Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wang!comm.wang.com!lws From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Info on Lotus Marketplace Keywords: Lotus Marketplace Home Message-ID: <1990Dec15.191545.27581@comm.wang.com> Date: 15 Dec 90 19:15:45 GMT References: <11252@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Wang Labs, Platform Comms. Lines: 24 ddean@rain.andrew.cmu.edu (Drew Dean) writes: > Also, how secure is "highly encoded" ? Remember a few years ago the >"unbreakable" copy protection schemes, which were usually broken either >before the product was released or within 1 month if it was really hard ? >Can the NSA invert DES ? [Not to be paranoid, but it's still an open >question.] Can someone else invert DES ? It's not really an open question, it just requires a lot of CPU. The NSA has the power, do they have the motivation? Most other places don't have the power right at hand, but here at Wang, we've got thousands of machines on a LIN. I'll bet that if I had the motivation, I could write a distributed DES cracker running nights and weekends and break the database in a couple of months. Paying off the right people at Lotus would probably be easier, though. >Would encrypting a bunch of >common names do any good, ala encrypting the dictionary to find Unix >passwords ? Probably. -- Lyle Wang lws@capybara.comm.wang.com 508 967 2322 Lowell, MA, USA Source code: the _ultimate_ documentation.