[48742] in Cypherpunks
Re: No FV supporters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Weinstein)
Tue Jan 30 20:26:02 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:32:50 -0800
From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
To: Pete Loshin <pete@loshin.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Pete Loshin wrote:
> Now, clearly there are lots of opinions on FV's system, but
> if people like Sameer and Rich Salz (e.g., who have reputations
> as knowledgeable and aware) are going to trash FV it
> would mean a lot more to many readers if they could state
> more specifically what it is about FV that doesn't work (or that
> doesn't work as well as, say, SSL or CyberCash or Open
> Market's approaches).
I sent a description of an attack against FV based on replacing
or hacking winsock to cypherpunks last night. This attack seems
to meet Borenstein's criteria of being as automated and implementable
on a mass scale as their keyboard snooping attack. So far I have not
seen any response from FV.
--Jeff
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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.
