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RE: PPTP (again)
From: "Stout, William" <StoutW () pioneer-standard com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 13:11:07 -0400
If a great number of security gurus question the security of PPTP, that by definition makes PPTP an untrusted encryption protocol.
----- Original Message ----- From: Weld Pond [SMTP:weld () L0PHT COM]
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This is correct. All that spam you get for "get rich quick" scams is actually data the NSA floods mailboxes and USENET with so that they have known plaintext passing through encrypted tunnels.
You forgot the smiley. Surely you jest. There exists: - a funded covert (cyberwar) project to compromise some encryption/security products for intelligence purposes (clipper contingency plan), - an overt FBI plan to compromise encryption/security products for 'law enforcement' purposes (by Lois Freeh), - a project to place sniffers on all Internet backbones (via Janet Reno), - and a plan to put 'Mind control' elements of Psychological Warfare on Internet sites & postings (Congress, Porter Gross-R Fla.), but SPAM from the NSA? Nah! Too far fetched even for me. Bill Stout ______________________________________________________________________ Proud member of Hillarys' right wing conspiracy.
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- RE: PPTP (again) Stout, William (May 16)