Phone call for Mr. Doligez, was Re: SSL challenge -- broken !
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SSL challenge -- broken
Indeed, it seems so, and the feeding frenzy in the press has begun. I zinged this over from cypherpunks to www-buyinfo this morning, and this afternoon I got a rather interesting call from a reporter. I told him about ITARs, its effect on internet commerce and the silliness of a 40 bit key, etc. He wanted to know if I knew Damien's phone number(!), and I told him to have ATT put one of their translators-for-hire on the line and call INRIA, Ecole Polytechnique, or Ecole Normale Superieure, and track him down there. Meanwhile, if Mr. Doligez sees this, call Alan Beck at 619-625-0700, or email him at alan@tgc.com. I can see the headlines now: "Netscape Security Broken, Stock Falls". Make-a the Ganglia Twitch. Haven't had this much fun since the hogs ate my little brother... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 323-7923 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell
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From: rah@shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga)
I can see the headlines now: "Netscape Security Broken, Stock Falls".
Bob, So can I... :-( Too bad Damien didn't wait until after the date one could legally short the stock. That would have been the perfect time for a media frenzy on the issue. The announcement of SSL having been broken is occuring too soon to be at all useful in the financial sense. The media frenzy, if it happens, will now occur well before the 30-day lock-out on shorting a new issue. What a shame. <arg>! Loren
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