On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Adam Back wrote:
Tim May writes:
This is the key question, no pun intended. A kind of language for
generating complex protocols was something Eric Hughes and I
discussed at length before even holding the first meeting of what
became the Cypherpunks group.
SDL
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Anonymous wrote:
Fuck, no traffic on cpunks except this ...
Actually, it is the U.S. Postal Service. Officials there are planning
to offer people living at all 120 million of the nation's residential
street addresses free e-mail addresses. It would link the e-mail and
regarding the rotor machine patent that Freidman filed in '33
Actually, now that I have thoroughly read it, what Friedman
proposed here was actually considerably more advanced than
Enigma: While Enigma's wheels ratcheted one position each
time, and signaled overflow by ratcheting the next
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Bryan Nolen wrote:
Shall we only allow messages from subscribed members? Moderate? Shut the
lists down? Just deal?
Definatly close the list to ONLY subscribers...
Bad plan. This is political speech here; people need to be
able to speak anonymously.
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Trei, Peter wrote:
This reminds me an awful lot of the appointment of a 'blue-ribbon,
independent, civilian" panel to look at Skipjack. They did, and
reported no obvious weaknesses in the algorithm. Years later,
when Skipjack was released, open review showed that while
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Timothy Brown wrote:
recently than previously thought. Since cryptanalysis will become easier,
my question was simply put - will cryptography become sufficiently more
secure using principles inherent in quantum computing? I'm aware of most of
the basics of what makes a
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Tim May wrote:
lots of stuff I won't bother repeating
Ya know, Tim, I remember reading you years ago when I was on
cypherpunks the first time. I used to think you were an anarchist,
individualist, libertarian -- and that's still the most consistent
thread in your
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Tim May wrote:
I've seen ragheads^H^H^H^H^H Muslim chicks in front of me at the ATM
wearing their Mohammed-decreed chadoors. No sirens, no cops arriving,
but their money apparently arrives in a timely fashion.
Interesting. That makes it a religious freedom issue, as
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:
One reason to punish a crime (rather than an attempt) more seriously
is that there is usually some sort of damage, at least with traditional
crimes. Murder, rape, theft, etc.
Right. Damages, however, are Torts rather than Crimes.
(translation --
On some unix systems there is an amazing text editor named TECO.
TECO has a unique and interesting property, which is that any
sequence of printable characters whatsoever is a valid series of
TECO commands. TECO geeks make a game of figuring out what their
names, typed in as a command,
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Rich Ankney wrote:
Yeah, but there's always the old "sources and methods" excuse
(based on personal experience). Seems to require many more
lawyer cycles than I can afford...
Me too. But Fayed can afford LOTS of lawyer cycles. The man
has earned his tenth or
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Sean Roach wrote:
As regards Petro's response to same.
Read up on the history of the U.S.A., and U.K.
Unless I've misinterpreted, slaves were forbidden to learn to read in the U.S.
Not exactly. They weren't forbidden to learn; however, it was
forbidden for anyone
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Patrick would have spoken Gaelic or Latin as his first language. The
Irish would have been no more difficult to understand than a Californian
to a Noo Yawker. The upper echelons of Irish society may even have
spoken Latin.
An interesting point:
Recently, I've been making and breaking pencil-and-paper
ciphers specifically to acquaint myself with the art of
cryptanalysis.
I've developed methods for solving vignere, general
transpositions, playfair, etc... just basically bringing
myself up to speed with the general background of
It occurs to me that the NSA may in fact have a much easier time
of cracking most encrypted messages than is generally believed by
the people who use them.
We can rule out the idea that they may have computers capable of
solving the ciphers by a brute force key search or modulus factoring
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, John Galt wrote:
Cypherpunks is archived? Isn't that against what most cypherpunks stand
for? I know it sets up a "style fingerprint" attack against anonymity...
Do you imagine for an instant that a list like this could go out,
be available to anonymous people, and
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Nathan Saper wrote:
So these people are entitled to something for nothing?
(or in this case, $1500 of treatment for $1000 of premiums)?
That's the whole idea of insurance, isn't it?
You're trolling, aren't you?
Insurance is a good idea for the insured because it
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:
that only dealt with a narrow issue. We could have included ones such as
HR1501, but then we couldn't have figured out whether reps voted for it
based on their support of filtering software or firearm restrictions.
