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(fwd) New antiencryption DoD center breaks PGP
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- Subject: (fwd) New antiencryption DoD center breaks PGP
- From: Kai Raven <kai.raven@ob.kamp.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 19:20:19 +0200
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On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:28:14 GMT, in comp.security.pgp.discuss
kzog@my-deja.com wrote:
The DoD has opened a $17 million antiencryption/computer privacy center
which is linked to the NSA and has an FBI laison Lab on site. A grant
from the Clinton administration of $ 80 million to break PGP and other
available cyphers in the USA will allow full access to any computer told
by a lab spokesman to ABC. Six months ago ABC reported that the Clinton
administration was just playing for time with its export controls until
it could crack high grade encrytion. Well the contols are gone and the
lab is on line. SEE BELOW
Teaching About Hi-tech Crime
The new program also trains investigators,
who will be assigned full time to military
posts and bases worldwide. Typical classes
are three weeks of about a dozen students
learning about espionage, hackers, networks
and special computer hardware.
?What we intend to handle here is the big
and large,? Ferguson said, citing examples
where huge amounts of data need to be
analyzed or where a particularly savvy
criminal scrambled his digital records and
won?t give up his password.
Although Ferguson and others declined to
discuss specific cases already under way, they
described as rare those involving encrypted
files.
The White House agreed last week to
allow sale of the most powerful
data-scrambling technology with virtually no
restrictions, although military and law
enforcement officials have long warned that
criminals and terrorists might also use the
technology.
Ferguson said he was confident that
techniques to break those messages will be
adequate once Congress approves a proposal
by the Clinton administration to give the FBI
$80 million over four years for the technology.
Defense Department officials also
acknowledged that the lab?s proximity to the
nearby National Security Agency, the
government?s premier code-breaking
organization, was a primary factor in deciding
its location.
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