Re: Optical Tempest? I have my doubts...

2003-07-17 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Mike Rosing wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > > > The conspiracy theorist is telling me there's some reason they floated the > > optical tempest story, though I can't quite figure out what that reason > > is... > > The main purpose is for academic gain. If y

Re: CDR: Re: re: Remailer Phases

2001-08-08 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joseph Ashwood wrote: > > > 2. Operator probably trustworthy > > > > Impossible, and unnecessary. Don't assume any remops are trustworthy. > > Actually it is absolutely necessary. If all operators are willing to > collude, then your precious anonymity is completely lost. A s

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-30 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Faustine wrote: > And as long as you have companies like ZeroKnowledge who are > willing/gullible/greedy/just plain fucking stupid enough to sell their > betas to the NSA, you never will. Okay, that clinches it. You're a moron. Why *shoul

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Faustine wrote: > Tim wrote: > > >But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design > >eventually. > > If getting the design "eventually" were good enough, why the keen interest > in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason. As I recall, t

Re: Melon traffickers --> Soul traffickers

2001-09-05 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Tim May wrote: > There may be an item in the Cyphernomicon about this misconception, that > common carrier status is something people apply for. It used to be > claimed by some (don't here it as much anymore) than even bookstores > could be treated as common carriers "so long

Re: Melon traffickers --> Soul traffickers

2001-09-05 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Tim May wrote: > There may be an item in the Cyphernomicon about this misconception, that > common carrier status is something people apply for. It used to be > claimed by some (don't here it as much anymore) than even bookstores > could be treated as common carriers "so long

Hushmail (Was: Re: Naughty Journal Author Denied Plea Change)

2001-09-06 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [snip] > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: Hush 2.0 > > wmAEARECACAFAjuYFYwZHGtleXNlci1zb3plQGh1c2htYWlsLmNvbQAKCRAg4ui5IoBV > n/9+AJ9eK/gSpH59ahQrotIOcYbOo8cHQgCeM0ki/sMKBda2tdCstCyN4LqFQWk= > =1jll > -

Hushmail (Was: Re: Naughty Journal Author Denied Plea Change)

2001-09-06 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [snip] > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: Hush 2.0 > > wmAEARECACAFAjuYFYwZHGtleXNlci1zb3plQGh1c2htYWlsLmNvbQAKCRAg4ui5IoBV > n/9+AJ9eK/gSpH59ahQrotIOcYbOo8cHQgCeM0ki/sMKBda2tdCstCyN4LqFQWk= > =1jll > -

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > > Whoever opts to collect that $5,000,000 will forever live in fear. > > Cost/benefit, you do the math. I'd opt for it in a heartbeat. Assume that you could nearly guarantee a profit of $5mil or more by shorting your stocks before a terrorist attack

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > > Whoever opts to collect that $5,000,000 will forever live in fear. > > Cost/benefit, you do the math. I'd opt for it in a heartbeat. Assume that you could nearly guarantee a profit of $5mil or more by shorting your stocks before a terrorist attack

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: > > What's the cost/benefit here? > > > > How much potential profit would be > > necessary for a crime like this to > > occur with profit as the only motive? > > I have NO IDEA what t

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: > > What's the cost/benefit here? > > > > How much potential profit would be > > necessary for a crime like this to > > occur with profit as the only motive? > > I have NO IDEA what t

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > Thanks, but I'd go a bit further. The percentage of humans who would be > capable of such evil has to be vanishingly small. Unfortunately, that > percentage is not zero so this sort of thing continues to happen. My point precisely. > > However, if

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > Yeah, you're fast running out of points that aren't dull. Perhaps, but that's not my reason. I simply find you to be dull. > > > They people engaging in them certainly felt justified. Whether you agree > > > or not is really a different question. It also

Re: "bespectacled, nerdly remailer operators"

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 14 Sep 2001, at 23:30, Anonymous wrote: > > Pictures of three of these bespectacled, nerdly remailer operators: > > > > http://www.melontraffickers.com/pics/DC8_Lucky_BDU_4.jpg > > http://www.melontraffickers.com/pics/rabbiGoneNuts.jpeg > > http:/

Re: Freedom of speech is for "Cypherpunk critics" too

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Nomen Nescio wrote: > If you're upset that "critics of the Cypherpunks" are able to speak > freely then you shouldn't have supported the technologies that enable > them to do so. Free speech is for everyone, not just those who toe your > line of violence and blood revenge.

