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Re: MSIE 128 Bit
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM (dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com) wrote: : Steve Shelby <sshelby(a)feist.com> writes: : > : > Microsoft has a 128 bit version of their Explorer available. : > : > You have to jump through a few hoops, but they have it. : How about maiking available on a European mirror site with no questions asked? ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/pub/incoming/0-microsoft/ has one 128 bit version. -- Alex de Joode http://www.replay.com/people/adejoode I have a linux emulator for Win95: it's called "loadlin" ... *g*

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Re: Crypto Bounties: Another Thought that crossed my mind.
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Eric Hughes gave a two-part presentation at DEFCON IV, which he has subsequently polished up, that addresses: 1. ways to implement a Universal Priacy System that enables simple and anonymous data hiding using the existing Net facilites, and 2. a system of intellectual property distribution and funding which is based more closely on models used in Hollywood (e.g., completion bonds). Eric, what's the status of your proposal? -- Steve >Here we go again: > > There are is a lot of software that we would all like to see >developed and deployed right? > > There are a lot of people out there who write code, sometimes >even freely redistributable code, but they have to eat, and get their >net access right? > > Well, I was thinking, what if a "Crypto Software Bounty Server" >were set up, so that someone could propose a tool that they would like >to see, along with an initial bounty. Others could contribute toward that >bounty (anonymously if they wish) until either the tool was delivered. > > The original issuer sets standards for the software (i.e. "easy to >use interface to mixmaster remailers for Macintosh", then must define >easy to use; Software considered delivered when in [alpha beta late-beta >&etc.]). The first to present software meeting these qualifications gets >the bounty, with the caviate that the software must be either gnu-copylefted, >or some similar "free use" copyright, after all, "The Net" paid for it... > > Some of the problems (and potential solutions) I can think of in this: > > 1) Refusing to honor the contract--Maybe when a project is proposed, > some other people (for a small percentage of the total) sign on > as judges. When they feel that it reached the stated goal, then > it is done. -Or- Money put up is non-refundable, and the bounty > stays in the "bank" until claimed. > > 2) If the money stays in the bank until claimed, people might not > put up that much (or enough) to make a specific project worthwile-- > > This could be solved by allowing the "bounty" to lapse in one > of 3 ways: > > A) <x> length of time after the initial proposal (bad because > i) someone could already be working on it; ii) bad because > other people might add to the bounty, so a potential programmer > might not start until the "pot" has grown to a certain level. > > B) <x> length of time after the last addition to the bounty, > bad for both i & ii above. > > These can both be gotten around (and other problems) by allowing > programmers to "register" with the service that they are working > on a project (either anonymous registery, so that people will > still contribute to the project, or list those registered so > that people know [if who] someone is working on it) > > 3) Funding: The server (in both the machine and the organizational sense) > could be funded by: > > A) Interest on the money accumulated. > > B) A percentage of the bounty (say 10%) > > C) Both A & B. > >Has anything like this been proposed before? I know that the FSF (IIRC) accepts >contributions, but I am thinking of something more targeted, more "market >driven" if you will. > >This could be expanded to non-crypto software as well, just think, if half >the X Window users ponied up $5 a peice for a "good, easy to use non-motif >word processor", how long do you think it would take for someone to start >coding a MS Word killer? > >Comments? > > >Petro, Christopher C. >petro(a)suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> >snow(a)smoke.suba.com

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ALERT! 123,000 announced job cuts
by John Jackson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Please take me off the list
by Tom Van de Wiele 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sir Please take me off the list. Thanks Tom Van de Wiele -- tomvdw(a)glo.be

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Unsubscriving Briefly
by mpd＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm unsubscriving from the list for a few days (weeks?) until the noise level drops down a bit. I'll check it periodically on the Web and I'm pretty sure that if something happens that shakes the world of cryptography to its very foundations, someone will probably send me some email about it. Please continue to party while I am away. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd(a)netcom.com $ via Finger. $

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Re: [NOISE] aga isn't on cypherpunks... (and I'm glad)
by Sven 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> I have a suggestion... How 'bout if everybody on this list dropped >> a procmail configuration that mailed aga(a)dhp.com and postmaster(a)dhp.com >> a copy of every message that originated from aga(a)dhp.com? Do you think >> he would start to "get it" then? Why are these people so uptight? Sven MOSER016.JPG |__ |--> SVEN: a.k.a. Chris Blanc Internet consulting/Web design [ http://www.loop.com/~sven/ ] Some only sample the dark wine of life's blood...

