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Re: A note on vendor reaction speed to the e=3 problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis H.)
Thu Sep 28 09:29:23 2006
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:17:31 -0500
From: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>
To: "Richard Salz" <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <OF343FFDCA.EBC6B1EA-ON852571F5.004EDEF6-852571F5.004F4B2F@us.ibm.com>
On 9/26/06, Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Really, what? There are things it doesn't do, but since it's only a
> packaging format that's a good thing.
Though there are unshar tools, typically people run it as input to /bin/sh,
usually without reading through it (and given the level of obfuscation sh
offers, it's not clear that you couldn't sneak something through even if
the person skims it).
--
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