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FOR_who
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10-8-95. NYPaper: "Foreign Policy 3.1. Microsoft as World Power." [Foreign affairs column] Does Microsoft have a foreign policy? Mr. Ballmer says Microsoft doesn't have a foreign policy per se. But it does have a global business agenda. Since Microsoft today has twice the market value of General Motors, it's worth looking at that agenda because it is bound to influence U.S. foreign policy. Microsoft doesn't need Washington to open doors for it because foreign governments are begging Microsoft to come in and translate Windows 95 into their languages, so they can get on the information highway. Describing his contacts with foreign leaders, Mr. Ballmer put it this way: "People say, 'You have this technology. We hear it's changing the world. Tell us how it can help us.' " 10-7-95. The Econofog: "The myth of the powerless state." [lead for a superb 40- page survey of the world economy] The increasing "globalisation" of the world economy is a fact, and one that nobody can ignore. To many, however, one aspect of this change is especially important: its effect on "economic sovereignty". They claim that global integration is emasculating the modern state. If the number of believers is any guide, these views are appealing. Yet the new orthodoxy is wrong. The world has changed, the global economy has indeed arrived: nonetheless, the emasculated state is a myth. Micro and Macro: FOR_who (19 kb)

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Re: cypherpunks digicash bank?
by cman＠communities.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I strongly recommend that anyone considering licensing from Chaum first read my paper on some interesting aspects of his basic blinding patent. The paper is at: http://www.communities.com/paper/agnostic.html. I will be putting up another short paper on anonymous currency management within the next few days. Also, I strongly recommend that anyone serious about this not use the word "bank", and take the time to figure out how to structure the service as an NBFI (non-banking financial institution) and not a "bank". Note that NBFIs are still regulated, and you will, at minimum, need to consult with your state banking regulators as well as the IRS (who also regulate money transmitters, i.e. issuers of traveller's checks, moneygrams, etc.) Note that the BSA (Bank _non_ Secrecy Act) does in fact apply to NBFIs and money transmitters, and you should be sure to educate yourself as to the implications of this. I will be covering some aspects of these issues at length in my trip report on the anti-money-laundering conference I recently attended, which was a real eye-opener in a number of ways.

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Netscape 2.0 beta
by Ray Cromwell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, it's not mentioned on their home page yet, but I went to their ftp site and I found that Netscape 2.0 beta was up there. For those wishing to get their hands on Java, they don't support Java on the Mac or Linux/NetBSD/BSDI platforms yet. Only Win95/NT, IRIX, and Solaris/SunoS are supported for Java. I knew it was too good to be true for them to have ported Java to so many platforms so quickly. The good news is that someone finally, after years, has implemented Progressive JPEG (I've been yelling about it for a while myself), and it is simply *light years* better than interlaced GIFs. -Ray

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Re: Netscape 2.0 beta
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Even nicer would be if the Windows beta included *all* the files needed. The setup routine wants to install some OLE2 .dll's, but they don't seem to be included with the compressed file, or even on the Netscape site. I was able to work around it, since I already had the OLE2 stuff on my machine, and edited the installation scripts and such - other folks aren't likely to be as 'lucky'. I suspect that Netscape is going to be hearing about that little oversight..... Dave Merriman This is a test (3 UUE lines) of the unconstitutional ITAR - 1/713th of the PGP executable. See below for getting YOUR chunk! ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [015/713] ------------------- M=$<(&L`#*IPP",(G6(,,S,`P](<2RWU96XCW86/JBYV8A\D8@X'HB_9H#&\X MX'PCUB.,13B"X8`R?^J-:UB.M_`U\>[#)BS&5$0C,Y#^1CS>1`\T1QTXX6!3 M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> My web page: http://www.geopages.com/CapitolHill/1148

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Kerserver keyrings
by jgrubs＠left.webcasters.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "Jim Grubs (W8GRT)" <jgrubs(a)webcasters.com> writes: > -- [ From: Jim Grubs (W8GRT) * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > Attachment: mailsig Code: 0006727 \ Created: 10-03-95, 07:16 PM [1 Kb] > > Someone at Uni-Hamburg must have seen my message and said, "Oops, who turned > that off?" Anyway, their keyring was upated today. It's 6.4 megs!!!! (My > first HD was only 10.) > > > > begin 644 mailsig > M+2T-"B`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@(%=E8D-A<W1E<G,H=&TI#0I* > M86UE<R!#+B!'<G5B<R`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@:F=R > M=6)S0'=E8F-A<W1E<G,N8V]M#0HV.#$W($UA<&QE=V]O9"!!=F5N=64@("`@ > M("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@5&5L+CH@-#$Y+3@X,BTR-CDW#0I3>6QV > M86YI82P@3V@@-#,U-C`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@($9A > M>#H@-#$Y+3@X-2TR.#$T#0H@($EN=&5R;F5T(&-O;G-U;'1I;F<L($A434P@ > E<')O9W)A;6UI;F<L($EN9F]R;6%T:6]N(&)R;VME<FEN9PT*(``` Apologies to all for the mite in E-Mail Connection that caused it to think my .sig was an attachment. Needless to say, I have purged my system of it... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: LIBERTY!! Use it or lose it!! iQCVAwUBMHgO7t74r4kaz3mVAQGPOwP9HLmDUXzv6FHyWUwIiK+kGQkm2f/wS6+C snRmcyuzUK1bYk/xKleq1bdwGo1p6WfkdonAKYlV2sQIfx5smMlwtVqyKCJ8PJZJ EnNhT9i47x0/oF9qta0O225LRGKEFgMswaqAZoRbrwWk1wwDQy1Be1GdUnUMxCTt Ss8yYdV5p4o= =8fAh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- WebCasters(tm) James C. Grubs jgrubs(a)webcasters.com 6817 Maplewood Avenue Tel.: 419-882-2697 Sylvania, Oh 43560 Fax: 419-885-2814 Internet consulting, HTML programming, Information brokering

