RE: European Data Retention and Encryption for Dummies

2002-06-03 Thread Lucky Green
Tom wrote: The problem with both is the need of SSL certificates. So I was thinking of setting up a Joe Doe's CA. A simple webpage where you can request a certificate. It would do two check: a) check if IP you are using is identical to the IP you are requesting for, i.e. you'll have to

RE: 2 Challenge Gun Cases, Citing Bush Policy

2002-06-03 Thread Lucky Green
Ed wrote: At 07:17 PM 6/2/02, Lucky Green wrote: In United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876), the Supreme Court held that: ... The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence

RE: 2 Challenge Gun Cases, Citing Bush Policy

2002-06-03 Thread Lucky Green
Ed wrote: At 07:17 PM 6/2/02, Lucky Green wrote: In United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876), the Supreme Court held that: ... The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence

RE: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-06-02 Thread Lucky Green
Curt wrote: I concur. The problem is that the most prevalent e-mail program (Outlook) requires no user intervention as a default when signing and/or encrypting a message with S/MIME. One can override the default to High Security (requiring password) only while the X.509 certificate is

RE: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D

2002-06-02 Thread Lucky Green
Mike wrote: And what's to prevent it from happening at a high level if there's enough profit in it? MPAA is a tiny market compared to the rest of the electronics industry - it will be easy to bypass the law on a huge scale. You don't need to be a sufficiently talented electrical

RE: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-06-02 Thread Lucky Green
Mike wrote: Thanks, that was very enlightening. The URL is good too - they mention that An electronic signature is defined as being: an electronic sound, symbol or process attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed or adopted by a person

RE: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-06-02 Thread Lucky Green
Curt wrote: I concur. The problem is that the most prevalent e-mail program (Outlook) requires no user intervention as a default when signing and/or encrypting a message with S/MIME. One can override the default to High Security (requiring password) only while the X.509 certificate is

RE: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D

2002-06-02 Thread Lucky Green
Mike wrote: And what's to prevent it from happening at a high level if there's enough profit in it? MPAA is a tiny market compared to the rest of the electronics industry - it will be easy to bypass the law on a huge scale. You don't need to be a sufficiently talented electrical

RE: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-06-02 Thread Lucky Green
Mike wrote: Thanks, that was very enlightening. The URL is good too - they mention that An electronic signature is defined as being: an electronic sound, symbol or process attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed or adopted by a person

RE: attack on rfc3211 mode (Re: disk encryption modes)

2002-05-27 Thread Lucky Green
Peter wrote: Yup. Actually the no-stored-IV encryption was never designed to be a non- malleable cipher mode, the design goal was to allow encryption-with-IV without having to explicitly store an IV. For PWRI it has the additional nice feature of avoiding collisions when you use a

RE: PGP - when you care enough to send the very best!

2002-05-27 Thread Lucky Green
Curt Smith wrote: It is strange that crypto was a lot more popular back when cryptography export was heavily controlled. Many people fought for their crypto rights, but cannot be bothered with encrypted e-mail. It is similar to securing the right to vote and then declining to do so.

RE: attack on rfc3211 mode (Re: disk encryption modes)

2002-05-27 Thread Lucky Green
Peter wrote: Yup. Actually the no-stored-IV encryption was never designed to be a non- malleable cipher mode, the design goal was to allow encryption-with-IV without having to explicitly store an IV. For PWRI it has the additional nice feature of avoiding collisions when you use a

RE: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread Lucky Green
Tim wrote: On Sunday, May 26, 2002, at 10:07 AM, John Young wrote: Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/opinion/26FRIE.html Webbed, Wired and Worried, May 26, 2002 pose these questions to techies. I found at least some of their

Government subsidies: our last, best hope for Cryptanarchy?

