On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use > themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of > the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would > keep 15 million modern PCs busy for a year.
There's an interesting side possibility to that one. It's entirely plausible that the key used to encrypt all those poor sucker Windows user's files isn't just any old key, but rather a very important public key that matches a private key the bad guys would like to have - like a CA's private key. Maybe cracking that key isn't such a good idea after all. I think this is a case for hose-pipe decryption. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
