[24552] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why I have a 512 bit PGP key
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Tue Dec 27 21:48:50 1994
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 18:40:52 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9412281256.ZM11042@wiley.sydney.sgi.com> (ianf@sydney.sgi.com)
From: eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
From: "Ian Farquhar" <ianf@sydney.sgi.com>
re: personal account tripwire
The problem is that although you can protect the data file of
hashes (by using a pass phrase to encrypt it), protecting the
binary which does the checking is rather more difficult.
Why not recompile the binary? All it needs to be is something like
md5.c.
Eric