A message from Comodo Hacker • Hacker News Board

Re: A message from Comodo Hacker

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Post by phlux » Mon, Mar 28, 2011, 12:06 AM UTC

I LOVE the fact that I live in a world that I get to read some hackers manifesto online:

My Rules as I rule to internet, you should know it already...

Although, I do have to agree with his points about Echelon.

EDIT: His command of the English language is irrelevant -- I stand by my comment above, which is the fact that we are even reading stuff like this makes the 16-year-old-cyberpunk-playing self from the '80s quite happy.

Re: A message from Comodo Hacker

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Post by smhinsey » Mon, Mar 28, 2011, 12:21 AM UTC

daeken wrote: post #12

Xk wrote: post #7

> At first I decided to hack RSA algorithm, I did too much investigation on SSL protocol, tried to find an algorithm for factoring integer, analyzed existing algorithms, for now I was not able to do so, at least not yet, but I know it's not impossible and I'll prove it Huh. He kind of lost all credibility at that point. Breaking RSA isn't something you just decide to do. I'll wait for the day when he announces he's b…

Hasn't everyone woken up some day and said "hey, I'm gonna break RSA today"? I guess that only happens when you have the experience of 1000 hackers...

You'd think someone with the experience of 1,000 project managers would at least have said "this week." Just for some "uh oh" room...

Re: A message from Comodo Hacker

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Post by tptacek » Mon, Mar 28, 2011, 12:26 AM UTC

daeken wrote: post #12

Xk wrote: post #7

> At first I decided to hack RSA algorithm, I did too much investigation on SSL protocol, tried to find an algorithm for factoring integer, analyzed existing algorithms, for now I was not able to do so, at least not yet, but I know it's not impossible and I'll prove it Huh. He kind of lost all credibility at that point. Breaking RSA isn't something you just decide to do. I'll wait for the day when he announces he's b…

Hasn't everyone woken up some day and said "hey, I'm gonna break RSA today"? I guess that only happens when you have the experience of 1000 hackers...

Or the polynomials of 1,000 numeric field sieves.

Re: A message from Comodo Hacker

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Post by thebooktocome » Mon, Mar 28, 2011, 12:38 AM UTC

That's some serious Miyamoto Musashi rhetoric there. The guy's either a grade A rationalist or a massive douchebag. I put odds at 5/95.

Re: A message from Comodo Hacker

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Post by lucisferre » Mon, Mar 28, 2011, 1:11 AM UTC

daeken wrote: post #12

Xk wrote: post #7

> At first I decided to hack RSA algorithm, I did too much investigation on SSL protocol, tried to find an algorithm for factoring integer, analyzed existing algorithms, for now I was not able to do so, at least not yet, but I know it's not impossible and I'll prove it Huh. He kind of lost all credibility at that point. Breaking RSA isn't something you just decide to do. I'll wait for the day when he announces he's b…

Hasn't everyone woken up some day and said "hey, I'm gonna break RSA today"? I guess that only happens when you have the experience of 1000 hackers...

pfft call me when it's over 9000.

Re: A message from Comodo Hacker

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Post by sebkomianos » Mon, Mar 28, 2011, 2:08 AM UTC

Xk wrote: post #7

> At first I decided to hack RSA algorithm, I did too much investigation on SSL protocol, tried to find an algorithm for factoring integer, analyzed existing algorithms, for now I was not able to do so, at least not yet, but I know it's not impossible and I'll prove it Huh. He kind of lost all credibility at that point. Breaking RSA isn't something you just decide to do. I'll wait for the day when he announces he's b…

> I'll wait for the day when he announces he's broken it.

And so will a massive part of the Computer Science/Mathematics/Physics community. Answering the P vs NP question is kind of a big deal. :D

Re: A message from Comodo Hacker

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Post by clueless » Mon, Mar 28, 2011, 2:16 AM UTC

I think I kind of know, but for the uninitiated, can someone tell us what the potential practical consequences of this hack could have been?

Re: A message from Comodo Hacker

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Post by Volscio » Mon, Mar 28, 2011, 2:19 AM UTC

I thought the most interesting part about this was that he claimed to be a 21yo Iranian who took sole credit, while having a problem with the lack of controversy surrounding the Stuxnet US/Israel project.

Re: A message from Comodo Hacker

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Post by enth » Mon, Mar 28, 2011, 3:13 AM UTC

sebkomianos wrote: post #26

Xk wrote: post #7

> At first I decided to hack RSA algorithm, I did too much investigation on SSL protocol, tried to find an algorithm for factoring integer, analyzed existing algorithms, for now I was not able to do so, at least not yet, but I know it's not impossible and I'll prove it Huh. He kind of lost all credibility at that point. Breaking RSA isn't something you just decide to do. I'll wait for the day when he announces he's b…

> I'll wait for the day when he announces he's broken it. And so will a massive part of the Computer Science/Mathematics/Physics community. Answering the P vs NP question is kind of a big deal. :D

No. Integer factorization is not NP-hard (so not NP-complete). (This isn't proven, but it's generally thought to be the case.) So, while doing a polynomial-time integer factorization would be hugely significant (and make all asymmetric encryption in the world useless), it would not prove P=NP.

Re: A message from Comodo Hacker

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Post by wmf » Mon, Mar 28, 2011, 3:24 AM UTC

clueless wrote: post #27

I think I kind of know, but for the uninitiated, can someone tell us what the potential practical consequences of this hack could have been?

If you combined these evil SSL certs with the right BGP hijack, you could read a lot of people's email and such. And since reading mail lets you reset passwords on everything else, he could have basically owned millions of people.