17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
bill payne wrote:
I sure hope the following was diplomatic enough.
NSA exhibited NO SENSE OF HUMOR when I pointed out 'deficiencies' in its crypto algorithm work. But, too, the agrieve Islamic fundamentalists may not have too good senses of humor.
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Sampling at the 1 Khz rate revealed that Windows occasionally þdid its own thingþ as a result of a task switch and, therfore, interrupts were missed.
I find it highly amusing that NSA would design supposedly secure crypto systems on completely insecure operating systems. If NSA's computers can be taken out just by sending a few packet fragments with bad offsets or macro viruses, that's beyond 'deficiencies' it's utter incompetance...