[39859] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Next Hack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Fri Sep 22 05:02:50 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 05:01:11 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <199509211832.LAA24086@infinity.c2.org> from "sameer" at Sep 21, 95 11:32:01 am
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
sameer writes:
> 2) Organize a net-wide search over the space of the RNG seed to
> crack the private key of some well known secure server.
>
> 3) Release the private key to the net.
FWIW, for the record, I'm uncomfortable with this. It sounds unethical, IMHO.
For me at least, targeting the key of some particular server that happens to
be out there is over the line.
If you said you would have someone volunteer a supposedly secure server for
the challenge, I'd have no qualms.
But hey, that's just one tentacle's opinion....
-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
"...when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out"