2002-05-24 Thread Lucky Green
You may be asking yourself: where, oh where, has all the crypto gone? Where are the BlackNet's? Where is the untraceable Ecash? Where is the Cryptanarchy that we've been waiting for? For that matter...where is the crypto? The staunchest Cypherpunk will by now have noticed that PGP/GPG usage even

RE: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick

2002-05-23 Thread Lucky Green
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 me about it. PGP, GPG, and all its variants need to

RE: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick

2002-05-22 Thread Lucky Green
Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: 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

RE: p2p and asymmetric bandwidth (Re: Fear and Futility at CodeCon)

2002-04-28 Thread Lucky Green
James wrote: IPV6 to the rescue. Every network behind a NAT router should set up a 6to4 tunnel, probably some time early in 2003. IPv6 is almost source code compatible with IPv4, so every application should soon be recompiled to be IPv6 compatible. Every computer with a recent

Transparent disk encryption coming this year [was:RE: disk encryption modes]

2002-04-28 Thread Lucky Green
I would like to direct anybody's attention who is interested in transparent drive encryption to GEOM, which will be a native feature of FreeBSD 5.0. GEOM is a project that is slated for inclusion in the release of FreeBSD 5.0, a major upgrade to FreeBSD that has been years in the making, due out

Hard drive encryption [was: RE: Biometrics helping privacy]

2002-04-24 Thread Lucky Green
Peter wrote: I have seen hard drives which do sector level encryption, and hook into the bios so that the pw request happens before any system sw runs. This is a good solution (modulo bios hacking)[...] Any such hard drives that I have seen keep the actual encryption key utilized in

Hard drive encryption [was: RE: Biometrics helping privacy]

2002-04-24 Thread Lucky Green
Peter wrote: I have seen hard drives which do sector level encryption, and hook into the bios so that the pw request happens before any system sw runs. This is a good solution (modulo bios hacking)[...] Any such hard drives that I have seen keep the actual encryption key utilized in

RE: Lucky's 1024-bit post [was: RE: objectivity and factoring analysis]

2002-04-23 Thread Lucky Green
[Written originally in response to a post on Cryptography. --Lucky] Enzo wrote: Further to Lucky's comments: in the last few days I have discussed keysize issues with a few people on a couple of mailing lists, and I have encountered a hostility to large keysizes of which, frankly, I don't

RE: SATELLITE RADIO OPERATORS COMPLAIN ABOUT WI-FI INTERFERENCE

2002-04-01 Thread Lucky Green
Steve wrote: [Note: The WSJ's take on the Sirius petition. Pay heed to the 'meltdown' comment from Powell!] SATELLITE RADIO OPERATORS COMPLAIN ABOUT WI-FI INTERFERENCE [...] http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1017613134883515920.djm,00.html (sub req'd) I wonder how long it will take

RE: on the state of PGP compatibility (2nd try)

2002-03-31 Thread Lucky Green
Adam Back wrote: So I was trying to decrypt this stored mail sent to me by a GPG user, and lo pgp6.x failed to decrypt it. [Long story about PGP/gpg version incompatibility elided] If I understand you correctly, you are saying that the latest version of gpg has a bug in that it doesn't

RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-28 Thread Lucky Green
[OK, let me try this again, since we clearly got off on the wrong foot here. My apologies for overreacting to Damien's post; I have been receiving dozens of emails from the far corners of the Net over the last few days that alternatively claimed that I was a stooge of the NSA because everybody

RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-28 Thread Lucky Green
[OK, let me try this again, since we clearly got off on the wrong foot here. My apologies for overreacting to Damien's post; I have been receiving dozens of emails from the far corners of the Net over the last few days that alternatively claimed that I was a stooge of the NSA because everybody

1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-23 Thread Lucky Green
be considered compromised. The revoked keys and my new keys are attached below. --Lucky Green -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- [Keys elided to comply with LNE node message size constraints].

RE: Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad (fwd)

2002-02-19 Thread Lucky Green
Eugene wrote: possibly even false ones? and even Western Europe. As official policy? I wonder which genius comes up with those ideas. What I fail to understand is where the news are in this article. Yes, the US government, as all governments, is engaging in disinformation, deception, and

Encrypted file system for FreeBSD?

2002-02-14 Thread Lucky Green
If you are having first-hand experience running an encrypted file system on FreeBSD, could you please get in touch with me? Thanks, --Lucky

RE: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?

