Re: successfully echelonised

[Mark Jeftovic <markjr@privateworld.com>]

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On 29-Sep-99 superchango wrote:
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> Hi everybody:
> Correct me if I am wrong but I have understood that Zimmerman the creator
> of PGP sold out and went commercial. In doing so agencies such as NSA have
> acces to the mathematical sequences of encryption and therefore decryp
> things farely easy with proper machines and software that they definitely
> have.
> PEACE!

PGP was open source, hence the NSA (and anybody else) had access to the
"mathematical sequences" and algorithms long before Zimmerman "sold out".

Out of curiosity, the guy is a computer-type by trade, specializing in
encryption technology, so by parlaying a widely used package that *he*
created into a viable commerical venture he's selling out? What would 
rather have him do, get a paper route and develop this stuff in his spare 
time forever?

-mark

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