Re: [IRS] Elvis in Escrow
At 4:40 AM 4/16/96 -0700, Dave Del Torto wrote:
[from SF Examiner somewhere around 12-14 April 96]
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"IRS Worker Took Peek at Celebrities' Records" [Associated Press] Memphis - A former IRS employee who said boredom had led him to peek at the tax records of President Clinton, Elvis Presley and other famous people has been acquitted of federal charges.
Hmmm. _We_ do it, it's "malicious cracking/hacking" and they toss us in the clink... _they_ do it, and it's "practice" (and they get acquitted). And _these_ are the people who want to escrow _my_ keys? As IF!
I wonder, how much is NSA's secret key worth? You know, the one they use to grab the extra key bits that Lotus Notes sends them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
I wonder, how much is NSA's secret key worth? You know, the one they use to grab the extra key bits that Lotus Notes sends them.
Does anyone know how many bits it is? If it is 512 or less it may be a good candidate for a public key factoring. andrew
Andrew Loewenstern wrote: | > I wonder, how much is NSA's secret key worth? You know, the | > one they use to grab the extra key bits that Lotus Notes sends | > them. | | Does anyone know how many bits it is? If it is 512 or less it may | be a good candidate for a public key factoring. Legally, I don't know that they can export software that handles keys longer than 512 bits. Wait! I forgot! They are the brute squad. More seriously, if they did export an API (even a private one) that can handle keys longer than 512 bits, perhaps we could find that out and publish information on using the NSA-strength crypto from Notes applications. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 4:40 AM 4/16/96 -0700, Dave Del Torto wrote:
[from SF Examiner somewhere around 12-14 April 96]
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"IRS Worker Took Peek at Celebrities' Records" [Associated Press] Memphis - A former IRS employee who said boredom had led him to peek at the tax records of President Clinton, Elvis Presley and other famous people has been acquitted of federal charges. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"acquitted" here may mean that cypherpunks were on the trial jury. If the "fix" was in, as Dave seems to imply, there never would've been a trial. EBD
Hmmm. _We_ do it, it's "malicious cracking/hacking" and they toss us in the clink... _they_ do it, and it's "practice" (and they get acquitted). And _these_ are the people who want to escrow _my_ keys? As IF!
I wonder, how much is NSA's secret key worth? You know, the one they use to grab the extra key bits that Lotus Notes sends them.
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