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Article #3439Re: NSA CAN BREAK PGP ENCRYPTION
From: skybird@satelnet
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 16:29
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 16:29
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>In article <064303Z02121993@anon.penet.fi> an54588@anon.penet.fi writes: >>Members of the boards of Novell, Microsoft, >>Borland, AT&T and other companies were persuaded into giving the order for the >>modification (each ot these companies' boards contains at least one Trilateral >>Commission member or Bilderberg Committee attendant). >> >> It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it. >>The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation", >>in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The >>result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above >>2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC >>with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into >>itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler >>is older than from 1992. This is trivial to test. Compile the program using an older compiler, translate the program into fortran or something or hand-code it in assembler. Compare the outputs. I'll bet they're the same. BTW--ALWAYS assume that the NSA can decrypt anything you encrypt. Scott Pallack skybird@satelnet.org Doesn't have a PGP key. Can't see much use for one, either.
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