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Re: MIT TOC SEMINAR-MORRIS/UNKENHOLZ, NSA--Thursday-June 2--2:30pm

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Wexelblat)
Thu May 26 16:38:56 1994

From: Alan Wexelblat <wex@media.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 16:29:31 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com

[I'm going to be out of the country for this talk -- would someone who
attends please email me a summary if anything is posted to the list?  I'm
still not on the list.  --AW]

>                        MIT TOC SEMINAR
>
>                    Thursday, June 2, 1994
>
>      Refreshments at 2:15pm, Talk at 2:30pm in NE43-518
>
>               Title: ``ESCROW ENCRYPTION''
>
>            by S. Brent Morris and Mark Unkenholz
>                   National Security Agency
>
>                           ABSTRACT
>
>The Escrow Encryption Standard is the new federal standard for
>securing sensitive but unclassified information.  It could possibly
>replace the Data Encryption Standard (DES).  This talk will provide a
>technical overview of the Escrow Encryption Standard, the external
>features of the Skipjack algorithm, and its two current
>implementations, the Clipper and Capstone chips.
>
>Host:  Silvio Micali



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