[48621] in Cypherpunks
Re: CONTEST: Name That Program!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Mazieres)
Tue Jan 30 05:32:32 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 05:30:35 -0500
From: David Mazieres <dm@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
To: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@nsb.fv.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Nathaniel Borenstein's message of Mon, 29 Jan 1996 15:10:19 -0500
(EST)
In article <sl3GafqMc50eQWYD0N@nsb.fv.com> Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@nsb.fv.com> writes:
> As you may have read in my previous message, First Virtual has developed
> and demonstrated a program that completely undermines all known schemes
> for using software-encrypted credit cards on the Internet. More details
> are avialable at http://www.fv.com/ccdanger.
You are a liar.
Your program does not undermine all known schemes for transmitting
software-encrypted credit cards on the internet. You have no way of
obtaining my credit card number, because I will not run your software.
Furthermore, because I use a Unix-like operating system (specifically
OpenBSD) which I re-build from source code every week or so, you would
need to hack my compiler to keep mis-compiling itself and compromise
my kernel or netstat, ps, etc, for which you would need to be root.
The first virtual protocol seems to have some real weeknesses.
However, I do not feel like wading through all the pages of text to
figure out what is going on. I challenge you to post a concise
description of the protocol, using syntax such as:
A -> B: {ID, xxx, ...}_Ks
With short descriptions where necessary. If you do, I'm sure we can
rip your protocol to shreds (which is why you won't).
David
