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Re: Interesting point about the declassified Capstone spec
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Fri Feb 11 18:06:03 2000
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To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz, reinhold@world.std.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2000 10:51:01."
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:09:24 -0500
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
I agree with Peter and Arnold; in fact, I am convinced that
as of this date, there are only two areas where national
agencies have a lead over the private/international sector,
namely one-time-pad deployment and traffic analysis. Of those,
I would place a bet that only traffic analysis will remain an
area of sustainable lead, that traffic analysis is the only
area where commercial interests will not naturally marshall
the resources to threaten the lead of the national agencies.
--dan
