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From: mkr@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Newsgroups: net.crypt,net.politics
Subject: Re: Who can be secure?
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Date: Wed, 30-Apr-86 13:15:21 EDT
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>>  Assuming the information about breaking new Libyan codes within weeks
>>  is correct, does that imply that the NSA is
>>  stellar at the job it does, or that the Libyans use weak
>>  crypto-systems?  
>
>The Libyans use weak crypto-systems.
>
	Weak crypto-systems? Why, I seen one of their papers one time,
and I couldn't make hide nor hair of it - it was all just a buncha funny
squiggles. I think it must be one of the best crypto-systems around. I'd
love to see an Arabic ASCII table.

	(In case you couldn't tell ....      :-)   )


					--MKR
"There's nothing wrong with shooting, as long as the right people get shot."
					-"Dirty" Harry Callahan