DoD on Infosec and Crypto
DoD released today a July 21 speech by John Hamre to a gathering of Fortune 500 CIOs of which about half dealt with infosec and encryption issues: http://jya.com/dod072198.htm (53K) Mentioned: the EFF DES crack, PGP, offshore products, the need for expensive hardware to bolster cheap code, Eligible Receiver, the difficulty of DoD meshing its legacy decrepit systems with cutting edge warfighting technology, concern about foreign Y2K, the need to slaughter when no one volunteers to help. DoD boosts strong encryption as the primary means to protect mil and com info but insists on "balancing" the needs of privacy and law enforcement. Questioners bluntly challenged equating the two.
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DoD boosts strong encryption as the primary means to protect mil and com info but insists on "balancing" the needs of privacy and law enforcement. Questioners bluntly challenged equating the two.
You know I almost feel sorry for these guys. They *must* know that they come off looking like complete fools with this line of "you need strong crypto but not too strong that we can't snoop". I did say *almost*. :) - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: OS/2: Logic, not magic. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNb4hUI9Co1n+aLhhAQFG9AQAgB6okm0WN2Ws/t4DAiMf5mXcCmX9i7Oz mJH7kSwReK0qmCAmnsv3MNP71VjdqZXiYD+mrTGIiiUP4+k8Br6oVBvuPl8DsFot QcdxWjcGkLFDFPLUCFxV2WYbWju1RcClt2OlwKas/koKtTqUWtRmt2hznZdblC0w XNjxeRFQEu0= =esV/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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