Cypherpunks list - Re: Tim May’s offensive racism (was: about RC4)

May: If you don't like my views, use your filters.

Or set up Yet Another Personal List (like those set up by Perry, Lewis, Declan, Bob, Nick, and others). Then you can exclude me from your YAPL. The Cypherpunks list is, unlike these YAPLs, uncensored, unfiltered at the source, and open to any and all subscribers.

I call em as I see em when it comes to our Japanese (in name, as he may actually not be Japanese, given his "hotmail" account) who sends us his "send me money I send you Misty code" crap.

Cypherpunks list - Tim May’s offensive racism (was: about RC4)

Anonymous: This illustrates what a liability the poster has become to the cypherpunks. The group is becoming just another militia front, identified with racism and white supremacy, applauding violent murder of government agents, one step from applauding the Oklahoma killings.  Its original purpose all but forgotten, the list has died, poisoned by the hatred flowing from its leader.

Cypherpunks list - Re: about RC4

May: It am developed.

You go back where you came. You go back hotmail. We tired your stupid questions on RC4 and your Misty posts.

Sayonara!

(And they wonder why we kicked Japan's butt.)

--Tim May

Cypherpunks list - about RC4

From: "Nobuki Nakatuji" <bd1011@hotmail.com>

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:53:09 +0800

To: cypherpunks@toad.com

Subject: about RC4

Message-ID: <19971113053703.15152.qmail@hotmail.com>

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There are RC4 sourcecode in ftp.replay.com.

but, Is it  same RC4 developed RSADSI ?

Wikipedia - Advanced Encryption Standard process

On January 2, 1997, NIST announced that they wished to choose a successor to DES to be known as AES. Like DES, this was to be "an unclassified, publicly disclosed encryption algorithm capable of protecting sensitive government information well into the next century." However, rather than simply publishing a successor, NIST asked for input from interested parties on how the successor should be chosen. Interest from the open cryptographic community was immediately intense, and NIST received a great many submissions during the three-month comment period.

The result of this feedback was a call for new algorithms on September 12, 1997. The algorithms were all to be block ciphers, supporting a block size of 128 bits and key sizes of 128, 192, and 256 bits. Such ciphers were rare at the time of the announcement; the best known was probably Square. 

New York Times - New Subtle Bug Infests PGP

In other recent news, computer hackers at the Hacking In Progress conference also announced that they had scanned in a paper copy of the source code of PGP 5.0. The company released the source code to lessen the fears of users that a secret backdoor may have been inserted in the software.

Paper copies of the software were exported because the United States government has never objected to the export of paper. The paper versions are more obviously protected by the First Amendment than the electronic versions.

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