[46684] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA says strong crypto to china??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Sun Jan 7 05:09:28 1996
From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 01:58:54 -0800 (PST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601070941.BAA12858@ammodump.mcom.com> from "Jeff Weinstein" at Jan 7, 96 01:41:40 am
> Does anyone know of real documentation of this "suggestion" from the NSA?
> It quite telling, though no surprise to any of us I'm sure, that they would
> think that strong crypto should be a tool of freedom in china, but not in
> this country.
But they do. That's why they don't want it. That too should be
obvious. I think though, that this is an example of the two major
functional halves of the NSA, with rather opposite goals: COMSEC
vs. COMINT.
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