At 09:54 AM 10/10/95 -0400, Mike Fletcher <fletch@ain.bls.com> wrote:
Well, security bugs aside (and I've got the sun4.1.3_u1 and Win32 ns2b distributions :) has anyone given any thought to using Java to do some sort of Chinese Lottery attack. I was re-reading App. Crypto. last night and it could be feasable. If you could get your key cruncher thread loaded into a good many browsers to run when idle . . . . How many estimated copies of NS are there? Anyone want to do the math? :)
Yeah, this was discussed; mix it in with a cool screen saver "We're busy hacking Microsoft!" bouncing around the screen and you could probably get a lot of people to try it, assuming of course that it can run in offline mode conveniently, which I'm not sure Netscape can yet (downloading the software, copying mozock/nullsock as winsock, and restarting Netscape doesn't strike me as convenient, which means it's also not an off-line mail/news reader yet.) The negative part is that Java Bytecode interpretation is about 10x slower than native code; you'd have to get people to download native libraries for their platform to do the grunt work. #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts@ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #---