PGP and FBI?

There's some sort of documentary on WBAI 99.5 FM out of NYC now.
They're talking about PGP and right wing militias... the guy being
interviewed called PGP a "one time pad system" and doesn't understand
it... *sigh*

On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Deranged Mutant wrote:

> There's some sort of documentary on WBAI 99.5 FM out of NYC now.
> They're talking about PGP and right wing militias... the guy being
> interviewed called PGP a "one time pad system" and doesn't understand
> it... *sigh*

Any more details on this?  I know people who do shows on BAI.  What
was the date/time of the show?  If this is true, it's pretty sad,
especially since BAI's well known for being a "political" station.

   --Dave.

--
Dave Mandl
dmandl@panix.com
http://wfmu.org/~davem

> On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Deranged Mutant wrote:
> 
> > There's some sort of documentary on WBAI 99.5 FM out of NYC now.
> > They're talking about PGP and right wing militias... the guy being
> > interviewed called PGP a "one time pad system" and doesn't understand
> > it... *sigh*
> 
> Any more details on this?  I know people who do shows on BAI.  What
> was the date/time of the show?  If this is true, it's pretty sad,
> especially since BAI's well known for being a "political" station.

I forget the name of the show, it was on Tues. night (last night) after
Pacifica (around midnight)... I wrote and sent the message while I was
hearing it.  I stopped after bleating out the message and listened to
some of the show, which was about right wing militias, Weaver case, Okla bomb,
etc... turns out I missed the short part where the person being interviewed
(duh, should've written his name down) mentioned PGP, which he also said
stood for "Pretty Good Program".  Wish I had more details of the show...

(BTW, I'm temporarily off the c'punks list)

Rob

> 
>    --Dave.
> 
> --
> Dave Mandl
> dmandl@panix.com
> http://wfmu.org/~davem
>

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On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Deranged Mutant wrote:

> 
> There's some sort of documentary on WBAI 99.5 FM out of NYC now.
> They're talking about PGP and right wing militias... the guy being
> interviewed called PGP a "one time pad system" and doesn't understand
> it... *sigh*

Well there really is no reason that you cant use PGP as a hash function 
or its random function to produce OTP's.

Ben.


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