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Re: NSA leak (fwd)
Don't believe everything you see that comes through an anonymous remailer!
-Declan
> >---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >Date: 19 Jul 1997 17:56:51 -0000
> >From: Secret Squirrel <[email protected]>
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: NSA leak
> >
> >WASHINGTON (AP) - In a rare moment of openness bordering on glibness, a
> >senior official at the super-secret National Security Agency was overheard
> >at a White House press conference concerning current bans on the export of
> >encryption technology saying, "It would not take any twelve times the age of
> >the universe to decrypt a 128-bit message. Thirty-three minutes is more
> >like it."
> >
> >Observers at the press conference indicated that the senior official's
> >remarks were intended to be overheard by those standing nearby, who included
> >White House officials, reporters, and a troupe of girl scouts from Lundane,
> >Illinois.