2002-01-02 Thread Lucky Green
platform is continuing to lose the adoption rate fight against PocketPC, basing any new product on the future availability of next-generation Palm devices places the software developer's business model at risk. --Lucky Green

RE: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?

2001-12-31 Thread Lucky Green
Ryan wrote: Everyone has palm pilots already. WinCE-based PocketPCs haven't made much of a dent in the marketplace. There is also a very large developer community for palm apps, and they're widely deployed in corporations. I am not sure that the existance of a large developer

Re: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?

2001-12-30 Thread Lucky Green
to destroy the key server? Lucky: Right. [I guess they no longer shoot military suppliers who's products endanger the armed forces for treason]. -- Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP encrypted email preferred.

Re: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?

2001-12-29 Thread Lucky Green
recommend against its purchase. In summary, at present trustworthy end-to-end encrypting GSM handsets are not available in the market place. -- Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP encrypted email preferred.

RE: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-13 Thread Lucky Green
Meyer Wolfsheim wrote in reply: Do you know how many messages are going through the remailer network now? How many do you think the average remailer processes in a day? I'm assuming 5-10K/day. I don't know what Tim and others discussed at the meeting that Tim references. Ask him.

RE: What the Heck is OPSEC?

2001-12-12 Thread Lucky Green
As a member of the OPSEC Professionals Society (OPS) http://www.opsec.org/, I would encourage any Cypherpunk interested in operational security to make use of the wealth of information and training material that can be ordered from the US Interagency OPSEC Support Staff website at

FW: FreeSWAN Release 1.93 ships!

2001-12-10 Thread Lucky Green
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FreeSWAN Release 1.93 ships! On Sunday 09 December 2001 07:32 pm, Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The big question is: will FreeS/WAN latest release after some 4 or 5 years of development finally both compile and install cleanly on current versions of Red Hat

RE: Magic Money URL?

2001-12-09 Thread Lucky Green
George wrote: I had an urge to take a look at the magic money code, I was unable to find it, my googling just led me to old dead extinct URLs. Does anyone know of an URL for it that currently works? ftp://zedz.net/pub/crypto/ecash/ --Lucky

RE: Pricing Mojo, Integrating PGP, TAZ, and D.C. Cypherpunks

2001-11-25 Thread Lucky Green
Greg wrote: That's very warm and fuzzy and hippy-like, but if these tokens are handed out for free, then what, exactly, is their value? I think the Extropians did something like that, which ended in some sort of fiasco which some cypherpunks were involved in, though I don't know the

RE: True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

2001-11-25 Thread Lucky Green
[Redundant/inappropriate lists elided]. The page at Amazon. COM claims that the book in question will ship in December of this year. I seem to recall having read announcements in years past that the book would ship in the respective years. Methinks that a mere claim of a future ship date in 2001

RE: Where the torture never stops..

2001-10-24 Thread Lucky Green
Undoubtedly, the bruises on the suspect's body and the electrical burn marks on his testicles were self-inflicted... Oh, I see. The FBI will release the suspect's body only after cremation. For the public's safety. Never mind my comment. I didn't see it mentioned on this list, though I may have

RE: bespectacled, nerdly remailer operators

2001-09-15 Thread Lucky Green
Anon wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Nomen Nescio wrote: Right, ninja troops carrying away bespectacled, nerdly remailer operators. Here's a better fantasy. They'll hire $1000/night superhookers and seduce the remailer operators into giving up their keys. Both have about equal chances of

Cnet blaming Declan

2001-09-14 Thread Lucky Green
This Cnet show keeps getting better. The host is now quoting Declan's article, stating that fortunately Declan's affectionatos are not in charge. And apparently an An Metet has emailed him a death thread... The host, David Lawrence, read the death thread on the air. This is on the air right

RE: Cypherpunks and terrorism

2001-09-14 Thread Lucky Green
Nomen wrote, replying to Greg: --- You're about to begin running a remailer. Apparently you haven't done so before. Well, it should be quite an education. Keep it up for a year and you'll be more qualified to judge whether this technology is good or bad, on balance. One thing is

RE: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

2001-09-11 Thread Lucky Green
Normen wrote: Oh and Im sure having guns on board planes would work out great especially considering the increase of people having huge fucking fits and having to be held down on planes, yeah, lets arm people on planes. Ignoring for a moment if it is indeed true that

FreeBSD mixmaster binary?

