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Re: [Cryptography] RSA is dead.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Borg)
Wed Jan 22 12:47:43 2014
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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:13:11 -0500
From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>,
Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>, John Kelsey <crypto.jmk@gmail.com>
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On 01/21/2014 06:30 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> By the '90s, its reputation was dirt. Because, other than what was
> known or
> suspected about DES, every action they took was to inhibit public use of
> cryptography.
Data point: I still have my old "Cyber Rights Now!" t-shirt, with a
raised fist clutching lighting bolts on one side, and on the other side
an observing eye and apology from the NSA about being behind schedule
for 1984.
At least with some of us, their reputation was terrible by 1984.
-kb
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