Autor: Szymon Sokol (szymon_at_uci.agh.edu.pl)
Data: Sat 16 Dec 1995 - 13:16:23 MET
Gregorio Kus (Grego_at_RMnet.IT) wrote:
: {3) Secure Digital Transactions Just Got A Little Less Secure}
: (New York Times: Dec. 11, p. A1)
: A paper written by 22-year-old researcher Paul Kocher of San
: Francisco has shown that public-key encryption technologies can be
: rendered useless in only a matter of minutes. Public key has
: been considered to be one of the most trusted methods of
: scrambling highly confidential information sent over computer.
: Kocher's approach depends on an intruder being able to monitor
: the exact amount of time it takes someone to enter an encryption
: code and then using statistical techniques to winnow down a list
: of possible combinations that can be entered during that time.
: Experts say this vulnerability can be fixed.
Kompletne glupstwo. TO nie ma z PGP praktycznie zadnego zwiazku. Jak
zwykle zurnalisci robia sensacje z niczego.
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