Trustworthy contacts

[Brian Gladman]

From: "George Foot" <georgefoot@oxted.demon.co.uk>
To: "ukcrypto" <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 11:12 AM
Subject: Trustworthy contacts


> A cryptosystem common to a  number of nations is impractical unless
> those nations are fully integrated politically and have a discipline
> which allows a full investigation by any one of them into lapses which
> occur in any  other of them  --- a state of intimate political union for
> which there is no prospect at the present time ?

Not so since a number of nations already use shared cryptosystems.  Major
nations deploy a large number of different cryptosystems and what will not
happen is that a nation will protect its critical national information
assets with a cryptosystem that it also shares with other nations.

My suspicion is that this is closer to what George means (I am sure he will
correct me if I am wrong!).

       Brian