Lesson 6 - Chapter Review This is an ongoing series to dissect
the PhreakNIC v3.0 code, which seen at
http://www.phreaknic.org/phreaknic.txt. Hello class, been
studying your current events? PGP has been in the news recently,
so this is an excellent opportunity to learn how a PGP key is
put together. Evidently PGP versions 5.5 and higher have a
security vulnerability. If a malicious type could manipulate a
PGP key in the public key directory, they could decrypt the
victim's encoded messages. Here are a couple links if you'd like
to read more about it: Of course, hint-junkies that we are, we
wonder, "Hmmm, if PGP has hole, does that mean we could use it
to crack the PGP message in the PhreakNIC v3.0 Code?" Could
there be a ray of light, a glimmer of hope? Alas though, our
PhreakNIC Code message has been encoded with PGP v2.6.2, so it's
still secure. Curses! Getting back to our review, let's go over
what we've solved so far . . . The PhreakNIC v3.0 Code can be
broken down into five sections: (1) The first line o