RE: New Yorker article on NSA surveillance, crypto regs

1999-12-06 Thread Lucky Green
Dave Emery wrote: > I certainly humbly defer to your expertise on the subject. I was > aware that A5/2 was very weak, though not aware that a 5 cycle result > had been found, and fully expect that (as indicated by the Shamir > announcement) that there probably is a similar very fast solutio

RE: New Yorker article on NSA surveillance, crypto regs

1999-12-05 Thread Lucky Green
Dave Emery wrote: > And much of the worlds wireless phone plant is GSM, which is > almost always encrypted, which must add significantly to NSAs burden > intercepting it, even if they can break keys very quickly... Being rather familiar with GSM crypto, allow me to say this: most GSM voice

Re: New Yorker article on NSA surveillance, crypto regs

1999-12-03 Thread Dave Emery
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 06:08:46PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Declan McCullagh wri > tes: > > > While much of it resonates as true, the timing -- just before crucial > > oversight hearings and concerns about illegal NSA spying -- might be a > > little coinc

Re: New Yorker article on NSA surveillance, crypto regs

1999-12-03 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Declan McCullagh wri tes: > While much of it resonates as true, the timing -- just before crucial > oversight hearings and concerns about illegal NSA spying -- might be a > little coincidental: > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32770,00.html > > Last w