[107956] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP cryptography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fade)
Fri Jan 29 19:47:28 1999
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:28:06 -0800
To: mb974594@student.paisley.ac.uk (Matthew Baker), cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Fade <fade@i1.net>
In-Reply-To: <36B1F022.CFBFEBF@student.paisley.ac.uk>
Reply-To: Fade <fade@i1.net>
Looks to me like they're just trying to brute-force passwords. (They say
the demo will only crack up to 10-character passwords). A passphrase
of a decent length will protect against this.
Their demo blurb says you should be able to crack any of the supported formats
except office 97, but when you d/l the demo you find out it will only work
on windows screensaver passwords. :P Also they claim to be able to crack
PDF files (which use 40bit RC4) and PGP files, and so forth, but I don't see
any "modules" available for those formats.
Anyway.
-=fade
At 05:30 PM 1/29/99 +0000, Matthew Baker wrote:
>Hi
>
>Not on this list so please send replies also to me.
>
>found this site on the internet, a company who claim to recover PGP
passwords.
>They also say they have patented cryptanalysis ?
>
>look here:
>
>http://www.buchananinternational.com/password/pwrd_faq.htm
>http://www.buchananinternational.com/password/psswrd02.htm
>
>What do you think ? Sounds like the marketing dept got carried away
>
>Matt
