Denning Key Registration Virus

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1 total messages Started by Lynn R Grant Fri, 06 Nov 1992 21:09

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Author: Lynn R Grant
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 21:09

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I think we are witnessing the first virus that doesn't require any
special code to operate.  Just look at the sci.crypt forum.  After
Dorothy Denning's talk at the last NCSC conference about registering
crypto keys with the goverment, there has been a tremendous response
(mostly angry) on sci.crypt; the other day I checked the forum and
there were 450 new postings since a day or two previous.  Now postings
are starting to be cross posted to the risks and privacy forums.

This is sort of like the IBM XMAS virus, but it doesn't take any code.
All you have to do is post a highly controversial item on a well-read
forum, and wait for the responses to bring the network to its knees.

Lynn Grant
Grant @ DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
N8AF

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