re how to detect use of an illegal cipher in article qnmnp db sol tis com mjr tis com marcus j ranum writes traffic that way your traffic looks normal and perhaps anyone desiring to listen in won t even bother since they know nobody s going to really trust crypto that has classified internals for important stuff nice to think but naive the fact is that millions of people today are sending highly confidential information over unencoded easy to receive cellular phones they figure the chances of being heard are small so they risk it and of people don t understand crypto the way the least of the sci crypt newbies does if clinton tells them it s good crypto they ll believe him and send important stuff over it and be thankful that they re no longer using clear voice fm cellular phones only a tiny fraction of people will want more crypto worse in the eyes of the government which swears up and down the algorithim is spook level secure and it may indeed be the only reason you could possibly want this extra level is to avoid police by using it you ll attract attention as a likely lawbreaker your honour the suspect suddenly started using another level of cryptography and we can t tap his phone calls any more he must have something to hide please sign the warrant to search his house brad templeton clarinet communications corp sunnyvale ca
