Phone call for Mr. Doligez, was Re: SSL challenge -- broken !

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>SSL challenge -- broken

Indeed, it seems so, and the feeding frenzy in the press has begun.

I zinged this over from cypherpunks to www-buyinfo this morning, and this
afternoon I got a rather interesting call from a reporter.  I told him
about ITARs, its effect on internet commerce and the silliness of a 40 bit
key, etc.

He wanted to know if I knew Damien's phone number(!), and I told him to
have ATT put one of their translators-for-hire on the line and call INRIA,
Ecole Polytechnique, or Ecole Normale Superieure, and track him down there.

Meanwhile, if Mr. Doligez sees this, call Alan Beck at 619-625-0700, or
email him at alan@tgc.com.

I can see the headlines now: "Netscape Security Broken, Stock Falls".

Make-a the Ganglia Twitch. Haven't had this much fun since the hogs ate my
little brother...

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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>From: rah@shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga)

>I can see the headlines now: "Netscape Security Broken, Stock Falls".

Bob,

So can I... :-(

Too bad Damien didn't wait until after the date one could legally
short the stock.  That would have been the perfect time for a media
frenzy on the issue.  The announcement of SSL having been broken is
occuring too soon to be at all useful in the financial sense.  The
media frenzy, if it happens, will now occur well before the 30-day
lock-out on shorting a new issue.  What a shame. <arg>!

Loren