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Message-ID: <20030420124451.GA20416@eiv.com>
From: smcmahon at eiv.com (Shawn McMahon)
Subject: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 11:11:09AM +0200, yossarian said:
> is getting really hard. Anyway, underneath it is probably US anyway. Another
> customer decided to get rid of american crypto software, since he is afraid
> of economic espionage by No such 'n such Agency, helping his us based
> competitors. The Brussels incident didn't really help here.These politically

So, what does he use for UNIX password encryption; MD5 (Ron Rivest, USA)
or Blowfish (Bruce Schneier, USA)?  For PGP hashes?

It's a little difficult to completely avoid US products in the
encryption field.  And if your response is along the lines of "Open
Source, can't hide anything", I'll save time and summarize my rebuttal
now; DES, Differential Cryptanalysis, NSA, 20 years.


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