YA cracker challenge

Gregory Alan Bolcer gbolcer@endeavors.com
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:10:37 -0800


The social factor is always the weakest link for security.

Find an internal employee, tell him you'll give him
$20k, $5k down, the balance on the deliver of the Ferrari. 

Greg

Eugene Leitl wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Robert Harley wrote:
> 
> > >>The VME is a million byte-based algorithm,
> >
> >   Warning Sign #5: Ridiculous key lengths.
> 
> A stream cypher with a lot of internal state seems to asymptotically
> approach properties of an one-time pad. There are not such worthwhile
> cyphers right now, but it doesn't mean lots if internal state is snake oil
> per se.
> 
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