Re: why should it be trusted?

[James A.. Donald]

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At 02:34 PM 10/15/2000 -0700, Nathan Saper wrote:
 > > > IMHO, the NSA has enough expertise and technology to crack just
 > > > about any cipher out there.

James A. Donald:
 > > No it does not.
 > >
 > > The expertise of the NSA, great though it is, is small compared to
 > > the expertise outside the NSA.

At 10:26 PM 10/15/2000 -0700, Nathan Saper wrote:
 > Assuming we can evaluate accurately the magnitude of what goes on
 > inside the NSA...

I know vastly more about cryptography than you do, and people who know 
vastly more about cryptography than I are confident that codes that pass 
lengthy peer review by themselves and people as good as they are, are 
unlikely to be broken by the NSA.

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