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: > > > Have there ever been any large-scale terroristic attacks where profit was > > the only motive? > > terrorism <> economics. Economics as a direct goal isn't the issue

Re: "bespectacled, nerdly remailer operators"

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 14 Sep 2001, at 23:30, Anonymous wrote: > > Pictures of three of these bespectacled, nerdly remailer operators: > > > > http://www.melontraffickers.com/pics/DC8_Lucky_BDU_4.jpg > > http://www.melontraffickers.com/pics/rabbiGoneNuts.jpeg > > http:/

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > Yeah, you're fast running out of points that aren't dull. Perhaps, but that's not my reason. I simply find you to be dull. > > > They people engaging in them certainly felt justified. Whether you agree > > > or not is really a different question. It also

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: > > > Have there ever been any large-scale terroristic attacks where profit was > > the only motive? > > terrorism <> economics. Economics as a direct goal isn't the issue

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: > > > Have there ever been any large-scale > > terroristic attacks where profit was > > the only motive? > > Who said anything about profit? I did. > The point under discussion was cost/b

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: > > > Have there ever been any large-scale > > terroristic attacks where profit was > > the only motive? > > Who said anything about profit? I did. > The point under discussion was cost/b

RE: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
[This is becoming a rat-hole, and I'm not interested getting too far into it. I think most of you understand my point.] On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > > Different societies have different definitions of evil; some evils are > > hard to justify by any means, however. > > They people eng

Re: Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

2001-09-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Howie Goodell wrote: > Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: > > > Assume that you could nearly guarantee a profit of $5mil or more by > > shorting your stocks before a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. > > > > Would you perpetrate such a crim

Wartime Crypto Laws

2001-09-19 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
Gentlemen, It was recently mentioned on this list that there were additional restrictions placed on the use of ciphers by private citizens during World War II. I'm curious if anyone knows of a good resource for further information on this topic. (Now, inevitably, Choate is going to sent me a Goo

Re: Mandatory ID Cards

2001-09-19 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
> MSNBC is reporting that Congress is thinking of requiring all citizens > and non-citizens in the United States to carry ID cards. We're already half-way there. With our photo-id driver's licenses, and required identification before boarding airplanes, convenient travel and lack of anonymity go

FBI states that terrorists did not use crypto

2001-09-19 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
Expect a crackdown on Internet anonymity, rather than a reversal of the loosened crypto regulations. The death bell may be tolling for anonymous Internet access in libraries and cyber-cafes, but so far I have yet to see anything to make the case for a second round of the GAK war. [...] In Washin

Re: Mandatory ID Cards

2001-09-19 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
> MSNBC is reporting that Congress is thinking of requiring all citizens > and non-citizens in the United States to carry ID cards. We're already half-way there. With our photo-id driver's licenses, and required identification before boarding airplanes, convenient travel and lack of anonymity go

Re: Zimmermann's guilty shame... what a farce.

2001-09-21 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Anonymous wrote: > Grow a spine, Phil, you jellyfish. You think Ford is upset because > their U-Haul truck was used by Timmy to blow up the Federal Building? > Tears in the shower? Please... spare me. This isn't a fucking Dickens > novel or the goddamn string section of the o

Re: Zimmermann's guilty shame... what a farce.

2001-09-21 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Anonymous wrote: > Grow a spine, Phil, you jellyfish. You think Ford is upset because > their U-Haul truck was used by Timmy to blow up the Federal Building? > Tears in the shower? Please... spare me. This isn't a fucking Dickens > novel or the goddamn string section of the o

Re: FUCK ORACLE, FUCK LARRY ELLISON

2001-09-23 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Tim May wrote: > Interesting that the cyberliberties crowd was so eager to launch a > "Boycott Adobe" campaign because of their sin that they attempted to > defend their property rights, but no one is launching a "Boycott Oracle" > campaign over Larry Ellison's fascist suppor

