Applied Crypto can be a menace to you anonymity?

>From: an4914@anon.penet.fi (Nitch)
>....I received my copy of _Applied Cryptography_
>with amazing speed.  I only ordered the thing this week,...)

If I were the NSA (or, rather, someone who cared about who was using
crypto in a way I might not approve of), I'd be keeping tabs on who
ordered this book!

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Allen Baum writes:

> >From: an4914@anon.penet.fi (Nitch)
> >....I received my copy of _Applied Cryptography_
> >with amazing speed.  I only ordered the thing this week,...)
> 
> If I were the NSA (or, rather, someone who cared about who was using
> crypto in a way I might not approve of), I'd be keeping tabs on who
> ordered this book!

But did you hear that the NSA has installed trap-doors in Schneier's C
code to do the same thing? I heard this the same place I heard that
Paul Zimmermann is actually an agent of the Mossad and the
International Trilateralist Cabal.

--Tim May


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