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RE:NRC Panel, Law Enforcement questions
by danisch＠ira.uka.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello Jim, I apologize that I didn't answer immediately. I have subscribed to several mailing lists and sometimes get some hundred mails a day. I don't have the time to read everything and therefore I have to select. I didn't read this thread, but I found it in my archives. > I wonder, and perhaps my kind friend Hadmut can help me here, if there is > an English translation of any and all Nazi-era German laws/regs regarding > cryptography. As I [dimly] recall, Enigma was born as a private enterprise > and the patent was only later taken over by government and classified after > it was offered for sale to businesses (without much luck). These laws, if > they exist, might make for interesting reading in side-by-side comparison > with either Sen. Grassley's latest proposals, or with anything regarding > cryptography coming from our paranoid FBI director. I fear I have to disappoint you. :-( First of all I don't know of any english translation of such laws. The only english translation of law I know about is the translation of our current basic law. It might be easier to find english translations in english or american libraries than in german libraries. Second, I don't know whether they had a certain law about cryptography. AFAIK Enigma was a commercial product first and was taken over by the government. But I don't know they way they did. Third, there was no need to have laws. I don't want to restart the discussion, but the Nazis didn't understand laws as so important. I have read a book about their justice some time ago. The 'idea' and the 'public feeling' was seen as more important than laws. But perhaps another telecommunication law may be interesting. It was forbidden to receive foreign radio senders. If they came into the house and the radio was tuned to foreing frequencies, you got into serious trouble. I just don't know where to find the text of the law. regards Hadmut

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Re: Java and Safe-TCL security
by Rich Salz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>One problem is that safe-tcl >was oriented around email, so it lacks facilities for accessing web >pages. No, it's just that the people who took it over^H^H^H^Hand ran with it were most interested in email. My initial motivation was that I wanted to write a new news server that clients could download programs to. /r$

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JAC_kio
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

8-6-95. NYPaper Book Review: "Spies Unlike Us: A history of French intelligence reveals a far more brutal approach than this country's." The aftermath of 1945 imposed an additional heavy burden on the French secret services. Political allegiances were exacerbated by the presence of a potential huge Communist fifth column in France. The rough lessons of the war led to a premium on "service action" operations of sabotage and assassination before which Britain's M.I.6 would have quailed. Mr. Porch sees the French secret services of today as still not having recovered from their politicization during World War II. During the gulf war, the humiliating realization was forced on the French Army that for intelligence it was totally dependent on American high technology. SAL_mai "The Code War: How United States intelligence outsmarted Japan in World War II." He rightly sees the role of intelligence in the Pacific war not simply as a story of code-breaking successes. Rather, he writes, "the true achievements of intelligence in the Pacific war lie in the day-to-day accumulation of a fund of knowledge.... Cryptography, traffic analysis, aerial photography, prisoner interrogation, document capture and translation, and technical intelligence ... became pillars of an overall effort greater than the sum of its parts." He explains and describes this winning synergy of intelligence elements as well as, or better than, any previous author. PIL_sal Jak/Ari: JAC_kio

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Two-faced Security Problem? Dammit Janus?
by pcw＠access.digex.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Not exactly crypto, but the same idea: I've been trying to hook up an HTTP server sitting on a Mac at the end of my normal PPP connection. This was just supposed to be a test, but I kept getting annoying connection problems whenever someone tried to GET a page from me. The connection wouldn't go through about half of the time. After poking around for a week, I discovered that my home machine, newray.digex.net, is listed in the Digex's nameservers TWICE! Once with the IP address that my home machine is waiting for (199.125.128.5) and once with some other IP address in the digex space (164.109.211.61). If you do an nslookup on the name, you get both addresses. I believe that the technically correct thing for someone to do is to choose one of the addresses at random to distribute the load between two machines pretending to be one. This explains the connection failures that happened half of the time. This has led me to wonder, though, whether this is some sort of security breech. For instance, could there be someone out there mascarading as me? Normally I run Eudora, Netscape, Telnet and other outward bound applications. It was almost a fluke that I noticed that there were two entries. Does some software need to find its IP address in a DNS table? For instance, does Eudora need to look up 164.109.211.61 to find "newray.digex.net"? If someone was using this software on the mascarading node, they would need to set up an entry in the tables to make everything work. They just assumed I would never get inbound traffic. Any theories on this? -Peter "More Paranoid Than Ever" Wayner

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Re: MS Money password problem
by dochobbs＠wwa.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned or will help, but this company makes crakers for quicken, word and wordperfect (not sure about M$ money though). http://gn2.getnet.com:80/crak/ email: johnk(a)indirect.com _____________________________________________________________ dochobbs(a)wwa.com M.D. Hobbs mhobbs(a)rad.rpslmc.edu http://miso.wwa.com/~dochobbs finger for my pgp key I am human and nothing human do I count alien.

