[19657] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More on video
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Mon Sep 21 11:52:23 1998
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 17:56:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Dorn Hetzel <dorn@atl.eni.net>
cc: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>, nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980918173517.A21581@atl.eni.net>
Then you are creating a market whereby anyone with the ability to break
the code, whatever the code is, (either by brute force, or technical
skill) will have a distinct market advantage over their competitors (new
media outlets).
-Deepak.
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
>
> They could just release it encrypted with DES, and make it the next
> key challenge :)
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 05:26:50PM -0400, David Lesher wrote:
> > Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said:
> >
> > > Unlike last Friday when no one really knew exactly what was in
> > > the boxes, GPO has all weekend to prepare this time. They should
> > > have enough copies at the GPO window for all the news media on
> > > Monday morning so there is no need to beat up on the government
> > > Internet servers.
> >
> > They COULD open up distribution all weekend; but encrypted.
> > Then, release the key Monday.
> >
> > (Oops, real encryption is an evil terrorist weapon with no valid
> > uses.... How could I have forgotten that?)
> >
> >
> > --
> > A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
> > & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
> > Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
> > is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
>
