[283] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: DES recovery project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Informati)
Sat Feb 22 18:15:36 1997
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 0:14:24 -0500 (EST)
From: "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security" <PADGETT@hobbes.orl.mmc.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
>"After 2-3 months of searching, the whole internet was able to find one
>single DES key."
>Do you value this positively?
Am reminded of the story of the attractive <fill in sex of choice> who is
approached by an <do it again> and is asked if he/she/it/other would perform
CDA-violating acts for a million dollars. After some consideration, the answer
is affirmative whereupon the question is asked "Well howabout ten dollars ?"
"What kind of a <see above> do you think I am ?", whatever retorts truculently.
"We already settled that", goes the reply, "what we are dickering (legal word
in this context) about is the price."
IMNSHO, as soon as any code has been broken publicly, *no matter what the
effort*, it will never again be fully trusted and corporate specificateions
will be rewritten to raise the barrier.
Warmly,
Padgett
