Reply-To: jhupp@shockwave.win.net (Jeff Hupp)
From: jhupp@shockwave.win.net (Jeff Hupp)
Subject: Re: New Encryption Algorithm
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> >  Well, actually, this one's easy. It's their job. The NSA is
> >supposed to develop cryptosystems. If the government chooses to go
> >ahead and sell those cryptosystems to the masses, so be it.
>
>  Ah, but developing cryptosystems which are specificially designed to
>protect the government's domestic spying capabilities takes them beyond
>that mandate, into the forbidden field of domestic wiretapping.
>
>
    The NSA's charter forbids them from doing any purely domestic
intelligence work, I would think that even providing assistance in
development of the Skipjack algorithom is a violation of that charter. 
But as with any intrenched government agency, they will do what they
think is expedent.


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