-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Here's a recent e-mail exchange, between RSA Data Security, Inc. <info@rsa.com> and myself, that may interest you cypherpunks: - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Crypto FAQ Request Author: Hastings@courier8.aero.org at INTERNET Date: 1/4/94 10:31 AM My deadline for the first issue of the Agorist Quarterly is rapidly approaching. I'm writing an article about digital cash protocols for use on Internet e-mail accounts, comparing Chaum's recent work with Representative/Observer hardware versus software-only approaches like Netcash and rumors about better things from the cypherpunk list. Of course, RSA will get mentioned as one of the foundations of digital cash, along with Chaum's blind signatures, mixes, remailers, DC-nets, and etc. Your latest cryptography FAQ that I've seen is Revision 2, dated October 5, 1993. Is that the latest version? If so, I'm all set. If not, please e-mail the latest version to me here at hastings@courier8.aero.org. If it is only available on paper, please send a copy to me at this address: The Agorist Institute 291 S. La Cienega Blvd #749 Beverly Hills, CA 90211 If your company has any products specifically targeting paperless checks, cash, or related applications, let me know and I'll include them in the article. Thanks for your help. Kent - <hastings@courier8.aero.org> Ham packet radio: WA6ZFY @ N6YN.#SOCA.CA.USA.NA ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Kent: Yes, release 2 is the latest release of the FAQ. David Chaum is going to be speaking at our conference next week, and will be available for interviews. Since you're press, you get in free: will you be coming? Finally, what is the Agorist Institute? Kurt Stammberger RSADSI ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ The Agorist Institute is a non-profit educational institute that is best characterized as a libertarian think tank. It was established "on the last day of 1984 to mark the end of Orwell's nightmare future." Seminars on agorist subjects, like Austrian Economics, and Feminism And The State, have been held in Southern California. The Institute's Directorate maintains a semi-monthly presence at the Albert J. Nock Forum, and at the H.L. Mencken Supper Club, to distribute publications, and serve as speakers when appropriate. For example, I gave a speech about digital cash, "Cyber Cash: Free-Market Money Comes of Age," to three different groups at the end of September, 1993. The speech was first delivered to a World Future Society chapter in Santa Ana, the H.L. Mencken Forum in Hollywood, and to a Libertarian Party chapter in Culver City. Note: The Agorist Institute does not endorse candidates for any political party. We serve the vast libertarian movement outside the small numbers of L.P. activists. The Director presented a libertarian analysis of our current business environment at a 1993 conference held in Midlands, Michigan. The conference was called "Freedom, Trade, and Markets in a High-Tech Age." He has been invited back, to give seminars this March, 1994, along with other Institute researchers, on topics ranging from electronic publishing, to How To Sell Freedom to a Hostile Audience. Unlike the Cato Institute, which provides libertarian policy advice to Washington D.C. politicians and lobbyists, the AI's research mainly covers the gray market and black market areas we call "counter-economics." This is also the focus of other institutes, like the one associated with Peruvian writer Hernando de Soto, famous for his book, The Other Path, which documented the growth and present influence of the "informal economy" in Peru. The informal economy grew steadily in the big cities of Peru, from nothing, to controlling over 90% of what are normally considered "public" services (like bus transportation, and road construction and maintenance), all despite a succession of formal left-wing and right-wing governments. So you can see why the development of untraceable digital cash for any e-mail user would interest us. With 20 million Internet accounts throughout the world, and Internet usage doubling every year, digicash will have a profound impact on businesses, government, and consumers. The Institute studies, but does not encourage, activities that are illegal. Still, if it weren't for gun smugglers, tax cheats, and traitors, the United States would still be a British colony, and Eastern Europe would still be Communist. It is unlikely that I will be able to travel to Northern Cal. next week, (I have a real job, too!), but if you send me the date and time, I could arrange for a local person to attend the Chaum conference. I could announce it at tonight's Albert J. Nock Forum meeting, if you want me to. You might give me prices for the non-press attendees in that case. Thanks again for your prompt reply. Kent - <hastings@courier8.aero.org> Ham packet radio: WA6ZFY @ N6YN.#SOCA.CA.USA.NA ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Send me your fax number and I will fax you a complete comnference agenda: David's talk is on the third day. Non-press attendees are $245 each (just a break-even fee: we feed you breakfast and lunch all three days, and proceedings and hardcopies of the presentations, a various other goodies) Kurt RSADSI 415/595-8782 - -------------------------------------------------------- I suppose you could call Kurt, and tell him I sent you. The conference begins on Wednesday, January 12, 1994. Registration is at 415/595-8782. The conference is at the Hotel Sofitel January 12-14, 1994 in Redwood Shores, CA about 15 minutes south of the San Francisco International Airport. Rooms are available at the Sofitel (415/598-9000) "at a special guaranteed rate for conference attendees." - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's a PGP public key for use at my office computer only: - -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.3a mQCNAixhYsIAAAEEANPvKYGwdSeUvJuMF1PH4sydYFiAOV3iKW+ZUle9HeTeG8xq hEJNu3MsOqsnYSeXkamsVlNR07bWipSAdSmeHJKVhARLDchN7P0n8gg65lJzZBJc ZaOo8KfCd6fF1etj8g8TD7cf7rHhOLI2QyPtNq0N2/i/W/lNPvEzOz6fx5dFAAUR tC1KLiBLZW50IEhhc3RpbmdzIDxoYXN0aW5nc0Bjb3VyaWVyOC5hZXJvLm9yZz4= =Yxil - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Kent - <hastings@courier8.aero.org> Ham packet radio: WA6ZFY @ N6YN.#SOCA.CA.USA.NA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLSrrovEzOz6fx5dFAQGzRAP+LupdOPffenceBEzZjz50S3nL+jjHNsfK EmRpj4FfTiQfSu6HLeBTV8H9QJtQ9lJX8Q7US8nWvOkcT/6UXMWJEUL6aOFZpe8d +PDq5Z00EO7pMN6odmijfZtGZOhVF/GIscgwokhWHiCi2ZBPIXtooet/7bK0DOK6 12cGySl0WPo= =VjBf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----