1997-06-23 - Re: Garbled in transmission.

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From: Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>
To: “ET” <cypherpunks@toad.com>
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Message ID: <v03007804afd45065d675@[172.17.1.61]>
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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.
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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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