-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 11:04 pm, shane wrote:
> yes, i have read about the double invention, but i just don't buy the > cracking pgp idea. mostly because there are so many good > mathmaticians who work on things like crypto and so few of them in > the gov, i would bet it would showup in a university paper before the > NSA could do it. > > short of a dictionary attack on the passphrase, i just don't buy it. > and i use a real passphrase. > > maybe i am not paranoid enough? :) Evidently not :) Actually, in the United Kingdom, a heck of a lot of mathematics and computer science people vanish into GCHQ straight from university. A friend who teaches in Brighton says roughly 25 per cent per annum of his CS course do it! (I was also amazed to read somewhere that MI5 gets 70 job applications on spec _a day_ ...). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8+JPACv59vFiSU4YRAheoAJ9a5oyMNMjYJ1FqiVGAHaVrckntvwCeOJSW aCVYlzLjc39pifZ0F2y3Nnw= =8nlp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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