Re: AmigActive issue 3

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From: Adam Jones
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:00

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In a futile gesture against entropy, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Noel Foster said, 
> >> > Neil Bothwick <postmaster@wirenet.co.uk> wrote:

> >> There is now secure online ordering 

> > I'm sorry, but whenever I see this I think "If you believe that you'll
> > believe anything".  Cynic, moi?

> What's so hard to believe about it?  Do you really think SSL encrypted
> HTTP transmissions are realistically crackable?

The 40-bit keys common in most browsers outside the US sure as hell are.
Anyone with reasonable resources could do it in seconds at the outside.
(A cheap desktop could brute-force it in under a week, for comparison)
-- 
Adam Jones (adam@yggdrasl.demon.co.uk)(http://www.yggdrasl.demon.co.uk/)
.oO("Now that's a lovely epitath."                                     )

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From: adam@yggdrasl.demon.co.uk (Adam Jones)
Subject: Re: AmigActive issue 3
Date: 1999/12/14
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