re corporate acceptance of the wiretap chip indeed if nsa really designed the algorithm to be secure it s very likely as secure as idea or key des however the system as a whole isn t resistant to practical cryptanalysis in the puzzle palace bamford describes how several nsa employees were turned by foreign presumably kgb agents despite security measures that i doubt any big accounting firm could match and nsa confidential data was not subject to being requested by thousands of police organizations and courts across the land ah yes don t anyone mention ronald william pelton heh heh heh how embarrassing g nsa kgb
