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Practical Solutions at USENIX SECURITY Symposium
by Cynthia Deno 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The 6th USENIX Security Symposium - Focusing on Applications of Cryptography - is coming to San Jose. You may want to attend. July 22-July 25, 1996 6TH USENIX SECURITY SYMPOSIUM Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California Sponsored by the USENIX Association Co-sponsored by UniForum in cooperation with the Computer Emergency Response Team There will be refereed papers, panel presentations, invited talks, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, and an informal Vendor Display. The symposium is offering two days of tutorials. Tutorial speakers include Ed DeHard, CERT; Dan Geer, Open Market; Jon Rochlis, BBN Planet; Marcus Ranum, V-One; Matt Bishop, UC Davis; and Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Systems. Practical solutions to UNIX security will be dissected, debated, and refined. New research on public key issues, electronic commerce, safe working areas, and secure communication. There will also be sessions on the latest version of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), Internet Firewalls, and the C2Net Privacy model. Tutorial topics include: Implementing Cryptography; World Wide Web and Internet Security; Comparison of UNIX Security Tools; and Security for Software Developers. UniForum has organized a track especially for managers. It offers a comprehensive overview of computer security as it relates to open systems from a manager's perspective. The UniForum panel sessions cover: Security and Privacy; Electronic Commerce; Cryptography Infrastructure; and Cryptography and the Law. Admission is free and open to the public for the small, table-top Vendor Display taking place Wednesday July 24, Noon - 2:00 pm and 3:00 - 7:00 pm in the Fairmont Hotel. Call Cynthia Deno 408 335 9445. Complete program and registration information is available on the USENIX home page on the Web at http://www. usenix.orgemail or email to info(a)usenix.org (state "send security conference" in body of your message). /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/- | Cynthia Deno | USENIX | | Tel: 408 335 9445 | The UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems | | Fax: 408 335 5327 | Technical and Professional Association | | cynthia(a)USENIX.org | | | Check out USENIX on the Net..........http://www.USENIX.org | /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-

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Sternlight on C'punks
by David Lesher 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: maldrich(a)grci.com > (note that Sternlight actually had his OWN usenet newsgroup), there's the > fear that DS will start a flame thrower exchange with anyone, regardless > of topic. AND, he'll keep posting about it. Relentlessly. The solution to SternFUD infection is patience. Every single time, he gets bored & lonely after everyone kill-files him. Then he goes in remission [or maybe it's back to the SternFord Clinic...] for weeks; reappearing somewhere else. > God bless 'em, but it's time to add another line to the c'punks > net.loon warning file. Sure! But I'd not think that anyone here needed to be warned. Hell, even reporters know about him.... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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RE: (fwd) krypt13i.zip Enkryptonator: Homonymous key encryption system, R. Newton
by geeman＠shellx.best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

And all those fools like Diffie and Rivest, Shamir, Adelman, etc, well I guess they missed the boat big time by missing this, huh? Hint: misplaced commas, are always a tipoff to, uhhhhh ... less than stellar shall we say, intellectual bona fides. Boy I'm sure glad I don't have to remember those orney key anymore! : Enkryptonator is a newly developed encryption system based on the : principles of homonymous key cryptography invented by Enkryptonator Co. : Homonymous key systems are an exiciting, new breakthrough, that solve : the 'key management' problem without resorting to 'public key' : cryptography. No more unwieldy, impossible to remember, binary keys. : Enkryptonator is easy to use. Because of Enkryptonator's unique design : no one who intercepts your encryption in an unauthorized manner can : decrypt your file -- even if he knows the key of encryption! Everyone : has a right to privacy and Enkryptonator will provide you a means of : securing your personal and private concerns from unwanted intruders.

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Home Made Telephone Voice Changer
by Jerome Tan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am not sure if this area is right for asking information on how to make home made voice changer for telephones... If anyone know, please share. Thanks!

