Re: is there a master PW?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:29:44 -0500

In article <20041129131008.06251.00000617@mb-m27.aol.com>,
 developwebsites@aol.comBATSPAM (Developwebsites) wrote:

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

Most of these algorithms were designed before 9/11. Even though the
government may *want* such access even more now than they did before, if
the algorithms didn't have a master password before, they don't have one
now, either. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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