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Re: Easy cracking

To: [email protected] (Jim Thompson)
Subject: Re: Easy cracking
From: Marc Horowitz <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 13:44:00 -0400
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Sep 1993 12:07:02 CDT." <[email protected]>

>> The same kind of thing happened at Sun, except with the
>> secure rpc stuff.  Had a guy send mail saying, "I know your
>> two primes."  Sun replied, "No way."  (And lauged internally.)

I'm not sure this is how it happened, but the person (maybe there's
more than one?) who did this is a cypherpunk, who will identify
himself if he wants.  He also wrote a paper on this.  The first
version of the paper had the private key at the top of the first page,
but it got removed because certain spooks got upset.

		Marc

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