SF Bay Area Cypherpunks (80th Chairborne Regiment)

August 2000 Physical Meeting Announcement

General Info:

DATE:   Saturday 12 August 2000
TIME:   12:00-5:30 PM (Pacific Time)
PLACE:  Tressider Student Union Courtyard, Stanford University Campus
        Palo Alto, California, USA

Agenda
   "Our agenda is a widely-held secret."

At Noon, we mill around for a bit: the organized program begins about 1:00 pm.
As usual, this is an Open Meeting on US Soil, and everyone's invited, even the NSA.


TECHNICAL TRACK

Upcoming Wireless Technologies — (Lucky Green)


Our resident cellphone hacker will hold forth on various futuristic 
wireless topics, including: GPRS; EDGE; UMTS; Why your mobile will 
have 1+ IPv6 address and certificate(s); possible/probable future 
hacks; end-to-end strong crypto; high bandwidth; wireless working 
groups and relevant standards. Much of this stuff has not been seen 
outside the $25k-to-participate world of telephony architecture.

Personal Key Reconstruction in PGP 7.0 — (Will Price)


As he promised at the July meeting, Will Price, the Director of 
Engineering at PGP Security Inc, will present the whitepaper on how
PGP v7 will allow individual users (and not the government, so let's
please don't get into conspiracy theories too much) to prearrange the
recovery of their own key's passphrases by answering Five Personalized
Questions to which only they know the answers. Since this promises to
rid the crypto community of the plague of newbies with those pesky
"I forgot my passphrase" problems, this could be a significant
development.

Biometric Mouse Autopsy — (Robert Guerra)


Robert Guerra with CryptoRights/Canada is bringing a biometric 
(fingerprint-scanning) Siemens ID-Mouse for anatomical analysis 
and dissection. We'll discuss the technology, the company, the 
privacy implications and have a look at the insides.
See: www.fingertip.de
     www.biometricgroup.com

Carnivore Source Code: Do We Really Care? — (All)


Matt Blaze, and several other distinguished cypherpunks, recently
appeared before a House Committee and called for the FBI to release 
the source code for Carnivore, their new black-box surveillance 
technology. We'll have a group discussion about whether or not the 
idea is being taken seriously in Washington and whether or not it 
even matters if we start encrypting the majority of Internet traffic, 
which will make Carnivore into purely a traffic analysis tool aimed 
mainly at the Sheeple on AOL and other lame ISPs, and with very limited 
utility in a world of anonymizing/pseudonymizing remailers used by 
the technical elites. Obvious moral topics here.
See Matt Blaze and Steve Bellovin's paper at:
 www.house.gov/judiciary/blaz0724.htm

Mojo Nation: the Monthly Progress Report — (random Evil Geniuses)


Autonomous Zone Industries released the beta of Mojo Nation at DefCon8, 
and testers are pounding on it daily (it's up to Beta 0.8241). 
MojoNation is a decentralized, distributed data service with strong 
crypto/privacy features, using a novel resource allocation mechanism 
to create a secure information publishing, caching, and retrieval 
system with the ability to scale up for higher bandwidth content. 
It also features a Reputation system of significant interest to 
Cypherpunks. AZI will present their monthly update and a general 
discussion will follow. Bring your bug reports.
In preparation for this session, be sure to ignore this page: www.mojonation.com,
but DO look at: www.MojoNation.NET!


POLICY TRACK:

Who Killed Jon Postel? (Tonga vs ICANN) — (Eric Gullichsen)


Follow The Money as we all watch the rise of ICANN as the new FCC, 
and the beginning of regulation on the Internet. 
Eric Gullichsen <egullich@tonic.to>, 
the Hostmaster for the Kingdom of Tonga (Top Level Domain: ".TO", 
slightly to the left of Bali Ha'i down in the South Pacific), will 
describe the current adversarial relationship between Tonga and ICANN 
(the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the pretenders 
to Jon Postel's throne formerly at IANA. Basically, this is a fight over 
who Controls the Internet and it has serious implications for the future 
of DNS and thus for Internet security in general.
See: www.gov.to (Kingdom of Tonga)
     www.tonic.to (ToNIC)
     www.tonic.to/faq.htm?GA851A83;;;#1 (ToNIC FAQ)
     www.icann.org (ICANN)

New Crypto/Privacy Legislation in the UK & Canada — (All + Robert Guerra)


General discussion on the RIP legislation passed in the UK (becoming 
active on 05 Oct), how it may make the UK a Pariah State on the Internet, 
and what we can do to help our fellow Cypherpunks there. We'll also 
discuss the new Canadian Privacy Law adopted on 13 April.
See:
 www.parl.gc.ca/36/2/parlbus/chambus/house/bills/summaries/c6-e.htm
 www.parl.gc.ca/36/2/parlbus/chambus/house/bills/government/C-6/C-6_3/C-6_cover-E.html


CONFERENCE TRACK:

   We'll have updates from attendees to the following recent conferences:

BlackHat & DefCon8 News — (All)
Tales of the IETF — (Rodney Thayer)


ADMINISTRATIVE TRACK:

International Cypherpunk Chapter Development — (Dave Del Torto)


