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RE: MS Access 'known database attack'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Wed Jul 9 13:42:21 1997
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 13:31:40 -0400
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
> Of course, it might be more useful to get the key this way and then
> complain about the _length_, not the implementation, for export pressure
> purposes.
It does no good to try to mislead folks -- once someone on the other
side notices (or has been reading this discussion, of course), your
credibility is blown.
In fact, that's one of the stronger arguments the "Free Crypto" folks
have -- there have been so many false or misleading statements by the
opposition that some people are starting to doubt them.