Re: FUCK ORACLE, FUCK LARRY ELLISON

2001-09-23 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Tim May wrote: > Interesting that the cyberliberties crowd was so eager to launch a > "Boycott Adobe" campaign because of their sin that they attempted to > defend their property rights, but no one is launching a "Boycott Oracle" > campaign over Larry Ellison's fascist suppor

FBI states that terrorists did not use crypto

2001-09-19 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
Expect a crackdown on Internet anonymity, rather than a reversal of the loosened crypto regulations. The death bell may be tolling for anonymous Internet access in libraries and cyber-cafes, but so far I have yet to see anything to make the case for a second round of the GAK war. [...] In Washin

Re: Government credentials and picture IDs

2001-09-21 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Tim May wrote: > It's too bad so many people are so confused about what a "Web of Trust" > is. > > Do I need a "positive picture ID" of Lucky Green to communicate with him > securely? Black Unicorn? Pr0duct Cypher? Eric Hughes? Attila the Hun? > > The notion that a particular

Re: Government credentials and picture IDs

2001-09-21 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Tim May wrote: > It's too bad so many people are so confused about what a "Web of Trust" > is. > > Do I need a "positive picture ID" of Lucky Green to communicate with him > securely? Black Unicorn? Pr0duct Cypher? Eric Hughes? Attila the Hun? > > The notion that a particular

Re: MIME-encoded PGP / GPG signatures (again)

2001-09-26 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
[My apologies to the list for continuing this thread. I should know better.] On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Incorrect. There is no PGP/MIME support in Outlook, and the Eudora > > PGP/MIME handling is less than perfect. > > My information is different, though I've not used Outloo

Re: When the FBI Guys Come Knocking...

2001-09-26 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Duncan Frissell wrote: > In the case of peace officer questioning, you can just ask them to leave. > No need to hide. > > The main reason not to invite peace officers in is because of the risk > they might see something which would give rise to probable cause for a > search.

Re: Aimee == FBI?

2001-09-26 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >It is discouraging to see the disdain in which many of you hold the FBI > >during a time when we need cooperation and insight from nontraditional > >sources. > > > > "we" --- do you mean "WE ALL need..." or "WE AT THE FBI need..." Interesting wordi

Multi-part security solutions (Was: Re: Rijndael & Hitachi)

2000-10-11 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: > Derek Atkins adds: > > > > >Why try to pick a Medeco when it's locking a glass door? :-) > > The fact that some people put Medeco's in glass doors, doesn't mean > Medeco should never develop a better lock. S

Multi-part security solutions (Was: Re: Rijndael & Hitachi)

2000-10-11 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Further thoughts on this matter... I think that we should escalate the level of liability a potential attacker has to face when attempting to compromise a security system. We should have laptops equipped with high explosives, such that the laptop detonates aft

Re: What info does Zero Knowledge collect on users of Freedom 3.0?

2001-10-18 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: > [I agreed to delete Anonymous' name before posting, but it is fair to point > out that Anonymous works for a company that is in some areas a competitor > to ZKS. [snip] > This would also include any cookies set from > zeroknowledge.com, (which ZKS

Re: Clubbing in Fortress Amerika (fwd)

2001-10-24 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:56:02PM -0700, Giovanna Imbesi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Last night my friend and I stopped at a Venice club/bar. At the door > > they were doing the normal ID check, but then took my driver's license > > and swiped it

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-24 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Tim May wrote: I don't have time to respond in depth to the points Tim makes here, so I have snipped a lot of them. I intend to come back and comment in more detail later. Largely, I am in agreement. However, in the paragraphs I've quoted below, Tim touches on a counter-argu

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-24 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Tim May wrote: > I didn't "dismiss" it. In fact, I wrote more about this issue, which I > haven't seen brought up by anyone else here, than 95% of all posts to > Cypherpunks have in their entire amount of original material! My apologies. Dismiss was not the correct word. I

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-24 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Right. I have a pair of Starium betas. They work. I'd recommend them. > > But the problem is that the purchaseable product doesn't exist. I went > down to Carmel a few months ago and checked out the company. I love > the ideas and the tech, but I wou

