[1073] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Garbled in transmission.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (C Matthew Curtin)
Tue Jun 24 12:56:40 1997
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:13:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com>
To: Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>
Cc: "ET" <emergent@eval-apply.com>, <cryptography@c2.net>,
<cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <v03007804afd45065d675@[172.17.1.61]>
Reply-To: cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com
>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com> writes:
>> I can't remember it word for word, but it went like this: "If
>> you're going to decrypt financial transactions you'd better be
>> prepared to get 1000 computers and spend 3 months on the project."
Rick> At least Harry Houdini made it look easy when *he* cracked state
Rick> of the art security technology...
I was on the Talk America radio network very briefly Monday morning
(about 6:30-6:40 EDT). The host read something like that, and
observed that it "must be pretty secure" to take three months.
I asked him how long it would be before his credit cards expired.
He got the point.
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