At 09:08 1996-04-16 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:

On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:

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I have been wondering about malicious hackers getting into these pools. would it be possible for them to contribute false data that screws up the end results? or are such anomalies easily discarded or disregarded by the final processes?

I guess I would have to ask you why you think hackers would be interested in these projects in the first place? Your typical hacker would care very little about such a project and in fact may be interested in seeing it succeed.

The hacker might be a Netscape shareholder. A successful cracking of ssl means that his shares lose value. Matts