1993-09-29 - Re: Easy cracking

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From: Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>
To: jim@Tadpole.COM (Jim Thompson)
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UTC Datetime: 1993-09-29 17:46:31 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 10:46:31 PDT

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From: Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 10:46:31 PDT
To: jim@Tadpole.COM (Jim Thompson)
Subject: Re: Easy cracking
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>> The same kind of thing happened at Sun, except with the
>> secure rpc stuff.  Had a guy send mail saying, "I know your
>> two primes."  Sun replied, "No way."  (And lauged internally.)

I'm not sure this is how it happened, but the person (maybe there's
more than one?) who did this is a cypherpunk, who will identify
himself if he wants.  He also wrote a paper on this.  The first
version of the paper had the private key at the top of the first page,
but it got removed because certain spooks got upset.

		Marc





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