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On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use |
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> themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of |
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> the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would |
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> keep 15 million modern PCs busy for a year. |
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There's an interesting side possibility to that one. It's entirely |
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plausible that the key used to encrypt all those poor sucker Windows |
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user's files isn't just any old key, but rather a very important public |
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key that matches a private key the bad guys would like to have - like a |
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CA's private key. |
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Maybe cracking that key isn't such a good idea after all. I think this |
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is a case for hose-pipe decryption. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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