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

[steve ryan]

LOL, give these guys any chance to prove their technical dominance (for 
whatever reasons) and you will suffer!

;)

On Thursday 09 May 2002 16:10, Anders Holm wrote:
> 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
>
> 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.