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Article #4171Re: Request for opinions: canadian cryptographic standard.
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 02:46
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 02:46
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Assuming only a moderately paranoid point of view, the following thought came up: NSA is trying to push use of a "black box" encryption standard which they almost certainly will have a "back door" to. Now it is suggested that Canada come up with its *own* black box. (probably with a back door :-) So if I get both and run my data thru the in sequence, would that mean that neither NSA nor it's Canadian equivalent code crack it without either luck (finding the other guy's backdoor) or sharing their black boxes (which defeats the purpose of having seperate black boxes)? I think I like this... -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'. You know... I'd rather be a hacker."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Request for opinions: canadian cryptographic standard. Message-ID: <821@bucket.UUCP> Date: 25 Mar 88 02:46:06 GMT References: <2463@geac.UUCP> <8497@reed.UUCP> Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR Lines: 21