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Re: NSA back doors in encryption products

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed May 24 11:05:53 2000

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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:08:26 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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John Gilmore wrote:
> Anybody tested the primes in major products lately?

Interesting point ... of course, these days one can produce checkable
certificates of primality - but I'm not aware of any free software to do
it ... is there any?

Is it time for the Campaign for Real Primes[1]?

Cheers,

Ben.

[1] Apologies if this quip dies in translation! :-)

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