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- From: sean+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sean McLinden)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp
- Subject: Re: Zimmermann's responses to Sidelnikov's PGP critique
- Message-ID: <EfHgGOC00WBOM0mvQf@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 02:27:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.EfHgGOC00WBOM0mvQf
- References: <1993Jan8.173701.8858@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- >This raises the question of whether Sidelnikov had some senior role,
- >directly or indirectly, in the Soviet's equivalent of the NSA. If he
- >did, then his comments may be both authoritative with respect to
- >access to what once was highly classified technology in the USSR,
- >and (by the argument of parallelism) revelatory of the state of
- >technology at the NSA.
-
- Sheesh, what garbage. Phil Zimmermann's responses were right on the
- mark. If Sidelnikov has a point to make he should present evidence
- not conclusions. The basis of science is verifiability, not conjecture.
- Qualifications are good things to put into introductory remarks for
- speakers but they have no bearing on the accuracy of the statements.
-
- Or have you forgotten how many Nobel Prize-winning scientists had
- crackpot theories in addition to their Nobel work!
-