[free-sklyarov] Just how good a cryptographer is Sklyarov anyway?

[alfee cube]

based on public data ive seen there is nothing novel
in either the felton or sklyarov techniques. as far as
i know neither case required original thinking. (which
is not to say they did not require artistic
applications of existing thought.)


--- Paul Callahan <callahanpb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> All the anti-DMCA pro-Sklyarov 
> comments have pointed out the childish weakness of
> the Adobe encryption method (comparison to rot-13,
> etc.).
> I assume Sklyarov is a very clever guy--he's a grad
> student in computer science, just like I used to be
> ;)
> and he has been studying cryptography.  The fact
> that
> anyone managed to break Adobe's encryption shows
> that
> it's too weak, no doubt about it. But is it really a
> 
> laughably bad system or did Sklyarov do 
> some impressive code-breaking?  I suppose if I could
> see his talk I would know for myself, but I didn't
> and don't know where to find a transcript.
> 
> Anyway, I had an interesting and disconcerting chain
> 
> of thoughts today while commuting to work.  I'm not
> sure that our national security goon squad has
> noticed
> that the cold war is over.  Is it possible that
> someone
> up there will think it's a feather in his cap to 
> "capture" a "Russian cryptographer."?  Maybe this is
> far-fetched.  I realize Dmitry is a student and 
> privately employed software engineer.  I'm just
> wondering if our federal government is sophisticated
> enough to make that distinction.  Any thoughts?
> 
> --Paul
> 
> 
> 
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