From: VACCINIA@UNCVX1.OIT.UNC.EDU
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 21:04:46 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: LEAF forgery
Message-ID: <01HD339SYNZ6001KXP@UNCVX1.OIT.UNC.EDU>
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Perry wrote about Matt Blaze's Awesome new hack: 

>Matt Blaze should be commended for finding such a big hole. As with most 
>such ideas, its obvious in retrospect but took some good thought to come
>up with.

It is indeed a great achievement to best the NSA at its own game. This hack 
allows secure transmission and closes the LEAF backdoor. However, this only 
strengthens my belief that they don't really need this LEAF access, can you 
say trapdoor? I still wouldn't be sending anything I wanted to keep a secret
using TESSERA, even with a newly generated LEAF field. I'd wager that Matt 
wouldn't either.

Scott G. Morham             !The First, 
Vaccinia@uncvx1.oit.unc.edu !           Second
PGP Public Keys by Request  !                  and Third Levels
                            !        of Information Storage and Retrieval
                            !DNA,                       
                            !     Biological Neural Nets,
                            !                             Cyberspace

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