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Re: Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kelsey)
Tue Jun 8 15:05:54 2004
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:55:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, ekr@rtfm.com
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
>From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
>Sent: Jun 4, 2004 11:24 PM
>Subject: Re: Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code
>Isn't this just a corollary from the Hans Buehler affair? (Buehler was a
>salesman for Crypto AG who was imprisoned by the Iranians when they suspected
>Crypto AG of selling them gear that had been doctored at the request of the
>NSA. This would seem to confirm their suspicions).
Did the Iranians actually think they could get technical information about a computer product from a *salesman*?
>Peter.
--John Kelsey
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