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References: <artmel.735538777@well.sf.ca.us> <1ra3meINNbhf@dns1.NMSU.Edu> <1raeir$be1@access.digex.net> <C61rDq.5v5@chinet.chi.il.us><1993Apr26.110320.11176@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: jhupp@shockwave.win.net (Jeff Hupp)
From: jhupp@shockwave.win.net (Jeff Hupp)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 04:20:09 GMT
Subject: Re: New Encryption Algorithm
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>In article <C61rDq.5v5@chinet.chi.il.us>, schneier@chinet.chi.il.us 
>(Bruce Schneier) writes:
> 
>|> Unlike the CIA, the NSA has no prohibition against domestic spying.  Read
>|> Bamford's THE PUZZLE PALACE.
>
>We had a senior NSA scientist in Cambridge at one of our workshops recently
>(in fact he was here when the Clipper announcement was made, but we didn't
>learn of it till after he'd gone). He said on this point that he was forbidden
>by law to monitor conversations between US nationals (and he is a chap who is 
>very precise about his choice of words). So I don't expect he'd have any qualms
>about monitoring a domestic US conversation if one of the parties was an alien.
>
>However it got me thinking of the Navajo code talkers. Just imagine:
>
>+ `Hello, is that the Iraqi mission in New York? This is the Iraqi foreign
>+ ministry in Baghdad, I am Farouq Hussein, US citizen, social security number
>+ so-and-so'
>
>+ `Yes, indeed, this is the New York mission, Mustafa Jadid speaking, also a
>+ US citizen, my social security number is such-and-such, here is our report
>+ on activities against the Satan Clinton'
>
>Ross
>
        This one is easy, they 'tape' the conversation, call the FBI or
Secret Service.  You see "activities against the Satan Clinton" could be
construed as a threat against the President of the United States.  I am
sure they(NSA,FBI,SS,...,...) have enough judges in their collective
pockets to have a warrent before the call is over..... 

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