The United States of America vs. The Left Coast

2001-11-21 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
Oregon refuses to ignore basic constitutional rights for the sake of the war on terrorism: "Portland police have refused a U.S. Justice Department request for help in interviewing Middle Eastern immigrants as part of its sweeping terrorism investigation, saying it would violate state law." "Arab

Re: The United States of America vs. The Left Coast

2001-11-21 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Steve Schear wrote: > I can't see any constitutional basis for the FDA (or much of the FAA or FCC > regulations for that matter). Perhaps not regulating California marijuana > clinics impacts marijuana clinics in other states: empty Commerce Clause > justification. Question

Re: Antivirus software will ignore FBI spyware: solutions

2001-11-26 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Tim May wrote: > Some interesting tips (bottome of this message) for detecting FBI/SS > snoopware that NAI/McAfee is now assisting the FBI in installing. According to a rebutal posted to Declan's list, McAfee.com (not the same as McAfee) is claiming that neither it nor Netwo

Re: CNN.com - Bush defends tribunals, saying 'we're at war' - November 29, 2001

2001-11-30 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
See Sandy? Even a blind clock finds a squirrel twice a day. -MW- On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > Bush is full of shit.

Re: Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

2001-11-30 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Sunder wrote: > Following which the buyer posts all the signed emails between self and > seller detailing the fraudulent transaction. Worthless, as all of those messages could have been forged. Or did you mean to say that they had been dated by a third party timestamping ser

It's for the sake of the Chiiiiildren.

2001-12-01 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
http://www.banscrewdrivers.com "We hope that by ultimately banning the sale and use of screwdrivers, we can make the world a little bit safer, and increase compassion towards victims of screwdriver crimes and accidents." [...] -MW-

Re: 256 Bit Encryption for Secure Email and Secure Online File Storage

2001-12-01 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
Another proprietary key format. Why not base such a system on OpenPGP? Hmm. AES-256 with SHA-256? Children, what's wrong with the balance in this system? How does a user verify authenticity of another user's public key? Aside from being incompatible with anything else on the net, how is this di

CNN and Julie Hilden on the Evil of Anonymity

2001-12-03 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
"Most of us now are happy, for example, to tolerate facial recognition technology at stadiums, and to proffer our driver's licenses at frequent car, truck and airport checkpoints. We no longer can travel anonymously, and that may be acceptable given the risks we now face. But while the ability to

Re: Reputation of a Reputation

2001-12-05 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Tim May wrote: > This is "the reputation of a reputation." > > As soon as people tumble to the fact that "Tom Clancy" has sold his > nym/reputation to some hack writer, that is, let them put his name on > their words, then the reputation of "Tom Clancy" falls. > > Nothing new

Re: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-11 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
"So far, U.S. and European authorities battling terrorism and cybercrime have apparently focused their surveillance elsewhere. The FBI and the National Security Agency, which monitors international telecommunications, declined to comment on what strategy, if any, they have for dealing with remaile

Re: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-12 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Tim May wrote: > The article was not completely silent on speculations about FBI/LEA > efforts: Magic Lantern was mentioned as a way to get the keys. His example was pretty far-fetched, though. Getting all the ISPs to log all their mail so

Re: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-12 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Faustine wrote: > I don't know, how about traffic analysis? Yes, but see my previous post. > Exploiting (publicly) undisclosed holes in the remailer software? Same problem as traffic analysis if you are talking about compromising the remailer. Doesn't work after the fact.

Re: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-18 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, David Honig wrote: > Can't spam be repelled by not forwarding email not encrypted to > the remailer's key? Who is to say that spammers won't use remailer clients that automatically encrypt to the remailers' keys? Using remailer clients should be *easy*. Saying "this is too

RE: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-29 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: > Obviously there are some destinations that need to be exceptions. > Usenet's easy - keep track of known mail2news gateways, > and any time you send mail to Usenet, you need to put lots of disclaimers > about it's remailed, it's probably forged, there's n

Re: One arms violent people with weapons

2002-01-18 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: > > Von Buelow: Right, but actually it was astounding: There are 26 > > intelligence services in the U.S.A. with a budget of $30 billion-- > > 26? Huh? Okay - CIA, DIA, NSA, the State Department's intel/security > arm, the individual Armed Services..

In the news yesterday...

