[66965] in Cypherpunks
LEO_rat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Tue Oct 1 12:57:51 1996
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 16:27:50 GMT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
10-1-96. WaPo:
"U.S. to Ease Encryption Restriction." Page One lead.
Sources at IBM say scientists there have devised a
scheme that uses several steps to encrypt information
and the keys for unlocking it. Law enforcement officials
authorized to unscramble information would not get a key
for unlocking a message but instead the instructions for
how to break open a specific encrypted message.
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http://jya.com/leorat.txt
LEO_rat
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For an earlier report on IBM's LEO-rat, see
http://jya.com/ibmgak.txt
