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LInteger Version 0.1: A C++ MPILIB
by janke＠unixg.ubc.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- LInteger is a C++ library designed to allow programmers to create and perform arithmetic on objects representing nearly arbitrary precision integers. Thanks to C++'s support for operator overloading, the use of the large integers in this library should be nearly as easy as the use of regular int's. In fact, much code which performs arithmetic on regular int's can be converted to code to perform the same arithmetic on arbitrary precision integers merely by substituting "LInteger" for "int". This library is free for both commercial and non-commercial use. (See the COPYRIGHT notice included in the source distribution for exact details.) The current version of this library is only implemented for i386+ processors, and will, probably, only compile unhacked under gcc. Additionally, it has only been tested on the Linux operating system, though I am fairly confident that it will compile, unhacked, under the OS/2 and Windows versions of gcc. (Please let me know if you get it to work!) The basic multiprecision methods are implemented in i386+ assembly language for high speed. Multiplication is performed recursively resulting in O(lg 3) performance. Modular multiplication can be performed via Montgomery representations for a noticeable performance gain when a large number of these modular multiplications are performed. HTML documentaion for all public methods is included. There is currently no pseudo-random or probable prime number generation included. These are my highest priorities for the next release which will, hopefully, come out shortly after I read Rabin-Miller. :) A link to the latest version of this library can be found at http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/janke/linteger/index.html Once you have the file linteger-v0.1.tar.gz, uncompress and untar it with tar -zxvf linteger-v0.1.tar.gz. Next, cd to the newly created directory linteger-v0.1 and read the file README for details on how to proceed. The message digests for linteger-v0.1.tar.gz are MD5: B518B338D59A8376095B9CAD74EA2E16 SHA: 445D8D1555DC18AB0DF47B9B0381F0B07D4CB644 HAVAL: 53774BA2BF60116DF9F0F476913252188DFD9D3828D19B6795BC14C19EFA7FEE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMitSJR6H/su8/YEZAQH3lwQAsBpNY0rEW1U5vq5hkxdnqxgk1ZZtSV3K 5gTlYu7Z3OAqsqC62Qi7LlkI2dzhrNWYr/G+OXdFfCaHfBcNlePgHsj6xF4oCy3U iGy9yiCxP7Xs4xb8CjHYkW7S/HfVwyiY2AMxGJ/YfFzvi1MJTIT2A8z4Par5qwWe XuG7XztGzAI= =wq2q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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The most ridiculous SPAM in my lifetime
by geek＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is the American reincarnation of Ostap Bender. Next spam from him will be about interplanetary chess congress, no less I am sure. Here's what his Web page says (excerpt): IRS> The Internet Registration Service Has Created An On-Line Service That IRS> Will Simultaneously Register Your Web Site With The Top 400 Internet IRS> Directories And Search Engines Operating On The Internet. IRS> IRS> The Proper Registration Of Your Web Site In These Directories And Search IRS> Engines Will Insure You That When Your Potential Customers Perform A IRS> "Net Search," Your Web Site Will Be Included In The "Search Results," And IRS> Your Web Site Will Become A Selection For Anyone Searching The Internet IRS> For The Products Or Services Your Company Sells. IRS> IRS> To Compete In This Fast Paced "Information Age" You Must Secure Your IRS> Place In As Many Of These Directories And Search Engines As Possible... If IRS> You Do Not... The Competition Will Simply Pass You By. IRS> IRS> In Order For You To Complete Your Internet Registration, All You Need To IRS> Do Is Complete The On-Line Registration Forms On The Following Pages IRS> And Submit Them To Our Offices Along With Your Registration Fee Of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ IRS> $395. You Can Pay Your Registration Fee By Credit Card, Or By Company ^^^^^^^ IRS> Check. If You Are Paying By Check, Please Make Your Check Payable To: IRS> Internet Registration Service. And Mail It To: >From nking(a)pvnet.com.mx Mon Sep 2 22:13:17 1996 Return-Path: nking(a)pvnet.com.mx Received: from galaxy.galstar.com (ichudov(a)galaxy.galstar.com [204.251.80.2]) by manifold.algebra.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id WAA13038 for <geek(a)algebra.com>; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:13:15 -0500 Received: from neptuno.pvnet.com.mx ([200.23.229.18]) by galaxy.galstar.