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Re: NSA CAN BREAK PGP ENCRYPTION

#3418
From: alex@spiral.org
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?


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