-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Tony.Gurnick@nzdairy.co.nz wrote:

If you really want to test NSA. Encrypt some crypto code with pgp in an overseas public key(IE: non-us) then email the code to someone out of the us. This way you will find out 1 of 2 things. 1. That pgp is unbreakable by the NSA - Rsa with fairly log keys take so much work the nsa cant crack it with huge computers. This is a good thing

Not that easy. They would just crack the code and *another* acronym based agency would come up with a different reason to seize you and your computer. It would seem unrelated to anyone but *you* since you would know what you did but would have no way to prove that your original infraction is why you are doin' time. Hope that makes some sense.

- Idea, even though it is new, is a secure algorithm for the above reasons

Same argument...no one would ever know either way. Until you got out in about 100 years.

- You wont get in trouble as you are only sending random bits out of the country not code

If it isn't something *really good* they probably wouldn't come after you anyway.

2. PGP is BREAKABLE by the NSA (OUCH!) - You get in deep shit!

or

3. PGP is breakable by the NSA but they dont tell anyone! (HMMM)

#3 I can agree with. I don't think that NSA would tip their hand and let on to us that they can read our stuff. At least, not directly.

- Well this would be an interesting one!

- Since they are the ones that imposed the ITAR rule in the first place (them or the us gov) they have a prob! If they knew you were exporting crypto because they cracked pgp they could not convict you as that would imply they cracked pgp and they would tell the whole world what they can & cannot crack. It would be a big bummer for RSA and IDEA but at least we`d know!

One more thing. Don't you think that they subscribe to the Cypherpunk list just to see this kind of logic? BTW....I ain't one of 'em, and I wouldn't tell if I was. :) ***************************Frenchie Sends******************************* * PGP Public Keys: 1024/BEB3ED71 & 2047/D9E1F2E9 on request. * * As soon as any man says of the affairs of the state * * "What does it matter to me?" the state may be given up for lost. * * J.J.Rousseau - The Social Contract * * PGP info: email to mail-server@mit.edu with first line of message: * * send pub/usenet/alt.security.pgp/* * *****************************J. Francois******************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLuZF0LbmxeO+s+1xAQEGQwP+MjgH2uvJUXNAi8Cb1HMHZRTMjxAODSfr dfPS1SCbzCTzaQMSVCvfWS8hxfbnENGuDe3bhdhIJb0QzkuYWTmHFxpTydrTtJw+ U0OtB/O65JpNsisXEYF14FZ3hUBPqQ8NQ/TN4WV1dx6tROuWnoY1hYAOMM2pnZNY 0NBtz0MB1i0= =XpJK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----