"If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win" [Reply to Durden]

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 05:27 PM 10/25/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
>frontol assault. Also watch carefully for hole-pokers...I'd bet their's
also
>been disinfo campaigns to get the public to think that no crypto is
secure
>(every ask anyone if they believed there was such a thing as
effectively
>'unbreakable' encryption? Reglar folks always believe SOMEBODY'S got
the
>technology to break what scheme you use, so "why bother").

1. Well there's always Silk and Cyanide.  Ie OTP.

2. Big Bro does not marshall all the atoms in the observable universe.
Remind
Joe Sixpack of that.  Joe isn't as paranoid as some of us, who worry
about
quantum engines sorting through our precious prime bodily fluids.  *Do*
remind
Joe about such mundancities as key management, coercion of confederates,
video
bugs, how crypto is all economics, etc.

>So let's beat them to the punch: "Use strong crypto in order to keep
America
>free from the terrorists."

An RPG a day keeps the colonialists away.  Or at least, losing in the
polls.

PS: extra points for someone who finds a good expansion of S.L.O.G.
Or who finds Condosleeza Rice's secret lesbian sex tape.  (I have
nothing
against secrecy, or lesbians, of course)