1997-06-23 - Re: Garbled in transmission.
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From: Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>
To: “ET” <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Message Hash: 0aba165cd3edbefb14c3a5e87b58e23a0b50e0275a762aa07be4acbc310d6f0b
Message ID: <v03007804afd45065d675@[172.17.1.61]>
Reply To: <199706210004.UAA26052@jazz.cape.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-06-23 15:52:11 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:52:11 +0800
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From: Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:52:11 +0800
To: "ET" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Garbled in transmission.
In-Reply-To: <199706210004.UAA26052@jazz.cape.com>
Message-ID: <v03007804afd45065d675@[172.17.1.61]>
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At 8:05 PM -0400 6/20/97, ET wrote:
>I caught the Headline News mention of the DES crack and it
>unfortunately put the wrong spin on things.
>
>I can't remember it word for word, but it went like this:
>"If you're going to decrypt financial transactions you'd better
>be prepared to get 1000 computers and spend 3 months on
>the project."
At least Harry Houdini made it look easy when *he* cracked state of the art
security technology...
Rick.
smith@securecomputing.com secure computing corporation
"Internet Cryptography" soon in print http://www.visi.com/crypto/
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- 1997-06-21 (Sat, 21 Jun 1997 08:16:47 +0800) - Garbled in transmission. - “ET” <emergent@eval-apply.com>
- 1997-06-21 (Sat, 21 Jun 1997 08:45:29 +0800) - “Strength of encryption standard proved again” - Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
- 1997-06-21 (Sat, 21 Jun 1997 10:25:27 +0800) - Re: Garbled in transmission. - sameer <sameer@c2.net>
- 1997-06-21 (Sun, 22 Jun 1997 01:42:29 +0800) - Re: Garbled in transmission. - Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
- 1997-06-22 (Sun, 22 Jun 1997 08:21:42 +0800) - Re: Garbled in transmission. - C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com>
- 1997-06-22 (Sun, 22 Jun 1997 12:49:59 +0800) - Re: Garbled in transmission. - ”"RC5 Crackhead"” <rc5@dev.null>
- 1997-06-23 (Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:52:11 +0800) - Re: Garbled in transmission. - Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>
- 1997-06-24 (Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:33:09 +0800) - Re: Garbled in transmission. - C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com>