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Re: Breaking the NSA

On Dec 8, 11:31am, DNA wrote:
> If you really want to test NSA.  Encrypt some crypto code
> with pgp in an overseas public key(IE: non-us) then email the
> code to someone out of the us.  This way you will find out 1 of 2
> things.

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I am told that a similar trick was tried by some people back in the
early 1980's, when they were trying to figure out if the NSA could
indeed break DES.  There was no official response to these attempts.

						Ian.