From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBaCv-0004PE-EF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:59:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15366E0321; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:59:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63CDE0321 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c28so865778ana.47 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:59:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=XtCT/9nCxfLVaBqCmHW3AvxTSTPd13y22Gom10tLcfY=; b=kJ2Rny7MqAU3mxcpTIcJG6OUdXWhLiF4RS1y3IPvazjJ1SmDlf9V5VQA2WNERM9H4R tTIecbEGN82KfiDVmeMPUljOVR226OAcnT1BwafHCfadY9bFQeG+HDLPqOPEYO6dsXyH jxIaqlzOkST5cSoja5NPTwp87heSLdbqKbPGk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=W+MiF7559yYD0ZElwLBTuFjz3oNr8aEyMeF39lUMT6gECffhh902rvTsRzaZ3sfnIt XeQV9m8609Xr5XOyGJX1lerFozBgMgBvQ3TDBN/UhpR7xs9pH9ONNT2TCCZLX3tVQU2k ix7GWa9zq1xVRKKDor8hizdNYOBTUEafMWkps= Received: by 10.101.67.11 with SMTP id u11mr18941619ank.118.1214420343590; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.215.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k7sm3404530qba.3.2008.06.25.11.59.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:59:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers... Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:59:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200806251958.18032.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> In-Reply-To: <200806251958.18032.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806252059.29894.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: bfc66be7-5a47-4fd1-93c2-034b23052e7f X-Archives-Hash: 8f55e3db5618c056e9ee9b4a5079b725 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list