DoD on Infosec and Crypto

William H. Geiger III whgiii at openpgp.net
Tue Jul 28 12:00:32 PDT 1998


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In <199807281710.NAA25500 at camel7.mindspring.com>, on 07/28/98 
   at 01:05 PM, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> said:

>DoD boosts strong encryption as the primary means to
>protect mil and com info but insists on "balancing"
>the needs of privacy and law enforcement. Questioners
>bluntly challenged equating the two.

You know I almost feel sorry for these guys. They *must* know that they
come off looking like complete fools with this line of "you need strong
crypto but not too strong that we can't snoop".

I did say *almost*. :)

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