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Reply-To: jhupp@shockwave.win.net (Jeff Hupp)
From: jhupp@shockwave.win.net (Jeff Hupp)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 04:12:22 GMT
Subject: Re: New Encryption Algorithm
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>In article <1raeir$be1@access.digex.net> steve-b@access.digex.com (Steve Brinich) writes:
>> >  Well, actually, this one's easy. It's their job. The NSA is
>> >supposed to develop cryptosystems. If the government chooses to go
>> >ahead and sell those cryptosystems to the masses, so be it.
>>
>>  Ah, but developing cryptosystems which are specificially designed to
>>protect the government's domestic spying capabilities takes them beyond
>>that mandate, into the forbidden field of domestic wiretapping.
>>
>
>Unlike the CIA, the NSA has no prohibition against domestic spying.  Read
>Bamford's THE PUZZLE PALACE.
>
>Bruce
>
        I have that book, and the way I read it is, one side of the
conversation MUST be from outside the United States.
        Of coures, that ASS U MEs that the NSA plays by the rules...
 

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