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Re: migration paradigm (was: Is PGP broken?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Fairbrother)
Sat Dec 9 02:43:53 2000
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 20:43:15 +0000
From: Peter Fairbrother <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
To: Rick Smith at Secure Computing <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>,
Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>,
"Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
Cc: <cryptography@c2.net>, William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
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on 6/12/00 9:43 pm, Rick Smith at Secure Computing at
[snip]
>> "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
>> Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
>
> So the 'new dictonary' for pass phrase attacks contains all the chestnuts
> from all the school lit books in the country. I expect there's a lot of
> overlap in their choices. As Arnold pointed out, maybe 1.33 bits is an
> overestimation.
In WW2 SOE and OSS used original poems which were often pornographic. See
"Between Silk and Cyanide" by Leo Marks for a harrowing account.
Peter