We'll have a brief discussion about international developments in the 
Global Cypherpunk Conspiracy. Thanks to the efforts of local organizers, 
monthly Cypherpunk Physical meetings are beginning to spring up in 
places like: Toronto, Canada; Munich, Germany; Bangalore, India; and 
(soon) Oslo, Norway — and that's just for starters. The Toronto 
organizer, Robert Guerra <robert@cryptorights.org>), will be present
at the meeting, and we'll also discuss: 
Vancouver, Canada (Harondel Sibble <info@pdscc.com)
Bangalore, India (Udhay Shankar <udhay@pobox.com>)
Munich, Germany (Johannes Posel <johannes@phon.net>)
Oslo, Norway (Terje Elde <terje@elde.net>)

Cypherpunks at HAL 2001 — (Lucky Green & Dave Del Torto)


We're just starting to plan the Cypherpunks presence for Hacking At Large, 
the every-four-years hacker conference organized by our longtime friends 
in Amsterdam. Some of us were at the first conference was "Hacking at The 
End of the Universe" (HEU'94), and at Hacking In Progress (HIP'97) and the 
Chaos Computer Club's Chaos Camp'99. Next year is HAL 2001! Come help us 
all help Lucky and DDT (and whoever else wants to help) plan the building 
of our little evil empire, which will include big tents for sleeping, raving, 
hacking crypto and otherwise being Cypherpunks. We even hope to have a 
sunken jacuzzi and other wildly excessive/fun features of "cypherpunk camping".
See: www.hal2001.org

Keysigning & Keysigning Planning — (Len Sassaman & Robert Guerra)


Len Sassaman will discuss his Fabulous New Plan for how everyone will do 
keysignings in the future (it really is good), but meanwhile, we'll also 
do a traditional Keysigning while Robert Guerra is in town from Toronto,
so bring a printout or business card with your PGP Key Properties on it
and be prepared to hand it out, read it out loud and/or beam it to others 
from your Palm Pilot to theirs.

RSA Patent-Expiry Party Planning BBQ (Part III in a Series of IV) — (All)


The August meeting will feature the next-to-last planning session for the 
mondo "Cypherpunk RSA Patent-Expiry Party" (to be held on or about 
20 Sept 2000 or on Sat 23 Sept?).
Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> & Chris DiBona <chris@dibona.com>, 
with the LinuxCabal and VA Linux, are trying to put together one or more events 
in celebration of the RSA-patent expiration, and we're planning to merge the 
Cypherpunks RSA Patent Exit Party with theirs (especially if they have money 
to pay for a nice venue!). They supply the spot, we supply many revelers. 
Rick is having a BBQ on Saturday at his house in Menlo Park after the 
Cypherpunks meeting ("from 4 PM until whenever") to plan this with 
us (it's also a Linux-group meeting).
See: 
 linuxmafia.com/bale/#cabal
 linuxmafia.com/cabal/
 linuxmafia.com/~rick/map-2033Sharon.jpeg (map)
 linuxmafia.com/~rick/directions.html (directions)
Bring your own BBQ supplies (meat/veggies/drinks/etc) for the barbecue in 
the backyard. The meeting is usually quite informal, but some people bring 
machines to do installations on and solve software problems on. Rick has 
sDSL (256kbps), and as many ethernet drops with private IP assignments 
as desired. He says there are also several Linux servers on-premises, 
including one storing a full Debian mirror.

Nota Bene: We're still taking nominations for the Song List to 
be featured at the Sept party (and on an MP3 CD), so send us your song suggestion 
(and --this is important!-- attach the URL to the MP3 file).
Here are a few we've received so far to get you started:
  "So long, it's been good to know yuh" — Hal Abelson <hal@zurich.ai.mit.edu>
  "Evil Ways" (Santana) — <ddt@openpgp.net>
  "Won't Get Fooled Again" (The Who) — Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
  "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (Simson & Garfunkle ;-) — <ddt@openpgp.net>
  "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" — Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf@priori.net>


Location
   The Stanford meeting location will be familiar to those who've been to our
   outdoor summer meetings before, but for those who haven't been, it's on the
   Stanford University campus (in Palo Alto, California), at the end of 
   Santa Theresa, at the tables outside Tressider Union, just west of 
   Dinkelspiel Auditorium.

   We meet at the tables on the West side of the building, inside the
   horseshoe "U" formed by the Tresidder building. Ask anyone on campus 
   where "Tressider" or the "Student Union" is and they'll help you find it.

   Food and beverages are available at the cafe inside Tresidder.

   Location Maps:
   Tresidder Union (overview):
     http://www.stanford.edu/home/map/search_map.html?keyword=&ACADEMIC=Tresidder+Union
   Tressider Union (zoomed detail view):
     http://www.stanford.edu/home/map/stanford_zoom_map.html?234,312
   Printable Stanford Map (407k).
     http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/campus_map.pdf

   GPS Coordinates:

     ??.???? N ???.???? W  (anyone know? someone bring a GPS unit...)

   If you get lost on the way, you can try one of these cellphone numbers:
     +1.415.730.3583 (DDT)
     +1.415.307.7119 (Bill)