1998-07-28 - Re: DoD on Infosec and Crypto

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@openpgp.net>
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Message Hash: 8cc7dc46c91c9198e4c47f8087f58c5b898276d675fb1897271962f19108f548
Message ID: <199807281900.PAA03283@domains.invweb.net>
Reply To: <199807281710.NAA25500@camel7.mindspring.com>
UTC Datetime: 1998-07-28 19:00:32 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:00:32 -0700 (PDT)

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:00:32 -0700 (PDT)
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: DoD on Infosec and Crypto
In-Reply-To: <199807281710.NAA25500@camel7.mindspring.com>
Message-ID: <199807281900.PAA03283@domains.invweb.net>
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In <199807281710.NAA25500@camel7.mindspring.com>, on 07/28/98 
   at 01:05 PM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> said:

>DoD boosts strong encryption as the primary means to
>protect mil and com info but insists on "balancing"
>the needs of privacy and law enforcement. Questioners
>bluntly challenged equating the two.

You know I almost feel sorry for these guys. They *must* know that they
come off looking like complete fools with this line of "you need strong
crypto but not too strong that we can't snoop".

I did say *almost*. :)

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