On 02/24/2009 09:50 AM, ow...@netptc.net wrote:
[snip]
And in fact there always has been suspicion in the crypto community
that, in at least some of the ciphers (going back to the original
DES) that the NSA had built in a "trapdoor" such that they could
easily decrypt the message but anyone else, not knowing the trapdoor,
would have to use brute force. Never proven of course.
larry
That would only be possible if The Government controlled the source
code, or had an "understanding" with those who write closed-source code.
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The feeling of disgust at seeing a human female in a Relationship
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