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From: lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen)
Newsgroups: alt.security,comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: Software Copyright protection devices
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:43:09 GMT
Organization: CMC Network Systems (Rockwell DCD), Santa Barbara, CA, USA

In article <1992Sep2.180717.14061@hou.amoco.com> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us writes:
>                                         .....  by forcing users to contend
>with the hassles you plan to cause them, just to prevent them from pirating
>your work, you not only alienate them because of the major hassle your
>software is (or can be) for them to use, but you also alienate them because
>you are directly implying that w/o that protection, they would steal your
>software.
>
>people who want to pirate your software are going to find ways to do it
>with or without your copy protection schemes.

The reality of business life is that most people will steal software if
they can get away with it. At a previous company that I worked for,
PC software piracy was so rampant that it was considered a major step
forward when the company announced that as a policy, they would buy one
legal copy of each major program for each department or workgroup.
No wonder that this company had a hard time seeing themselves ever make
money by selling software !!

Rockwell, as a major governement contractor, has a corporate commitment
to business ethics. (They have to: The government will sue the pants off
them everytime an employee gets caught doing something stupid.) But we
know that individuals "need help" to be honest. So every month, the MIS
group scans the hard disk of every MacIntosh and compares the list of
executable programs with the list of programs licensed for that
workstation. We find problems every time !!

I agree that dongles are a nuisance, but it is unrealistic to not use
some form of protection; especially if you are targeting a base of small
business customers.
-- 
/ Lars Poulsen, SMTS Software Engineer	Internet E-mail: lars@CMC.COM
  CMC Network Products / Rockwell Int'l	Telephone: +1-805-968-4262	
  Santa Barbara, CA 93117-3083		TeleFAX:   +1-805-968-8256
From: unijbm@uts.uni-c.dk (J|rgen B. Madsen)
Newsgroups: alt.security
Subject: UFC (Ultra Fast Crypt) on CM200
Summary: Who got the fastest password cracker
Keywords: UFC, crypt, CM200
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:36:57 GMT
Organization: UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education



Dear fellows,

The project: The implementation of UFC (Ultra Fast Crypt) on UNI-C's
CM200 is now finished.

The work was done by Michael Glad, who is also the auther of UFC.
The CM200 is a small Connection Mashine (parallel computer)
with 8K CPUs from Thinking Machines Corporation.

Below are the results:

  - The C* (C-star) version of UFC can crypt 55,000 words pr. second.
    It is higly optimized and uses special PARIS functions in all the
    time comsuming parts.

  - The Fortran version af UFC can "only" crypt 25,000 words pr. second.

  - The C* version implemented as the standard crypt() function
    can crypt 53,000 words pr. second.
        
The task is embarrassing parallel and is therefore linarly scalable.
So on the largest CM200 (64 K processors) the crypt() function can
crypt 424,000 words pr. second.

At the moment, the Fortran version of UFC can crypt 85,000 words pr.
second on a small CM-5 (128 nodes) with vector units and it is NOT
optimized yet.


Does anyone know who is running the fastest password cracking program
(crypt() function) on a SINGLE machine?

Please do * NOT * respond if your answer cant'be documented or verified!
There are just too many rumors around . . .


Thanks in advance
Jorgen Bo Madsen

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Newsgroups: alt.security,comp.security.misc
From: "Jon \\lnes" <jon@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Seeking overview of security standards
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:12:13 GMT
Originator: jon@gode.ifi.uio.no

I have in front of me an article from an IFIP W.G 6.5 conference in Zurich
in 1990, containing an appendix with a summary of security standards
activity. I recall seeng similar overview presentations earlier - just a line
or two per project, with name, responsible organisation, status, doc.
reference, and perhaps target date - but I can't remember the source, and the
Zurich paper has no reference. Ann overview from 1990 is obviously out of
date, and I'm in rather urgent need for this information. I have enough
information to compile a list myself, but this will take at least several
days, and I hope to avoid this.
A vague memory tells me that the overview I'm seeking is published regularly
by the Canadian standards organisation, but I may be wrong.
Anyone out there able to name an ftp-site or a place to get a paper copy of
such a publication??

Thanks in advance!

Jon Oelnes, Norwegian Computing Centre, Oslo, Norway
E-mail: Jon.Olnes@nr.no
From: hendrick@ctron.com (Jim Hendrick)
Newsgroups: alt.security
Subject: Q: Setting up NIS in a secure manor.
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:36:55 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Cabletron Systems Inc.

Hi All,
	I have a question. Have any of you set up NIS in such a way
that:
	- The NIS servers only allow a certain set of clients to bind
	to them. THis could be a set of network addresses in certain
	ranges or an explicit list of ethernet addresses, hostnames,
	or IP addresses.

	- The Clients only allow themselves to bind to this certain set
	of NIS servers.

