Keep Out--The Journal of Electronic Privacy

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                              Keep Out
                  The Journal of Electronic Privacy


     There is a well-established constitutional right to privacy in the United
States.  We have this right today because of the wisdom and forethought of our
founding fathers.

     That right is being threatened--usually not by would-be dictators or
demagogues, but by well-meaning people who are simply misguided.

     To counter that threat, I created Keep Out.

     Keep Out focuses on the practical side of cryptography, digital money,
anonymous remailers, and everything else that can increase privacy.  Rather
than discuss the obscure branches of mathematics that are the basis for these
technologies, Keep Out will discuss how to get these technologies, what they
can do, and how to use them.

     Stories in progress for the first issue include:
       *  A review of the different programs that claim to link PGP with
          off-line mail-readers
       *  A story on the breaking of RSA and what it really means in terms of
          the security of your messages
       *  An interview with Phil Zimmermann, including his thoughts on privacy
          in the digital age, export controls on cryptography, the copyright o
          RSA (the algorithm used in PGP), and information on his struggle wit
          US Customs over exporting PGP
       *  In our beginners' section, an explanation of how public-key
          encryption works, and how it can work for you

     In short, Keep Out focuses on who is taking your privacy away from you,
and what you can do to get it back.

     A one-year subscription (six issues) to Keep Out costs US $15.  Keep Out
can not accept credit-card orders, but checks and money orders payable to
"Keep Out" are welcome.

     The premier issue of Keep Out will reach newsstands everywhere August 1.

     The electronic version of Keep Out will be released after it is published
on paper.

     For information on advertising, to reach our editorial staff, or for
subscription questions, call (818) 345-8640, or write:

                Keep Out
                P.O. Box 571312
                Tarzana, CA 91357-1312

     You can fax Keep Out at (818) 342-5127.  You can also reach Keep Out
through the Internet at "Keep.Out@f903.n102.z1.fidonet.org" or call the Keep
Out BBS at (818) 342-5127.  Our Fidonet address is "Keep Out" at 1:102/903.0.



John Schofield
Publisher, Keep Out
John.Schofield@f903.n102.z1.fidonet.org


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About "Keep Out": you might want to be more precise in your blurbs.  As
things stand, I'm leery of trusting anything I might see in your journal.

  From the keyboard of:  John.Schofield@f903.n102.z1.fidonet.org (John Schofiel)

> ...
>      Stories in progress for the first issue include:
...
>        *  A story on the breaking of RSA and what it really means in terms of
>           the security of your messages

RSA is not broken, as far as I know.  If you have verifiable details that
it has, that'll be quite a scoop.  If you meant to say "the _factoring_ of
RSA-129," well, you should have said that instead.

>        *  An interview with Phil Zimmermann, including his thoughts on privacy
>           in the digital age, export controls on cryptography, the copyright o
>           RSA (the algorithm used in PGP), and information on his struggle wit
>           US Customs over exporting PGP

A publisher, of all people, really needs to understand what a copyright
is.  Note that we cannot copyright ideas, only our expression of those
ideas.  Referring to a copyright on "the algorithm used in PGP" is
nonsense.  Instead, PKP holds licensing rights to a system _patent_ on
using RSA to perform public key encryption.


Otherwise, your stuff sounds cool to me, though I'd really prefer that
those who stand to get money for something not do their advertising via
this list.  Submitting boilerplate for comment is fine, but leave it to
other interested parties to pass your advertising brochures to the list.


Richard

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>                               Keep Out
>                   The Journal of Electronic Privacy
> 
>      There is a well-established constitutional right to privacy in the United
> States.  We have this right today because of the wisdom and forethought of our
> founding fathers.

Odd, but my copy of the Constitution (w/amendments) doesn't even contain
the word "privacy," let alone any mention of a "right to privacy."  (*Damn*
these variorum editions!)  There is the Fourth Amendment, of course, but
the right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures is not
synonymous with the right to privacy, IMO.

