I'd rather see a Microsoft challenge than a third Netscape 40-bitter. We've made our point about 40-bit keys on Netscape's skull enough times, and Microsoft is making smug product announcements referring to those Netscape breaks.
Time to spread our joy around a bit, I'd say.
Indeed. With the huge amount of people that dislike m$ I think we will at least double the amount of persons wanting to do their bit to rub their noses in it. Whats needed is someone to reverse engineer a m$ transfer, according to the published specs, isolate the encrypted section and then produce a brute engine which can be ported to the platforms we want to try. For the person that cracks a session using the brute force program in the next brutefest and provides the key, I will give a US$50 international money order to. I'm sure others will pile t-shirts on you as well. IMHO we owe Netscape some counter pr against m$, we've proved our point to Netscape and they performed admirally by being open and responsible to the net.community. Whilst it didnt seem to dent their share value, they did cop some bad press (and some media weenies still think their product is broken) because of the groups efforts. What goads me is m$ trying to use this in their press dealing and acting like this is entirely different from their situation. Seems to me they need it proved to them that because of their proprietary attitude they are in a worse position. In short bring them down to earth and serve their ego to them on a plate. Cheers, Mark mark@lochard.com.au The above opinions are rumoured to be mine.