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Re: diplomacy

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: diplomacy
From: [email protected] (Anonymous)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:57:17 +0100 (MET)
Organization: Replay Associates, L.L.P.
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bill payne wrote:

> I sure hope the following was diplomatic enough.
> 
> NSA exhibited NO SENSE OF HUMOR when I pointed out
> 'deficiencies' in its crypto algorithm work.  But, too,
> the agrieve Islamic fundamentalists may not have too good
> senses of humor.

[...]

> Sampling at the 1 Khz rate revealed that Windows
> occasionally �did its own thing� as a result of a task
> switch and, therfore, interrupts were missed.

I find it highly amusing that NSA would design supposedly secure crypto
systems on completely insecure operating systems.  If NSA's computers can
be taken out just by sending a few packet fragments with bad offsets or
macro viruses, that's beyond 'deficiencies' it's utter incompetance...

References:
- diplomacy
  - From: bill payne <[email protected]>

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