[82624] in Cypherpunks
Re: Australian "Walsh" report exposes the hole in key escrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lcs Mixmaster Remailer)
Mon Jun 30 13:20:46 1997
Date: 30 Jun 1997 15:40:00 -0000
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
John Davidson wrote:
> The US National Institute of Standards and Technology recently made a
> worldwide plea for cryptography algorithms that can be used for
> authentication and not for encryption.
And, of course, cannot be used to authenticate encryption keys. Oh, but
they're just binary data, aren't they? So those Evil Terrorists(tm) will
simply use their magic authentication-only keys to authenticate their
secret un-surrendered encryption keys and they're off.
SignatureMonger
