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Article #435Re: pkz204c.exe is out, finally ...
From: Fuzzy Fox
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 05:25
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 05:25
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vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes: >Well, whatever the legalities, this great piece of junk called PKZIP >2.04c has had its "superior" encryption technology already broken >(by Paul Kocher, who posted his results on sci.crypt just yesterday). >He says he did it in half an hour. No, what Paul did was to break the Authenticity Verification, NOT the encryption. It has already been well-known that PKWare's AV codes are very weak. The encryption has not been "broken" to date, but only shown to be susceptible to brute force attacks. -- #ifdef TRUE | Fuzzy Fox fuzzy@netcom.com #define TRUE 0 | a.k.a. David DeSimone an207@cleveland.freenet.edu #define FALSE 1 | #endif | "911 Emergency Rescue Service - Can you hold, please?"
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!fuzzy From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) Subject: Re: pkz204c.exe is out, finally ... Message-ID: <1993Jan7.052513.2939@netcom.com> Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you References: <1993Jan6.042010.18966@sfu.ca> <1993Jan6.053553.9663@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1igcgbINNiil@crcnis1.unl.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 05:25:13 GMT Lines: 17