"Or whatever? What makes you think that anyone can crack any of the strong encryption?"
I don't think they can. But your point seems to miss my own point. There will certainly be a certain number of uncrackable mesages out there (as a trained physicist I am fairly certain that even military quantum computing efforts are nowhere near theability to crack strongly encrypted messages). But there will also be a large number of less-strongly and even weakly encrypted messages being sent out there. Various agencies with large amounts of hardware will be looking at this as a statisitcal/logistic issue...I strongly doubt they only attempt cracking on a message-by-message basis. And indeed, in a world where most messages are fairly weakly encrypted, bursts of strongly-encrypted messages will stand out all the more and possibly flag the need for other methods of investigation. Which returns to my original point: the "easy" availability of strong crypto products does not mean it is unprofitable for an agency to continue to push populations towards lighter forms of encryption. >From: Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Echelon-like resources... >Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:39:01 -0500 > >On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:29:53AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > > Harmon Seaver wrote... > > > > > Why the hell would anyone use lotus notes encryption for anything > > >whatsoever? > > > > Lotus Notes or whatever, of course. The point here is that larger > > Or whatever? What makes you think that anyone can crack any of the >strong >encryption? > > >-- >Harmon Seaver >CyberShamanix >http://www.cybershamanix.com > >"War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the >majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is >conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the >masses." --- Major General Smedley Butler, 1933 > >"Our overriding purpose, from the beginning through to the present >day, has been world domination - that is, to build and maintain the >capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if >possible, and violently, if necessary. But the purpose of US foreign >policy of domination is not just to make the rest of the world jump >through hoops; the purpose is to faciliate our exploitation of >resources." >- Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
