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XPost: comp.dsp, sci.crypt, sci.electronics.design
From: jya@ieee.org
Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
> On Dec 17, 3:07 pm, Jerry Avins wrote:
>> Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
>>> Earlier this year, when I spoke to DARPA program managers and prime
>>> contractors about secure, mobile, wirless links, it seemed that that
>>> "their bread was not fully baked" in this area. I asked a technical
>>> director of a $11US+ billion program if this was the case, and he was
>>> reluctant to admit that, after $5US billion already spent, they still
>>> had not figured out how to do secure mobile links in a way that
>>> actually made sense. His response was something like,
>>> "Yes, before, we had some issues around 2000-2001, but recently we
>>> have provided demonstrations that show that we have control of the
>>> situation."
>>> DARPA, please, you are impressing us toooo much!!!!
>> The video down link is not encrypted. They say they're working on it.
>
> Well, if you give me $100US million dollars, I will open a (non-Swiss)
> bank account, deposit $99.5US million into the account, and use the
> remaining $500,000US to hire two cryptographers for six months to get
> the encryption right.
What do you mean "get the encryption right"? I understood that there was
no encryption at all.
> The Predator was not exactly a high-school science project.
>
> Surely we can all agree that there is something ironic about a top-
> secrete weapon lacking security that a 20-year-old computer science
> student at a top engineering school could probably get right (almost)
> on the first run.
>
> What they did (not do), given rancid amounts of money given to them by
> the general public, is inexcusable.
It wasn't encryption that failed, but specification.
Jerry
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