----- Forwarded message from Eric Cordian <emcat_private> ----- From: Eric Cordian <emcat_private> Subject: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack To: cypherpunks Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:25:51 -0800 (PST) Seems the folks at www.theneoproject.com have decided to continue work on factoring Microsoft's Xbox public RSA key. It's unlikely their "random prime attack" will amount to anything. Nonetheless, it's good to have examples of perfectly legal reverse engineering to counter all the DMCA hype. We will close with the following exerpt from this news story, as covered by VNU Net, a British publisher. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137916 "The Neo Project began at the start of this year to try to crack Microsoft's private RSA-576 key by using a distributed computing network. This move followed RSA Security's original RSA-576 Factoring Challenge, posted last July, which offered crackers $10,000 to break the encryption algorithm. After successfully meeting RSA's challenge this week and publishing the factors on the internet, Neo Project announced that it would focus on Microsoft's implementation of the algorithm used for digital rights management in its Xbox console." Oh my. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law" ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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