2002-02-13 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On the East Coast, Ashcroft announced that the US is on its "highest state of alert" for terror attacks. On the West, the DEA led an armed raid against a medical marijuana facility in San Francisco, arresting four people, stealing 600 marijuana plants, and depriving California's ill of their medi

Re: Jail Cell Cipher (modified RC4)

2002-02-23 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Neil Johnson wrote: > I believe that Ron Rivest (the R in RC4) has already created a version for > "jail-cell" use. > > Pick up a copy of "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. It's used in the book > and there is an appendix in > the back that explains the algorithm in good det

John Walters, Terrorism Financier

2002-02-27 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
I bought a USA Today this morning. This, in itself, isn't news, though it is out of character for me. I usually read my news online, and eschew printed papers. But today was different. On Page 14A was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. There, in full page black and white print was US Dr

RE: Cruel and unusual punishment

2002-02-27 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Anonymous wrote: > As someone I knew who used to work for the US > government once told me, the only "perfect crime" > is the one for which you aren't even a suspect. > Perfectly sound reasoning--and if he knew this as > a civilian there's no reason on this earth to > think h

Re: Netscape Users: All Your Searches Are Belong To Us

2002-03-12 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
Google itself has started doing a similar thing if you use its toolbar for IE. Google's toolbar will phone home to google so that it can report the "Page rank" value of every website you visit. (This is the value that Google generates to determine how important a given web page is, based on the nu

Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-26 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Bill Stewart wrote: > While SSL implementations are mostly 1024 bits these days, > aren't PGP Diffie-Hellman keys usually 1536 bits? The ElGamal encryption keys (Diffie-Hellman is a misnomer in PGP's case) are usually 2048 bits, though the DSA signing keys are almost always

Re: FW: Homeland Deception (was RE: signal to noise proposal)

2002-03-27 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The lne list trims away some of the headers, so tracing this forgery back to the source authoritatively is difficult, but one immediately thinks of Deep Cover Agent mattd when reading this, as he seems incapable of using the space bar in a consistent fashion. A

Running a cypherpunks list node?

2005-10-14 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
If one were inclined to host a cypherpunks list node, where would one obtain the necessary information? -MW-

Re: Indo European Origins

2003-01-09 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > "Soma"? Despite the fact that I've read large chunks of the Rig Vedas, I > don't remember anything called "Soma" (unless this is a Brave New World > Reference). Of course, the Bhagavad Gita is a subsection of the > Mahabaratabut I don't imagine this is

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-11 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Bill Stewart wrote: > Any time you post to a list of a bunch of people you don't know, > you might be posting to a list of a bunch of people you don't like. > Reading the archives sometimes helps. A (hopefully) helpful hint for the newcomers to this list: Bill is usually the

Re: Brinworld: Samsung SCH-V310 camcorder phone

2003-01-14 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Tim May wrote: > > Samsung unveil new 3G camcorder phone > > http://www.3gnewsroom.com/3g_news/jan_03/news_2906.shtml > > Hardly Brinworld. And T-Mobile has had it for awhile. > > Why is warmed-over technology news given headlines? ... and they lie about it being 3G (which do

3G Phones (was: Re: Brinworld: Samsung SCH-V310 camcorder phone)

2003-01-14 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Steve Mynott wrote: > > ... and they lie about it being 3G (which doesn't exist yet.) > > It's a CDMA2000 phone which is 3G. > > 3G networks exist in many parts of the world, although behind schedule > in other parts. Hmm. I actually can't find any specs on that phone's max s

Re: cloning as heresy (Re: Fresh Hell)

2003-01-20 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Ah, now I see. Before, I was thinking that he was talking about the passage > where Onan pulls out and spills his seed on the ground, which, somehow, became a > prescription against masturbation, although reading it, especially in context, > is clearly

Re: Matt Blaze Does Master Keys

2003-01-23 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: > Nonetheless, it's an interesting story. > > I should note that the high security building I live regards master keying > doors as a bad thing to do, and they have a key board and a signout > sheet in the main office. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/

Re: "Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits to invade your body!"

