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Re: "PGP Encryption Proves Powerful"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Jun 2 10:47:33 2003
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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 11:53:19 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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John Kelsey wrote:
> At 01:22 PM 5/29/03 -0400, Ian Grigg wrote:
>
>> The following appears to be a bone fide case of a
>> threat model in action against the PGP program.
>
>
> ...
>
> Two comments:
>
> a. It sure seems like it would be a pain to enter a long passphrase on
> one of these things, so that seems like the most plausible attack. But
> I agree that it would be nice to know more about actual fielded
> attacks. (The problem is that if you're actually using them to gather
> information, you won't want to disclose your methods.)
Errr... it was a Psion, and they have keyboards.
Cheers,
Ben.
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