[IIU] Re: [ILUG] FW: ALERT: EU storing all net traffic

[Anders Holm]

Sorry, wasn't clear enough.

"they had to hand over the algorithm to FBI" would in be meaning the
algorithm for cracking the keys 'quickly'.. It'll still take them some nice
time to do so, but once a key has been cracked, all messages/files belonging
to that key can then effectively be decrypted.

Sorry for not being clear enough.. stressful day.. ;)

Best Regards

Anders Holm
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-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
sean.odonnell at sentia.ie
Sent: 09 May 2002 16:00
To: anders.holm at elivefree.net; tbridge at vianetworks.ie;
seamus_iiu at yahoo.co.uk; iiu at taint.org; ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [IIU] Re: [ILUG] FW: ALERT: EU storing all net traffic


and what good does the algorithm do you without the key?
(not that the algorithm(s) used have not always been freely available
anyway.

-----Original Message-----
From: Anders Holm [mailto:anders.holm at elivefree.net]
Sent: 09 May 2002 07:54
To: Thomas Bridge; Seamus Ryan; iiu at taint.org; 'ILUG'
Subject: RE: [IIU] Re: [ILUG] FW: ALERT: EU storing all net traffic


Not true.

For PGP to become commercial, they had to hand over the algorithm to FBI....

They had to choose between doing that, or go to jail if someone outside the
US was using the algorithm, and people were of course ;)

Best Regards

Anders Holm
Critical Path Technical Support Engineer
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-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
Thomas Bridge
Sent: 09 May 2002 15:50
To: Seamus Ryan; iiu at taint.org; 'ILUG'
Subject: RE: [IIU] Re: [ILUG] FW: ALERT: EU storing all net traffic



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At 15:27 09/05/2002 +0100, Seamus Ryan wrote:
>Traffic records are kept.

None of this is relevant to net traffic.

The practice of storing every packet sent through the network is just
impractical.   Not even the EU is that dumb.

What we can do is tell when you've sent an email to someone, and who you
sent it to.   What we can't do is tell whats in the mail.  But we've al

But anyway, if everyone used PGP we wouldn't have a problem.

T.


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