[5004] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: NPR story on crypto...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Mon Jun 28 14:02:45 1999
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:49:37 -0700
To: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>, CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM,
cryptography@c2.net, wrodger@usatoday.com
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
In-Reply-To: <14197.8631.814107.183035@desk.crynwr.com>
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At 03:17 PM 6/26/99 -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
> At some point there will be enough defectors to bring down
> the cartel. Once we break the dam, the NSA, being a
> responsible government institution, must advocate strong
> crypto in order to protect its mission. Because, their
> mission is to gain an advantage over other countries
> through sigint.
This has not been their mission since the fall of the Soviet Union.
If they were still operating under their wartime mission,
they would have already done a flip
Their new revised mission is to gain an advantage for the
US government over US citizens.
--digsig
James A. Donald
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