Re: the truth about encryption?

[Cipher <cipher@mindspring.com>]

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On  11/6/99, scotartt logged on while drunk, and ended up relaying this
through a little-known Microsoft open mail server to the North Korean
Central Committee who in turn forwarded to me:
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> THE TRUTH ABOUT ENCRYPTION
> Cambridge University cryptography expert Ross Anderson says governments'
> efforts to keep encryption technology out of the hands of criminals and
> terrorists is misguided: "If I were to hold a three-hour encrypted
> conversation with someone in the Medellin drug cartel, it would be a dead
> giveaway. In routine monitoring, GCHQ (Britain's signals intelligence
> service) would pick up the fact that there was encrypted traffic and would
> instantly mark down my phone as being suspect. Quite possibly the police
> would then send in the burglars to put microphones in all over my house. In
> circumstances like this, encryption does not increase your security. It
> immediately and rapidly decreases it. You are mad to use encryption if you
> are a villain." (New Scientist 6 Nov 99)
> http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991106/confidenti.html

Indeed.  http://www.mindspring.com/~cipher/NoKey/Escrow.html  click the red
Evidence link...

Cipher



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