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- From: niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd security enhancements are needed before using INTERNET!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.214249.1065@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Jul27.173631.4223@gateway.novell.com> <1992Jul27.183548.20598@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul27.191435.14721@gateway.novell.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:42:49 GMT
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- >It isn't that the algorithms are crackable -- it's that they take what the
- >NSA considers an unreasonable amount of time to crack, and, as such,
- >distribution of a working crypt library represents a perceived threat to
- >the national interest (USA). This is, in point of fact, a real problem,
- >in that you can encrypt sensitive data in the US and send it out on a public
- >channel. By the time it has been decrypted, the damage has already been
- >done, as the distribution of the data is no longer taking place and can not
- >be thwarted.
- >
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- So the inherent problem you are worried about is that everyone is using
- the same crypt library, right? Because it is far easier to use the one
- given as is than to create a new one? Who generated it? Does anyone
- know? There must be a way to generate a different one, right?
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- I think I may not be understanding something fully.
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- Niko Schuessler
- Project Vincent Systems Manager email: niko@iastate.edu
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