How to break Netscape's server key encryption - Followup
There has been a successful hostile attack on a Netscape server key using the code I posted yesterday. I was contacted earlier today by someone who told me he had in the past obtained Netscape server keys and PGP private keys from Windows NT machines running Microsofts insecure FTP server which allows access to the entire drive (he found some of the PGP keys using archie searches - ouch!). He lives somewhere with nasty anti-hacking laws and definitely doesn't want his identity known, but after some pleading said I could reveal the following: - He used the cracklib dictionary to get the password - The password was found "very quickly" - The password was a female name - He deleted the server key after he'd found the password - He did it merely out of idle curiosity and has no intention of misusing the information. - He definitely doesn't want to be contacted Peter.
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