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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: An interesting message from SECURITY-DIGEST@RUTGERS
Message-ID: <8746@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 22:33:58 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 22:33:58 1987
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Keywords: NSA, DES, STU-III

> ... (It IS a federal law that
> no cipher may be used for international traffic that NSA can't break...

I'd like to see chapter and verse cited on this.  Especially since the US
government (and presumably other parties as well) are already in violation
of any such law, due to use of inherently-unbreakable one-time encryption
for high-security traffic.
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"Mir" means "peace", as in           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"the war is over; we've won".        | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry