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Re: S/MIME Crack? Beware press bearing incomplete stories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcus J. Ranum)
Fri Sep 26 23:56:54 1997
From: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@nfr.net>
To: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>, cryptography@c2.net
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:11:22 +0000
Reply-to: mjr@nfr.net
In-reply-to: <v03007800b051d49d6ee2@[209.98.13.210]>
Bruce writes:
>What I did: write a Windows 95 screen saver that automatically
>brute forces 40-bit RC2 keys.
some time ago, I proposed a web site with a large amount
of free pornography. the way to access the free pornography
is to run a browser plug-in (of our devising) that lets you
view the pornography, but which devotes free cycles to
key cracking. this would not even be surreptitious: make it
clear that the way you "pay" for the free porn is by having
your computer "work" for us in the background.
you'd have huge amounts of compute power very quickly
in this manner.
mjr.
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