
17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
From: Duncan Frissell 2) And no government on earth will find easy to decipher is an understatement. As I'm sure you know, properly deployed modern cryptography (or even the 100-year-old technology of one-time-pads) is mathematically infeasible to break. Though of course attacks other decryption remain possible. .................................................. I see what you mean. When I read his statement, I focused on the "will be able to transmit coded messages". I was thinking about the efforts of the govmt to prevent it, and about how nevertheless even a 10-year old will be able to accomplish it in spite of the efforts against it (GAK). .. Blanc