[125721] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Ransomware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Jun 10 09:06:30 2008
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, leichter_jerrold@emc.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.61.0806091149400.24323@mental>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:58:51 +1200
"Leichter, Jerry" <leichter_jerrold@emc.com> writes:
>Speculation about this kind of attack has made the rounds for years. It
>appears the speculations have now become reality.
It's not speculation, encryption virii have been around for at least ten
years, although the encryption used was pretty crude and easily broken. Even
this particular variant (public-key encryption) is hardly new, if it's a
PGPCoder derivative then it'd be at least two years old.
Peter.
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