Peter Trei says:

This is why it's imperative for cpunks to work on the SSL challenge recently posted. Cracking 40 bit RC4 will provide a strong industry incentive to move towards stronger crypto standards, and to pressure the government to relax ITAR.

The SSL project is at an advanced stage. I am regression testing the third (and, I hope, final) version of the SSL bruter, while Adam and others are working on the key distribution mechanism. It is important in a project of this nature that everything be thoroughly tested before we start, so we don't waste thousands of hours of CPU time... Andrew ___________________________________________________________________________ #!/usr/local/bin/perl -s-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-in-3-lines-PERL ($k,$n)=@ARGV;$m=unpack(H.$w,$m."\0"x$w),$_=`echo "16do$w 2+4Oi0$d*-^1[d2% Sa2/d0<X+d*La1=z\U$n%0]SX$k"[$m*]\EszlXx++p|dc`,s/^.|\W//g,print pack('H*' ,$_)while read(STDIN,$m,($w=2*$d-1+length($n||die"$0 [-d] k n\n")&~1)/2) Andrew Roos Realtime PO Box 15170 Vlaeburg 8018 Phone: +27-21-244350 Cape Town Cape Town Fax: +27-21-221507 South Africa