> 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.
Naivety is intended to caricature the point :) > 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? Because of the constitution? (naivety again;) Would just like to add what I've heared from several sources: Crypto is mostly solid, but implementations are weak. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
