Re: Interesting point about the declassified Capstone spec

[John Gilmore]

Dan Geer said:
> I agree with Peter and Arnold; in fact, I am convinced that
> as of this date, there are only two areas where national
> agencies have a lead over the private/international sector,
> namely one-time-pad deployment and traffic analysis. 

What about production cryptanalysis, like the high-volume kind applied to
Enigma during the war?  I think they're way ahead on that, and there
are few (legal) commercial reasons to do it.

        John