From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:34:40 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: GOST
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Scoops writes:
> I also remember a few weeks ago reports in the press and on the List of a
> porn ring broken up and some agent involved saying that the some porn was
> encrypted in an old KGB program which sounded much like GOST.

I saw this report also, and took it to be a standard journalistic garble.
It seems more likely to me that the package used by the child porn types
was Kremlin, which produces .kgb files.

-- 
	Jim Gillogly
	Trewesday, 23 Blotmath S.R. 1998, 01:09
	12.19.5.12.6, 11 Cimi 19 Zac, Third Lord of Night