Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks

[Jim McCoy]

Bram Cohen at bram at gawth.com wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Bill Frantz wrote:
> 
>> So the honorable gentlemen are proposing unilateral crypto disarmament?  Or
>> perhaps a world where many governments can read the business plans and
>> strategies of US companies?  Or perhaps a world where the terrorists
>> themselves can read the travel plans of their targets?
> 
> Preliminary indications are that the terrorists communicated on perfectly
> ordinary cell phones - it's dubious that they used any crypto at all.

It is well known and documented that these cells use PGP and stego tools
when necessary, probably because they are relatively easy and available.
While the information needed to build such tools can be found on the web, Al
Qaeda does not need to because people like us have already made them widely
available.  Sad, but true.

jim




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