From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 06:28:06 +0800
To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <cryptography@c2.net
Subject: Tygar cracks SET (was Re: Freeware SET?)
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At 2:11 pm -0500 on 11/9/97, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:


> The SET reference implementation was written only with a concern for protocol
> correctness and essentially no concern for operational usability.  It is not
> clear to me that a product could be based on it without a lot of additonal
> work.  But I suppose it might be useful for hacking...

At Doug Tygar's talk at Harvard last week, he claimed to have found a way
to crack it. I, um, forgot to press him on this. Has anyone heard about
this, or what it might be?

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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