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Re: NSA CAN BREAK PGP ENCRYPTION

#3439
From: skybird@satelnet
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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