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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gumby!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!niko From: niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler) Subject: Re: 386bsd security enhancements are needed before using INTERNET! Message-ID: <1992Jul27.214249.1065@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA References: <1992Jul27.173631.4223@gateway.novell.com> <1992Jul27.183548.20598@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul27.191435.14721@gateway.novell.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:42:49 GMT Lines: 27 > >It isn't that the algorithms are crackable -- it's that they take what the >NSA considers an unreasonable amount of time to crack, and, as such, >distribution of a working crypt library represents a perceived threat to >the national interest (USA). This is, in point of fact, a real problem, >in that you can encrypt sensitive data in the US and send it out on a public >channel. By the time it has been decrypted, the damage has already been >done, as the distribution of the data is no longer taking place and can not >be thwarted. > So the inherent problem you are worried about is that everyone is using the same crypt library, right? Because it is far easier to use the one given as is than to create a new one? Who generated it? Does anyone know? There must be a way to generate a different one, right? I think I may not be understanding something fully. -- Niko Schuessler Project Vincent Systems Manager email: niko@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center voice: (515) 294-1672 Ames IA 50010 snail: 272 Durham