1994-12-28 - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key

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From: eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: edfd92deb60e722bdc6b02753025d6ed6549d10a9e0b92a091904de2ee086f20
Message ID: <199412280240.SAA02061@largo.remailer.net>
Reply To: <9412281256.ZM11042@wiley.sydney.sgi.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-12-28 02:41:01 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 27 Dec 94 18:41:01 PST

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From: eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 94 18:41:01 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key
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   From: "Ian Farquhar" <ianf@sydney.sgi.com>

re: personal account tripwire

   The problem is that although you can protect the data file of
   hashes (by using a pass phrase to encrypt it), protecting the
   binary which does the checking is rather more difficult.

Why not recompile the binary?  All it needs to be is something like
md5.c.

Eric

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• 1994-12-23 (Fri, 23 Dec 94 12:38:05 PST) - Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - Matt Blaze <mab@research.att.com>
  • 1994-12-28 (Tue, 27 Dec 94 18:08:12 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - “Ian Farquhar” <ianf@sydney.sgi.com>
    • 1994-12-28 (Tue, 27 Dec 94 18:41:01 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
      • 1994-12-28 (Tue, 27 Dec 94 19:06:49 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
      • 1994-12-28 (Tue, 27 Dec 94 19:07:54 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
        • 1994-12-28 (Tue, 27 Dec 94 20:52:26 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
      • 1994-12-28 (Tue, 27 Dec 94 19:08:10 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - “Ian Farquhar” <ianf@sydney.sgi.com>
        • 1994-12-28 (Tue, 27 Dec 94 20:55:04 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
          • 1994-12-28 (Tue, 27 Dec 94 21:39:09 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - “Ian Farquhar” <ianf@sydney.sgi.com>
            • 1994-12-28 (Tue, 27 Dec 94 23:13:16 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
              • 1994-12-28 (Wed, 28 Dec 94 06:03:12 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - Jeff Barber <jeffb@sware.com>
                • 1994-12-28 (Wed, 28 Dec 94 07:51:50 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
                  • 1994-12-28 (Wed, 28 Dec 94 08:40:21 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - Jeff Barber <jeffb@sware.com>
                    • 1994-12-28 (Wed, 28 Dec 94 14:28:09 PST) - Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key - Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@src.umd.edu>