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RE: can a random number be subject to a takedown?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Korn)
Wed May 2 13:46:44 2007
From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'Jon Callas'" <jon@callas.org>,
"'Perry E. Metzger'" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 18:12:57 +0100
In-Reply-To: <AC32E45B-0974-42DC-B40B-30C80EB8CB86@callas.org>
On 01 May 2007 22:33, Jon Callas wrote:
> On May 1, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> unsigned char* guess_key(void)
> {
> unsigned
> char key[] = {0x0a, 0xFa, 0x12, 0x03,
> 0xD9, 0x42, 0x57, 0xC6,
> 0x9E, 0x75, 0xE4, 0x5C,
> 0x64, 0x57, 0x89, 0xC1};
>
> return key;
> }
>
> (Or it would if I'd put the actual AACS key in there.)
Heh, that's a bit like the old issue of whether you can publish an OTP that
has certain "interesting" properties when used to en/decrypt some other public
domain information.
See also http://preview.tinyurl.com/3dcse6
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2d3hm3
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ey2mj
for more variations on this theme. Wonder if you can issue a take-down notice
for a 301 redirect?
cheers,
DaveK
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