Java DES breaker?

[Mike McNally]

Mullen Patrick wrote:
> 
> ...But if you implement it in a way where the user can hang up the 
> phone and leave the browser on with the applet running, that would 
> probably work.  It would be easier to use than downloading executable 
> code and a keyspace manually...

I think that's the most likely way to do it.  You'd write a little
applet that'd just chug away, and could perhaps periodically try to 
connect back and deliver results.

Note that you could do it by e-mail too, if your targets read e-mail
with Netscape (or maybe IE; I don't know if it runs applets in the
mail reader when it gets a text/html content mail message).

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Mike McNally -- Egregiously Pointy -- Tivoli Systems, "IBM" -- Austin
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