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Re: How I Would Ban Strong Crypto in the U.S.
by thad＠hammerhead.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I agree with Raph's analysis, that for something like RSA encryption to work, you need to have a strong public key infrastructure, and that the Gov't could probably build one that people would use; and that would destroy their privacy. My prediction, though, is that because Diffie-Hellmann loses its patent protection so soon, in just over a year now, that RSA, or any persistent-key system, will not tend to be used for e-mail, phone conversations, or other types of communication; for D-H, no infrastructure need be in place. Now, it's true that you can't use D-H for authentication, and that is a tremendous disadvantage. Still, you could use the established gov't PKI to do the authentication, and use D-H for the exchange of keys. thad -- Thaddeus Beier thad(a)hammerhead.com Visual Effects Supervisor 408) 286-3376 Hammerhead Productions http://www.got.net/~thad

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Re: #E-CASH: PRODUCT OR SERVICE?
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:48 AM 7/16/96 +0200, Steven Seyffert wrote: > >---------- >: From: bryce(a)digicash.com >: To: David G.W. Birch <daveb(a)hyperion.co.uk> >: Cc: Multiple recipients of <e$(a)thumper.vmeng.com>; cypherpunks(a)toad.com >: Subject: Re: #E-CASH: PRODUCT OR SERVICE? >: Date: maandag 15 juli 1996 15:36 > >: 4. Privacy. The privacy of Ecash(tm) payers is mathematically >: unconditional. >: >Just like the privacy of e-mail and the independance of the WWW once was. > Notice he says there's PAYER privacy. Payee privacy is possible, but not implemented by Digicash. Payee privacy is going to be a feature of a SUCCESSFUL digital cash system. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Chicago Area Cypherpunks Try 2.
by snow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ok, I'm an idiot. The first time I posted this I forgot that the machine that the account that the cypherpunks mail goes thru was going to die. In otherwords, Crash did. I recieved a total 5 responses to a suggestion of a cypherpunks meet, and this is what I sent them earlier : There were 5 respondents, not including erehwon(a)c2.org, but he is the one who first affirmed the idea in my head. There may have been more, but my account at crash.suba.com (infact the whole machine) went away shortly after I posted, so I may have missed some responces. I am going to post again, so if you got this you don't need to re-respond. If you didn't get this, please respond and tell me how you are reading it without getting it. Is there anyone else out there who might want to organize this thing? I don't mind doing it, but I tend to be a little authoritarian about these kinds of things. I arrange an almost monthly meeting for a bunch of freaks on Usenet, and it has been my experience that the best way of doing these things is simply to announce a time and a place and stick to it unless there is a _major_ event that causes a change. On the other group I have the meetings at my house, and my Wife's grand mother died. Immediate grounds for a change other reasons could be a major conference that I didn't know about etc. An individual being out of town is not a reason, at every random event there will be someone who would prefer a different day. The other thing to consider is where to hold the event. There are a couple of decent pubs/bars here in Chicago, or Coffee Houses. I would prefer not to hold the first one in my home, because I am paranoid. Anyway, a couple of the responses were from out of town, so I think it might be a good idea to do this on a weekend. _______________________________________________________________________ If you responded, and would like to be in on the discussion, please re-respond. Sorry for the inconvience and the lousy spelling. Petro, Christopher C. petro(a)suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow(a)smoke.suba.com

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Clueless "Attachment converted" uses
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Simon Spero wrote: > > On a very similar note - could people who are using clear-text PGP > signatures with mime use text/... instead of application/...; that way > people without pgp will see the message text without having to mess with > their mailcaps (that's the way text/* is supposed to work) I'd hate to turn this into "e-mail encryption"-punks, but I believe that clear-signed PGP messages should not have MIME types at all. Here's why: 1. All PGP-aware mail reading programs can recognize MIMEless PGP messages. Thus, adding the MIME type does not help. 2. For all mailers that are not PGP-aware, the best way to handle clearsigned messages is to cut-and-paste them to a PGP window. This is most easily done if the message is simply displayed as text. Thus, adding the MIME type does not help. 3. There _is_ a PGP/MIME standard, and these clearsigned PGP messages do not conform to it. ObPlug: premail, I believe, implements the correct policy. Some messages need to be in MIME format (e.g. pictures). These messages are encoded using the real PGP/MIME spec. Other messages do not. These are encoded using plain PGP, and no MIME gorp. There is a small bug in 0.44, by the way, that causes messages with tabs to be wrongly classified as needing MIME. Just my two cents. Raph

