On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Duncan Frissell wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:
Why (specifically) do you think so? Because you claim it? Because the MIT maintainer claims it? You say MIT is not associated with the NSA, but they have historically been funded by the NSA and other federal agencies for work on information security. Do you really think that the
Of course MIT was in the NSA's pocket back in 1978 when they mailed me and 3,000 other people a copy of "A Proposal for a Public Key Encryption System" and started this whole Public Key-Private Key thing. It was all part of a plot. If they hadn't done that we might all be using stronger systems today.
Sounds like another LD tentacle to me ;) -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 801/534-8857 voicemail 801/460-1883 digital pager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi Q. What's the trouble with writing an MS-DOS program to emulate Clinton? A. Figuring out what to do with the other 639K of memory.