	- The NIS password maps are not generally obtainiable. By
	this I mean that the client machines use the maps for login
	authentication, BUT J.Fred.User cannot obtain the encrypted
	passswords.

	This would need to be implemented on a very diverse set of
machines. We currently run: Sun SPARCs (under 4.1.x and Solaris),
DECstations (2100, 3100, 5000 all running 4.2 variations), SGI
(Indigos and Irises running IRIX 4.0.x), IBM (rs6000 320s, 340s
running AIX 3.2.x). Note that most of these platforms do NOT use
a shadow password file. Is this a *very difficult thing to do*
or not? What hardware/software do you use for the NIS servers?

	If any of you care to reply/comment/question me further,
please do so at my email address and I will summarize if it seems
warranted.

Thanks!!

Jim

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From: frantz@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Toady and other stuff
Date: 31 Aug 92 10:09:10 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA


In article <10713166.17.714794349@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>, 10713166@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (ROHAN TREGEAR) writes:
> 	Firstly, I would like to cast my vote for an Alt.Vampyres newsgroup. 
> Vampirism is definitely a personal obsession of mine and it would be 
> beneficial to my own unstable state of mind if I could babble about such 
> things with other believers....heh.
> 
> 	Anyway I would just like to ask a couple of questions and make some 
> inane comments, if I may :
> 
> (1)	Has anyone out there heard of an allegedly good read called TOADY? I 
>    was informed of this book by a friend who assures me that this is 
>    definitely a class horror(despite an inauspicious title, eh?). 
>    Unfortunately, she can't remember who wrote it and I haven't been able 
>    to get hold of a copy anywhere. It is supposed to be The Guy's first 
>    novel, anyway, and is apparently a bit Kingish with a plot revolving 
>    around kiddies fighting some unimaginable evil. English, I think.
> 
> (2)	There was much discussion a while back about Clive Barker's Books of 
>    Blood, in particular a story called THE BODY POLITIC. Is this the one 
>    about the hands that aquire a will of their own and attempt to take over 
>    a city? If so this was an extroardinarily weird, mind-bogglingly cool 
>    story. I never would have dreamt such a thing myself, and the tale has 
>    really increased the horizons of my imagination. However, I felt really 
>    let down by the rest of the book(TBP was the first story) and have not 
>    read anymore BoB's since. Can anyone tell me where I might find a Barker, 
>    or any other, story in a similar vein as THE BODY POLITIC?
I really enjoyed the Body Politic, too, and went searching for other stuff 
by Barker after I read this.  (The Body Politic was the first thing I read 
by him.)  Have you read all of The Inhuman Condition? I think there's some 
wonderful stuff in it.

Andrea @ BVC
>  
> (3)	I have seen HPL's THE UNNAMABLE in my local vid. store and was just 
>    wondering if this was worth renting. Any recomendations...
> 
> (4)	For some bizarre reason I find that the morst disturbing story I 
>    have read for many a day is THE SUN DOG from Stephen King's FOUR PAST 
>    MIDNIGHT. Now, I have not been scared by a movie or book for a long time, 
>    but just occasionally a story will unsettle me, and this was one of 
>    those. You may claim that THE LANGOLIERS was better written and 
>    generally a better story, but it didn't have any where near the impact on 
>    me as did THE SUN DOG. Perhaps this is just me and everybody else 
>    thought it was pretty average, but everybody has their own hang-ups I 
>    s'pose. Comments welcome...
> 
> Thanks
>  - Trigger
>     and remember The Dead are the Great Majority. They vastly outnumber we 
>     who cling to the pathetic lives we lead.... what if....nah, never 
>     happen...
From: wwg2101@zeus.tamu.edu (GILPIN, W.W.)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Hellraiser III looks a little dodgy....
Date: 30 Aug 92 18:26:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>BTW, I suspect it will finally be released on Sept. 14 -- I just saw a TV
>ad for it.  The ad looked a little suspect.... the way it was filmed made
>it look like a bad horro movie sequel -- maybe just because it all takes
>place on earth.  Another bad sign is that they included scenes from 
>HELLRAISER II in the commercial for HELLRAISER III... an indication that
>there aren't enough good scenes in the new one??

As far as I'm concerned, the first one didn't have enough good scenes to fill
out a 30 minute Tales from the Dark Side. The concept was good, but the
execution was lame. Hellraiser II was much much better as an extension of the
original "shoulda been a half-hour" plot...as a matter of fact, the synopsis
of I given at the beginning of II is just about all of the first one that is 
necessary or desirable. For those few who haven't seen the Hellraisers yet,
don't bother with the first one, and just rent the second one. I do plan to 
see the third one and if it's half as good as the second one was it'll be great.

The same goes for the Evil Dead series. ED2=ED1 with a higher budget and a 
better sense of humor. If ED3 is half as good as ED2 then it will be worth
seeing.