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RSA Catalog
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For those who've not yet fondled RSA's sleek "Security Solutions Catalog," it can be virtually diddled at: http://www.rsa.com/rsa/sscatw95/P67.HTM

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Re: Where to find Internet growth stats?
by brendan＠Mail.RAth.PeachNet.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.tic.com/mids/midshome.html is --cut->>Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS) is a corporation founded by Smoot Carl-Mitchell and John S. Quarterman. Eric McKinney is Assistant Editor. <<--paste- --- Brendan Mullen brendan(a)chugalug.cosmic.uga.edu Athens GA USA

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[Meaningless] Vote.
by liberty＠gate.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Fellow Cypherpunks: Below is the URL of an "Online Forum" page to allow 'Net citizens vote on various, (usually boring) issues. >************************************************** > VOTELINK brings the Voice of the Internet > To today's hot news topics. To make your voice > "heard round the world" go to: > > http://www.votelink.com >*************************************************** So last week I was surfin', wastin' time, and drinkin' a brew, and I happened by. I was asked to vote on some mundane topic [I forget what]--and instead I suggested a "World Vote" topic I liked better, and, sure enough, they put it up this week: [I was shocked when they e- mailed me!] :-) >Should Phil Zimmermann be prosecuted for allowing > release of his PGP encryption program on the > Internet? > > > PRO: ITAR export restrictions exist. > Cryptographic software, like PGP, is > considered a weapon of war. -- more [somebody shoot me with PGP, and nothing else!] > > CON: Imprisoning Zimmermann for export > violations would be an unconstitutional restraint of > free speech and privacy rights. -- more [guess how Jim Ray voted...] ;-) OK. Far be it from me to suggest vote fraud [there aren't too many Libertarians in cemetaries anyway :)] but I think certain cypherpunks might want to go "vote" this week, if you have the time to waste. Please vote *only* once, and tell all your buddies. Thanks. JMR - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Freedom isn't Freeh iQCVAwUBMCbswG1lp8bpvW01AQGDeAP8DZiWwIsABi7sy3MuyZo5QMFB/lf0ghIg 8zcE/WGaPocvwqlxwBW3DckSQw/vM8cqyv3LGPjQwC2il5HpELdyS44Rd4tQ/Qjb p0P+6mZh0Qk8domUuadX877Lk8hcnh7ydypCL3WPigSvh3tYYGwnL00Q6vi6nKzj YQ7092OOn80= =ebKB - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Regards, Jim Ray "The people will again respect the law when the law again respects the will of the people." Jim Ray, Campaign '92 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP key Fingerprint 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 Key id. # E9BD6D35 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Support the Phil Zimmermann (Author of PGP) Legal Defense Fund! email: zldf(a)clark.net or visit http://www.netresponse.com/zldf ________________________________________________________________________ - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMCbtzyoZzwIn1bdtAQHUowGA1pSgF1+AVBDi0Jz8H7dd4XIvbXNulPvF SIRzwHrNMApJoz2mX34r+8hndI3nwREW =hz/N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Announce: Private Idaho 2.5 beta
by joelm＠eskimo.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The 2.5 beta version of Private Idaho is now available from: http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm or ftp.eskimo.com /u/j/joelm/pidho25b.zip After I'm satisfied it is relatively bug free, it will be announced to the appropriate newgroups and placed on mirror sites. Significant enhancements include: send SMTP mail directly from Private Idaho attach sigs conventional PGP encryption option anonymous USENET posting through supporting remailers improved multi-key interface The final release will also have full Windows-style help as well as an automated installation program. This is my first venture into writing TCP/IP - Windows Sockets code. The SMTP routines seem to work with my ISP, but we'll see what happens on other mail servers. Coming attractions - once I determine the TCP/IP code is stable, I plan on implementing POP3 background checking for PGP messages. As usual, comments, questions, and bugs to: joelm(a)eskimo.com ---------------------- Joel McNamara joelm(a)eskimo.com - http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm for PGP key Thomas Jefferson used strong crypto, shouldn't you?

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Judge Ito says NSA won't help!
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

While watching the coverage of the OJ circus, I just heard Judge Ito say about a tape that has been recorded over a couple of times: "I doubt that it's recoverable, except by the NSA, and I doubt they're going to help us." I saw the lawyers smile, so they caught the reference. Anybody who thinks the NSA remains obscure isn't watching enough t.v.! --Tim May Special note: My ISP has changed its domain name from "sensemedia.net" to "got.net" (as in "got milk?"), so I have to again ask you all to bear with me and use my new e-mail address, "tcmay(a)got.net". ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net (Got net?) | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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