-- At 02:34 PM 10/15/2000 -0700, Nathan Saper wrote:
IMHO, the NSA has enough expertise and technology to crack just about any cipher out there.
James A. Donald:
No it does not.
The expertise of the NSA, great though it is, is small compared to the expertise outside the NSA.
At 10:26 PM 10/15/2000 -0700, Nathan Saper wrote:
Assuming we can evaluate accurately the magnitude of what goes on inside the NSA...
I know vastly more about cryptography than you do, and people who know vastly more about cryptography than I are confident that codes that pass lengthy peer review by themselves and people as good as they are, are unlikely to be broken by the NSA. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ZlLhlzxncCnQOkHB8te81wDKtqWhcCTT3ldo+CKM 4lKVCVGVGO8ePP0CTWjDpfM+MInzJaH477ddm+DDY