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Re: Anybody know details about Schneier's "flaw"?

pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) Tue, 20 August 2002 02:20 UTC

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David Hopwood <david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk> writes:

>What on earth does this attack have to do with sending millions of messages?

The point was that, like the Bleichenbacher attack on email, there are a large
list of far more serious problems to worry about than something like this.
However, as someone else has pointed out, this isn't the right forum to
discuss them.  Shall we take it to cypherpunks perhaps?

Peter.

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