From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 28 20:18:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA07019 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 20:18:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (root@po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA07014 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 20:18:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from channel.eng.umd.edu (channel.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.186]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA10413 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:18:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by channel.eng.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA01094 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:18:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: channel.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:18:45 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@channel.eng.umd.edu To: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: crypto stuff Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This doesn't relate directly to FreeBSD, so I didn't post it to a "working" list, but it's interesting. RSA Data Security just started their challenge, $10,000.00 to the first guy to break their 40 bit US legal crypto. What a surprise, a student from UC Berkeley broke it in 3.5 hours. Flag up, flag down, real short challenge. I have the two page article on it (it was sent to the cryptography list I subscribe to). If there's significant interest, I'll post it. The thing to consider is that this clearly highlights to everyone how totally useless the (legally allowed) US data encryption is. One can hope the embarrassment will have some good effect. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------