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA07844 for <geek(a)algebra.com>; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:00:37 -0500 Received: from nking.pvnet.com.mx ([200.23.229.43]) by neptuno.pvnet.com.mx (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA27361 for <geek(a)algebra.com>; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 21:59:40 -0500 Message-ID: <322B57BF.704(a)pvnet.com.mx> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 21:55:11 +0000 From: NORMAN KING <nking(a)pvnet.com.mx> Reply-To: nking(a)pvnet.com.mx Organization: Internet Registration Committee X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geek(a)algebra.com Subject: IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!! Dear Sirs, It Has Recently Come To The Attention Of The Internet Registration Committee That Your Web-Site Has Not Been Properly Registered On The Internet Or On The World Wide Web. This Could Result In Your Potential Customers Being Unable To Locate You Or Find Your Web-Site On The World Wide Web. Proper Web-Site Registration On The Internet Is Required In Order For Your Web-Site To Be Successful. There Are Currently More Than 400 Hundred Internet Directories And Search Engines Operating On The Internet. It Will Be Necessary For You To Register Your Web-Site With The Majority Of These Directories And Search Engines In Order For Your Web-Site To Become Easily Located By Your Potential Customers. If You Do Not Become Registered With A Large Number Of These Internet Directories, Your Web Site Could Become Impossible For Your Customers To Locate, Your Web-Site Will Become Inaccessable, Therefore Becoming Dormant, Unprofitable And Inactive. In Order To Resolve This Situation, We Urge You To Contact Our Web-Site Registration Service At The Internet Address Below By Clicking Your Mouse On This Link: http://adgrafix.com/mail/irs.html It Is Imperative That This Situation Be Resolved Immediately! We Hope That We Can Help You To Resolve Your Registration Problem As Soon As Possible. Thank-You, Sincerely, NORMAN KING - Administrator Internet Registration Service

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Passive Trojan (was:Re: HAZ-MAT virus)
by Paul S. Penrod 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This has been done in the past using several vairants (but not in a image program). The key to the success is that the application in question has to be compromised to respond to these codes, either by design or by hacking. Either way the individual responsible must modify the execution mechanism, not just the data itself. Let's see -current examples of computing items with this kind of a "feature"... magic cookies, macros, OLE, DDE, MS Objects, JAVA, and the list keeps growing. On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Jason Wong wrote: > > Actually , THINK about it, it does makes a interesting idea for a trojan > horse doesn't it ? I mean, just get a solid graphic program, insert codes > into it so that when certain conditions, i.e. a particular gif or jpg file > is view, print, etc, the trojan activates !! > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Jason Wong (CNE, MCP) Jason(a)MCSB.COM.SG > Network Engineer > MCSB Systems Pte Ltd > ___________________________________________________________________________ > >

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Re: SCO giving free licenses to UNIX OpenServer
by David E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: hallam(a)ai.mit.edu, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Mon Sep 02 23:01:35 1996 > > > > I doubt it. People don't use Microsoft products because > > of their quality or functionality. > > Errmm.. hate to disappoint but SCO UNIX started life as Xenix which > was written by Microsoft in the dark ages. > Concur. Microsoft products are used not necessarily because of quality or functionality (which are often dubious, but very occasionally present), but because of user interface and/or market share. > Today Linux probably represents the future of the UNIX familly, it > allows people who want to hack at the OS level access to the sources > of a fully functioning OS. This allows people to add in new kernel > features, schedulers and other exotica without having to write a > whole new O/S. I still like FreeBSD. Similar functionality, similar availability- of-source, but very slightly easier to install/run/manage/play with. Similarly free. (FreeBSD was able to find my modem, something I couldn't get Linux to do after most of an hour. Of course I'm a *nix novice for the most part.) > Just don't confuse it with "home computing", this is geek computing > and you better have a lot of interest in computing to use it. Home > computing is the market for users who need a system thats simpler > than a VCR or they can't use it. At one time that meant Apple, today > it means Microsoft, it will never mean Linux - not unless someone > can make Linux much much simpler than it is at present and provide > decent WISIWIG tools such as editors etc. designed for use by aunt > Ethel. I'm not sure about that... X-Windows seems to have a decent interface, runs on Linux, hell, most any *nix you care to name, and has some decent editors available. (Or, there's always emacs, but aunt Ethel might not grok emacs too well. I don't :) - ----- David E. Smith, P O Box 324, Cape Girardeau MO USA 63702 dsmith(a)prairienet.org http://www.prairienet.org/~dsmith send mail with subject of "send pgp-key" for my PGP public key "Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your country did to you" -- KMFDM, "Dogma" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMiutozVTwUKWHSsJAQEdCgf+OM8tpEbJh/FonjORnFwe9lo2t+my8eD7 +oM7Gv/WMPekDhvxxolzqGSvgUAJL1sgbwKdray5fHFCwOtK1ogQJrN4qrXKQH5e IXlC+G91i5BUq98MmzsEngZ3Akz2YciY/U4zyEJSXUNigAFgGcuXhZ1Bw+HT3hLt x27h45wWxHWfUJR8EUgOiUDG41rTW3eSLN0Pf/cSyvMTE3c+ub+59SMYJzCO+DnK MjNfhKvFLVNPUGJYNfLGt3OzwJFaCLnuDKLI78R0W+MsCqSA02o4Mq8GRul78Dfi jgBNJEsP8JdZnQTheRCwR4cgwIHc/Csmu+Ab5UN8h5L7VV1u2YFfkA== =PgX+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Modem tax again?
