Hi gang,
All quiet on the cryptography front lately, I see. However, that
does not prevent practices that *appear* like protection but are not
even as strong as wet toilet paper.
I had to order a medical device today and they need a signed
authorization for payment by my insurance carrier. No biggie. So
they ask how I want it set to me and I said via e-mail. Okay. /Then/
they said it was an encrypted file and I thought, cool. How wrong
could I be?
Very. The (I hate to use this term for something so pathetic)
password for the file is 6 (yes, six) numeric characters!
My 6 year old K6-II can crack this in less than one minute as there
are only 1.11*10^6 possible.
You can lead a horse to water....
Best,
Allen
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