News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"
jamesd at echeque.com
jamesd at echeque.com
Fri Aug 31 09:47:32 PDT 2001
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On 30 Aug 2001, at 14:41, Faustine wrote:
> Of course it has a trap door, that's probably the whole point
> of getting it over there in the first place. And by the way, if
> you're going to question SafeWeb for cooperating with CIA, you
> might as well criticize ZeroKnowledge for selling a boatload of
> the Freedom beta to the NSA in 1999 as well. What did they
> think they wanted it for, farting around on Usenet? I bet they
> had that sucker reverse-engineered and compromised in two
> minutes flat. Stands to reason.
I think it most unlikely that they could compromise rot-13 in
two minutes flat, and as for reverse engineering, any decent
crypto system makes its engineering publicly available, so that
reverse engineering is quite unnecessary. No one should ever use
a system that has to be reverse engineered.
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James A. Donald
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