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- From: sean@cobra.dra.com
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Demons and Ogres
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.020500.24@cobra.dra.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 02:05:00 CST
- References: <921114182202.126812@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL> <hugh.721982357@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov17.103439.19143@cactus.org>
- Organization: Data Ressearch Associates, Inc.
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- In article <1992Nov17.103439.19143@cactus.org>, ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter) writes:
- > This program was not a success (they "ran it up the flagpole" and
- > nobody saluted), but, clearly, NSA *is* prepared to support the
- > concept of data encryption for business. Not unexpectedly, there
- > was no proposal to provide low-cost consumer encryption, a topic
- > which has been at the heart of the argument here for the past week.
-
- This forum just got finished with toasting a student for doing exactly
- what the NSA did with their proposal. We've got this great crypto
- that we think is secure, but we won't tell you how it works, or show
- you the algorithm. You put these special chips that you can't examine
- in your equipment, and we promise they don't have any special "features."
-
- In response to last weeks challange by a student, professional, after
- professional said it wasn't even worth their time to examine a cryptographic
- system unless it was published. How could NSA's proposal have been
- taken as a serious proposal if they don't even follow the minimum requirement
- for a professional to even consider the system?
-
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- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
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