From: amp@pobox.com
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Raw Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 11:18:11 +0800
From: amp@pobox.com
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 11:18:11 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: The great GAK crack (making GAK economically impossible)
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From: nospam-seesignature@ceddec.com
Subject: The great GAK crack (making GAK economically impossible)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:41:53 -0400
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
>
> If I have to GAK my keys, and there then exists a pgp-gak, then we simply
> recruit the same CPU power that generated the millions of DES keys to
> just
> run pgpk-gak with the shortest keylength and send billions of keys to the
> GAKserver each week. Many from out of the US if pgp-gak becomes
> available
> there.
> My test software uses a loop that generates a new pair every few seconds
> on a pentium (and found some very obscure bugs). I would be required to
> send all those to the gak.gov. If they really want them...
> What it probably means is the govenrment will issue keys or have to
> license people to create them.
which bugs would those be? key generation is pretty critical. i'd be
interested in any strange results you've found.
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Name: amp
E-mail: amp@pobox.com
Date: 09/15/97
Time: 22:04:56
Visit me at http://www.pobox.com/~amp
==
-export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL
#!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
==
'Drug Trafficking Offense' is the root passphrase to the Constitution.
Have you seen
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum
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