http://www.stuff.co.nz/4365478a28.html
An Islamist website often used by al Qaeda supporters is promoting encryption software which it says will help Islamic militants communicate with greater security on the internet. The Mujahideen Secrets 2 software was promoted as "the first Islamic program for secure communications through networks with the highest technical level of encoding". The software, available free on the password-protected Ekhlaas.org site which often carries al Qaeda messages, is a newer version of Mujahideen Secrets issued in early 2007 by the Global Islamic Media Front, an al Qaeda-linked web-based group. "This special edition of the software was developed and issued by ... Ekhlaas in order to support the mujahideen (holy war fighters) in general and the (al Qaeda-linked group) Islamic State in Iraq in particular," the site said. -- On the other hand, imagine if the software were compromised by a TLA in the spirit of the recent revival of interest of Crypto AG? What a coup that would be. Of course vulnerabilities can be simply a matter of using the wrong random number generator... --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]