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Re: Global Government Access to Keys (GGAK)
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 15 Jul 96 at 8:53, Timothy C. May wrote: [..] > There are some interesting "public relations" stunts we can use to > undermine support for the concept of GAK: > > * Announce in corporate press releases (for some Cypherpunkish company?) > that "As per the laws of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, we have provided Col. > Qaddaffi's Office of People's Security with our encryption keys for all > communications passing into, out of, or over Libyan soil." Just replace it with the French government. They've already a reputation for abusing escrow. [..] > There are other aspects of GAK which also collide with basic values. For > example, consider several classes of communications we consider > "privileged": Supposedly 'exceptions' would be made for situations such as medical records, etc. What those exceptions are, and whether they are really more than superficial (ie, escrowed but larger keysize) exceptions is another question. > -- attorney-client discussions, in person or over phone lines. > -- doctor-patient discussions > -- psychiatrist--patient discussions > -- priest--penitent confessions What about 'journalist--informant'? The Clinton admin will ask "Ah, but what if they forget their keys?" This is nonsense. It would require a standardized way to return record storage keys to someone, and a secure means of doing so... a whole other can of worms. Many of these relationships have been compromised when the state sees fit anyway. Rob --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.

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PARC Forum, 7-18-96, Gregory Schmid, "The Future of ConsumerElectronic
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Sender: e$(a)thumper.vmeng.com Reply-To: mikkelsen(a)parc.xerox.com (Jim Mikkelsen) (by way of frantz(a)netcom.com (Bill Frantz)) Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: Bulk Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:53:09 -0700 From: mikkelsen(a)parc.xerox.com (Jim Mikkelsen) (by way of frantz(a)netcom.com (Bill Frantz)) To: Multiple recipients of <e$(a)thumper.vmeng.com> Subject: PARC Forum, 7-18-96, Gregory Schmid, "The Future of Consumer Electronic Xerox PARC Forum Thursday, July 18, 1996, 4:00PM, PARC Auditorium The Future of Consumer Electronic Payments: The Impact on the Distribution Chain Gregory Schmid, Institute For The Future This talk explores the critical changes pushing consmers into the world of electronic transactions--improved technologies, better security, and consumers' growing experience with card-based and other electronic transaction technologies. These changes will not only affect customer behaviors, but will transform the distribution chain, bring in new players, force the current players to fundamentally transform the way they conduct business, and encourage policymakers to find the right balance of regulation and market forces. Combined, these impacts will change the basic relationship between businesses and their customers forever. Only the stakeholders who are prepared for such changes will carve out their place in the new world. Greg directs IFTF's long-term forecasting and strategic planning efforts in both the public and private sectors. He has been Director of IFTF's Corporate Associates Program (CAP) since its inception in 1976 and is also the overall editor of CAP's "Ten-Year Forecast." Greg has overseen projects for many Fortune 500 companies, including those in the financial services, high technology, consumer products, professional services, and healthcare industries. As an economist, historian, and policy analyst, Greg uses a variety of research and planning techniques to work with clients in exploring strategic choices. His most recent book is "Future Tense: The Business Realities of the Next Ten Years" (William Morrow, 1994) with Ian Morrison. Before joining IFTF Greg headed a research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A graduate of Yale, Greg received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. ------------------------------- This Forum is OPEN to the public. Host: Jim Mikkelsen 415-812-4401 Web site: http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum Requests for videotapes for "Xerox Employees Only" should be sent to Susie Mulhern (Mulhern(a)parc.xerox.com) Refreshments will be served from 3:45 - 4:00PM. The PARC Auditorium is located at 3333 Coyote Hill Road in Palo Alto. We are located in the Stanford Research Park, between Page Mill Road (west of Foothill Expressway) and Hillview Avenue. The easiest way to get here is to take Page Mill Road to Coyote Hill Road, and, as you drive up Coyote Hill between the horse pastures, PARC is the only building on the left after you crest the hill. Please park in the large (lower) lot to your right; enter the auditorium at the upper level of the building. (The auditorium entrance is located to the left of the main door and down the stairs.) ------------------------------- Next Week's Forum is Shirley Tessler, Stanford University, on "A Pilot Study of Software Product Management." --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "'Bart Bucks' are not legal tender." -- Punishment, 100 times on a chalkboard, for Bart Simpson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/

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