Re: Anonymous Remailers cpunk

At 02:05 AM 10/4/00 -0400, Sean Roach wrote: >At 05:22 PM 10/3/2000, Steve Furlong wrote: >... >>I'm assuming there's a way to tell with minimal difficulty if a message >>is encrypted, without relying on an easily-spoofed X header line. >>Perhaps someone who knows more about all of the many messag

Re: CDR: Re: Shunning, lesbians and liberty

"James A.. Donald" wrote: > James A. Donald: > > > Famines in Africa are caused by communism and socialism, notably > > > the famous Ethiopian famines that occurred under Mengistu, or by > > > war, notably the famous Biafran famine. > > At 0233 PM 10/1/2000 -0500, Jim Choate wrote > > Again

Re: CDR: Re: Anonymous Remailers cpunk

Steve Furlong wrote: > Why not just read the first 20 bytes of the body? If 90% or more aren't > printable ASCII assume the message is encrypted. Or compressed, or a bitmap, or executable code, or coming from an EBCDIC machine, or using a weird variant of Unicode that you weren't previously aw

Re: Anonymous Remailers cpunk

"Trei, Peter" wrote: > I would like to suggest that a remailer could eliminate nearly all it's > problems by only sending out encrypted mails - that is, if after > removing the encryption that was applied using it's own private > key, it finds that the result is plaintext, it simply drops the mess

Re: CDR: RE: Anonymous Remailers cpunk

Jim Choate wrote: > And just exactly what algorithm is that you're using to determine > crypt-v-plaintext? that's a problem. if no such algorithm exists, I suggest that - for this specific purpose - a few heuristics would do. suggestion (version 0.1): - dictionary of 100 most common words from e

Re: Anonymous Remailers cpunk

Steve Furlong wrote: > > > I would like to suggest that a remailer could eliminate nearly all it's > > > problems by only sending out encrypted mails - that is, if after > > > removing the encryption that was applied using it's own private > > > key, it finds that the result is plaintext, it simpl

Re: CDR: A famine averted...

Hang about! You asked why sellers wanted to put prices up when they thought a big storm was coming, when "the good of the market" might want prices kept down (as the government tried to do). I was pointing out that there is no "good of the market" in this context at all, just the interests of th

Re: A famine averted...

Ulf Mvller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:54:34PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote: > > > NB in a real famine (as opposed to temporary shortages, which a place > > like Belize can probably get through with less hassle than a richer more > > efficient economy with all our "Just in Time" suppliers) fo

Re: Spam free secure email accounts.

Ray Dillinger wrote: > I think I like this idea, because it would elevate encrypted > email from an abberation to be tracked to the universal > condition, at least for that system -- and introduce a reason > for people out there to *learn* to use crypto software, if they > wanted to talk to people

Re: CDR: HTTP and SSL

Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: > I need to implement a C++ client (Linux) which must connect to an HTTP > Server using SSL (HTTPS). Which libraries could I possibly use, > considering both SSL and HTTP? you could look at a program called "curl". it does implement HTTPS and the source is available. d

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ICANN's final list of new TLDs

It's comment time. http://www.icann.org/tlds/tld-applications-lodged-02oct00.htm Gee, I wonder what the rules for ".sucks" will be, legally.

Re: Rijndael & NTRU

On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Vin McLellan wrote: > Not to take anything from Rijndael, which is both popular and > widely respected among many critical professionals, but I suspect that one > of the more long-lasting (pseudo-conspiratorial) theories about the > selection of Rijndael as the AE

anonymous PGP-only remailers

"cypherpunks write code", wasn't it? :) here's my first proposal. a simple perl script that should find out whether any given message (piped from stdin) is a PGP message or not. it does NOT accept messages with more than 10 non-blank, non-encrypted lines. why? well, you might have a few lines of

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RE: Anonymous Remailers cpunk

There's no way which can't be spoofed by a determined opponent willing to send truly weird looking messages (as I demonstrated in an earler post), but that's not the point. I suggest that you just look for ascii-armouring - ie, long (>50 byte) printable character strings without embedded spaces.

VASCO gizmos

Hi! Anybody knows anything about the VASCO Data Security gizmos' algorithm? [You enter your pin, and it generates a 7-digit number, which is synchronized with the number on the server you're authenticating to; the number is valid for 30 secs or 1 minute, I'm not sure.] We just got some at our comp

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RE: VASCO gizmos

Vasco uses DES (I don't know the details). It's a minor player in the authentication token field. RSA Security (my employer) has the largest share of the market. Peter Trei Disclaimer: I am not a spokesman for my employer, and the above represent my opinion only. > -- > From: M

Re: Spam free secure email accounts.

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: >same problem here: how do you find out whether or not a message is >encrypted? Plaintext looks like plaintext. This isn't even a "real" problem, once you look at the text produced by, eg, PGP, GPG, and whatever else you allow on the system. You don't

anarchism = socialism

...read on and learn also that capitalism == mass slavery [LART], and that, very definitely, property == theft [LART]. For an anarchist, he also seems a little too eager to invoke the authority of the dictionary to support his claims [CLUESTICK - get 2 free LARTs]. FableOfNamesMonger

Re: VASCO gizmos

X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Vasco uses DES (I don't know the details). I'm sorry, I already read this somewhere on the web; the term I should have used was "protocol": how do they use DES to create those numbers - do they encrypt a counter, or a time, or a share

Re: Anonymous Remailers

At 09:26 AM 10/3/00 -0400, dmolnar wrote: >People will use your remailer to send spam and death threats. There may >even be people who will use your remailer to send spam and death threats >to themselves, simply because they hate remailers. The recipients will >contact you and your ISP. Repeatedly

Re: CDR: Re: Spam free secure email accounts.

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jim Choate wrote: > >On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Ray Dillinger wrote: >> Plaintext looks like plaintext. > >Yeah, if the only thing you right is simple English. Most of the planet >doesn't speak English and their plaintext doesn't necessarily look like >plaintext. > >This is a xenop

Re: Anonymous Remailers

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Honig wrote: > > This of course regresses the problem to the exit nodes. But it encourages > more anonymizing infrastructure. Yes, running a middleman is a good idea. Unfortunately if an adversary knows you're running a middleman, it seems that he can make it seem a

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Re: anarchism = socialism

At 10:54 PM -0500 10/4/00, Sean Roach wrote: >Beautiful sentiment, and much of it I'm not prepared to argue with. I'm also not going to argue with it, because arguing with lefties who spout tired old chestnuts like: >>'Workers are routinely and systematically exploited by capitalism. >>After a