"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The New York Times reports: > > Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code > > June 2, 2004 > By JAMES RISEN and DAVID JOHNSTON > > > Ahmad Chalabi told an Iranian official that the U.S. had > broken the communications code of Iran's intelligence > service.
What I think is interesting is to ask how this happened at all. After all, we usually think of modern algorithms as essentially unbreakable. It would certainly be really big news if the NSA knew how to break AES. Some of my speculation about what "broken the communications code" means can be found at: http://www.rtfm.com/movabletype/archives/2004_06.html#000934 -Ekr --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
