[108998] in Cypherpunks
Re: Is PGP crackable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Mynott)
Mon Mar 8 10:20:28 1999
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:01:36 +0000
From: Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>
To: lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <slrn7e7l0q.57q.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>; from Lutz Donnerhacke on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 01:43:58PM +0000
Reply-To: Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>
how many of us keep our secret keys on our (insecure) unix servers?
and type the pass phrases in clear text online over telnet?
how easy is it to backdoor the PGP binary to capture passphrases?
--
1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk http://www.pineal.com/
one page principle:
a specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch
paper cannot be understood.
-- mark ardis
