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RE: Critics blast Windows 2000's quiet use of DES instead of 3DES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodger, William)
Wed May 17 12:21:19 2000
From: "Rodger, William" <wrodger@usatoday.com>
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:14:30 -0400
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John wrote:
> There have been allegations that NSA influenced Microsoft's =
encryption
> support (one reason that NSA could afford to relax export controls
> could be that they've already subverted the highest volume US
> products).=20
John Glimore wrote:
>=20
> There have been allegations that NSA influenced Microsoft's =
encryption
> support (one reason that NSA could afford to relax export controls
> could be that they've already subverted the highest volume US
> products).=20
The FBI has been pretty blatant about their efforts, too. Both =
Microsoft and
FBI officials told me on background last year that the FBI wanted to be =
sure
MS included no encryption that wasn't easily broken.
Granted, neither side would go on the record. But the fact that both =
sources
told me they were willing to be cited as "company executives" and
"government officials" speaks volumes about the PR war the feds have =
been
waging.
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