[Am-info] Re: FC: Neo Project apparently resumes work on hacking Microsoft's Xbox

[Gene Gaines]

Second of 3 emails from th3e Politech list.

Gene
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, 7:42:09 PM, Declan wrote:


> ----- Forwarded message from Eric Cordian <emc@artifact.psychedelic.net> -----

> From: Eric Cordian <emc@artifact.psychedelic.net>
> Subject: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack
> To: cypherpunks
> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:25:51 -0800 (PST)

> Seems the folks at www.theneoproject.com have decided to continue work on
> factoring Microsoft's Xbox public RSA key.

> It's unlikely their "random prime attack" will amount to anything.  
> Nonetheless, it's good to have examples of perfectly legal reverse
> engineering to counter all the DMCA hype.

> We will close with the following exerpt from this news story, as covered
> by VNU Net, a British publisher.

> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137916

>   "The Neo Project began at the start of this year to try to crack
>    Microsoft's private RSA-576 key by using a distributed computing
>    network.

>    This move followed RSA Security's original RSA-576 Factoring
>    Challenge, posted last July, which offered crackers $10,000 to break
>    the encryption algorithm.

>    After successfully meeting RSA's challenge this week and publishing
>    the factors on the internet, Neo Project announced that it would focus
>    on Microsoft's implementation of the algorithm used for digital rights
>    management in its Xbox console."

> Oh my. 



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