From: pjm@ionia.engr.sgi.com (Patrick May)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 10:05:32 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SSL challenge -- broken !
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Perry E. Metzger writes:
 > Jim Gillogly writes:
 > > > Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com> writes:
 > > > I am a little alarmed by the suggestion that this news could
 > > > have some marked impact on the Netscape stock price.  From our
 > > > perspective this was certainly an unsurprising result (not to
 > > > take anything away from Damien
 > > 
 > > So far it appears not to have had an effect.  The two web pages I
 > > know about that track Netscape show it holding steady a point and
 > > a half above where it opened.  Even the IF market on SSLW doesn't
 > > seem to be taking much notice of it, despite my attempts at
 > > manipulating that market.
 > 
 > I haven't seen any news stories about this on the wire
 > services. Someone would have to write a story about it first before
 > people would know...

     Expect to see something in the San Jose Mercury News in the near
future.  I contacted them to pitch the story, hoping to point out as
clearly and frequently as possible that the cracking was possible only
because of ITAR restrictions on key length.  They already have someone
working on it.

Regards,

Patrick May

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