In message <199607192110.RAA07548@crypto.com> Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com> writes:

Particularly impressive is that our key length report was hardly above criticism from several angles, but their rebuttal managed somehow to avoid them.

What I find most disturbing about this is that their report was provided secretly to policymakers in the administration and in Congress, without independent technical review that would have quickly exposed the fallacy of the arguments. I never would have seen it had several of the recipients not faxed it to me. This is the first hard evidence I've seen of NSA providing anything less than the highest quality technical analysis to other parts of the government. A non-specialist reader would be easily misled by the technically dense, but completely irrelevant, "rebuttal". It smacks of either ill-informed sloppiness, or, perhaps worse, self-serving disingenuous cynicism. Either conclusion is scary, and, to me in fact, quite surprising.

It is only surprising because you are a naive fool. The NSA will stop at nothing to control us and you are just helping by allowing yourself to be playing by their own rules and will set yourself up for them to use as an example to the rest of us when they get your ass. Don't be an idiot - wake up and LOOK. Read puzzle palace. We can't win on there terms. They aren't playing fair and we shouldn't either.