Graham Toal <gtoal@an-teallach.com> writes:
There is a *considerable* difference between kiddy hackers breaking game protection, and breaking a cryptographically secure protocol.
It seems to me that Mikolaj Habryn's original posting was taken out of context. He made a valid point that so called un-interpretable and un-alterable algorithms are routinely cracked by elite warez d00dz. He never implied that the software crackers were going to render your PGP key insecure. In fact, he began this thread by citing someone who was talking about using an obscured algorithm to prevent digital cash double spending. (ie. If you can't get to the algorithm, you can't cheat the system.) His comments were on the dangers of relying on this. Graham Toal <gtoal@an-teallach.com> writes:
Sure, but what's that got to do with cracking crypto? If you can't see the difference between STO protection schemes and mathematically hard algorithms, ...
That's the point. Mikolaj was _never_ referring to cryptographic security. He was pointing out how security through obscuring algorithms can never be considered reliable. Extinguishing a match with a fire-hose, Jim ________________________________________________________________________________ james speth email for pgp compatible public-key december@end.com ________________________________________________________________________________ Have you ever had your phones tapped by the government? YOU WILL and the company that'll bring it to you... AT&T