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pgpcrack v0.6b
by Mark M. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- PGPCrack v0.6b is now available from http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/pgpcrack6b.tar.gz . It is now more portable and it is less likely to find an invalid passphrase valid. I have also included a passphrase list in the distribution. - -- Mark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm(a)voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xf9b22ba5 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | bd24d08e3cbb53472054fa56002258d5 "The concept of normalcy is just a conspiracy of the majority" -me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMYK0ULZc+sv5siulAQHJlAQAozGi0IW0GqB3cs/QsHaoeeVLY8YXqbKe 7la4Ybe7MYxSMgRXt7AXG8/5nd3ECNOBlopzEBN91TEotHHe7X4Idqx93cJC94+M jln5HbmnLlExr9JIKFgeyHiwm5wruxbk3UHMIOEn82Hp04OdzazjQxDzfjzst6r0 S38TgBHtoC4= =6ct2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New NRC Report Site
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to Replay Web Development's generosity, the full 434-page NRC cryptography report of May 30, 1996 is available at: http://www.replay.com/mirror/nrc/ Our previous URL for the report also links to Replay's site: http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/nrcindex.htm

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Powerful New Advertising Software
by newsdirectories＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: You have been deleted
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"unicorn(a)schloss.li" "Black Unicorn" ** Reply to note from Black Unicorn <unicorn(a)schloss.li> 04/24/96 03:01am -0400 >That a medical experiment including Chelsea could improve a man is >beyond the bounds of reason. Be nice to the poor kid... she didn't chose her parents. -Allen

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BOW_itz
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

4-29-96 WSJ has page one leader on the December federal bust of Bernard Oskar Bowitz, an EE peddling gear for cellular piracy. It lays out the cyber-tracking and -trapping. "This case offers a glimpse into the crime in the 21st century," scowls a US Attorney. Bowitz derises, "I'm very flattered to hear they think I'm a mastermind. I think they're watching too many Arnold Schwarzenegger movies." BOW_itz (but see below) ----- WSJ opens a pay-for-it Web site today: www.wsj.com

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Re: PBS show
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 7:30 PM 6/13/96, jim bell wrote: >At 10:31 AM 6/13/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: ... >>The comments about the floppies (" VERY SMALL capacity floppies (which were >>very slow as well") is even more off-base. > >The original Apple II floppy held ONLY 90 kilobytes on a 5" floppy. How did >they do such a bad job? And the cost of these floppies was very low--I seem to recall $150 or $175. In those days, when 8" externals weighed 50-70 pounds and cost a few thousand dollars, this was a notable achievement. Remember, the standards of 1978 are not the standards of today. The "standard" then, for personal computers that were affordable, was an external cassette recorder ("TARBELL" standard). Go back and look at issues of "Byte" or "Interface Age" or "Dr. Dobbs" to see what was really available. Given the low cost of the Apple unit, it's a marvel they could do it at all. The "IWM" was the key. Just plain good design. And "only 90 KB" is also misleading in implying Apple was behind the times. The IBM PC launched 3 years later had a built-in cassette port and only offered 180K diskette drives (later upgraded to 360K). Really, blasting Apple for poor design and for not providing higher-capacity floppies, when the competition was doing far worse, is laughable. >The design for the Z-80 was completed and in Intel's hands. Intel didn't >want to build the Z-80, they wanted to focus on peripheral chips, so they >let Shima go and start Zilog. Your history is flawed. Faggin and Shima did not have a completed Z-80 design when they left; if they did, Intel would hardly have let them take it with them when they left! As the Gen Xers would say, "Duh." Read up on some of the histories of the time. Intel never chose to focus on "peripherals," they chose to build both. (If anything, EPROMs were the profit center in the mid- to late-70s, not either processors or peripherals.) At the time you are apparently referring to, the mid-70s, Intel had a huge effort started to develop the "8800." While this was ultimately a failure, it is supremely stupid to use 20-20 hindsight without looking at more issues. All development efforts and companies involve lots of decisions, lots of tradeoffs, lots of hurt feelings, and lots of apparent mistakes. Arguing that Apple could have introduced a high-capacity floppy in 1978, or that Intel should have developed the Z-8000, is just plain pointless nonsense. We could all speculate about how some company should have done things differently, knowing what we know now. The rest of Bell's points are just typical PC-microprocessor flame material. Use what you want to use, just don't rewrite history to fit your theories. I won't comment further on this thread. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: US law - World Law - Secret Banking
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"ml3e+(a)andrew.cmu.edu" "Michael Loomis" 26-APR-1996 07:40:10.88 > I have been reading this list to get an idea where Declan gets some >of his lunatic ideas and what Rich Graves says when he is not up to >Holocaust fetishism. Despite Timothy's claim to the contrary, it seems >that the basic point of this list is some libertarian notion that tax >evasion is a good thing. Well, actually it's on a lot of other things also, including ones that those against censorship (I assume you're on the fight-censorship list, and thus encountered both Declan and Rich?) should favor. Examples include anonymous remailers and web pages (the deceanse (sp) project). Moreover, anonymous digital cash has applications to fighting censorship. Applications include paying someone to remail information or to put it on the web. c2.org, for instance, accepts even the present semi-anonymous digital cash and offers anonymous web page hosting. >While I am not clear how serious of threat, if one at all, to a system of >fair taxiation, That depends on how one defines "fair." >since much of the talk could be simply bluff, I have been made glad for the >first time for the War on Drugs. This silly war--tragic in terms of its >economic cost and its assault on liberty--at least has forces some >government agencies to take you seriously enough to figure out how to derail >your plans of tax evasion. Most of the tracking and other mechanisms discussed are even more of a threat to liberty - most significantly privacy, although there are other ones involved as well - and, indeed, to economic efficiency. A lot of the proposed and/or instituted regulations can also be used to discourage various politically unpopular but economically efficient operations; an example is "capital flight." In other words, unless you really want to live under a set of laws as restrictive as those in Communist China, support the cypherpunks. -Allen

