From: Dwight Brown <stainles@bga.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:09:53 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: January 22 Infoworld
Message-ID: <199601231528.JAA08958@zoom.bga.com>
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Nicholas Petreley's "Down To the Wire" column is a short take on the
insecurity of encryption schemes used by most commercial software.
There shouldn't be much new here to cypherpunks (he discusses the
vulnerabilities of WordPerfect, Word for Windows, Excel, and Compuserve's
CIS.INI, and uses some out of date examples "to protect the integrity of
current software": bad move, Nicholas), but it'd make a good introduction
for people who aren't familiar with the issues.

Petreley also announces that InfoWorld is planning a "network-cracking
event", in which they plan to set up various network OS'es, make them as
secure as they can, invite "a small number of accomplished hackers" to
attack them, and publish the results. He says they're looking for
participants...

InfoWorld's web site is http://www.infoworld.com. Petreley can be reached at
nicholas_petreley@infoworld.com.

==Dwight