From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 14:06:39 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Orange book, the NSA, and the NCSC
Message-ID: <9309302103.AA05016@ellisun.sw.stratus.com>
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>Message-Id: <m0ohwxY-00022PC@khijol>
>From: khijol!erc@uunet.UU.NET (Ed Carp)
>Subject: Re: Orange book, the NSA, and the NCSC
>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 01:32:27 -0800 (PDT)

>Even if a Cray can crack a PGP-encrypted message in, say, an hour, flooding
>the system with messages would tend to obscure real traffic with obscure
>junk.  Hey, I can encrypt /vmunix with a random key as fast as the next
>person.  :)


I still have my copy of (what I call) pgp-ran.  I forgot what it was
called when it was posted and I can't find the sources now.
It puts rannos in PGP format.  Does a copy of the sources exist on one
of the servers?

It's too fast to be doing any encryption but it would be good to have
one which produces messages PGP recognizes as real, only for a public
key which isn't on file.  If PGP rejects a message, it wouldn't take
up any Cray cracking time.

 - Carl

Sample:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: 2.1
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=7W70
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----