Re: This is soooo kool!

From: Death to Smoochy (FoneBone_at_Snerd.Blort)
Date: 09/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:05:28 GMT

"Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis@iahu.ca> wrote in
news:lvieb.15270$lKj.14415@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com:

> Blah blah blah.

I don't see you cracking serial numbers with the methods of formal
cryptography.

> The codes aren't meant to be uber-hard to crack they're meant to be a
> roadblock so you have to explicitly work against it to run the
> software. E.g. you cannot claim it was "free" or whatnot because you
> had to use a keygen.

I didn't say they were. This is an interesting case history of how to
extract an algorithm with nothing more than a front panel attack, with no
reverse engineering required. You can't do it.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: The ID Chip You Dont Want in Your Passport
    ... crybaby St Denis coming unglued it really doesn't get any clearer. ... I didn't say Bruce has no place here. ... it's a SECURITY issue not a CRYPTOGRAPHY issue. ...
    (sci.crypt)
  • Re: strengthening /dev/urandom
    ... Tom St Denis writes: ... It gets away from cryptography, but there was an amazing article about ... the nature of entropy written for the RNG section of IEEE P1363 that ...
    (sci.crypt)
  • Re: One-Time_Pad
    ... Tom St Denis writes: ... One of the interesting things about cryptography is that it only takes ... Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. ...
    (sci.crypt)