On Dec 15, 2004, at 12:44 AM, James Fraser wrote:
on 12-13-04 11:38 PM, Eric J. Leopold at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try PGP at <http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgp/versions/freeware/mac/7.0.3/> Pretty Good Protection is easy to use too and the feds hate it:-) Eric
Did anyone keep up with the PGP controversy? By that I mean: when it first
came out, the feds made a Very Big Deal over the fact that Joe Sixpack now
had a fairly powerful, easy-to-use encryption tool available. They made the
usual argument about how the Bad Guys will use this to conquer the world and
now we can't stop them, etc.
Then suddenly they stopped.
They stopped because a judge threw out the federal weapons charges against the creator of PGP, the whole 'Clipper' government-mandated encryption thing blew up in their faces, and they realized that the genie was well out of the bottle, and that further suppression was only going to harm the US economy and security.
Now, though, they've pretty well convinced the Public that Only Terrorists and Drug Dealers use encryption; the relative handful of privacy cranks who do merely stick out as weird and possibly dangerous.
It's too bad. Eventually the frog will end up boiled dinner without ever knowing what killed it.
I'd be surprised, though, if the NSA had found a way to easily break PGP; it still requires a simple method of factoring very large numbers. A LOT of very bright people are working on that one, and while the NSA hires some of the very brightest, they've not got a lock on them.
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Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pha acy Information Technology Group
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