From: corondan@eng.eds.com (George A. Corondan (corondan@eng.eds.com))
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Raw Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 15:06:08 PDT
From: corondan@eng.eds.com (George A. Corondan (corondan@eng.eds.com))
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 15:06:08 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "S1" encryption system (was: this looked like it might be interesting)
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On Aug 10, 12:02pm, David G. Koontz wrote:
> Subject: Re: "S1" encryption system (was: this looked like it might be int
> >Jon writes:
> >> Two other possibilities: (1) It's merely an independently produced
> >> cryptosystem disguised as a "leak" to save its creator the trouble of
> >> asking experts to analyze it for him/her.
>
> >It strikes me as rather foolish to mail off anonymous copies to several
> >individual recipients (Matt, Perry, Tim, ...) in addition to the list, if
> >S1 is a real leak. Why aid the traffic analysts by firing off multiple
> >messages through the remailers ?
>
> A third possibility comes to mind, that person or persons associated with
> the list are using the post to focus on cryptographic efforts in lieu of
> political or apocalyptic diatribes.
how about a fourth possibility: the government ___ agency did it.
this was done to achieve two goals:
1) make cypherpunks easy to villify (look at all of the nasty crypto
stuff being passed to foreign nationals)
2) a quick estimate of cypherpunks' ability to analyze an algorithm
am i being too paranoid? probably, but you tell me :-).
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