Re: Ship Code! Re: House Intelligence Committee Press Release
On 9/15/97 1:14 AM, Bill Frantz (frantz@netcom.com) passed this wisdom:
An encrypt to FBI key system has some really serious vulnerabilities. I scares me to have our financial system, utilities, and airlines, to name just a few vital civilian services, depend on a system with such an obviousflaw. There are people and organizations out there who would love to disrupt these systems, and flawed encryption would give them a powerful tool.
... not the least of which is that the computing horsepower to look at each and every message (ya never know; a naked picture of my dog my get through) and do even the barest of evaluations on it would swamp the system. By way of barest evaluation, just examining the To and From fields to see if one of them is on *the list* of suspicious persons. Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys - Send Email Subject "Get PGP Key" "When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." -- Mark Twain
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Brian B. Riley