The the implications of the post by J.P. are entirely correct; but the post itself is---I don't mean this pejoratively---a little naif.
The NSA cannot be expected to advocate the use of an encryption scheme that it has not already broken, and this behavior does not seem to me to be villainous. Why should it act against its interests? We are a long way from Henry Stimson's, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"; and there is no going back.. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
