diplomacy

[Anonymous]

bill payne wrote:

> I sure hope the following was diplomatic enough.
> 
> NSA exhibited NO SENSE OF HUMOR when I pointed out
> 'deficiencies' in its crypto algorithm work.  But, too,
> the agrieve Islamic fundamentalists may not have too good
> senses of humor.

[...]

> Sampling at the 1 Khz rate revealed that Windows
> occasionally þdid its own thingþ as a result of a task
> switch and, therfore, interrupts were missed.


I find it highly amusing that NSA would design supposedly secure crypto
systems on completely insecure operating systems.  If NSA's computers can
be taken out just by sending a few packet fragments with bad offsets or
macro viruses, that's beyond 'deficiencies' it's utter incompetance...