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Duress codes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca)
Tue Oct 17 11:39:24 1995

From: s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 11:32:21 -0400 (EDT)
To: Nathan Loofbourrow <loofbour@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199510171354.JAA13063@colon.cis.ohio-state.edu>



On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, Nathan Loofbourrow wrote:

> Duress PINs liberally sprinkled through the keyspace also drop the
> efficacy of brute-force PIN search for the thief.
Was there an actual protocol for doing this? (probabilistic maybe?)
Don't remember Schneier doing anything beyond just mentionning it. (ok I 
can't find the page number either, so I can't really complain).

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