Andreas Bogk (andreas@artcom.de)
Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:34:31 -0500
>>>>> "William" == William H Geiger <whgiii@invweb.net> writes:
William> I see this as quite scary. Imagine a program that
William> radiated out private info, CC #'s, private PGP keys with
William> passphrases, bank account access codes. the possibilities
William> are endless and the worse part covert.
Some people claim this already happened. The software in questionis
PROMIS, a database query utility.
Andreas
-- The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.-- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
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