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Re: 40 bit session cracking service?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Mon Apr 28 18:39:08 1997
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
cc: cryptography@c2.net (Cryptography Mail list)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:55:22 -0400
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
Does anyone have a business model to sell me the cycles to crack 40
bit SSL sessions? In other words, IF I could come up with say,
$1,000, is there someone who I can cut a check to in exchange for
craacking some number of SSL sessions?
There is a company called AccessData that sells commercial cryptanalysis
and cryptanalytic products -- see http://www.accessdata.com for more
details.
And yes, they're aware of the liability issues if you ask them to
crack a package that you don't have the right to have opened.
