Re: DES cracker built

William H. Geiger III (whgiii@invweb.net)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 08:06:31 -0500

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In <199807171112.GAA14093@mixer.visi.com>, on 07/17/98
   at 06:10 AM, Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com> said:

>The nonprofit foundation designed and built the EFF DES Cracker to
>counter the claim made by U.S. government officials that governments
>cannot decrypt information when protected by DES, or that it would take
>multimillion-dollar networks of computers months to decrypt one message.
>"The government has used that claim to justify policies of weak
>encryption and 'key recovery,' which erode privacy and security in the
>digital age," said EFF Executive Director Barry Steinhardt. It is now
>time for an honest and fully informed debate, which we believe will lead
>to a reversal of these policies."

Unfortunately a typical government "solutions" would be to outlaw the DES
cracker rather than change it's flawed policies.

Look how they addressed cell phone security. Did they push for strong
encrypted links? No they just made it illegal for anyone but themselves to
snoop on the conversations. I expect nothing less from them on any other
crypto related matter.

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