I have been looking at this proposal as well and it certainly has potential to make a comeback and be an actual standard, I wonder what the openpgp authors have to say, fabio, did you forward this to the openpgp list by any chance?
Jurre 2013/9/11 Lodewijk andré de la porte <[email protected]> > 2013/9/10 David D <[email protected]> > >> Quote, " You've got to think (NSA claims to be the biggest employer of >> mathematicians) that seeing the illegal activities the US has been getting >> up to with the fruits of their labour that they may have a mathematician >> retention or motivation problem on their hands." >> >> You mean like the principled mathematicians working on cluster bombs, >> drones, and other "cool shit"? >> >> Everyone at the NSA knows exactly what they are doing. >> >> I suspect, like most that suck off the military-industrial complex tit, >> there is surprising low turnover. >> >> Paychecks only go so far with the principled, but spineless will collect a >> check forever and do whatever it takes to keep it coming. >> > > It's just a cool way to work with smart people on difficult problems while > helping the nation. > > I think you underestimate how much these Americans think they're genuinely > helping the nation. Their point isn't violating human rights, it's > protecting human beings. > > It's a bit like the three laws system in Asimo's books, the only logical > way to protect the civilians against themselves is to prevent them from > thinking and communicating freely. It's only logical to take their freedoms > to make them safe. > > I suspect the 'idealistic madmen' actually is a minority. The rest is > simply indifferent to what happens as long as they can do groundbreaking > research. > > Analysts are actually "on the job" and the job itself has its ethical > considerations, so that's a different story. Like police really. > > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > >
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