Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 01:51:38PM -0400, David Minton wrote:
> 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.

To say nothing of this idiocy:

> > 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.

The only unbreakable cipher is a one-time pad. The journalist has been
reading too much Dan Brown.

-- 
hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2554 w: http://hesketh.com
Buy "Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, 2/e" today!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159059231X/heskecominc-20/ref=nosim/