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Re: [Long] How to recover private keys for various Microsoft

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Black Unicorn)
Fri Jan 23 12:05:04 1998

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 21:24:21 -0600
To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz, cryptography@c2.net, coderpunks@toad.com
From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <88531016604880@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>

At 04:29 AM 1/21/98, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>    How to recover private keys for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet
>            Information Server, Outlook Express, and many others
>                                      - or -
>                 Where do your encryption keys want to go today?
> 
>                    Peter Gutmann, <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>

Has anyone done a real world implementation of this exploit?

Mr. Gutmann's mscrack.c seems to compile fine, but fails self tests on
internal rc2 or sha-1.  Just me?

Anyone?


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