Monday, December 6, 1999

Graeme Devine .plan update -- 10:50 am CST, Update by The Master

Graeme Devine updated his .plan today with news on hackers versus valid users pounding the authentication server at a rate of 2:1. Nice try guys-why don't you just turn yourselves in to da man now. I hope you're MASQing your IPs :-)

Okay. Hacker attempts with invalid keys are outnumbering real keys by a factor of 2:1 or so.
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The actual algorithm is a 64 bit DES key encryption method open to a very small window. The chances of coming up with a real valid key is in the range of billions and billions to one. A random pass through the available keys shows no sign of repeating sequences, it looks like good old chaos (in fact, statisical math proves this).

The client has no idea if your key is really valid or not, it just checks on the correct characters being entered.

News for 12/06/1999

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