re the secret source of that announcement in article r vjhinn iq dns nmsu edu amolitor nmsu edu andrew molitor writes in article gradyc uamw bng netcom com grady netcom com ef writes if you can get it for a buck nd hand it must be true eh i m pretty sure the nsa is supposed to among many other things provide high quality cryptosystems to a variety of places i don t recall reading anywhere reliable that they re supposed to monitor my phonecalls monitor usenet provide only cryptosystems they can easily crack etc etc this is not to say that they don t they might but you don t know that they do and you have no evidence that they do for almost all values of you it follows therefore that for most values of you your claims about the nsa border on paranoia andrew ok andrew i ll provide some evidence a friend of mine worked for an electronics manufacturer on with a west coast office they routinely sold equipment to the japanese one day the japanese started showing up with discount demands that were amazingly close to the cost to manufacture the products this company routinely sent most of the manufacturing data to the field offices the japanese had simply intercepted it so my friend the computer systems admin came up with a solution he started sending the data out double block encrypted with des two days after this new distribution plan was implemented the president of the company got a visit from a pair of government agents they told him to knock it off the president gave in since his company did a considerable business with the federal government now if the government wasn t monitoring the communications how would they even know that the encryption system was installed further since encryp tion isn t illegal and des certainly isn t what is the basis of the government s cease and desist demand the spooks do whatever they think is necessary with or without the blessings of the law i ll say no thanks to clipper or anything else the government produces for the moment double or triple des is probably adequate and when the line is idle send random garbage just to keep em busy david hayes merlin lerami lerctr org
