re once tapped your code is no good any more strnlght netcom com david sternlight writes what follows is my opinion it is not asserted to be the truth so no flames please it is incompetent like almost anything you have posted here so you ll be flamed sorry it comes out of a background of years as a senior corporate staff executive in two fortune companies your years of background in two fortune companies i ve lived years under a totalitarian regime and boy i can recognize a totalitarian plot when i see one i d be happy to use a crypto system supplied by the nsa for business if they told me it was more secure than des and in particular resistant to i am sure that you would be happy to use anything they tell you is secure we re talking about the intelligent people here or the criminal ones if you don t like the previous sentence or those who don t want their privacy to be guaranteed to be invadable by the government any current and future government mind you i d be happy to do so even with escrowed keys provided i was happy about the bona fides of the escrow agencies the federal reserve would certainly satisfy me as would something set up by one of the big accounting firms even if you ignore the nonsense of the above statement for a moment and even if you are happy with such system and the current escrow agencies now what guarantees that you ll be happy with them tomorrow when the government changes or when the current government throws away the sheep skin all the sheep who are reasoning like you will get caught by surprise but it will be too late because then cryptography that is not guaranteed to be breakable by the government will already have been outlawed after all you ve already got privacy that is said to be breakable only by the law enforcement agencies so if you are law abiding you have no reasons to use a stronger one right so if you are using a stronger one you have something to hide from the law enforcement agencies right something unlawful right therefore strong crypto is a clear idndication that you are doing something unlawful i d trust the nsa or the president if they stated there were no trap considering the level of competence in cryptology that you have demonstrated in your messages you would trust just anything and no this is not an ad hominem attack it s an attack against the contents of your messages grin doors i d be even happier if a committee of independent experts examined the thing under seal of secrecy and reported back that it was secure and how do you know that these experts are not corrupted and how do you know that they will not make a mistake and how do you know that the version of the algorithm they will be let to examine is the same as the one that will be really used regarding the mistake even the few information they have let out has revealed a serious security hole in the protocol the bit key is split in two bit ones thus the whole system is easily breakable if you have only one of the keys i d trust something from the nsa long before i d trust something from some swiss or anybody japanese the swiss or the japanese are motivated by simple greed nsa is motivated by their wish to control the people that s why the drug dealers have their accounts in swiss banks instead of in american ones for some reason they do trust the swiss banks more guess they ll trust the swiss encryption more too i see idea becoming suddenly popular this may seem surprising to some here but i suggest most corporations would feel the same way most many some pick one corporations have an attitude that the nsa is part of our government and we support our government as one very famous ceo put it to me one day it s not surprising at all but not because of the reason you give it s because it is obvious that the us government has put a lot of money behind this program and it will support it thus most corporations will try to get their piece from the pie by supporting it too the same good old greed strong encryption is not widely available now not because of some plot but because the companies don t see much money in it it will be available even less if the companies can see any penalties associated with it just some perspective from another point of view yeah just as i predicted you are here again to support the new system regards vesselin vesselin vladimirov bontchev virus test center university of hamburg tel fax fachbereich informatik agn pgp public key available on request vogt koelln strasse rm c e mail bontchev fbihh informatik uni hamburg de d hamburg germany
