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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

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