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Re: Non-Repudiation in the Digital Environment (was Re: First Monday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian BROWN)
Tue Aug 8 10:41:43 2000
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 08:48:10 +0100
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From: Ian BROWN <I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
I'm not sure how much confidence one of the paper's footnotes gives me:
>26. The secret key ring in PGP is usually encrypted with a much simpler
>crypto-system. Also the key ring is subject to a pass phrase but this can
>usually be broken using one of the hacker programs available on the Internet
>such as cracker, Satan, or cops.
Ian :(
