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Re: Superdistribution development/release
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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 09:41:30 -0500
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Subject: Re: Superdistribution development/release
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>On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Declan McCullagh wrote:
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>> Here an incentive: if anyone breaks this, I'll write an article about it
>> and another profiling the person who does.
>>
>> When you have this kind of "encryption" scheme running on untrusted
>> hardware to which the user has access, it's doomed to fail. Even if it's
>> custom hardware, it'll probably be broken, but it'll just take longer.
To which Brian Buchanan replied:
>Should be relatively trivial to break the encryption, since it can't be
>over 40-bit (or 56-bit if the company joined the kiss-ass alliance).
Uh, its a Canadian company. That John Candy movie about the
U.S. invasion didn't really happen. ;-)
- Art
Art Hutchinson [email protected]
Northeast Consulting Resources, Inc. phone: (617) 654-0635
One Liberty Square fax: (617) 654-0654
Boston, MA 02160 www.ncri.com
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