I believe it was in Katz v. U.S. (1967) that the Supreme Court first
enunciated the doctrine of a "reasonable expectation of privacy."  It's
interesting that it took the advent of telecommunications to bring this
issue to the fore -- Katz was a wiretapping case.  Of course,

#define IM_A_LAWYER  FALSE

And I may be wrong about all this, but it's too nice to stay inside and
confirm my facts.  :-)


Alan Westrope                  <awestrop@nyx.cs.du.edu>
__________/|-,                 <adwestro@ouray.denver.colorado.edu>
   (_)    \|-'                  finger for pgp 2.6 public key
S,W.E.A,T!  --  graffito at Moe's Pretty Good Gym

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> Odd, but my copy of the Constitution (w/amendments) doesn't even contain
> the word "privacy," let alone any mention of a "right to privacy."  (*Damn*
> these variorum editions!)  There is the Fourth Amendment, of course, but
> the right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures is not
> synonymous with the right to privacy, IMO.
> 
> I believe it was in Katz v. U.S. (1967) that the Supreme Court first
> enunciated the doctrine of a "reasonable expectation of privacy."  It's
> interesting that it took the advent of telecommunications to bring this
> issue to the fore -- Katz was a wiretapping case.  Of course,

	I was told/taught/have read that _Griswold v. Connecticut_ 
(1965?) was a key case in defining the "Constitutional Right to Privacy." 
Briefly, Griswold was representing Planned Parenthood, and was 
challenging a CT law that made it illegal to give information about birth 
control to anyone except married couples. The Supremes said that this was 
an undue invasion of privacy, and that there *was* a Constitutional right 
to privacy. They neglected to specify exactly where it was, though. ;) 
However, they suggested that it was held somewhere under the Ninth Amendment.

Of course, 'assert (Mike == LAWYER);' fails during runtime. YMMV.

-- 
Michael Brandt Handler					 <grendel@netaxs.com>
Philadelphia, PA, USA	       PGP v2.6 public key via server / finger / mail
"I am iron, I am steel, nobody can touch me when I'm on the wheel"  --  Curve

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> Alan Westrope                  <awestrop@nyx.cs.du.edu>
> __________/|-,                 <adwestro@ouray.denver.colorado.edu>
>    (_)    \|-'                  finger for pgp 2.6 public key
> S,W.E.A,T!  --  graffito at Moe's Pretty Good Gym
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--What
the hell is that??????? I've read lot 49, etc but I really
don't get it. Could you explain?


Happy Hunting, -Chris
______________________________________________________________________________
Christian Douglas Odhner     | "The NSA can have my secret key when they pry
cdodhner @ indirect.com      | it from my cold, dead, hands... But they shall
pgp 2.3 public key by finger | NEVER have the password it's encrypted with!"
cypherpunks         WOw            dCD           Traskcom          Team Stupid
  Key fingerprint =  58 62 A2 84 FD 4F 56 38  82 69 6F 08 E4 F1 79 11 
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 A government mandante for key-escrow encryption in all communication
 devices would be the information-age equivalent of the government requiring
 private citizens to quarter troups in their home.

 --David Murray

PGP NSA ViaCrypt Phrack EFF #hack LOD/H 950 FBI MindVox ESN KC NUA murder
QSD Hacker DEFCON SprintNet MCI AT&T HoHoCon DNIC TRW CBI 5ESS KGB CIA
RSA Communist terrorist assassin encrypt 2600 NORAD missile explosive hack
phreak pirate drug bomb cocain payment smuggle A.P. bullets semi-auto stinger
revolution H.E.A.T. warheads porno kiddiesex export import customs deviant
bribe corrupt White House senator congressman president Clinton Gore bootleg
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mafia hashish everclear vodka TnaOtmSc Sony marijuana pot acid DMT Nixon
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mark tabas agrajag king blotto blue archer eba the dragyn unknown soldier
catch-22 phoenix project biotech genetic virus clone ELINT intercept diplomat
explosives el salvador m-16 columbia cartel

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