-- At 12:34 PM 10/17/2000 -0700, Tim May wrote:
3. Ditto in spades for Whit Diffie. And Martin Hellman was, at that time, an active anti-war activist ("Beyond War"). Seems unlikely that NSA would pick them.
To put this in simple terms. A smart person with a modest computer, familiar with the long history of code creation and code breaking, can create a code that a much smarter person with a vastly more powerful computer cannot break. The codes we are using were created by smart people. We know these people. They are unlikely to be part of a vast conspiracy to put something over us. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG HL2kYDppyJqeq3voMaoHBsK9A7bIEHXh3K/JS6d+ 4eN6Rd5zjWoFZUJ+lf+iltc3DF4g2a6Pa/Wt11mcc