I saw an amusing news article. Some guy was going through the
Canadian border with a laptop. He encrypted his files with PGP.
The feds think he is a crook and demanded he give them the key. He
refused on 5th amendment grounds.
The interesting thing is the feds could not crack it. Pretty good for
a free to $99 program.
I have always assumed government could crack pretty well anything
other than a one-time cipher, using special purpose hardware.
Presumably they could not get time on this beast. It is too busy with
higher priorities.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/pgp.html
I think PGP is in essence depends on the difficultly of finding the
prime factors of a number, the same algorithm I use in the
Trans****ter.
See http://mindprod.com/products1.html#TRANS****TER
The main advantage of my code is it is all transparent. You can check
there are no trap doors in it.
--
Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary, http://mindprod.com