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Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: gen5060@husky1.stmarys.ca
Subject: <<*NEW HORROR*>>
Organization: St. Mary's University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:54:56 GMT

Come on, Guys! 
I've been reading alt.horror, and I've heard no mention of some of the newer
names in horror literature.  Hey...don't get me wrong, I like Stephen King,
Clive Barker (he is one of my favourites), and the the others also. 
BUT...I haven't heard anybody mention David J. Schow, or John Skipp and Craig
Spector, or Richard Christian Matheson, or Joe R. Lansdale.
For those of you who have not heard of these guys, you don not know know what
you are missing.  They belong to the horror sub-genre "Splatter-Punk" and they
are great!  No-Holds barred horror, and pretty damn decent writing skills too.
These books boys aren't your flash-in-the-pan trashy horror novelists.  These
guys are very talented.
Here is a short list of some of their books:

SKIPP & SPECTOR                SCHOW                  LANSDALE
The Bridge                     The Kill Riff          The Nightrunners
The Light at the End           The Shaft              Cold in July
THe Scream                                            
The Cleanup                    MATHESON (son of THE Richard Matheson)
Deadlines                      Scars
Fright Night (novelization)


Quite difficult to find, but definitly worth the search.
If there are fans of these guys out there, I'd be interested in hearing from
you.

Chris, the Deathbird
GEN5060@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA
From: laurelp+@pitt.edu (Laurel A Povazan)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Shirley Jackson
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:39:02 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Aug28.073100.11571@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at> J1300DAF@vm.univie.ac.at writes:
>
>I am reading a book by Shirley Jackson "The Lottery", a 1947-compilation of
>short-stories. Not what a lot of you out there would consider to be "real"
>horror, but very irritating and disturbing. The stories are mostly about
>    - Oliver


I have only read Shirley Jackson's short story called "The Lottery", but
nothing else of hers. Is the rest of the collection as good as that story? I
would consider "The Lottery" to be horror as I agree with the person who said
that every story/novel/movie/etc. does not have to have anything in particular
to be included in a certain genre:)
					Laurel
 
__________________"I am Count Dracula. I bid you welcome."__________________

Laurel A. Povazan                                "There is nothing there
laurelp@vms.cis.pitt.edu                          in the dark that isn't
                                                  there in the light---
(Also known as Laurel,                            except fear."  
 the avid horror fan!)                                 -Advertising line  
						        for "Cape Fear"
						 
_______________________-Count Dracula in "Dracula"__________________________
Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: mfc1493@venus.tamu.edu (RATBOY)
Subject: Re: Shirley Jackson
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 10:57:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.073100.11571@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>, J1300DAF@vm.univie.ac.at writes...
> 
>I am reading a book by Shirley Jackson "The Lottery", a 1947-compilation of
>short-stories. Not what a lot of you out there would consider to be "real"
>horror, but very irritating and disturbing. The stories are mostly about
>loneliness and the unability to build up relationships. Highly
>recommended. Anybody out there, who read her stuff?

I read "The Lottery" is 8th grade. Then again last year. Just as good the
second time. That's all I've read by her. I think it *is* horror. Psychological
horror. As good as King/Barker/all today's stuff. Not gory, no sex, just
makes you think.

Ratboy

Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: asmith@math.okstate.edu (Allan Smith)
Subject: Re: Movie Id needed
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Math Department
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:00:58 GMT

In article <BtMw1p.F2v@wpi.WPI.EDU> avif@maxine.wpi.edu (Avram Finkel) writes:
>There's this guy in the shower, and he's singing a song.  Through the 
>semi-translucent shower curtain, you can see a vague humanoid-figure 
>approaching.  The figure then cuts through the shower curtain with a butcher
>knife, and claps a plunger over the surprised-looking face of the showerer.
>This "person" is wearing a large silver helmet which is shaped to look not
>unlike a beak.  The skin around his eyes and mouth(or at least what we can see
>of it) is painted black, the rest of his skin is plae white.  His teeth seem to
>be made of stainless stell, or some other shiny metal.  He begins to talk in a 
>strange, computer-echo'ed voice, and says "You don't EVER sing that music 
>again!" 2 or 3 times, and then he says "Do you understand?".  The showerer says
>"Yes" after the plunger is removed.
>


Phantom of the Paradise.

