1997-03-12 - Re: Anonymous Nymserver: anon.nymserver.com

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@amaranth.com>
To: TruthMonger <an7575@anon.nymserver.com>
Message Hash: b82c1f6600467db5754e279154d6d7dfbb185a8196303de5375cf54d75c511cf
Message ID: <199703120323.DAA03881@mailhub.amaranth.com>
Reply To: <199703120846.BAA02942@shaman.lycaeum.org>
UTC Datetime: 1997-03-12 09:18:18 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 01:18:18 -0800 (PST)

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 01:18:18 -0800 (PST)
To: TruthMonger <an7575@anon.nymserver.com>
Subject: Re: Anonymous Nymserver: anon.nymserver.com
In-Reply-To: <199703120846.BAA02942@shaman.lycaeum.org>
Message-ID: <199703120323.DAA03881@mailhub.amaranth.com>
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In <199703120846.BAA02942@shaman.lycaeum.org>, on 03/12/97 at 02:46 AM,
   TruthMonger <an7575@anon.nymserver.com> said:


>  The relationship between MIT and the NSA and the Military
>isn't very far under the table. 
>  The spooks funded MIT's RSA development, and they are not
>noted for funding projects for the good of the common man.
>To suggest that they would fund a form of cryptography that
>didn't have their own back-door for sounds implausible.

Well the source code is available for PGP & the RSA library. Can you
document where in the code there is a back door for the government?

If you can show what part of the code gives you concerns I am sure everyone
on the list would be eager to listen otherwise this is just more FUD.

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