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Yes, isn't it interesting how they managed to turn this issue into their desire to "end a subsidy," when you know they would be terrified of REALLY ending the various telephone subsidies that are operating. For years, businesses have paid more for telephone service than residences. While this might have made sense in the era before digital switches, it does no longer. Also, the claim that "Internet users are overtaxing phone networks and ought to pay more for monthly service" isn't believable. In my experience, the time between 9:30 pm and 11:00 pm is the only time which usually produces busy signals to my ISP, a time which is when, traditionally, telephone traffic is quite light as compared to peak hours. I'd be happy to compare the "usage-factor versus time" of ISP's versus regular voice calls if I had the numbers, but I suspect that calls to local ISP's complement voice traffic rather than add to its peaks. At 01:40 PM 9/2/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: > As I recall, the alleged "subsidy" consists of lack of payments so >rural areas can have subsidized phone service - thus making their costs borne >by everyone else. > -Allen > >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Avis >> _________________________________________________________________ >> INTERNET IS HURTING PHONE NETWORKS, STUDY SAYS >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net >> Copyright &copy 1996 San Francisco Examiner > >> SAN FRANCISCO (Aug 27, 1996 3:11 p.m. EDT) -- Hoping to reduce or end >> a subsidy that has kept down the cost of on-line service, local phone >> companies here have presented the Federal Communications Commission >> with studies arguing that Internet users are overtaxing phone networks >> and ought to pay more for monthly service. > >> The studies, one of which was published on the Internet, argue that a >> 13-year-old subsidy lets Internet service providers (ISPs) pay a >> fraction of what a long distance company pays to get a phone line, >> even though Internet calls may use more phone system capacity than >> voice traffic. > >[...] > >> For their part, ISPs are alarmed at the remote possibility that the >> FCC might let phone companies raise their monthly costs from the >> current monthly average of $30 to anything approaching the $600 that >> some long distance carriers pay for a phone line. > >> "If we had to pay anything like long distance access charges, it would >> put all the ISPs out of business," said Ronald Plesser, the >> Washington, D.C., attorney who represents the Commercial Internet >> Exchange, an ISP trade group. > >> FCC staff attorney Kevin Werbach said the subsidy began in 1983, when >> the five-member federal commission created a special rate to encourage >> the growth of on-line services, voicemail companies and other emerging >> industries that offered enhanced electronic services over phone lines. > >> In 1987, the FCC considered ending the subsidy but backed down after >> public protest over what came to be characterized as the "modem tax." >> Given the growth in on-line usage, ISPs assume any talk of ending the >> subsidy would create a bigger backlash today. > >> "There are a minimum of 20 million and perhaps as many as 40 million >> on-line and Internet users and many of them are registered voters," >> said William Schrader, president of PSI Net, an ISP in Herndon, Va. > >> Schrader said when he visited several FCC members recently, he >> suggested that many of those users would be happy to send a letter of >> protest to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. > >[...] > >> Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net > > Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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[NOISE] The Doors
by Vipul Ved Prakash 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Doors was not only about freedom and love, but about crypto too! Notice these lines from the song "Five to One" Old [cipher] gets old and young get stronger May take a week baby, may take longer [to crack] they've [clinton] got the guns and we've got the numbers gonna win we will take 'em over, com'on. :) - Vipul -- Vipul Ved Prakash | - Electronic Security & Crypto vipul(a)pobox.com | - Internet & Intranets 91 11 2247802 | - Web Development & PERL 198 Madhuban IP Extension | - Linux & Open Systems Delhi, INDIA 110 092 | - (Networked) Multimedia

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Re: What is the EFF doing exactly?
