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RE: OT: port knocking.. getting there
From: "Ben Nagy" <ben () iagu net>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:10:17 +0200
Bad form to reply to self. :/ I totally fail to understand how I could have written the text below. I am a worse idiot than the idiot son of a family that has inbred idiots with each other for twelve generations. Known-plaintext just won't work against Blowfish. The scheme is still stupid for other reasons (replay / spoofing, for example) but not that. I blame early mornings. If Mr Doyle is listening anywhere - sorry. :) ben
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Not only is the concept stupid, but I looked at the guy's thesis for five seconds and his crypto is totally broken - there is a trivial known plaintext attack [...]
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