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  1. Newsgroups: sci.crypt
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!strnlght
  3. From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
  4. Subject: Re: PGP technical question (Not a flame)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.220242.3624@netcom.com>
  6. Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
  7. References: <168C413C13.UC445585@mizzou1.missouri.edu> <1992Dec22.105243.9533@bernina.ethz.ch>
  8. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:02:42 GMT
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  12. Suggested by Germano Caronni's message:
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  14. Wasn't it a Swiss firm, Hagelin AG, that (according to Bamford) sold
  15. cryptographic devices for years while both cooperating with governmental
  16. code breakers, and perhaps even knowing their system was broken?
  17.  
  18. I'm asking, not accusing, but it would be an amusing historical
  19. footnote to IDEA being the product of a Swiss firm.
  20.  
  21. No reading between the lines, please. :-)
  22.  
  23. David
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