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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Request for opinions: canadian cryptographic standard.
Message-ID: <821@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 02:46:06 GMT
References: <2463@geac.UUCP> <8497@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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Assuming only a moderately paranoid point of view, the following thought
came up:

NSA is trying to push use of a "black box" encryption standard which they
almost certainly will have a "back door" to.

Now it is suggested that Canada come up with its *own* black box. (probably
with a back door :-)

So if I get both and run my data thru the in sequence, would that mean that
neither NSA nor it's Canadian equivalent code crack it without either luck
(finding the other guy's backdoor) or sharing their black boxes (which
defeats the purpose of having seperate black boxes)?

I think I like this...

-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."