[82309] in Cypherpunks
Re: Garbled in transmission.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith)
Mon Jun 23 12:42:11 1997
In-Reply-To: <199706210004.UAA26052@jazz.cape.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:12:32 -0600
To: "ET" <emergent@eval-apply.com>, <cryptography@c2.net>,
<cypherpunks@toad.com>
From: Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>
Reply-To: Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>
At 8:05 PM -0400 6/20/97, ET wrote:
>I caught the Headline News mention of the DES crack and it
>unfortunately put the wrong spin on things.
>
>I can't remember it word for word, but it went like this:
>"If you're going to decrypt financial transactions you'd better
>be prepared to get 1000 computers and spend 3 months on
>the project."
At least Harry Houdini made it look easy when *he* cracked state of the art
security technology...
Rick.
smith@securecomputing.com secure computing corporation
"Internet Cryptography" soon in print http://www.visi.com/crypto/