Saw it first as a double feature with RHPS (also my first time). Whee!

aws
Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: donnell@shark.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Hellraiser 3
Organization: none
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:42:32 GMT

Well, I just saw the ad for this. Very disappointing, Pinhead might be
the same actor, but he doesn't look the same.
Instead of allowing the images to sell the film, they quoted "The Masters
Of Horror". Always a bad sign when they pull review from "Fangoria" and      
"Cinefantastique". Now, I have never read Cinefantastique, but I read Fango for 
years, until they started becoming a goreboy stroke zine. And they have a 
very bad record of reviewing films. Remember the glowing review they gave
the very dull "Hardware"<lame Saturn-3 remake, if you ask me>?
And the comment from Wes Craven doesn't impress me either.
Guess I will wait for this on video.
<And I think the line "Clive Barker Presents..." is just an indication
that Mr. Barker can be bought! Nothing wrong with that, as long as it 
doesn't start to affect his writing>

Army Of Darkness better be good, or I will be very disappointed. Hasn't been
a very good horror film all year. Or did I miss something...

					--Judex--
From: efs@sys.schroedinger (Edgar F. Strigoy)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Alt.Vampyres
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:48:55 GMT
Reply-To: efs@sys.schroedinger.UUCP (Edgar F. Strigoy)
Organization: Schroedinger Research Institute, Woodland Hills, Ca.

Please include my vote in this tally. A definite "yes". Although
I don't get to read usenet very often, it would be something I'd
keenly look forward to.

Edgar F. Strigoy
Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: gcv2010@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: Re: Dracula - v1.0
Reply-To: gcv2010@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:07:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.174348.8528@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, paxton@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>Has anyone out there actually READ Bram Stocker's "Dracula". Following my
>recent query concerning J Harker's escape from D's castle Not one reply came

Yes, I've read the original.  I'm new to the group...what was the question?  I
haven't read the book in a few years, but it's on my shelf at home.  As I
recall, it closely parallels the Frank Langella movie version, if that helps.

Cheryl oopcv@trex.oscs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: byron@athena.mit.edu (Jack Miller)
Subject: Re: Hellraiser III
Organization: SKaters At Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:43:36 GMT

In article <37140@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ww10aac@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Eddie the 'ead) writes:
>In article <BtD6DF.HLH@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
>>Does anyone know the *actual* release date of Hellraiser III?
>
>E!'s latest report said September 11.  Trading cards are coming out about that
>time but the comic adaptation (with deleted scenes) has been delayed
>due to resoliciting.
>

	On the other hand, the soundtrack is out.  I saw it the other
day...
	
				--Halloween Jack.
Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: astoker@nyx.cs.du.edu (Andrew Stoker)
Subject: Re: BRIAN LUMLEY
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 14:22:48 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.074503.5511@rose.com> david.vaughan@rose.com (david vaughan) writes:
>
>-> From: dpsharpe@eos.ncsu.edu (DANIEL P SHARPE)
>
>-> I would like to get some information on Brian Lumley.  I remember
>-> reading in this group an article or two talking about his work. The
>->
>The first two novels 'The Burrowers Beneath' and 'The Transition of
>Titus Crow' are kicking around in paperback from Grafton.  The rest (I
>can't remember the titles off hand) are, to the best of my knowledge,
>out of print.  Personally, I thought these stories were entertaining,
>but not particularly great.  The Necroscope series is his best work to
>date (although I have not read any of the Psychomech novels).

One of "The rest" is called ``In the moons of borea'', I picked this up in a
2nd hand book shop, appears to be signed too :-)  I'll have a peek tonight for
the other titles.

Haven't tried necroscope books yet, but there' on my list of too-be-read, has
anyone read his latest effort in this line, "Vampire World" I think it's called

He might also look out for a 3 book set (or are there more?) called ``Tales of the Primal Land''

	1> The house of cthulhu
	2> Tara Khash: Hrossak!
	3> Sorcey in Shad

2 and 3 follow the adventures of a chap called Tara Khash, a kind of conan the
barbarian person.  1 is a set of short stories set in the same world as 2 and 3
but quite amusing, I suspect Lumley was being toungue in cheek with them, eg.
magic spells which are simply plain english written backwards (a dispel spell
might be "!tsol teG"), and can you really take seriously a sorcer called
"Yoppaloth" ??

	Andy
--
Andrew J. Stoker | "But my lord, I cannot ride a horse!"
Leicester Uni.   | "Capitol, we shall give you a horse that cannot be ridden!"
ajs6@leicester.ac.uk   |		      ``Wyrd Sisters'', Terry Pratchett
Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: vmzmeu@halcyon.com (Zmeu Vladimir-Martin)
Subject: Re: how to sub to VAMPYRES@GUVM for non-bitnet users:
Keywords: internet subscription to VAMPYRES@GUVM
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:45:25 GMT

vmzmeu@halcyon.com (Zmeu Vladimir-Martin) writes:

>As for starting a news group devoted to vampires, I 
>propose setting up a gateway betwen GUVM and UUCP to 
>create 'bit.listserv.vampyres' rather than starting a 
>separate group.  

Upon further reflection I take this back, but I do 
endorse the idea of an alt.vampires

Servus,

Zmeu Vladimir-Martin