At 09:06 AM 2/24/2002 -0800, John Young wrote: >According to the report below, the WSJ hired its own >computer consultant to examine the Al Qaeda laptop. >But there is no mention of the consultant helping with >decrypts.
I don't think we can depend on the accuracy of the WSJ in reporting the true chain of events. They should have immediately published a MD of each encrypted file and later the extracted keys, that way it would be possible to more confidently verify the story. In fact, this procedure should become necessary disclosure for future reports of discovered encrypted materials with news application. steve
