
pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
I have just uploaded version 1.19 of SFS to the grumbo.uwasa.fi FTP site as:
take billions of years to exhaust via a brute-force search. However in order to satisfy the requirements of various organizations such as the Chinese government (who need to ensure that no nasty outside influences pollute the minds of their citizens) and to allow the originators of the 83.5% of all Usenet traffic which contains porn to be prosecuted (a recent example being the widely publicised move by the Office of the Bavarian Illuminati to force Compuserve to drop all sex-related newsgroups), SFS 1.19 will store 2032 bits of the key in the clear along with the encrypted data.
The head of the FBI Louis Freeh has been quoted as saying that "this will provide adequate protection against your little sister or your mother, while allowing law enforcement agencies to investigate people using encryption for illegal purposes". The head of the French DSSI agrees: "There have been too many cases of industrial espionage by foreign government intelligence agencies.
Remind me not to use this junk. Ever. In the USA we still have a right to privacy. I don't give a damn about the "needs of law enforcement" simply becasue the perception of their needs has grown beyond the reality of what they actualy "need". If left up to many of the worlds LEO's, there would be taps on all phones and cameras on every corner. Their jobs would be easy, and that's what they want. The desires of law enforcment organizations are fundementaly at odds with a free populace and the actualization of liberty in the practice of law. Software like what has been described above serves only as an example of that in my mind. Tim Scanlon