[70103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Buying and selling root certificates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Apr 29 03:11:51 2004
In-Reply-To: <019901c42daa$9daedef0$6401a8c0@stephen>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:10:55 +0200
To: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 29-apr-04, at 7:02, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> The feds clearly have the power to get through or around encryption
> suspected criminals are using: the FBI reports that there have been
> _zero_
> cases nationwide over the past several years where the use of
> encryption has
> prevented them or other agencies from obtaining the evidence needed,
> even
> when "secure" tools like PGP, SSL, or IPsec are used.
I have a hard time believing this...
So what do they do? Send a team in to retrieve the key from your
system? Borrow some CPU time from the NSA?
