Superdistribution development/release

[Robert Hettinga]

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>On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Declan McCullagh wrote:
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>> Here an incentive: if anyone breaks this, I'll write an article about it
>> and another profiling the person who does.
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>> When you have this kind of "encryption" scheme running on untrusted
>> hardware to which the user has access, it's doomed to fail. Even if it's
>> custom hardware, it'll probably be broken, but it'll just take longer.

To which Brian Buchanan replied:

>Should be relatively trivial to break the encryption, since it can't be
>over 40-bit (or 56-bit if the company joined the kiss-ass alliance).

Uh, its a Canadian company.   That John Candy movie about the
U.S. invasion didn't really happen.   ;-)

- Art

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