17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) writes:
An article on the cover of "Information Week" last summer triggered new interest, and a couple of new messages addressed to "BlackNet"--the ones I tried to read apparently used a spoofed key, or the one Dettweiler created and placed ahead of mine on the MIT keyserver (the shorter key that the MIT group was able to eventually break).
For the record, the four of us who broke the 384-bit BlackNet key weren't from MIT: Paul Leyland (Oxford), Arjen Lenstra (Bellcore), Alec Muffet (Sun-UK), and Jim Gillogly (RAND). Jim Gillogly 27 Wedmath S.R. 1996, 18:56