[46690] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA says strong crypto to China?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tallpaul)
Sun Jan 7 11:03:10 1996
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 10:53:56 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tallpaul@pipeline.com (tallpaul)
Logically, it seems the best thing for the NSA to do (given the political
character of the group) is to send strong-but-not-that-strong crypto out.
In other words, they would want the various offically-USA recognized
"dissidents" (as opposed to officially-USA recognized "terrorists") to have
crypto strong enough so that the various defined-as-repressive governments
cannot decrypt it while not-strong-enough to prevent NASA from reading it.
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-- tallpaul
-- Any political analysis that fits on a bumper sticker is wrong.
