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Re: Russia Intercepts US Military Communications?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Mon Mar 31 13:05:07 2003
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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:51:18 -0500
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: reusch <reusch@comcast.net>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:38:29PM -0500, reusch wrote:
| Via the Cryptome, http://www.cryptome.org/, "RU sure", look
| at http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm.
|
| I'm amazed at their claims of radio interception. One would
| expect that all US military communications, even trivial ones,
| are strongly encrypted, given the ease of doing this. Someone,
| more well informed, please reassure me that this is the case.
The ease of doing what? Applying DES with a known key? Key
management is hard. Doing key lookups, cert chain management, etc, to
NSA level stadards is expensive. Etc.
The non-availability of good, cheap, easy to use crypto in a COTS
package is the legacy of the ITAR and EAR. That there is a lack of
deployed crypto in the US military should be unsuprising.
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
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