Army signals security & "Clansmen" series radios

[Brian Morrison]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:50:49 +0100, Owen Lewis wrote:

>    1. That the use of any system for information security where the
>strength of the security is predicated to the certain  recognition of
>parties unknown to and remote from each other is prone to spoofing. Where
>the means of identification are organised at the personal level, the risk
>from spoofing must rise.
>

Exactly the situation that the PGP web of trust is designed to deal
with, and can provided that the trust is established correctly in the
first place. However, depending on that for your life involves taking
an unquantifiable risk, something that the military would prefer to
avoid. They also have different requirements about physical security of
cipher systems, PGP could be compromised by careless control of
material.

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