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Article #3418Re: NSA CAN BREAK PGP ENCRYPTION
From: alex@spiral.org
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 06:38
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 06:38
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In article <2dki3n$ll7@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>, bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) wrote: > I see that the guys from the NSA have begun to use the anonymous > mailservers to spread their evil rumors that PGP is not secure and > thus to persuade the people not to use it - because they can't break > it and this scares the shit out of them. > So then we should NOT use the pre-1992 version because the NSA can crack that one? Otherwise, why would this poster explicitly state that the NSA cannot crack pre-1992 compiled programs? If the NSA did not want us to use it at all, why state that you can use the older version? _____________________________________ | | "I don't care if you're a Nazi | alex@spiral.org | or a Communist. I support your | ________________________ | right to say whatever the fuck | S. P. I. R. A. L. | you want. This is America." | ======================== | - Me | Society for the Protection of | (Void in most countries -- | Individual Rights and Liberties | Canada, England, Israel, Iraq, |_____________________________________| Guatamala, Cuba, ad nauseum...)
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