1996-01-07 - Re: NSA says strong crypto to china??

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From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-01-07 10:14:03 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 18:14:03 +0800

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From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 18:14:03 +0800
To: jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Subject: Re: NSA says strong crypto to china??
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>   Does anyone know of real documentation of this "suggestion" from the NSA?
> It quite telling, though no surprise to any of us I'm sure, that they would
> think that strong crypto should be a tool of freedom in china, but not in
> this country.

	But they do. That's why they don't want it. That too should be
obvious. I think though, that this is an example of the two major
functional halves of the NSA, with rather opposite goals: COMSEC
vs. COMINT.

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