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Re: NSA back doors in encryption products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith)
Thu May 25 23:48:11 2000
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:43:30 -0500
To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>,
Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
From: Rick Smith <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>
Cc: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>,
cryptography@c2.net, gnu@cygnus.com
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At 06:42 PM 05/24/2000 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>
>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.
I agree with the "Bull" comment and disagree with the paragraph that was
incorrectly attributed to me.
Rick.
