1994-12-08 - Re: Breaking the NSA

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From: “Ian Farquhar” <ianf@sydney.sgi.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 97523a1a4b8cf4f3c50494a9c2f9cb3835e90dbb73b455041d9a742b9c1bb4c9
Message ID: <9412081408.ZM999@wiley.sydney.sgi.com>
Reply To: <94120811311055@nzdairy.co.nz>
UTC Datetime: 1994-12-08 03:11:58 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 19:11:58 PST

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From: "Ian Farquhar" <ianf@sydney.sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 19:11:58 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Breaking the NSA
In-Reply-To: <94120811311055@nzdairy.co.nz>
Message-ID: <9412081408.ZM999@wiley.sydney.sgi.com>
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On Dec 8, 11:31am, DNA wrote:
> If you really want to test NSA.  Encrypt some crypto code
> with pgp in an overseas public key(IE: non-us) then email the
> code to someone out of the us.  This way you will find out 1 of 2
> things.

[...]

I am told that a similar trick was tried by some people back in the
early 1980's, when they were trying to figure out if the NSA could
indeed break DES.  There was no official response to these attempts.

						Ian.

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• 1994-12-07 (Wed, 7 Dec 94 14:44:14 PST) - Breaking the NSA - Tony.Gurnick@nzdairy.co.nz (DNA)
  • 1994-12-07 (Wed, 7 Dec 94 15:02:54 PST) - Re: Breaking the NSA - Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
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    • 1994-12-09 (Thu, 8 Dec 94 18:02:43 PST) - Re: Breaking the NSA - Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.COM.AU>
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    • 1994-12-09 (Thu, 8 Dec 94 18:53:02 PST) - Re: Breaking the NSA - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>