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From: robert@jimi.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Stupidity
Message-ID: <465@jimi.cs.unlv.edu>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 17:05:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 13 17:05:49 1987
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References: <434@ethz.UUCP> <5580@brl-smoke.ARPA> <924@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: robert@jimi.UUCP (Robert Cray)
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In article <924@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> lazarus@brahms.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew J Lazarus) writes:
>>the dumpster and use them to read past messages.  (Would any
>>outfit be so stupid as to not permanently destroy the key tape?
>
>Yes, the United States Navy is this stupid.  My understanding -- the
>newspapers all claimed it was 'classified'  -- is that the Walker spy
>ring gave the Soviets the old keys.  These were, of course, useless

There was an article in the paper a while ago about either the Air Force
or Navy, I can't remember.  Apparently they had several hundred used tapes
they no longer needed.  They sold them at public auction, complete with
classified (unencrypted) data.

				--robert

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