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Re: NSA CAN BREAK PGP ENCRYPTION

#3449
From: bontchev@fbihh.i
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1993 13:20
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Scott Pallack (skybird@satelnet.org) writes:

> 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.

You'll lose, because they won't be. Even if you run one and the same
copy of PGP twice, encrypting one and the same message, to one and the
same person - the results will be different. This has already been
discussed in alt.security.pgp.

> BTW--ALWAYS assume that the NSA can decrypt anything you encrypt.

Nonsense. There is a provably uncrackable cypher. The One-Time Pad.

> Doesn't have a PGP key.  Can't see much use for one, either.

There are many. Read the docs. Just because you have nothing to hide
does not mean that you have no reasons to use public key
cryptography.

Regards,
Vesselin
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Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev          Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226      Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
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e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de        22527 Hamburg, Germany

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