From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 05:52:18 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Two bits, Four Bits, ETC
Message-ID: <199601301853.KAA13801@well.com>
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Two Bits:

frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)

>One other small advantage I can see to using Lotus's crippled
>encryption. It disguises the fact that a message is actually
>(double) encrypted with PGP.  Attackers have to break the 40 bits
>before they see the PGP encrypted data.  A pecular kind of
>steganography.  (If you leave off the PGP header and trailer, it
>may be hard to determine which 40 bits are the correct
>key.)

Excellent point Bill! Lets not forget that IBM owns Lotus Notes, be
sure to include that in your bashing. They caved in on Lucifer
after all. ;)

Four Bits:

On First Virtuals Sniffer program:

Stick a VISA,MASTERCARD,DISCOVER, or AMERICAN EXPRESS sticker on
the front of a SECURE_ID card   Attack>null
( Security Dynamics is SDTI on NASDAQ ;) )

Six Bits:

_TAKEDOWN_ by Tsutomu Shimomura confirms that Kevin Mitnick used
PGP extensively, and encrypted his drives, expect the TLA's to use
that in their arguments. (Head them off at the Pass!)

A Dollar:

For those who seem to have missed it.

"Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com> = Larry Detweiler

Back to our regular Flamefest......


Brian

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