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Re: NSA back doors in encryption products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Wed May 24 21:36:28 2000
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:42:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: Rick Smith <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>,
"Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>,
John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, cryptography@c2.net, gnu@cygnus.com
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On Wed, 24 May 2000, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> Rick Smith writes:
>
> If NSA/MS are not doing it, they must be pretty stupid, because I'd do
> it in their place. The prudent assumption is hence: your online system
> can't be completely trusted, whether OpenSource, or not. Encryption
> should be done in hardware.
Bull, the hardware companies aren't any more trustworthy.
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