From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 29 04:30:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA26998 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 04:30:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from toth.ferginc.com (toth.ferginc.com [205.139.23.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA26993 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 04:30:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from toth.hq.ferg.com by toth.ferginc.com (You/Wish) with SMTP id HAA17899; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 07:30:08 -0500 (EST) Posted-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 07:30:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 07:30:08 -0500 (EST) From: Branson Matheson X-Sender: branson@toth.hq.ferg.com Reply-To: branson.matheson@ferginc.com To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: crypto stuff In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > 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. Not marked interest here! I would like a copy.. or better yet a url and post that so that every one can get it if they want! -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If you're falling off a System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | mountian, you might as well Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@ferginc.com | attempt to fly. -Delenn