[46752] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Re: NSA says strong crypto to china??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Mon Jan 8 03:15:20 1996
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 00:08:57 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
At 10:47 AM 1/7/96 -0800, Raph Levien <raph@c2.org> wrote:
> My best guess is that we're seeing a distortion of this
>interchange. If I were a Chinese dissident, I wouldn't want to use
>GAK, for three reasons: using US-lackey encryption is certainly not
>going to get you into any _less_ trouble than using independent
>encryption, if you used GAK you'd be working as a US spy whether you
>wanted to be or not, and finally, who says the Chinese can't decrypt
>it, especially with the rapid growth of television.
And, four, there's no guarantee the US keymasters won't burn you
to the Chinese government, if it seems useful in preserving "stability"...
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