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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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To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Cc: Rick Smith <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>, cryptography@c2.net,
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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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