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1) this is not just "an antivirus". VirusTotal is a website where you go and upload a suspicious file, and they scan it. Also, this says nothing about the file
by jeffreyg 15y ago
1) this is not just "an antivirus". VirusTotal is a website where you go and upload a suspicious file, and they scan it. Also, this says nothing about the file being "public searchable", it says it's made available for security industry professionals.
2) yes. typically you don't attack strong crypto, you find a weakness in its implementation. In this case, RSA Security's network was that weakness.
- ctz 15y agoOn the second point, a strong cryptosystem wouldn't have such a poor security design that RSA could break into any of its customer's networks. I'm sure a number of other RSA customers were surprised that RSA retained this power; I was.