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1995-08-01 - Re: a hole in PGP

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From: “Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]” <erc@khijol.intele.net>
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
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Message ID: <Pine.3.89.9508011141.A5974-0100000@khijol>
Reply To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950801061213.9088A-100000@panix.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-08-01 17:52:32 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 10:52:32 PDT

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From: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <erc@khijol.intele.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 10:52:32 PDT
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Subject: Re: a hole in PGP
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On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Duncan Frissell wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:
> 
> > Why (specifically) do you think so? Because you claim it? Because the
> > MIT maintainer claims it? You say MIT is not associated with the NSA,
> > but they have historically been funded by the NSA and other federal
> > agencies for work on information security.  Do you really think that the
> 
> Of course MIT was in the NSA's pocket back in 1978 when they mailed me 
> and 3,000 other people a copy of "A Proposal for a Public Key Encryption 
> System" and started this whole Public Key-Private Key thing.  It was all 
> part of a plot.  If they hadn't done that we might all be using stronger 
> systems today.

Sounds like another LD tentacle to me ;)
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