OSEC

Neohapsis is currently accepting applications for employment. For more information, please visit our website www.neohapsis.com or email hr@neohapsis.com
 
Subject: Re: can anyone decrypt this attachment?
From: Dragos Ruiu (drDURSEC.COM)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2000 - 12:30:19 CDT

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, alex-g wrote:
>
> Hi folks!
>
> Recently I wrote an encryption program for one of my clients. It would be very
> great if anybody of you could try to crack this encoded message (see
> attachment).
> This would be quite helpful for further development.
>
>

By itself an encoded message with an unknown encryption is a pretty
arduous task - though maybe not impossible. Now if you would include the
encryption program (as would be available to a cracker) that's a different
matter.

E.g. Here I have an encrypted message using our new super-crypto system
I would like someone to crack:

    42

Hint: Now for this particular ecryption system the encryption program is quite
complicated and should yield back a message exactly 4096 characters long. :-)

cheers,
--dr 

--
dursec.com / kyx.net - we're from the future                      http://www.dursec.com
learn kanga-foo from security experts: CanSecWest - May 10-12 Vancouver

Speakers: Ron Gula/NSW, Ken Williams/E&Y, Marty Roesch/Hiverworld,
 Fyodor/insecure.org, RainForestPuppy/wiretrip.net, Theo de Raadt/OpenBSD
   Lance Spitzner/Sun, Fyodor Yarochkin/KALUG, Max Vision/whitehats.com

_____________________________________________________________________
** TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send the command "UNSUBSCRIBE win2ksecadvice"
** FOR A WEEKLY DIGEST, send the command "SET win2ksecadvice DIGEST"
SEND ALL COMMANDS TO: listservlistserv.ntsecurity.net