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Experience Microsoft Site Builder Workshop Live!
by ! Drive 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Microsoft Site Builder Workshop Live! ( apprx 2.5 hours ) via Real Audio at http://ww3.audionet.com/events/microsoft/ what you need: The RealAudio Player At least a 28.8Kbps connection to the Internet A screen resolution size of 800 x 600 pixels :: Archived On November 13th From The INFOMART In Dallas, TX

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Re: Computer CPU chips with built-in crypto?
by Hal Finney 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Martin Minow <minow(a)apple.com> > I'm not sure if I can answer this but, at last week's SF cypherpunks > meeting, an Intel engineer asked whether there might be any interest > in a computer chip with some sort of encryption mechanism built > into the chip. As I understand it, this chip would process an > encrypted instruction stream. I.e., it could not execute a program > unless the "key" for that program was first loaded into the chip. > > An interesting idea: does anyone have more information? This sounds like something which might be used in a set-top-box or "information appliance" application where pay-per-use programs would be loaded from a CDROM or network connection. People have been dreaming about pay per use software for many years. It is a similar idea to the "mini application" concept which would replace the monolithic super-apps, the Microsoft Words and the giant do-everything web-browsers/newsreaders/mail-clients, with small, single function utilities. This is part of the idea behind Apple's OpenDoc and Microsoft's OLE. In the same way, instead of buying a big program for hundreds of dollars, you'd just download and use the functionality you needed for a small fee. Yet in practice it is not clear whether either of these trends will have any market success. Monolithic applications seem to be doing very well, with more integration being the trend, not less. And the whole idea of introducing metering to a market which is used to paying just once for access is one which is bound to meet resistance. Look at AOL which is going to single-charge unlimited access to the net. So in both cases the trend looks to be going in the opposite direction. Another possible application for the built in encryption is software piracy protection. You'd unlock software for your CPU but it would not run on anybody else's without a different key code. Here again there is not much benefit to the end user, unless software prices come down dramatically when this device is used. But otherwise the computer manufacturers are selling computers which have features which will limit the powers of the buyers, and having to sell them more expensively to boot because of the special chip. In these days of razor thin profit margins in the PC business it is hard to see how this will sell. Hal

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[NOISE] Want to know about this "aga" character? Read the Grubor FAQ!
by Alan Bostick 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In case you aren't clued in enough to know, "aga(a)dhp.com" is none other than John Grubor, well-known Usenet Kook Of The Month winner for November, 1995. He *cannot* be reasoned with. Don't even try. He makes Dimitri Vulis appear sane, calm, and rational. Read the Grubor FAQ, http://kendaco.telebyte.com/dharland/Grubor.FAQ.html for more details. Alan "pseudonum of the LYING FORGER PETER VOROBIEFF!!!!1!" Bostick -- Alan Bostick | You know those chemicals women have in them, | when they've got PMS? Well, men have those very mailto:abostick@netcom.com | same chemicals in them *all the time*. news:alt.grelb | Margaret Atwood, THE ROBBER BRIDE http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~abostick

