re new encryption algorithm in article raeir be access digex net steve b access digex com steve brinich writes well actually this one s easy it s their job the nsa is supposed to develop cryptosystems if the government chooses to go ahead and sell those cryptosystems to the masses so be it ah but developing cryptosystems which are specificially designed to protect the government s domestic spying capabilities takes them beyond that mandate into the forbidden field of domestic wiretapping unlike the cia the nsa has no prohibition against domestic spying read bamford s the puzzle palace bruce
