[6629] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Interesting point about the declassified Capstone spec
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Tue Feb 15 15:31:33 2000
Message-Id: <200002151905.LAA19062@toad.com>
To: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, gnu@toad.com
In-reply-to: <200002112209.RAA10413@world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:05:42 -0800
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Dan Geer said:
> 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.
What about production cryptanalysis, like the high-volume kind applied to
Enigma during the war? I think they're way ahead on that, and there
are few (legal) commercial reasons to do it.
John
