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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: Weak cryptography >> Key registration
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.212058.1454@netcom.com>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:20:58 GMT
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- Carl Ellison, in discussing weak systems which can be broken by the NSA
- but not Joe Mobster, misses the point.
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- Many of us are worried not about Joe Mobster, but about Mitsubishi,
- or the Government of France, or a Russian competitor with friends in
- their equivalent of the NSA. Thus cryptosystems used by Americans in
- international business need to be robust against other well-endowed
- and technically skilled organizations, not the NSA.
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- I, too, trust the NSA, but they're not the threat to many of us.
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- David Sternlight
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