-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950925144659.21198A-100000@nic.cerf.net>, paulp@CERF.NET (Paul Phillips) wrote:

On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, John Young wrote: [...]

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If the head of the F.B.I. acknowledged that his agency was powerless to crack a cryptography program like Pretty Good Privacy, the stampede for that software on the Internet would make the run on Windows 95 look puny.

That's a bizarre and naive statement. Is there anyone that thinks the spread of strong crypto has been less than rapid only because people are afraid it won't protect them against the government? Um, sorry, no.

The general public doesn't use PGP. If the FBI director admitted that using PGP is safe even against the FBI, the general public just might become aware of it. Perhaps the statement isn't so naive after all. - -- - -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMGdpbioZzwIn1bdtAQG5zwGAmmSuPLdrDV9rBAUmJFuywUC4x1KgeVqP HiD9C8pP+L5xkZw8pyH8xhwfKPZeKOHb =w1IS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----