[105481] in Cypherpunks
Re: GOST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Thu Nov 12 20:29:52 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:11:46 -0800
From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
Scoops writes:
> I also remember a few weeks ago reports in the press and on the List of a
> porn ring broken up and some agent involved saying that the some porn was
> encrypted in an old KGB program which sounded much like GOST.
I saw this report also, and took it to be a standard journalistic garble.
It seems more likely to me that the package used by the child porn types
was Kremlin, which produces .kgb files.
--
Jim Gillogly
Trewesday, 23 Blotmath S.R. 1998, 01:09
12.19.5.12.6, 11 Cimi 19 Zac, Third Lord of Night
