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Tygar cracks SET (was Re: Freeware SET?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Nov 12 10:55:31 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971109140648.27693D-100000@cybercash.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 16:49:33 -0500
To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>, cypherpunks@algebra.com,
cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: dcsb@ai.mit.edu
At 2:11 pm -0500 on 11/9/97, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:
> The SET reference implementation was written only with a concern for protocol
> correctness and essentially no concern for operational usability. It is not
> clear to me that a product could be based on it without a lot of additonal
> work. But I suppose it might be useful for hacking...
At Doug Tygar's talk at Harvard last week, he claimed to have found a way
to crack it. I, um, forgot to press him on this. Has anyone heard about
this, or what it might be?
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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