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Re: OS/2 encryption utilities
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I thought the following from CuDigest should serve to illustrate some of the discussion recently on this subject. -Allen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Computer underground Digest Sun Apr 21, 1996 Volume 8 : Issue 32 [...] Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 10:50:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doc_Holliday(a)AWWWSOME.COM(M. Steven McClanahan) Subject: File 3--Canadian "criminalization of technology" [...] Speaking as one who had a Power Macintosh with a 2 gigabyte hard disk drive and all my backups subpeonaed in a civil case, I can tell you that the other side is not likely to want or accept your help in determining what is on your mass storage devices and/or in learning how your systems work. I had to stand by while the attorney corrupted all the data on my hard drive trying to beat my PGP encryption. Then he did the same thing to my back ups. Despite my protests I would have GIVEN them the key to decrypt the data - he didn't trust me. This is in a CIVIL case, imagine how they would feel in a CRIMINAL matter. They spent days trying to get past PGP and could not. Even if they had, all they would have gotten was copies of email between my wife and I. The downside was it took me two weeks to reconstruct my hard drive, time which the courts refused to order the attorney that started all this to pay me for. (They did sanction him after he threatened to punch me during a deposition for refusing to reveal my sources - which were protected by attorney-client privilege - which I thought was interesting; apparently he could waste all my time, but he couldn't hit me.) The court decided my data had no value and that having to rebuild my hard drive was a "minor inconveneince" compared to the "interests of justice." Since it is a no win situation, extending cooperation is problematic. It probably won't do any good. My experience told me most people in law enforcement have not advanced, technologically, past the level of an Atari 2600 and are completely baffled by complex systems. Based on what they did with a Mac system, I doubt they would even be able to access anything now that I use a SPARCstation 4. An attitude seems to have developed in the prosecution of computer crime that "the ends justifies the means." As the voters have gone along like sheep and surrendered many civil rights in the prosecution of drug related crimes, they are similarly doing in the prosecution of computer crimes having to do with the Internet and claims of "child porn." This is extremely dangerous as. If you look long and hard enough on any system,and systems accessible to it, you can, eventually, find something that will offend someone. Therefore, applying the rule that "the ends justifies the means," everyone who connects to a computer network is thereby "criminalized." The frigthening part is that, whether or not the innocent victim is doing anything illegal, the reams of good press such actions bring for prosecutors and police just encourages them. After it is all through and nothing illegal is found, law enforcement still looks good in the press, (because the public has been whipped up into such a frenzy they preceive any action as "good"). The victims of such harassment are always "guilty" in the eyes of the public, simply because the government took any action.

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Clyink Encryption Units
by creal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cylink STX-2400X Voice/Data Encryption Units - Easy hook-up to phone (4-pin modular plug) - 198 bit key - Clear/Secure voice/data - keyed lock - SEEK key exchange or manual key loading - User's manual - ac power supplys These are the same as the STX 9600X currently sold by Cylink at $3000/unit except the data transfer rate is 2400 bps instead of 9600 bps. Good voice recovery. Like new condition. Asking $450.

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Re: Gov. archives - NSA (fwd)
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

New ideas about where the "totally new russian crypto" proffered by "mailsafe" might come from: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 12:13:22 -0500 From: Brian Durham <bdurham(a)metronet.com> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: Gov. archives - NSA http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ Interesting information about Soviet one-time pad ciphers and about crypto-related documents from the WW2 era that are being declassified.

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