On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:37:54AM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
"R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> forwarded:
So now the NSA's secret is out. The Iranians have undoubtedly changed their encryption machines, and the NSA has lost its source of Iranian secrets. But little else is known. Who told Chalabi? Only a few people would know this important U.S. secret, and the snitch is certainly guilty of treason.
Someone (half-)remembered reading the Crypto AG story in the Baltimore Sun several years ago, bragged to Chalabi that the US had compromised Iranian crypto, and the story snowballed from there. The story could have started out with a loquacious (Sun-reading) cab driver for all we know. Some reports have [...]
Well, most cabbies in Baltimore that I would encounter were too busy doing drugs or threatening passengers to be reading the Sun regularly, but who knows? -J