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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: misc.misc,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Keywords
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Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 16:14:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 27 16:14:46 1987
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In article <474@u410a.stl.stc.co.uk> dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright) writes:
>P.S. NSA and GCHQ SHOULD be reading at least sci.crypt anyway: in the unlikely
>event of someone posting to the world a way to break some important cypher or
>code, I hope our governments know that the method is known!
>
I agree, especially since other organizations (for instance, the KGB) might
also be listening in.

I don't see why any of us should be too upset when some government agency
does what many teenagers with home terminals do--read netnews.  As I said
in an earlier posting, someone in the NSA who reads netnews probably does
so for the same reasons many of us do: to see what other people have to
say in this, a *public* forum.

>Regards,
>        David Wright          STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex  CM17 9NA, U.K.

		-Ed Hall
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