If a great number of security gurus question the security of PPTP, that by definition makes PPTP an untrusted encryption protocol. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Weld Pond [SMTP:weldat_private] <snip> > This is correct. All that spam you get for "get rich quick" scams is > actually data the NSA floods mailboxes and USENET with so that they > have known plaintext passing through encrypted tunnels. You forgot the smiley. Surely you jest. There exists: - a funded covert (cyberwar) project to compromise some encryption/security products for intelligence purposes (clipper contingency plan), - an overt FBI plan to compromise encryption/security products for 'law enforcement' purposes (by Lois Freeh), - a project to place sniffers on all Internet backbones (via Janet Reno), - and a plan to put 'Mind control' elements of Psychological Warfare on Internet sites & postings (Congress, Porter Gross-R Fla.), but SPAM from the NSA? Nah! Too far fetched even for me. Bill Stout ______________________________________________________________________ Proud member of Hillarys' right wing conspiracy.
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