Re: "Cryptanalysis" of these X-Trace ?
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Re: "Cryptanalysis" of these X-Trace ?

From: Esa A E Peuha <esa.peuha@helsinki.fi>
Date: Tue Feb 07 2006 - 02:38:47 CET

Francois Grieu <fgrieu@francenet.fr> writes:

> Apparently the perp of the "cancel" attack on sci.crypt has moved
> to another proxy. One recent cancel is copied below, followed by
> the X-Trace field in some of >1200 similar cancels. How do we read
> the X-Trace field ?

We don't; that's sort of the point of encoding it. Why do you even want
to? By now it's clear that highwinds-media has no interest to prevent
these attacks (which would be trivial to do), so it's not particularly
useful to know which one of their proxies was used in any given attack.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/
Received on Tue Feb 7 21:00:11 2006