From: "James Caldwell" <jcaldwel@iquest.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 07:11:54 +0800
To: chat@aen.org
Subject: (Fwd) Gov't run anon servers
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This states that some  anonymous remailers are run by various gov't 
and that encryption keys up to 1000 bits are crackable.

Whether this is true or disinformation, you are using a 1024 bit key
and all your messages through anonymous remailers are encrypted
aren't they?

Also note that while later versions of PGP are capable of larger 
keys, that these versions of PGP are not known to be secure. PGP 2.3a 
is the last version released prior to gov't interference.

PGP 2.3a will do 1264 bit keys if you enter 1264 in the box instead 
of the number it askes for when if asks for the type of key security 
you want.

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Date: Sun,  3 Mar 1996 13:15:55 UTC
Subject: Strassman & Marlow comment on NSA/remailers

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Subject: has this been on cypherpunks?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 17:09:17 -0800
From: Jim Ausman <ausman@wired.com>

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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 16:14:37 -0800
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From: kate@hotwired.com (Kate McKinley)
Subject: CIA and you
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>Sorry to send this through the "help email address" but I couldn't find
>your news email address.

>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?

>Best

>Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger
>Information Law Project
>Austrian Institute for Legal Policy

Kate McKinley
kate@hotwired.com

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