2001-09-11 Thread Lucky Green
Having run one of the first Mixmaster remailers ever from a shell account at Netcom years ago, I am ready to set up a new remailer to fill in the gaps created by some remail ops shutting down their remailers in the wake of recent events. Unfortunately, compiling Mixmaster on FreeBSD has become

Re: Eric Hughes

2001-09-08 Thread Lucky Green
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, A. Melon wrote: Does anyone know Eric Hughes' current email address? the ricocet one is, of course, non-functional now. eh(a_t)speakeasy.net -- Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP encrypted email preferred.

RE: Gotti, evidence, case law, remailer practices, civil cases, civilit

2001-08-03 Thread Lucky Green
Ray wrote: [...] as one who is not of the Priveleged Caste in terms of access to legal information, (ie, willing to pay thousands of bucks to Westlaw or whoever each year) I am grateful to him for passing it on. There are Cypherpunks without a Westlaw or LEXIS login? The mind boggles...

RE: cell phone anonymity

2001-01-13 Thread Lucky Green
in the future. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

[No joke] Want to buy radome

2000-11-21 Thread Lucky Green
this inquiry to more appropriate fora that you might be aware of. Thanks, --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06

RE: The Market for Privacy

2000-11-01 Thread Lucky Green
er company that fell prey to the DigiCash "we know better than the market what the market wants" syndrome. What a shame, really. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06

RE: Wired News tech scorecard for U.S. House of Representatives

2000-10-25 Thread Lucky Green
r now at least) or the government will censor us (harshly)". Get in the game, --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06

RE: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-25 Thread Lucky Green
he expense of the others does not count. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06

RE: Mac created the modern Internet

2000-10-19 Thread Lucky Green
we Mac users had to look elsewhere for our ISPs. Net Cruiser. It was a logical step to take for Netcom, given the state of IP client software for Windows at the time, but made obsolete pretty much the moment it was released by TIA. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt..

RE: Burglar Politics, Tempesting PC's that watch TV and DVD regions

2000-10-12 Thread Lucky Green
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, jim bell wrote: A popular, but false, myth. The video cards radiate more than the CRT's. Laptops tend to be the worst offenders. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] As to the video cards... Sorry, Lucky, but you're going to have to support this a little better

RE: Burglar Politics, Tempesting PC's that watch TV and DVD regions

2000-10-10 Thread Lucky Green
a secret Paxman admirer. A popular, but false, myth. The video cards radiate more than the CRT's. Laptops tend to be the worst offenders. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in

RE: request for info about DU

2000-10-10 Thread Lucky Green
A more interesting question might be: where does one get depleted uranium. I looked, but found no useful information on the Net. Surely there can't be much restrictions on this stuff. [The even more interesting question of course is where to obtain enriched uranium}. --Lucky Green [EMAIL

Anarcho-capitalist buys space station

2000-08-17 Thread Lucky Green
The other day, somebody posted a pointer to an article about the investor that purchased MIR. Having read the article, I believe it warrants posting in its entirety. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt: that's against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Moti

RE: A statement of purpose

2000-08-16 Thread Lucky Green
Mon, 5 Oct 92. I remember this post well. Time flies... --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt: that's against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: The Standard discovers Regulatory Arbitrage

2000-08-10 Thread Lucky Green
t remember the title. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt: that's against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06

RE: Keg waiting periods? Gag.

2000-08-09 Thread Lucky Green
A cite would make this post a lot more credible. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt: that's against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: RSA expiry commemorative version of PGP?

