Brute Force and Smart Force

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Mon Sep 18 21:25:03 PDT 1995



Adam Shostack writes:
> 	Perhaps we should refocus our efforts on attacking PGP, to see
> if there are holes there?  (I'm not suggesting there are, but it
> would be nice to see some code written to extend Crack to phrases,
> do some more code review, etc.)

Probably a worthwhile enterprise. Unfortunately, Netscape and the like
are low hanging fruit -- its much simpler to find holes in things, er,
of that, er, ah, quality -- and one probably rightfully gets more
press for breaking them.

Perry






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