At 9:32 AM -0700 on 11/5/99, NewsScan wrote: > THE TRUTH ABOUT ENCRYPTION > Cambridge University cryptography expert Ross Anderson says governments' > efforts to keep encryption technology out of the hands of criminals and > terrorists is misguided: "If I were to hold a three-hour encrypted > conversation with someone in the Medellin drug cartel, it would be a dead > giveaway. In routine monitoring, GCHQ (Britain's signals intelligence > service) would pick up the fact that there was encrypted traffic and would > instantly mark down my phone as being suspect. Quite possibly the police > would then send in the burglars to put microphones in all over my house. In > circumstances like this, encryption does not increase your security. It > immediately and rapidly decreases it. You are mad to use encryption if you > are a villain." (New Scientist 6 Nov 99) > http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991106/confidenti.html ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
