for a moment i forgot today was April 1st. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Floria Lop <<a href="mailto:flop@gmplib.org">flop@gmplib.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> After a long internal discussion, and with some regret, the GMP team is soliciting suggestions for a novel high-level cryptography function layer, accommodating suitable back-doors for law enforcement agencies' security work. The plan is to add cryptography functions such as mpz_rsakeygen and mpz_dsakeygen that implement the RSA and DSA algorithms, respectively, with builtin key escrow. By default, private keys will be transferred securely to NSA for US users, and PRCIA for Chinese users, etc, but this should of course be configurable. Please treat the information in this letter as confidential to the GMP project, so that it does not fall in the hands of terrorists. If these new functions do not get used, this security project will be less successful. Remember, the governments are spying on us for our own safety and security! To stop terrorists from removing these features, the license of GMP 4.3 will be the new PGPL, the Patriot GNU Public License. It is a mix of the GPL and FDL, with "invariant code sections". "We understand that this is a controversial move, and that paranoid people will not like it", says Jarl Bong-Rundtörn, security officer within the GMP project. "But please remember that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" he concludes. For the GMP project Floria Lop _______________________________________________ gmp-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:gmp-discuss@gmplib.org">gmp-discuss@gmplib.org</a> <a href="https://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-discuss" target="_blank">https://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-discuss</a> </blockquote></div> -- Patience, Persistence & Truth -Sarad A.V