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- From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Chosen crypto-text attack on RSAREFRESH
- Message-ID: <Bz98Hp.Brq@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 15:03:25 GMT
- References: <Bz000B.KJ9@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <HANCHE.92Dec9154310@ptolemy.ams.sunysb.edu> <PCL.92Dec11105131@rhodium.ox.ac.uk> <1992Dec11.195931.8855@netcom.com>
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- Quoting strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) in article <1992Dec11.195931.8855@netcom.com>:
-
- >Perhaps someone who knows and is not in the U.K. might like to summarize
- >or quote the offending material in "Spycatcher" that caused the ban
- >in Britain.
- >
- >If so, perhaps they'd like to do so by starting another topic, os
- >U.K. readers don't inadvertently import that material.
-
- Don't worry about it; first, it's our law and so our problem, and second
- I really don't think that they would raise the whole embarrasing case to
- stomp on the net. Post away. As it happens, I read Spycatcher anyway
- when it first came out; our headmaster brought a copy across the pond
- and it was briefly in the school library until the security services
- started growling.
-
- As a result, I learned that you can make more sense of a phone tap if
- you simulate stereo with a delay in one ear, and that MI5 never found a
- way to covertly open a letter sealed at every edge with clear sticky
- tape.
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