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RE: a bit offtopic
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- Subject: RE: a bit offtopic
- From: Boaz Rymland <BRymland(at-nospam)avaya.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:12:54 +0200
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The purpose is for security, as at M$ they like the "Security by Obscurity"
approach... ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Alon Altman [mailto:alon@vipe.technion.ac.il]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 12:54 PM
To: Hetz Ben Hamo
Cc: Linux-IL
Subject: Re: a bit offtopic
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > c. Maybe it's harder to reverse-engineer the protocol than I
think...
> >
>
> Yes, this one is really hard.
>
Why is this designed-to-be-obscure (see haloween documents) M$ protocol is
so hard to reverse engineer? What's so hard in parsing appointment-
scheduling e-mails? Is it binary or plaintext? How, in general, does this
work?
Alon
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