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1996-10-03 - Re: NYT on IBM GAK

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: richieb@teleport.com (Rich Burroughs)
Message Hash: 8e7918378b9749751d1d1ea2bc81d00aa36fdd9482db794153d119d3faeddd96
Message ID: <199610031251.HAA29882@homeport.org>
Reply To: <3.0b24.32.19961002181037.0067e434@mail.teleport.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-10-03 14:39:51 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:39:51 +0800

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:39:51 +0800
To: richieb@teleport.com (Rich Burroughs)
Subject: Re: NYT on IBM GAK
In-Reply-To: <3.0b24.32.19961002181037.0067e434@mail.teleport.com>
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Rich Burroughs wrote:

| The word "boycott" leaped into my mind.  I personally do not believe that I
| will be buying products from any of these companies, as long as thay
| participate in this GAK charade.

	Folks,

	Lets be reasonable.  Its time to jump on board the GAK
bandwagon.  After all, where better to disrupt the music?  We need to
start writing GAK software, and it better be up to the high standards
that the NSA sets for itself.

	Once we've written it, and its being distributed, we can say
'See, another broken bit of GAK software.  Not even the NSA could get
it right.  Our data is too important to be using broken software to
protect us.'

	And we have 56 bit exportability in hand.


Adam

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