On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:38:29PM -0500, reusch wrote: | Via the Cryptome, http://www.cryptome.org/, "RU sure", look | at http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm. | | I'm amazed at their claims of radio interception. One would | expect that all US military communications, even trivial ones, | are strongly encrypted, given the ease of doing this. Someone, | more well informed, please reassure me that this is the case.
The ease of doing what? Applying DES with a known key? Key management is hard. Doing key lookups, cert chain management, etc, to NSA level stadards is expensive. Etc. The non-availability of good, cheap, easy to use crypto in a COTS package is the legacy of the ITAR and EAR. That there is a lack of deployed crypto in the US military should be unsuprising. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]