Re: Scientology tries to break PGP - and fails?
On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Tom Rollins wrote:
I took a look at the FACTNet web page. There is a file encrypted with PGP using the "-c" option. They are asking for people to help guess the Pass Phrase. Why would anyone bother if they had no clue that the file contained anything 'interesting'.
I can only assume one of two things - either this is a joke, as the decrypted contents are nothing special as far as I can see (though 'interesting' in a sense), or that someone is very, very clever and managed to hide two different messages in there with different passphrases.
If this is the file that the Co$ is trying to crack, then what the is being asked for is a pass phrase that can be handed to the Co$ that will pass the PGP valid key check and still not decrypt the data to anything usefull.
If this is the file the Co$ want to crack, they're a) clearly cryptographically inept, and b) the joke's clearly on them 8-).. Any hacker worthy of the name ought to get the passphrase within three attempts (I got it first time). Note for paranoids: Of course, this message may just be a ruse to put the Co$ off the scent ;-).. Mark
On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Tom Rollins wrote:
I took a look at the FACTNet web page. There is a file encrypted with PGP using the "-c" option. They are asking for people to help guess the Pass Phrase. Why would anyone bother if they had no clue that the file contained anything 'interesting'.
I can only assume one of two things - either this is a joke, as the decrypted contents are nothing special as far as I can see (though 'interesting' in a sense), or that someone is very, very clever and managed to hide two different messages in there with different passphrases.
If this is the file that the Co$ is trying to crack, then what the is being asked for is a pass phrase that can be handed to the Co$ that will pass the PGP valid key check and still not decrypt the data to anything usefull.
If this is the file the Co$ want to crack, they're a) clearly cryptographically inept, and b) the joke's clearly on them 8-).. Any hacker worthy of the name ought to get the passphrase within three attempts (I got it first time).
Note for paranoids: Of course, this message may just be a ruse to put the Co$ off the scent ;-)..
Mark
Ooops, I see what you mean. It is funny ! I simply did not take this at face value. -tom
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