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In <RATINOX.93Dec2171655@atlas.ccs.neu.edu> ratinox@atlas.ccs.neu.edu (Richard Pieri) writes:

>The NSA cannot crack PGP. Correction: the NSA /could/ crack PGP given
>several Crays dedicated to the task for 10 years (give or take a couple).
>But they can't crack it in a "reasonable" timeframe.

>Witness a recent court case in San Jose, California. The District Court of
>San Jose subpoenaed all documentation concerning PGP from two companies
>(ViaCrypt and Austin Code Works) in an attempt at finding a back door into
>a convicted felon's PGP-encrypted mail and files because they couldn't
>break the encryption without taking a goodly number of years.

>They failed to find the back door they wanted.

Meaningless.

That the Department of Justice can't crack PGP does not imply the NSA or
Department of Defense can't.