CDR: Re: why should it be trusted?
James A.. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Mon Oct 16 21:06:50 PDT 2000
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At 02:34 PM 10/15/2000 -0700, Nathan Saper wrote:
> > > IMHO, the NSA has enough expertise and technology to crack just
> > > about any cipher out there.
James A. Donald:
> > No it does not.
> >
> > The expertise of the NSA, great though it is, is small compared to
> > the expertise outside the NSA.
At 10:26 PM 10/15/2000 -0700, Nathan Saper wrote:
> Assuming we can evaluate accurately the magnitude of what goes on
> inside the NSA...
I know vastly more about cryptography than you do, and people who know
vastly more about cryptography than I are confident that codes that pass
lengthy peer review by themselves and people as good as they are, are
unlikely to be broken by the NSA.
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James A. Donald
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