On 5/21/11 6:01 PM, JD wrote: > On 05/21/11 17:45, James McKenzie wrote: >> On 5/20/11 3:54 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 14:20 +0000, g wrote: >>> I know it extremely well, having taught it in undergrad CS courses. >>> >> Most of us out here that lived through that mess are very well versed in >> the history and arrest of Phil. There was a fund to help pay for his >> defense. >>> I have completely lost track of whatever point it was you were trying to >>> make. PGP has nothing whatever to do with Wifi security in the sense of >>> this thread. >>> >> Cryptographic algorithms and making their internal workings public. >> BTW, there are TWO versions of PGP, one that uses the still patented RSA >> front end and the other uses IDEA. Guess which one is stronger and >> costs money to use and is ILLEGAL to export outside of the United >> States? That is why I LOVE the ability to bring things into the United >> States that basically make some points moot. >> >> The point is that the WPA-2 and AES products are fully documented. >> Breaking them is basically against the law for several reasons. But if >> you fail to properly secure your network, do not employ appropriate >> security notification guards and I 'accidentally' break in, whose fault >> is it? And I'll still be looking at a handcuff surprise... >> >> James McKenzie >> > Do you recall the Russian student who broke the PDF encryption scheme? > He was somehow invited/enticed/lured (not sure which), to come to the US, > and was arrested. > I thought that a country has no jurisdiction to arrest a foreign > national for > a crime committed in a foreign country, which might or might not have laws > against such activity. But hey, who is complaining ? :) :) I do. And he was sent home. MIT, which owned the RSA patent decided not to persue, if said student did not use the code to build an unpatented process that duplicated RSA functioning and he did not use his knowledge for illegal purposes...:) And the International Court had a field day with this as well.
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