a hole in PGP

Duncan Frissell frissell at panix.com
Tue Aug 1 03:18:50 PDT 1995




On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:

> Why (specifically) do you think so? Because you claim it? Because the
> MIT maintainer claims it? You say MIT is not associated with the NSA,
> but they have historically been funded by the NSA and other federal
> agencies for work on information security.  Do you really think that the

Of course MIT was in the NSA's pocket back in 1978 when they mailed me 
and 3,000 other people a copy of "A Proposal for a Public Key Encryption 
System" and started this whole Public Key-Private Key thing.  It was all 
part of a plot.  If they hadn't done that we might all be using stronger 
systems today.

DCF








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