17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Responding to msg by tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) on Wed, 24 Jan 4:59 PM A welcome inquiry, Tim. Is it not likely that the best crypto in many of the countries is kept off the market in the national interest, cloaked in the greatest secrecy like other crucial weapons of survival? Especially to defend it from NSA-like predators. Was this not the practice in the US before public key genie escaped? And is surely still the case for the very best US crypto -- not that which can be readily purchased or purloined. The market, and PGP, are probably condoned as a cloak for the best, in the US and elsewhere. Or bait. Or traps.