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  • From: David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Iranian Security
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:51:38 -0400

This has always sounded fishy to me. If the Iranians knew their codes had
been compromised, why would they send such as message through these codes,
alerting the NSA? They could instead have fed the NSA false information.
Maybe the Chalabi message was such misinformation, if it ever existed.

David

On 6/16/04 1:46 PM, "Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> sent by a friend in IT in Richmond:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3804895.stm
>
> <excerpt>
> Breaking codes: An impossible task?
>
> By Paul Reynolds
> BBC News Online world affairs correspondent
>
> Recent reports that the United States had broken codes used by the Iranian
> intelligence service have intrigued experts on cryptology because a modern
> cipher should be unbreakable.
> Four leading British experts told BBC News Online that the story, if true,
> points to an operating failure by the Iranians or a backdoor way in by the
> National Security Agency (NSA) - the American electronic intelligence
> organisation.
>
>
> The reports, from Washington, suggested that the Iranians had been tipped
> off by Ahmed Chalabi, an Iraqi political leader with links to Iran.
> </excerpt>
>
> -Alan
>
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