2000-08-09 Thread Lucky Green
be missing for long. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt: that's against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06

Sign Lucky's photo

2000-08-06 Thread Lucky Green
I added a fitting photo to my PGP key. If you believe this to be me, please do sign the photo. PGP key ID 0x375AD924. Thanks, --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you decrypt: that's against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in

RE: Cell Phone Crypto

2000-07-11 Thread Lucky Green
, I find that my minions, lackeys, cohorts, and I have need of cell phones that encrypt the conversation between two or more users. Anyone sell these in the US of A? Yes. (But hard to find and expensive). Are they legal to own operate? Yes. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytim

Need used Cisco hardware

2000-07-10 Thread Lucky Green
I am having a devil of a time finding sources for used Cisco routers. In particular, I need two 3640. Any idea where to find them for cheap? (Of course there is a Cypherpunks connection. Or I wouldn't post it here). --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you circumvent an encryption

RE: barcodes...specifically code128 and pdf417

2000-07-06 Thread Lucky Green
For PDF417, start by looking at http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/tools/pdf417-1.0.tar.gz -- Lucky, who sponsored the project some 5 years ago... --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Anytime you circumvent an encryption, you are violating the law". "Anytime you decrypt... that's

RE: Help add strong crypto to AirPorts

2000-06-15 Thread Lucky Green
Bob' Morgan wrote: Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 16:39 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Help add strong crypto to AirPorts On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, William Allen Simpson wrote: But part of this is a problem with the Lucent design. There is only one key for the entire

RE: ZKS -- This is some seriously bad stuff

2000-06-15 Thread Lucky Green
ood chance of remaining secure for many decades. In the long run, the total of 4 calendar years spent on the effort will be considered worth it. In just a few months, AES will have been chosen. Expect the cryptanalysts to turn their attention to targets closer to the heart of Cypherpunks soon thereafter

RE: ZKS makes the WSJ (again)

2000-06-12 Thread Lucky Green
Patrick Henry wrote: [About ZKS being mentioned in the WSJ] One can only wonder where we're headed when cypherpunkery gets this mainstream. I don't know where we are headed. But I do know where we are: Cypherpunks is about strong crypto, open source, and peer review of that source. With the

RE: Crypto in a crime appears about to become law

2000-05-24 Thread Lucky Green
provision sponsored by Schumer is about par. Less than par actually. I am surprised he isn't calling for an outright ban of assault crypto. Guess he's holding this in reserve for "Phase II". --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history wi

RE: Re: Concentration Camp Locations +

2000-05-24 Thread Lucky Green
than vague descriptions of the supposed locations of these camps. GPS coordinates are pretty much a must. Extraordinary claims require at least a shred of evidence. No, wild-eyed assertions do not evidence make. --Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in

Re: napster vs gnutella -- why distributed systems win

2000-05-10 Thread Lucky Green
. The company's official statement can be found at http://www.napster.com/metallica-notice.html. Media coverage at http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1847464.html -- Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP encrypted email preferred.

RE: Napster + StegoMPEG: prelude to eternity

2000-05-07 Thread Lucky Green
Keyser-soze wrote: [On stegoing data into MP3 cover traffic]. So has anyone developed an MP3 stego program? Yes. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fapp2/steganography/mp3stego/ Unfortunately, the highly compressed MP3's are technically ill-suited to serve as carriers for stegoed data. What you really

RE: Negatives from film shot at Waco are missing, U.S. says

2000-04-22 Thread Lucky Green
I suspect the anonymous poster already knows all of the following and is just trying to troll, but on the slim chance that he doesn't, here are the facts: The ATF claims that the agents began shooting after they had approached the front door and were surprised by full-auto fire shot *through the

RE: Negatives from film shot at Waco are missing, U.S. says

2000-04-21 Thread Lucky Green
I am not surprised that the negatives can't be found. After all, the steel front door of the church, which Waco survivors hold would show that the bullet holes in it were made from the outside (thereby by the ATF), has vanished from the evidence room without a trace. --Lucky Green [EMAIL

RE: Disk INsecurity:Last word on deletes, wipes The Final Solution.

2000-04-06 Thread Lucky Green
I am not aware of any high-end data recovery outfits that use software solutions. Everybody I know of in that space uses STM's. I believe it was Peter Gutmann who publicized the fact that you can buy STM workstations that ship with vacuum chucks for all popular platter sizes. --Lucky Green

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