Re: NSA and Netscape Crack

At 3:46 PM 9/19/95, Jim Ray wrote: ....

I don't expect to know NSA's specific brute-force capability, but does anyone know if the NSA has *ever* found a glaring weakness in software and then told its author(s) or owner(s) about it? Do "we" perform the "COMSEC" role Tim was speaking of better than the NSA? JMR .... Once upon a time NSA would find weeknesses in friends' crypto systems and tell them about it -- depending, of course, on the situation. It was a reciprocal practice. We don't know that NSA didn't tell Netscape.