At 5:42 PM -0700 6/3/04, Eric Rescorla wrote: >http://www.rtfm.com/movabletype/archives/2004_06.html#000934
>>4. It's all a hoax and the NSA is reading the traffic some other >>way, perhaps by bugging the Iranian embassy. In this case, the NSA might >>actually want to have it spread around that they've broken the Iranian >>codes since it makes them look extremely competent and there's a good >>chance that the Iranians will change codes and then be confident that >>their communications are secure. I'll take door number four, Monty, with the "snitch" variant... Either that, or it's just plain made up. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
