Re: Unbreakable code HELP

From: John Savard (jsavard_at_ecn.aSBLOKb.caNADA.invalid)
Date: 12/31/03


Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 04:46:12 GMT

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:10:29 GMT, "Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis@iahu.ca>
wrote, in part:
>"TURNOCK6" <turnock6@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:20031230210548.13822.00001805@mb-m10.aol.com...

>> I heard that the US government recently went to court to try and stop the
>use
>> of a code that it could not break. Any infoormation?

>Ok, calling your cards.....
>
>What is your source of this information?

If he remembered what his source was, he wouldn't be asking this
question. Perhaps he is thinking of the old export restrictions on
ciphers with keys longer than 40 bits, for example, that he heard
about while walking past a room in which a TV was playing CNN, so he
is posting here to find out what that news item is all about.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html