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You ought to REALLY look at this...
by George A. Stathis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ladies and Gentlemen, I hereby quote a rather remarkable letter, which I pass on to whom it may concern. I consider it an _honour_ to have received such a letter, even though the material expressed in the letter is a serious assault on the entire Western Value System, and possibly Civilisation itself, no joke. At first I did not believe such a *terrorist* letter could have EVER been written. And I could never believe myself to be the recipient of it either. But now I strongly recommend you read it carefully and think about it... For your OWN benefit, I believe more than mine... With thanks for your attention George A. Stathis P.S. If you take a deep breath, see my (amusing?) comments in the end. :) >Hops: 0 >Posted-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 20:13:15 -0200 (GMT) >X-Sender: tcmay(a)mail.got.net >Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 10:18:36 -0800 >To: "George A. Stathis" <hyperlex(a)hol.gr> >From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay(a)got.net> >Subject: Stathis on "Don't Hire" List >Content-Length: 1426 > >At 9:00 AM -0200 11/17/96, George A. Stathis wrote: > >>It is not ethical to send such strong negative _injunctions_ to masses >>of people and also to strangers (the 1900-strong members of the cyberphunks >>list for instance). Because, you may or may not have strong reasons for >>believing you are justified in such invalidation, but more than a 1000 >>people are now _told_ by (self-appointed) "experts" such as yourself what >>and whom to ignore or to believe. (Like sheep led to the slaughter)... > >"Not ethical"? > >But we will do it anyway. Moreover, some of us maintain lists of "Do Not >Hire" persons. Few high tech or Silicon Valley software companies will hire >such folks. > >Congratulations, Stathis, as you are now on such a list. > > > >"The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM >that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology." >[NYT, 1996-10-02] >We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I 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, >Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. >"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." Comments? (1) Well, first of all, Tim May is doing a disservice to the companies who use his services. They will end up hiring only morons and controllable relics of human creativity; Which is why there a WORLD-SHORTAGE of SUPER- PROGRAMMERS at the moment, as reported e.g. by Byte-magazine. (2) If I were a _clever_ American employer, I'd use Tim's 'black list', in order to HIRE precisely those people whom he considers 'unemployable'... (3) Now I don't want to boast about who I am, but it's strangely ironical that I _am_ one such "Super-Programmer" (fluent in PROLOG. Assembly, 'C' and also... English -a computer-lingo as it happens). In the eighties I was also a painter (of pictures, not walls), and other things... As a 'New Age' kind of person, I used to admire America for rewarding and promoting human _talent_, as opposed to human mediocrity, subservience (the "Yes-Man" attitude), and Evil in the Soul. (as often happened in old-whore Europe; especially in Greece)... :-) Nowadays, however, when 'people' like Tim May, are able to dictate to your admirable High-Technology firms, *what* kind of people to hire and what not to hire, I can see... very gloomy prospects for American Research, _if_ this type of monstrocity (as his letter) is prevails for too long... :-) Originally, lists of "unemployable" people, which I had heard of, crossed my mind as 'probably justified'. As an EMPLOYER MYSELF, with a small but strong software-house, here in Athens, with at least one important Market Success, I do have some experience, you know, of what kind of people *are* and what kind of people are *not* 'employable'. I once knew a very good but very egotistic Assembly Language programmer. When he stopped working with me he stole large sections of my source-code. As a result, I find it hard to trust 'employees' ever since... (4) I would therefore request a list of 'unemployable' people in order to choose possible collaborators, in my work. They should be highly proficient in PROLOG code, as well as ASSEMBLY and 'C', and should also be sociable, witty and independent-minded. Clashing with personalities like Tim May's may be considered an added advantage. (5) Just for the record, I spoke on the phone with an important partner, told him what happened, and was told by him that Tim May's letter is the kind of scum-fascism no serious European Company would ever give credit to... However, Tim's letter appears not so much to address me personally, as much as the hordes of gullible, insecure, employment-hungry young Americans, who are often _terrorised_ into complete SILENCE, since the _slightest_ amount of free speech in their own natural (or Net-) surroundings, causes Fascist PUnk-Thugs like TIm May to threaten them with unemployability. Although Tim May's letter in itself constitutes terroristic harrasment, threat to libery (via threat of unemployability), and so on, I consider these labels to be irrelevant in this case, and legal arguments highly irrelevant. When Nazi Germany deported Einstein it took much less elaborate procedures than flawed 'unemployability lists'. Perhaps hiring Mafia men to finish us off would be a much more efficient tactic in this respect. :-) With Dismay, but also... Inspiration :-) Geore A. Stathis P.S. I also cross-posted this DELIBERATELY, this time to the cypherpunks list, in order to give more COURAGE to those poor list-members whose standard of living suffers the terror and threat of Unemployment, just in case they know who is responsible for their future sufferings.

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