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Re: NSA back doors in encryption products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed May 24 18:58:06 2000
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 22:01:52 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: Rick Smith <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>
Cc: Enzo Michelangeli <enzom@bigfoot.com>, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>,
cryptography@c2.net, gnu@cygnus.com
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Rick Smith wrote:
>
> >Enzo Michelangeli noted some primality checking software:
>
> >> CERTIFIX is an executable for Win95, Win98, NT (hardware Intel
> >> compatible).
>
> And Ben Laurie wrote:
>
> >'nuff said!
>
> Of course, this increases the size of the conspiracy at Microsoft -- if you
> have anti-backdoor code, then Microsoft needs to assign people to write
> backdoor code to disable the anti-backdoor code. Is that anti-anti-backdoor
> code, or anti-backdoor-backdoor code?
Amusing though the MS/NSA speculations are, I'm more interested in the
general point: i.e. proving that primes are prime. Having a black box
that claims to do that doesn't really light my fire.
Cheers,
Ben.
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