------------------------ From: nospam-seesignature@ceddec.com Subject: The great GAK crack (making GAK economically impossible) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:41:53 -0400 To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
If I have to GAK my keys, and there then exists a pgp-gak, then we simply recruit the same CPU power that generated the millions of DES keys to just run pgpk-gak with the shortest keylength and send billions of keys to the GAKserver each week. Many from out of the US if pgp-gak becomes available there.
My test software uses a loop that generates a new pair every few seconds on a pentium (and found some very obscure bugs). I would be required to send all those to the gak.gov. If they really want them...
What it probably means is the govenrment will issue keys or have to license people to create them.
which bugs would those be? key generation is pretty critical. i'd be interested in any strange results you've found. ------------------------ Name: amp E-mail: amp@pobox.com Date: 09/15/97 Time: 22:04:56 Visit me at http://www.pobox.com/~amp == -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) == 'Drug Trafficking Offense' is the root passphrase to the Constitution. Have you seen http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum ------------------------