digits rather than numbers, I can see why base to some power of 2 might turn out to be significant. The trivial base 2 or 16 to base 10 conversion isn't useful if you're working with a single digit. A well, its fruitless to guess without looking at the result. Let me close by saying that in decimal notation, not a single digit of Klarner's Konstant is known. Not really relevant, but its as close a chance as I get to mentioning my research. :-) Dietrich J. Kappe | Web Publishing: http://www.redweb.com Red Planet, L.L.C. | Chess Space: http://www.redweb.com/chess 1-800-RED 0 WEB | MS Access: http://www.redweb.com/cobre RedPlanet(a)redweb.com | Comics: http://www.redweb.com/wraithspace

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Re: get mix-installer. (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From adam(a)lighthouse.homeport.org Fri Jan 5 20:23:21 1996 From: Adam Shostack <adam(a)lighthouse.homeport.org> Message-Id: <199601060225.VAA21165(a)homeport.org> Subject: Re: get mix-installer. To: ravage(a)ssz.com (Jim Choate) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 21:25:59 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199601060152.TAA04065(a)einstein.ssz.com> from "Jim Choate" at Jan 5, 96 07:52:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 367 Jim Choate wrote: | I would like a copy to use in my consulting business as well as put on the | Austin Cypherpunks ftp site. Both are fine. I assume that a copy was auto mailed to you; let me know if there is a problem. May I ask who pays to get mixmasters installed? -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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