On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 96 19:25:35 EST From: "Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: IPG Algorith Broken!
Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com> babbles:
At 04:00 AM 11/24/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 1996 eli+@gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu wrote:
Maybe this one's different from all of those. How valuable a secret would you like to wager on that? If IPG wants credibility, they should retain a respected cryptographer, or several, to attack their scheme.
"They" attempt this nearly daily by trying to taunt c'punks into evaluating the product for free.
Then someone should not do it for free. They should do it as a "data recovery tool", advertise widely, make a few bucks, and show what a piece of crap the IPG snakeoil is in the first place.
Cracktools are starting to become a profitable business as more and more snakeoil products appear on the market. (Most are marketed to law enforcement, but that will probibly change...)
There is a buck or two to be made here.
There's probably more money to be made by blackmailing the snake-oil peddler (pay me so I don't release the cracktool for your crap) than by selling the cracktools themselves.
Your both right. The correct approach is to blackmail the peddler, and then sell the cracker after the peddler has got enough of the product out there to make your sales significant. In this day and age of throw-away identity, you can make money coming and going. -- Forward complaints to : European Association of Envelope Manufactures Finger for Public Key Gutenbergstrasse 21;Postfach;CH-3001;Bern Vote Monarchist Switzerland