2003-02-03 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > > ...and some very, very tiny fraction may have actually touched > > some component which made them slightly ill. > > Tf they ingested a part made of beryllium alloy, it could make them pretty > sick... Gee golly! I'm so glad that CNN told me that the

NAI pulls out the DMCA stick

2002-05-21 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
NAI is now taking steps to remove the remaining copies of PGP from the Internet, not long after announcing that the company will not release its fully completed Mac OS X and Windows XP versions, and will no longer sell any copies of its PGP software. Do we still believe this was a pure cost-cutti

Joe Sixpack doesn't run Linux

2002-05-23 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Lucky Green wrote: > Adam wrote: > > Which is too bad. If NAI-PGP went away completely, then > > compatability problems would be reduced. I also expect that > > the German goverment group currently funding GPG would be > > more willing to fund UI work for windows. > > Tell

Re: Joe Sixpack doesn't run Linux

2002-05-23 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Curt Smith wrote: > This is a fairly accurate description of the situation, but > neglects to emphasize that the reason [1-cypherpunk] bothers > convincing [2-coerced associate] to use encrypted e-mail is > because [1] understands its importance and is attempting to > share/s

Re: why OpenPGP is preferable to S/MIME (Re: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick)

2002-05-23 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Adam Back wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:05:49PM -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: > > So what if we create the Cypherpunks Root CA, which (either) signs > > what you submit to it via a web page, or publish the secret key? > > This won't achieve the desired effect because it w

Re: Signing as one member of a set of keys

2002-08-09 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Anonymous User wrote: > This program can be used by anonymous contributors to release partial > information about their identity - they can show that they are someone > from a list of PGP key holders, without revealing which member of the > list they are. Maybe it can help in

Re: Discouraging credential sharing with Mojo

2002-08-21 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Anonymous wrote: > Clearly we need a new approach. Here is a suggestion for a simple > solution which will give everyone an important secret that they will > avoid sharing. > > At birth each person will be issued a secret key. This will be called > his Mojo. [snip] > Now

NAI completes its transition to the Dark Side

2002-08-26 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
After attempting to kill PGP, NAI is now working on "big brother in a box". From: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-955392.html?tag=fd_top Security company Network Associates said Monday that it had purchased a small start-up whose software lets corporations and others "wiretap" their computer netw

S/MIME in Outlook -- fucked.

2002-09-03 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
... just making certain Lucky has seen this gem. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:37:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Outlook S/MIME Vulnerability

Re: Free Copy of Applied Cryptography

2002-09-11 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Lisa wrote: > http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ > > http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/09/11/1616231.shtml?tid=93 > > Handbook of Applied Cryptography > Posted by michael on Wednesday September 11, @12:24PM > from the complete-from-adelman-to-zimmerman dept. >

Re: All your canadians are belong to us

2002-09-21 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 11:08 AM 9/21/02 -0400, Greg Vassie wrote: > >> says Dr Ann Coavoukian, the commissioner of information and privacy > in > >> Ontario, U.S.A. "People are lying and vendors don't know what is > false [or > > > >As a resident of Ontario, Canada,

Re: JYA ping

2002-10-06 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Morlock Elloi wrote: > > It seems to be strange that he wrote at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > an address which is also given on his web page, but > > ping pipeline.com doesn't work. > > Sorry to resort to ad hominem, but you're a technological imbecile. > > There is this magic thi

Re: Assassination Politics: Coming soon?

2002-11-18 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Keith Ray wrote: > It's been a number of years since Jim Bell wrote his infamous > "Assassination Politics" essay. If someone were to try to implement > the system today and not share Jim Bell's fate, they would need > absolute anonymity and security. The technical requireme

RE: pgp in internet cafe (webpgp)

2003-03-23 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Lucky Green wrote: > > The question is - do I have to code this or has someone > > already done it ? > > http://www.lokmail.com/ It is inadvisable that anyone use Lokmail. The implications of a "trust-us" encrypted mail service are obvious, and the people behind Lokmail are o

Re: I crypt you

2003-01-06 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Anonymous wrote: > (unrelated, I noticed that there is no un-crippled free version of PGP > for windows XP any more - 8.0 beta expired) What about PGP 8.0 Freeware? That isn't "crippled". (It doesn't include automatic email plugins, which many think are a bad idea anyway, and