-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cypherpunks@toad.com Date: Thu Sep 12 11:20:55 1996 cypherpunks: As most of you know, I have been trying to bring "our" word, "GAK" into common usage, as opposed to the "key-escrow" Newspeak proposed by some (unnamed) big-government bureaucrat, and unfortunately adopted in most discussions of cryptography policy, (especially those outside this forum) in spite of the true English meaning of the word "escrow." There is a resource called "Infomania," which you can learn about by sending a blank message with the subject "help" to <infobot@infomania.com>. The service provides, via email, services that are normally only available to people who have real internet acess (ie, "WHOIS,") but there is also a heavy bias toward humor. Sending it the subject "GEEK," for example, returns the current version of the Code of the Geeks. Sending the subject CHEF with some dry, boring text (such as this message) in the message body returns you a truly hilarious transmogrification. :) Anyway, I have been in contact with Jason Fesler, who administers the site for Infomania [a firm which produces film separations for commercial grade printers and which provides this free service] about putting in a new command, "GAK," which will return to senders whatever the current U.S. govt. "key-escrow" Newspeak bigbrother anti-privacy proposal(s) is/are. (ie. clipper1, clipper2, son of clipper etc.). He has agreed that if we can supply a script or url or gopher page or something of that sort to interface it to, and a person to maintain it whenever the policy changes yet again (the hard part) he will do it. I would, of course, expect a bit of cypherpunkly commentary to accompany the text. Perhaps this information already exists (likely it does) on some page, and if you know where and think it is stable and well-updated, please email me privately, and I will try to put the owner of the site in touch with Jason. I am Bccing him with this message. Thanks for your help. JMR Regards, Jim Ray -- DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy "As govt.s grow arithmetically, corruption grows exponentially." -- Ray's Law of official corruption. Defeat the Duopoly! Stop the Browne out. Harry Browne for President. Jo Jorgensen for Vice-president. http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/ http://www.twr.com/stbo ___________________________________________________________________ PGP id.E9BD6D35 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 I will generate a new (and bigger) PGP key-pair on election night. <mailto:liberty@gate.net> http://www.shopmiami.com/prs/jimray ___________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMjgqXW1lp8bpvW01AQF49wP8Ci8D9blF898dNaFsKesX311qT2MO88zr xM11xZ0g1Ui4ahv3yB4jo6qqv4Z9InjNpiOk6wxcsXUPPtn6UNCBOTdos/DCk/SO SSOupiLA48gBHfoCIMN2f/+hGGM4BcuYC5wQ9rgJrTeiY8nQX18hJxKDxujn7z0A pbvTrSRQozY= =rA5a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----