[Cryptography] On 40-bit encryption

[David Kane-Parry]

> There was an article printed in I think _Foreign Affairs_ from a long
> time ago that was found and referenced by (IIRC) Ross Anderson by some
> crypto warriors.
> 
> In there was an anecdote about the games they played with the South
> Africans.  They stopped crypto exports to them.  But then the South
> Africans started developing an indigenous capability.  So the NSA opened
> up the crypto exports again in order to squash the local companies.

"Nothing impressed me very much and all I discovered was that cryptology was an arcane science for bored mathematicians, not for underground activists.”

Talking To Vula: The Story of the Secret Underground Communications Network of Operation Vula - http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=4693