[3955] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: Universal Data Cryptography Module V
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BeachCruiser)
Sat Jan 11 11:41:10 1997
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 09:55:50 -0500
To: jwp@chem.ucsd.edu
From: pelicans@mindspring.com (BeachCruiser)
Cc: CDAVIDSO@is.nmh.nmh.org, btherl@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au,
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>Does it matter? Would *you* trust encrypting *your* data with an algorithm
>that has not been subject to public scrutiny?
>
>-- John W Pierce, Chem & Biochem, UC San Diego
> jwp@ucsd.edu
Oh yes...lets now get our backs up about this issue...while there are
virtually no controls on what employees of local, state and federal
governments, and nearly everyone else you do business with, do with your
social security number.
I have no idea who you are or anything about you, but take it to the
bank...if I had some obsessive need to know it I could have a complete
lifestyle and financial profile on you within four hours, and do it all
legally. And you worry about algorithms? To protect what?
Go chase those cows folks...of course make sure you lock the barn door good
and tight before you leave. :)
Bob McKisson
Virginia Beach
