From: khijol!erc (Ed Carp)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 02:11:39 PDT
To: karn@qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
Subject: Re: Orange book, the NSA, and the NCSC
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> Better yet, send them large PGP-encrypted messages using maximum-length
> public keys that are not registered with the key servers. That should
> keep their Crays busy for a while. :-)

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.  :)
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Ed Carp, N7EKG			erc@apple.com			510/659-9560
                            anon-0001@khijol.uucp
If you want magic, let go of your armor.  Magic is so much stronger than
steel!        -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"