----- Forwarded message from Billy Gray
NSA’s mission includes deciphering enciphered communications is not a secret, and is not news*. I am concerned the nytimes.com article will have the effect of causing the public to lose trust in all encryption including open-source algorithms. Hopefully people realize reviewing source code for encryption algorithms** is much more relaxing than reading the NY Times.
* nsa.gov states that its mission includes leading “the U.S. Government in cryptology … in order to gain a decision advantage for the Nation and our allies.”
** ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.0.21.tar.bz2 and
http://mirror.team-cymru.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-6.2p2.tar....
Look at the top and bottom of every page: TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NO FORN. This is a secret document.
Cheers, Michael
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