DId you ever think...
Ed Carp
ecarp at netcom.com
Fri Apr 22 09:57:47 PDT 1994
Um, this is pretty paranoid shit. The source for PGP is freely available
- and the first thing that was done after it was released was that people
started looking at the source for exactly the kinds of things that you
mention. None were found.
Of course, there *could* be glaring weaknesses in PGP internally -- and
that's why the NSA chose to allow it to propogate, just like they did DES.
But I don't believe that there was a conspiracy on the part of the author
of PGP - after all, that's one more person outside of the control of the
NSA that would know what was going on, and PRZ's anarchistic tendancies
are well-known :)
Ed Carp, N7EKG/VE3 ecarp at netcom.com 519/824-3307
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If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than
steel! -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"
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