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Re: U.S. Broker goes 40-bit only
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Apr 30 12:41:06 1997
To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
cc: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>, cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Apr 1997 10:54:06 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:32:21 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Black Unicorn writes:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Adam Shostack wrote:
>
> > If anonymous would like to drop me an note telling me if
> > they've terminated their account, I'd appriciate it. (Relates to the
> > question about 40 bit session cracking I asked the other day.)
>
> Personally, I'd like to see anonymous tell us the name of the customer
> service rep who spouted that nonsense.
>
> I think they might get some results if a big pockets "client" called and
> asked some pointed questions about their crypto then walked to someone
> else.
E-Trade is a retail operation for small scale clients -- I doubt
they'd even be equipped to notice. It isn't a "normal" brokerage.
Perry
