On Fri, Mar 21, 1997 at 03:06:41AM -0600, Toto wrote:
Attila T. Hun wrote, in blood: [...]
you got that one right! just the ability to _backtrack_ into the algorithms is a start. One piece of clear text and you're toast.
You can't tell me the guy who designed the Rubik cube didn't know how to 'beat' it when he was done.
With all due respect, Toto, this is not a valid point. It is easy for someone to design and implement something they can't beat. Whether PKZ designed in, or was coerced into installing, a backdoor into PGP is an interesting speculation, but immaterial. The only real data you have is the code itself. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com,kc@llnl.gov the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html