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NASA/NSA searching for Shuttle encryption system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Sun Feb 9 02:00:28 2003
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Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 17:49:10 -0800
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
AP reported on Feb 7 that NASA is looking for a secret device that
encrypts communication between the shuttle and ground controllers.
If someone else finds it they could "study the technology", says the
AP. Sounds like fun for cypherpunks. Anybody seen it on eBay? :-)
Alternatively, c'punks could plant fake mil-spec DES or CPRM
encryption boxes around Louisiana and Texas in the hope that foreign
spies will find them and 'crack' them.
John
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