-Declan
I think that
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Mostly, when I tossed that one off, I was remembering arguments around here
-- more than once -- that anonymity, particularly in anonymous
transactions, will *always* cost more than non-anonymous ones. Something I
dispute rather heatedly, of course,
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Adam Shostack wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:07:18PM +0100, cyphrpnk wrote:
| p.s. that freedom source code 2.0 for linux I was porting to BSD
| I guess will go into the bit bucket!! 1984 speak my ass!!
Sorry to hear that. I guess your porting the code isn't enough
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Tim May wrote:
Nader is getting a late start in the enthusiasm stakes, but it could
be that he'll really surge. A lot of folks are mired deeply in what
Nietzsche called "resentiment." They just don't like it when other
people have done well by investing instead of by
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Tim May wrote:
no matter how good you are. You can get rich enough to live off your
investments, sure -- but reaching the billionaire league is a multi-
generational project.
This is not true. Most billionaires in the United States did it in a
single generation. On the
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
--- begin forwarded text
In which a skeptical eye is cast on various
privacy enhanced web shopping tools. Here's
one gem from the article:
"Anonymity works in the favor of fraudsters,"
-- VP at Visa.
Consider the business he's in. If you're
Okay, this information is old hat to most folk here - but
it seems relevant just now, and if the infrastructure had
been in place for this election, it could have saved us a
heck of a lot of trouble.
Bear
An Election Protocol: Or, a way for people in voting
Let's say you're a high-level spook, and you've got a bunch of
encrypted intercepts of uncertain origin. Gigabytes and gigabytes
of them. Maybe they came with partial keys, maybe they are only
40-bit or 56-bit keyed in the first place. Maybe you have partial
keys on some of them (from the
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Young wrote:
Still, is there no alternative to giving government and
corporations first, if not exclusive, choice on the best
products and services,
Not if you plan to make a legal profit, there isn't. After
all, government and corporations are the people with the
I want to run this idea past some knowledgeable people and see if
it looks like a good idea
In an application which passes encrypted messages from one host to
another, it is desirable to have the message differently encrypted
at each 'hop' along the way (to defeat traffic analysis).
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Tom Vogt wrote:
would most likely cast a couple new protection laws. say, make it
illegal to publish a politician's name. "our president has today..."
Well, I guess that's *one* way to get political types to support
the right to anonymity...
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, mardee wrote:
Is it possible to enter USA without a greencard??
Yes. It's also possible to get caught by the INS and deported.
Seriously, if you intend to live in the US for any length of time,
your best method of getting in is to send resume's to lots of
american
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, A. Melon wrote:
Newby puzzles:
Right, I agree.
But what I'd like to consider is a recipe for "plain ordinary"
folk to conspire anonymously to commit murder.
Did you even bother to read AP? RTFM, dude!
Speaking as someone who has very recently read AP, the
I think that what we really need is some kind of NNTP-like system
that distributes encrypted packets instead of cleartext ones. If
you want to baffle traffic analysis, just create a system where
they can't tell the difference between your emails and tons and
tons of news traffic.
It's
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Michael Motyka wrote:
From the article...
Until recently the US government strictly controlled the strength of
cryptography in software exported to different countries, in order
to protect the government's ability to access and monitor
communications data. The
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Islam M. Guemey wrote:
What kind of fucking mailing list is this?
No, I'm sorry. If you wanted a fucking mailing list you're
in the wrong place. There are plenty of lists devoted to
fucking, but this isn't one of them. This list is devoted
to cryptography and its
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, petro wrote:
Mr. Brown (in the library with a candlestick) said:
(RAH might have called it a geodesic political culture if he hadn't got
this strange Marxist idea that politics is just an emergent property of
economics :-)
Just by the way, how widespread is this use of
Actually, extracting a 3d image is not required. The patterns
that human eyes percieve as 3d images can easily be percieved
directly by machines. Sources for making SIRDS images from
text are easily adapted as sources for reading them as text.
Bear
On
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Gil Hamilton wrote:
are all apparently self-promotional mouthpieces for this Gerck
fellow (formerly of the "Meta-Certificate Group", another
self-promotion vehicle) who has shown up on cypherpunks and other
crypto/security lists from time to time, usually with somewhat
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