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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: one-time pads etc.
Message-ID: <1377@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-May-86 00:50:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: mmintl.1377
Posted: Fri May  9 00:50:58 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 21:10:32 EDT
References: <2507@decwrl.DEC.COM> <329@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <329@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.ARPA writes:
>You can be sure that NSA doesn't insist on true one-time 1-1 keys for all
>its approved cryptosystems, yet it clearly has confidence in their security.
>On the other hand, last I heard, it does NOT authorize use of DES, nor,
>I believe, RSA, for protecting classified information.  Draw your own
>conclusions..

There are two possibilities, and either one seems about equally likely to me.
One is the NSA can currently break DES and RSA; the other is that they
consider it likely that it will soon be possible to do so.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108