🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <7449@reed.UUCP->, mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg) writes:
-> -------------- Start of forwarded message
-> From: "GLENN EVERHART, 609 486 6328"
-> 	<uw-beaver!RELAY.CS.NET!rca.com!ARISIA!EVERHART->
-> 
-> 1. DES was originally certified, but was designed with a short enough
-> key that NSA could break it by brute force. (It IS a federal law that
-> no cipher may be used for international traffic that NSA can't break,
-> so the permeability of DES follows from reading the relevant US Code
-> sections.) The classified algorithms are said to differ from DES mainly
-> in the length of their keys.

	Another friend of mine says that apparently if the NSA finds you're
using a cypher system they can't break (for anything important) they'll
impound it ?!?!?  Is this the case ? What does the REAL content of the 
paragraph above mean. I don't think I like this...

--mjr();
-- 
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical,
go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These
days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire
to crudeness...			         -Johnny Mnemonic