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Black Unicorn <unicorn(a)schloss.li> wrote: >> > > What is or is not your personal or EFF's official position is meaningless. >> > > It is clear that the personal beliefs of those involved in EFF are >> > > those of compromise, present day politics, and a general lack of moral >> > > fiber. While nobody's called Esther Dyson a Communist here yet, there are people on the board I disagree with - Mitch Kapor, in particular, has shown signs of being a (gasp!) Democrat! My initial reaction to the EFF's first year or two was that they were doing some very good things (the Steve Jackson defense), and also had people making speeches about the need to provide everybody with access to the Information SuperHighway. Getting the S.266 anti-crypto-pro-wiretapping bill killed a few years ago was what convinced me to join them, though their compromise positions on some of the other anti-freedom bills since then have not helped my mixed views of the organization. With all due respect to Jerry Berman, I'm more comfortable now that they're not Washington Insiders any more. >Why am I any more mistaken for pointing out that a single influential >member of EFF's staff or board is anti-anonymity and yet remains with the >organization than you are for pointing out that a single influential >member who happened to be anti-anonymity has left? .... >Maybe there should be an EFF position on the matter. Maybe. If it's a good position, it will recognize that anonymity is a mixed blessing; there are people who use it creatively and responsibly, like Black Unicorn and Lucky Green, and there are spammers who abuse it to the detriment of society, like the slimeball who used my remailer to post hatemail to the gay newsgroups with somebody else's name attached to the bottom. On the other hand, free speech is also a mixed blessing; there _are_ things I wish people had the good taste not to say, but I'm not going to get in Voltaire's way while he defends to the death their right to say them... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> # You can get PGP software outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto

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This on gets in, anytime, anywhere
by 1Lqz6S4j2＠hjdyfu88.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We've seen them all come and go: Stealth, Rapid Fire, Express Mail, Desktop, Net Contact, Mach 10, Email Platinum and the list goes on and on. They work for a while and then they stop working. Oh you can still get a small percentage of your mail delivered to some place but it is hardly worth the trouble. Well here's one that's been around quite a while working the whole way through, never stopped getting in anywhere. It's called Mail Pusher.Mail Pusher reminds me of the old days you know when CD ROM addresses worked. How Does Mail Pusher work? Think of it as a super randomizer - It randomizes four fields: User Name, Domain Name from a list of domains you input, Subject Header from a list of subject headers you create, and message ID #. This is more randomizers than any other program has. It gets in - Anyplace - Anytime, 100%. What Else does it do: Server Speedometer - It has a gauge to test server names and even has a speedometer to tell you how fast the server is functioning at the time. Auto Reconnect - If you lose your internet dial in connection the program will automatically dial back in for you and it freezes the program where it left off until it gets online again and then resumes sending from where it left off. If you lose a mail server connection it will also reconnect and resume from where it left off. You can actually leave the computer running unattended and then come back later knowing your mail would go out just as if you sat there and watched it all night long. Changes While Sending - You can add servers, drop servers, stop some or all servers freezing the sending of the list in a way that allows the software to begin from where it stopped at the click of the mouse. Full Screen Notepad - Write your messages using a full size screen. There are even more features than this. We even have a functioning demo that let's you send a few thousand pieces of mail. The Cost - $395 The alternative - Forget about getting your mail in. What to do next: Call: 1 (800) 942-7913 Leave your name and number and we will promptly call you back. If you want a demo leave in addition to your name and phone an email address. We do have dealer Opportunities Available. To be a dealer one must first purchase a registered copy of Mail Pusher at retail. All dealers do their own support.

