Re: is there a master PW?

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: 29 Nov 2004 20:39:50 GMT

developwebsites@aol.comBATSPAM (Developwebsites) writes:

]There surely must exist a master password for all popular
]encryption software or algorithms, especially after 9/11.

]What I mean is if you encrypt files using Kremlin, Puffer, PGP, etc.
]and the police or the FBI or CIA or NSA wants to read that file, could
]they get an order from a judge, or some secret sect/person(s) such as the
]Masons, CSM, Pamela Anderson's breastises(what?!, didnt you know Pam's
]breastises possess the ultimate power over men?) and get a master pw
]to read that file(s)?

No.

]Are you telling me that with a $29.99 crypto app I could defeat the efforts of
]the all powerful, all knowing, all seeing NSA?

Yes. assuming you used it properly.

]If so, what use is the NSA if they cant break encypted files of some 15 year
]old in-bred Alabama red-neck who downloads teens to his mommy's PC?

Information. NSA does not care about some "15 year old in-bred ..." and
cases against such people very rarely rely on encryption breaking.
NSA's mandate is collection of all electronic information-- telephone
calls, radio broadcasts, etc. Decryption is only partof its mandate. And
many people who use encryption do so badly, making breaking easy.

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