[117567] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA & MSFT CAPI keys as PGP keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Max Inux)
Mon Sep 6 11:38:59 1999
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 08:15:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Max Inux <maxinux@Bigfoot.com>
To: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
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Reply-To: Max Inux <maxinux@Bigfoot.com>
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Adam Back wrote:
>
>
>Anonymous provided the NSA and Microsoft CAPI keys in hex, so here are
>their RSA CAPI keys formatted as PGP keys. I've signed them.
>
>I put the keys at:
>
> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/nsakey/
>
>Adam
Thanks adam, I figured it was just a matter of time until that got done.
But one tihng that striked my fancy, they are using RSA, what does this
say to you? could it mean that RSA may be safe? or were they being lazy
and using something they cracked under the assumption that they were the
only ones? or... what?
It just seems to be an interesting implication, wonder what it means that
they are using RSA pub key..... hmmmmmm 2 years, 14 days before the patent
expires.. w000 h000
Good Day,
Max Inux
<maxinux@openpgp.net> 0x91313516 http://www.openpgp.net
If crypto is outlawed only outlaws will have crypto.
