The attack, which can be launched from across the Internet from any Netscape Navigator 3.0 browser running Java 1.0.2, disables IIS but does not crash the NT server completely. The fix includes a provision for logging the IP address of any machine attempting this attack on a patched server. At Microsoft's request he is not publicizing details of the bug's workings. Over the final weekend more than 14,000 machines were at work. He posits the DES crack may have been the largest calculation ever undertaken by the human race, though this assertion has been challenged on the Cryptography list.
Strong cryptography makes the world a safer place.
McCain played the kiddie-porn card and Burns's outgunned supporters could only splutter. S.909 criminalizes certain uses of cryptography for the first time. And it links digital certificates to key recovery and grants government the authority to license digital certificates. Unless S.909 is diverted to another committee it will be scheduled for a full Senate vote. No-one can guess what might emerge from a conference committee, but I can guarantee you it would not be pretty.