On Fri, 18 Aug 1995 02:11:00 -0400 you wrote:
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With all the talk about cracking SSL, where is the cracking software? Sombody just offered me a six Pentium workstation, if I agree to give it a "real workout". I'd like to be able to say: "Sure, will do."
There must be several versions of the code at this point. The Cypherpunks release, Damien's release and whoever else wrote some code to do the chore. If someone could pass me a pointer to the version that's best-commented and most understandable (one man's C is another man's crypto) I'd like to port it to Windows NT and write a simple installation to install it as a service. Perhaps a general-purpose OO bruteforcing library (addition to Crypto++?) would be a good idea. Just pass a pointers to the encrypt() and decrypt() functions to use for this session to the Cracker object, which in turn takes a number of bits and starts cracking.:) The problem with this is the disparity among out-of-the-box encrypt and decrypt functions. But I suppose it's nothing that couldn't be overcome with wrapper functions. Just thinking out loud. :) Dan ****************************************************************************** "I think, therefore I am" - Descartes Dan Bailey "I don't think, therefore I'm a moustache." - Sartre dan@milliways.org Worcester Polytechnic Institute and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ******************************************************************************