At 10:18 PM 8/3/04 +0100, Ian Grigg wrote:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jihad13chap3.html

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I work(ed) for a major kiretsu soon bringing crypto to public scanner/printer/copier to your airport or hotel. When I suggested that the paper that folks write strong passphrases on be backed by glass or metal instead of a pad of paper, they laughed. One form of "crypto" I was forced to manufacture was obviously succeptible to replay attacks if you merely leased the same model scanner/printer/copier for a week and had a pringles' can during transmission. Or rev-eng the driver. Convenience trumps security once again. Not surprising the dinosaurs largely died out, the more I see of them. Today I pointed out that their 802.11 blah gizmo was inside a Faraday cage ie a locked sheet metal cabinet. No wonder their wifi didn't work, eh? Not making this up...