--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: hutchinson@click.ncri.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 09:41:30 -0500 To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu From: hutchinson@ncri.com (Art Hutchinson) Subject: Re: Superdistribution development/release Cc: brian@smarter.than.nu Sender: bounce-dcsb@ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hutchinson@ncri.com (Art Hutchinson)

On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Declan McCullagh wrote:

...

Here an incentive: if anyone breaks this, I'll write an article about it and another profiling the person who does.

When you have this kind of "encryption" scheme running on untrusted hardware to which the user has access, it's doomed to fail. Even if it's custom hardware, it'll probably be broken, but it'll just take longer.

To which Brian Buchanan replied:

Should be relatively trivial to break the encryption, since it can't be over 40-bit (or 56-bit if the company joined the kiss-ass alliance).

Uh, its a Canadian company. That John Candy movie about the U.S. invasion didn't really happen. ;-) - Art Art Hutchinson hutchinson@ncri.com Northeast Consulting Resources, Inc. phone: (617) 654-0635 One Liberty Square fax: (617) 654-0654 Boston, MA 02160 www.ncri.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Working at the intersection of business and IT strategy to help organizations embrace electronic commerce opportunities" For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request@ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>