-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 05:28:19PM -0400, Jordan Dimov wrote:
I don't know much about crypto politics, but... isn't it utterly obvious that the mere fact that the NSA suggest a certain algorithm (say Rijndael) for a national standard and recomends its use internationally imply that they have a pretty darn good idea (if not actual technology) on how to break it efficiently? I just don't see why else they would advocate its use. After all isn't the fact that NSA could break DES since the 70's the reason for the 'success' of DES?
IMHO, the NSA has enough expertise and technology to crack just about any cipher out there. As much as that may suck, there isn't a whole lot we can do about it. Besides, in the new world of globalization, I think we should be worrying more about corporations than about the NSA. - -- Nathan Saper (natedog@well.com) | http://www.well.com/user/natedog/ GnuPG (ElGamal/DSA): 0x9AD0F382 | PGP 2.x (RSA): 0x386C4B91 Standard PGP & PGP/MIME OK | AOL Instant Messenger: linuxfu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE56iJ02FWyBZrQ84IRAhl5AJ9scd/sB/s+jw89WjVC3DEhRd9TlACfdvmQ IdewfSgPgeIjdA1dLNs9XZI= =OXYK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----