* Posts by James Riordan

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Can YOU crack the Gauss uber-virus encryption?

James Riordan

Re: Textbook clueless agent

That is true be we (I am the first author) suggested a number of fairly precise targeting mechanisms that would require knowledge of the intended execution environment (e.g. the secret is _which_ environment is targeted). The paper is available at

http://www.schneier.com/paper-clueless-agents.html

and I think it is pretty readable as crypto papers go.