gang uses crypto to hide identity theft databases

[Jim Gellman]

Well this just sucks if you ask me.

> According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which confirmed that 
> Kostap had activated the encryption after being arrested, it would 
> have taken 400 computers twelve years to crack the code.
Scales linearly, right?  4,800 computers'll get it in a year?

How can one write a SETI-at-home-like screensaver that can attack the 
ciphertext without giving the underlying information to thousands of people?

Barring that sort of grass-roots effort, I'm personally mad enough to 
donate a PC + shipping.

-- jim

Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.co.uk/misc/print/0%2C1000000169%2C39285188-39001093c%2C00.htm
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> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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