[ILUG] Echelon exists..so says EU report

[Wesley Darlington]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:37:17PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> And, when all else fails, the bad guys can always fall back on "lead
> pipe decryption".  ;->

Wouldn't lead pipe decryption be a bit, um, tricky? That is, if you
try to (ahem) decrypt something just a little bit too hard with the 
lead pipe they have an annoying habit of becoming, uh, permanently
encrypted? Perhaps this algorithm just isn't amenable to brute force
decryption? what sort of length do you suggest for the decryption `key'?

Wesley.