From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:53:23 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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>I attended last weeks "Information, National Policies, and International
>Infrastructure" Symposium at Harvard Law School, organized by the Global
>Information Infrastructure Commission, the Kennedy School and the
>Institute for Information Technology Law & Policy of Harvard Law School.

>During the presentation by Paul Strassmann, National Defense University
>and William Marlow, Science Applications International Corporation,
>entitled "Anonymous Remailers as Risk-Free International Infoterrorists"
>the questions was raised from audience (Professor Chaarles Nesson,
>Harvard LAw School) - in a rather extended debate - whether the CIA and
>similar government agencies are involved in running anonymous remailers
>as this would be a perfect target to scan possibly illegal messages.

>Both presenters explicitly acknowledged that a number of anonymous
>remnailers in the US are run by government agencies scanning traffic.
>Marlow said that the government runs at least a dozen remailers and that
>the most popular remailers in France and Germany are run by the
>respective government agencies in these countries. In addition they
>mentioned that the NSA has successfully developed systems to break
>encrypted messages below 1000 bit of key length and strongly suggested
>to use at least 1024 bit keys. They said that they semselves use 1024
>bit keys.

>I ask Marlos afterwards if these comments were off or on record, he
>paused then said that he can be quoted.

>So I thought I pass that on. It seems interesting enough, don't you
>think?

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     I don't know about everyone else, but I consider this, if true, to be a 
MAJOR worry.  It never ceases to amaze me how lightly the government takes 
lying to the people.  Unfortunately I don't have the contacts or resources 
to do any further investigation, I hope this thread is resolved one way or 
another soon.

nobody@unimportant