On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 05:21:06 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
PGP 1.0 also worked exactly as designed. It was limited to keylengths of 1024 bits,as I recall, which no doubt Phil Zimmerman considered sufficient for a first attempt.. Eventually it was considered by others desireable to issue revisions allowing much-longer keylengths.
25 years ago when pgp was released a 1024 bits key seemed reasonable.
Does anybody claim that Zimmerman was intent on making ahoney-pot?
Zimmerman was never a US military contractor as far as I know and he didn't write pgp for the US military. Quite the contrary, he was threatened by his government because of some 'export regulations' bullshit.
Tor was/is a good start. But it nevertheless should be improved
You did not address my point =) Why would the US military do anything that goes against their interests. The idea is absurd from a 'theoretical point of view, and, as it's to be expected, real world evidence corroborates the theory. Have you looked into things like maidsafe? Their funding at least seems a bit more in line with libertarian and cypherpunks principles.