From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:26:38 +0800
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: respect due to anonymous (Re: CHALLENGE response (fwd)) (fwd)
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> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:20:37 +0100
> From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
> Subject: respect due to anonymous (Re: CHALLENGE response (fwd))

> Munge signatures!?  He generated an RSA key pair to match the
> pre-published signature based on generating primes of special form
> and/or using multiple smaller primes to construct an n which he could
> perform discrete logs in (plus a dead beef attack), and all you can
> say is the above.  You should take you hat off to anonymous.

What he did is respectable. Is he the first? I doubt it.


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