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Re: The secret message is...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Bogk)
Tue Mar 3 14:28:43 1998
To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>
Cc: Rick Smith <rsmith@securecomputing.com>,
"Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>, cryptography@c2.net,
markham@securecomputing.com
From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@artcom.de>
Date: 03 Mar 1998 17:38:42 +0100
In-Reply-To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd"'s message of Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:02:48 -0500 (EST)
>>>>> "Donald" == Donald E Eastlake 3rd <dee@cybercash.com> writes:
Donald> Why is that interesting? Macs are not particularly
Donald> efficient for this. NSA has its own chip foundary and
Donald> remember how some years ago Russia bought 100,000 DES
Donald> chips from a West German supplier and never was really
Donald> able to explain where they went... Look at the experts
Actualy, this was an East German supplier (Robotron, to be precise). I
wouldn't have trusted a West German supplier if I were Russia. And the
Crypto AG story proves that there's a reason for this.
Andreas
--
The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption]
would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
-- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
