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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Weak cryptography >> Key registration
- Message-ID: <1era8pINN42t@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:09:13 GMT
- References: <1ejd00INN894@transfer.stratus.com> <1992Nov20.212058.1454@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov20.212058.1454@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >
- >Carl Ellison, in discussing weak systems which can be broken by the NSA
- >but not Joe Mobster, misses the point.
- >
- >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.
-
-
- OK -- so I shouldn't have stressed the word "weak".
-
- It has to be medium strength -- just strong enough to defeat the
- intelligence services of all governments except our own. :-)
-
- However, I still claim that key registration is *weaker than* weak
- cryptography -- because Joe Mobster doesn't need any cryptanalysis to
- defeat it -- just an offer the registration person can not refuse.
-
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