Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

> If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use
> themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of
> the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would
> keep 15 million modern PCs busy for a year.

There's an interesting side possibility to that one. It's entirely 
plausible that the key used to encrypt all those poor sucker Windows 
user's files isn't just any old key, but rather a very important public 
key that matches a private key the bad guys would like to have - like a 
CA's private key.

Maybe cracking that key isn't such a good idea after all. I think this 
is a case for hose-pipe decryption.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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