Re: NSA back doors in encryption products

[Rick Smith]

At 06:42 PM 05/24/2000 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
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>On Wed, 24 May 2000, Eugene Leitl wrote:
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>> Rick Smith writes:
>> 
>> If NSA/MS are not doing it, they must be pretty stupid, because I'd do
>> it in their place. The prudent assumption is hence: your online system 
>> can't be completely trusted, whether OpenSource, or not. Encryption
>> should be done in hardware.
>
>Bull, the hardware companies aren't any more trustworthy.

I agree with the "Bull" comment and disagree with the paragraph that was
incorrectly attributed to me.

Rick.