On Jun 11, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Let's put it like this: suppose you wanted to use all of your
cryptographic skills to do such a thing. Do you think it could be
cracked? I don't...
Exactly right. After Storm, I don't think anyone reasonable still
believes that there'
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:58:26 -0400
"Jeffrey I. Schiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I bet the malware authors can change keys faster then we can factor
> them...
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To put it mildly. They can can even set up sophisticated structures to
have l
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
According to
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9094818&intsrc=hm_list%3E%20&articleId=9094818&intsrc=hm_list
some new malware is encrypting files with a 1024-bit RSA key. Victims
are "asked" to pay a random to get their fi
