RIPApart3 is the new law here in the UK that gives the Government the right
to demand the plaintext and/or keys of "information protected by
encryption". This includes intercepted communications, information on hard
discs in PC's, and information stored on servers. And your PGP/RSA private
keys...
on 6/12/00 9:43 pm, Rick Smith at Secure Computing at
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>> "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 l
t; Goldreich... forgive me if I'm wrong. The important result, though, was
> that you need truly random input to the algorithm in an amount equal to the
> stuff being protected, or you cannot have unconditional security.
Not so. Perfect compression with encryption works too.
>The O
I have received, in chronological order and without censorship (moderation),
the following replies to this email:
"Name Wanted: Torturing passwords out of people with threats of (?repeated)
beatings is usually called rubberhose cryptanalysis.
What should torturing passphrases out of people with th
