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Re: NSA and Netscape Crack
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Tim wrote:
>> If the "flaws" are being found by our group, as John notes, just what is
>> the NSA doing in the _second_ role it is supposed to have, it's "COMSEC,"
>> or communications security, role?
and then Thomas wrote:
>Gee Tim, NSA is "helping" us out by creating Clipper and new key escrow
>mechanisms ;)
>
>"I'm from the NSA, I'm here to help your crypto..."
In the relatively short time I've been on this list, Cypherpunks
have bruted, and then found a weakness in, two kinds of Netscape
software.
[A fine public service, IMO. Congrats to all involved.]
I don't expect to know NSA's specific brute-force capability, but
does anyone know if the NSA has *ever* found a glaring weakness in
software and then told its author(s) or owner(s) about it? Do "we"
perform the "COMSEC" role Tim was speaking of better than the NSA?
JMR
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Regards, Jim Ray
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a hallmark of an authoritative regime." -- Justice Potter Stewart
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