Re: Spies using PGP

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From: Hugh Miller
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:14

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In <1992Dec14.054304.1311@fasttech.com> zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:

>I'm not really a student of bureaucracy but I'll suggest that Not Invented
>Here would be a bigger obstacle keeping an agency from adopting PGP than any
>weaknesses in it. There is a general consensus that real spooks disparage the
>use of factoring based cryptosystems, but perhaps *that* is disinformation.

That's just my point.  I'm not suggesting PGP is cryptographically weak, jus
that "Do Everything In-House" is the overriding rule.

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Hugh Miller         | Dept. of Philosophy | Loyola University of Chicago
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