NODE 25bc3f77No Subject
bbrown@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brice A. Brown)Fri, 3 Jun 94 20:34:33 PDT
I posted about the NSA being human on ISCA. This was a response
I got from Milamber.
I have a close relative who is a cryptologist for the NSA. He knows much
about skipjack. he couldn't/wouldn't tell me much, of course, mainly because
the last word I use to describe him is 'human'... he's more 'asshole'... but he
said the last thing he'd trust is skipjack/clipper... he says that the
CIA/FBI/NSA/ATF will almost assuradly _NOT_ violate the escrow rules (in other
words, they _will_ get a warrant for the key halves_) however, he also said
that there are so many back doors that they don't need them. He also said that
they are expecting people to find about 60% of these doors, and they will
correct them when found (so they have a deck of aces up thier sleves) Damn
people.
However, he wasn't directly involved in the clipper shit, but he does have
high clearance. But he's an asshole, like I said. NSA people, as a
generalization, usually are. He'd turn _me_ in if he knew I hacked.
Entropy. Artimage.-
NODE b37a0ee8No Subject
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>Mon, 6 Jun 94 05:32:41 PDT
> about skipjack. he couldn't/wouldn't tell me much, of course, mainly
> because the last word I use to describe him is 'human'... he's more
> 'asshole'... but he said the last thing he'd trust is
> skipjack/clipper... he says that the CIA/FBI/NSA/ATF will almost
> assuradly _NOT_ violate the escrow rules (in other words, they
> _will_ get a warrant for the key halves_) however, he also said that
> there are so many back doors that they don't need them.
This "relative" either does not exist, is spewing bullshit, or is
violating federal law by divulging classified information. In any
case, I find the message to be low in information content.
Perry
NODE 43656440No Subject
Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>Sat, 4 Jun 94 15:08:16 PDT
> I have a close relative who [...] he says that the CIA/FBI/NSA/ATF
> will almost assuradly _NOT_ violate the escrow rules (in other
> words, they _will_ get a warrant for the key halves_)[....]
Considering that most if not all of these TLA's can obtain warents
through the Federal Inteligence Survelance Court, it's not suprising
to hear they have no intention of violating the escrow rules.
brad