On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 01:27 PM, Faustine wrote:

On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote:

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Tim wrote:

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But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design eventually. If getting the design "eventually" were good enough, why the keen interest in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason. Perhaps the NSA wanted to use the product without making illegal copies? Your earlier point (that they wished to reverse-engineer the product) is in fact undermined by this fact that they bought N copies.

Unless you believe reverse engineering is only useful for making pirated copies, there's no reason to assume any sort of contradiction at all.

As if the NSA would use anything from the private sector they didn't know inside out.

Consistent with your misconception about big computers being useful for brute-force cryptanalyis,

I never said that and you know it. Nice troll, though.

it appears you also believe the myth about the mighty NSA knowing more than the private sector. You _really_ need to get an education on these matters.

Are you actually claiming NSA implements COTS technology completely straight off-the-shelf? And what do any of these "you poopy head whippersnapper" comments have to do with the fact that you found a contradiction where there was none? Boss Tom Turkey in full strut. ~Faustine.