[102938] in Cypherpunks
Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mgraffam@mhv.net)
Thu Sep 17 19:48:59 1998
From: mgraffam@mhv.net
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:28:32 -0400 (EDT)
To: jkthomson <jkthomson@bigfoot.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980917131557.006c0a00@dowco.com>
Reply-To: mgraffam@mhv.net
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, jkthomson wrote:
> makes you wonder what hell they were using for encryption? DES?
> MIAMI (AP) -- The shadowy world of a low-budget Cuban spy ring came to
> light in a courtroom, where an FBI agent testified that a suspect's
> apartment yielded computer diskettes containing coded references to Fidel
> Castro and plans to sabotage an aircraft hangar.
Note the word coded.
> Thousands of pages of encrypted computer documents were seized from the
> men's apartments.
> He said diskettes seized from Viramontez' apartment were sprinkled with the
> word "comrade" and coded references to "commandante," taken by
> investigators to refer to Castro.
I don't think that the documents were encrypted; I think that, perhaps,
they were just done in a code language.
If they were actually using a cipher system, you do have to wonder what it
was.
Damn.. are cypherpunks the only people in the universe smart enough to use
PGP?!?
Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net)
http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin, ~1784