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Undeliverable Message
by MAILER-DAEMON＠mqg-smtp3.usmc.mil 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Cypherpunk Mailboxes? Message not delivered to recipients below. Press F1 for help with VNM error codes. VNM3043: BANYAN SERVER@MAG26@2DMAW NEW RIVER VNM3043 -- MAILBOX IS FULL The message cannot be delivered because the recipient's mailbox contains the maximum number of messages, as set by the system administrator. The recipient must delete some messages before any other messages can be delivered. The maximum message limit for a user's mailbox is 10,000. The default message limit is 1000 messages. Administrators can set message limits using the Mailbox Settings function available in the Manage User menu (MUSER). When a user's mailbox reaches the limit, the user must delete some of the messages before the mailbox can accept any more incoming messages. UNDEFINED-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, The Deviant wrote: > Hrmm.. perhaps there's a better way... > such as having the user and the mail server negoiae a key (i don't really > know the details of diffie-hellman or he like, so tell me if this isn't > feasable), and have the encryption/decypion routines strip addresses, > so that the person is only identifiable by their key... The mail server still has to send packets to the user. A packet sniffer might not be able to find out the actual contents of the transmission, but it would be able to find out the host that has made the connection. If this is combined with the knowledge of the times that certain user's mailboxes get cleared out, it would be possible to find out which nyms belong to which people. The current nym servers that automatically forward mail do not have this problem. - -- Mark PGP encrypted mail prefered. Key fingerprint = d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMituHCzIPc7jvyFpAQFXSQf9FS30slaO7LDllILC+eEdk/7aBAy312MY esRgbc2EUI7W1WBsujrCznLrbzki0MZ58djDxAmIlz2+YzmQFAMpCx1YGaEkTLIt o4//O6KnAkXde1no+WJXuNry3gzXUDgrUG3S8s3HCDsPfmu1x25J/M8nrL9ijx42 Jd2q9Z/wdAZxIFuUUoZotbUDIwXkHk17l+rNVUL5Pt4ukVd2M85wDp6EpWRCWsQP Xjgwp8FdYd8m/tqxjIygyog5tfsV3qD4ve8Wl7E0MaWkqPyvzb843G0VXSKfI0iH fE1WaHmqvF+VwPU/I2BXnjMjWK4xOW/pKk3llQFSEj8frFGjtqn1ag== =3Phf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: DON'T Nuke Singapore Back into the Stone Age
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 2 Sep 96 at 11:46, Enzo Michelangeli wrote: > On Sun, 1 Sep 1996 ichudov(a)algebra.com wrote: > > James Seng wrote: > > > To understand the sitution better, you should not impose America > > > idealogy and perspection on how things to be done to Singapore. > > > Singapore maybe young but there are certain culture too. I agree with that. I should therefore cease, as much as possible, to interact with them by stopping to buy anything made in Singapore. Then, let them starve, fed by their highers cultural ideas. > > > Most importantly, the move to censor certain WWW site actually > > > comes as a relieve to many people, especially parents who > > > worried about the bad influence of it. We can go into the same > > > discussion about whose responsibilty it is but before you do > > > that, please bear in mind that this is Singapore. At whose moral expanse? > Of course, one may argue that the racial, social and religious > relations are better handled the American way. That, however, is a > controversial issue, and adopting confrontational cowboy attitudes > is not going to make the social evolution any faster. Who talks of social evolution? We only talk about civil liberties. And they are damn easy to implement: Leave your neighbor do what he pleases. Mind your own business. > IMHO, the present measures represent more a gesture of appeasement > to concerned social conservatives, not differently from the CDA in > the US, than an attempt to control the flow of information. This whole paragraph is a fine example of appeasement. And the CDA *is* an attempt to control the flow, not of information, but of ideas. jfa DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee; Limoges porcelain, silverware and crystal JFA Technologies, R&D consultants: physicists, technologists and engineers. PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891

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