At 10:09 PM 8/28/96, Declan McCullagh wrote:

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Eric Murray wrote:

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Heh. They forgot the Black Heliocopters manned by agents of the UN/New World Order, and the Greys from Zeta Reticuli..

It's a hoax, with several clues that it is a hoax in it.

Of course you're welcome to prove me wrong by disassembling a PGP binary. Examination of the random numnber generator, IDEA key setup, or RSA key setup vs what's in the source code should show if something fishy is going on.

Unless of course the program you're using to view the disassembled instructions has also been altered by the TriLats. And make sure you use any pre-1992 compiler on a pre-1992 operating system on a computer that's not hooked up to the Net or even located where NSA agents can get to it.

Ha! You think a pre-1992 compiler and OS wil fix this? What about the processor? I can assure you, as a longterm Intel employee during these formative years, that Intel was pressured into including the famous "NSA instructions" into the 8080, in 1974. These instructions are well-known, and the Cray had them as well. Inasmuch as the 8080 instructions live on in every x86 processor--like the reptilian brain inside all of us--this gives the NSA instant access to all contents of the processor. This is why I use a Mac, of course. --Perry Noyd We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."