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Re: Non-Repudiation in the Digital Environment (was Re: First Monday August 2000)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Aug 9 13:24:04 2000
To: Ian BROWN <I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>,
Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu,
cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Date: 09 Aug 2000 11:05:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: Ian BROWN's message of "Tue, 08 Aug 2000 08:48:10 +0100"
Message-ID: <sjmu2cu4grl.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Um, it has been the case in the past that the secret keyring was
encrypted using IDEA and the user's passphrase. I doubt that this
has changed recently.
-derek
Ian BROWN <I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> 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 :(
>
>
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL N1NWH
warlord@MIT.EDU PGP key available