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Re: Certification Authorities in history.
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:26 AM 10/8/95 -0700, Hal wrote: > One key to rule them all; > One key to find them; > One key to bring them all > And in the darkness bind them. A more famous statement on key certification authorities: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man migh buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Coming soon: True names neatly linked to your social insecurity number --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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(ecm) Chaum patent prices (was Re: cypherpunks digicash bank?)
by aba＠dcs.exeter.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Marcel just posted this in the ecm list, I'm taking the liberty of doing a Rob Hettinga and acting as human gateway between lists, as the posts this was in response to were posted to both lists. -Adam] Forwarded from the ecm(a)ai.mit.edu (Electronic Cash Market) mailing list: >>>>>>>>>>>> From: Marcel van der Peijl <bigmac(a)com.digicash> To: ecm(a)edu.mit.ai Subject: Chaum patent prices Sender: bounce-ecm(a)edu.mit.ai Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Marcel van der Peijl <bigmac(a)com.digicash> Hi, I just want to make a quick comment on the prices that have been floating around on this list ($150K +10%). No doubt this is what David asked at some point to some individual but it is NOT the 'list price' -- there is no such thing as a list price. It all depends on the application, business potential etc. The up-front patent price should never be an obstacle for setting up business. If you wanna do serious business, I suggest to give David Chaum a call, or call Dan Eldridge. Phone numbers and email addresses can be found on our web pages. You might be surprised. And may I remind you that the patent price that is quoted is just a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the kind of money spent on marketing budgets for systems like Mondex!!! You are really talking about a non-issue here, IMHO. Marcel van der Peijl DigiCash bv

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anonymous cash without blinding
by Wei Dai 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

With all this talk about Chuam patents, I would like to remind people that blind signatures are not absolutely essential to an anonymous digital cash system. You can combine a traceable cash system with an anonymous communication system in a fairly obvious way to get a fully (both payer and payee) anonymous cash system. Suppose a bank is running a digital cash system that works like this: it maintains a database of valid coins, and whenever someone presents it with a valid coin (string of bytes) it erases that coin from its database, and then either gives the person an equivelent amount of paper cash or a newly created coin(s) of the same value. Now if the bank allows this exchange of old coins for new coins to be done over an anonymous network (e.g., a remailer-net), then the system is anonymous as long as you don't move physical money in or out of the system. Maintaining anonymity when moving physical money in and out of the system is what blinding helps you to do, but this will be less useful in a fully digital economy where such movement will be infrequent. Wei Dai

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Re: Netscape 2.0 beta
by schampeo＠imonics.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Raph Levien wrote: >* To send mail, Netscape apparently connects to the SMTP server > running on localhost. I haven't confirmed this. Thus, I don't > see any way to integrate Netscape and premail :-(. Guess I'll > just have to wait for Netscape script (from what I've seen so > far, it's not possible in pure Java). You have to set this in the preferences dialog. The default is localhost, assuming that your UNIX box is set up correctly to send mail. I don't know about you guys, but my mailhost is called 'mailhost'. One thing that I found with the newsreader was that it doesn't do POP correctly. No matter what you do with your mail, it still doesn't check for read vs. unread articles. This is fine when you have a mailbox with one message. It can be annoying when you have 110 messages in your mailbox and don't want to 1) delete them or 2) download them twice. Not that I'm complaining. I'm still gigling from the introduction of frames and client-side imagemaps (which also don't work on the Solaris 2.4 version, running on Solaris 2.5beta/CDE)... Steve -- Steven Champeon (919) 469-7833 Technical Lead, schampeo(a)imonics.com Imonics Web Services webmaster(a)imonics.com

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Re: Graphic encryption
by patrick＠Verity.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern(a)il.us.swissbank.com> > > > Is there anything particular in graphic encryption? I usually > > encrypt graphics and document images as regular files with regular > > encryption... > > I believe graphic encryption outputs a valid image file that is apparently > white noise until you perform the decryption transformation on it. An > obvious way to do this with a non-lossy file format is to encrypt pixel vales > with a stream cipher. Another way to make the image unviewable would be to > shuffle the pixels or rasters with a PRNG. > I thought it was the ideas presented in Dr Dobbs last year of encoding other information in a graphic image so that the image still looked the same, but the other information could be extracted...i.e. using the image as a covert channel. Does anyone know what they're really talking about? Patrick _______________________________________________________________________ / These opinions are mine, and not Verity's (except by coincidence;). \ | (\ | | Patrick J. Horgan Verity Inc. \\ Have | | patrick(a)verity.com 1550 Plymouth Street \\ _ Sword | | Phone : (415)960-7600 Mountain View \\/ Will | | FAX : (415)960-7750 California 94303 _/\\ Travel | \___________________________________________________________\)__________/

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