Something that was always fishy...
Posted Aug 19, 2004 15:13 UTC (Thu) by
mmarsh (subscriber, #17029)
In reply to:
Something that was always fishy... by gproux
Parent article:
Crypto researchers abuzz over flaws (News.com)
NSA gave up on this because they had to, really. Once high-quality cryptography was openly being developed elsewhere in the world, keeping U.S. cryptography locked up under the provenance of NSA meant that U.S. companies, individuals, and government agencies would be at a distinct and significant disadvantage globally. Once the genie is out of the bottle, it's little worth your time trying to stuff it back in.
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