[14555] in Cypherpunks
Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Jun 2 07:59:25 1994
To: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jun 1994 00:57:15 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 07:56:21 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Eli Brandt says:
> > Matthew Blaze, a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, told the New
> > York Times that his research had shown that someone with sufficient
> > computer skills can beat the government's technology by encoding
> > messages so that no one, not even the government, can crack them.
>
> Sounds like pre-encryption, after to the usual journalistic garbling.
> Maybe not, I'll drop him a cc: (if I remember the address correctly).
Its not pre-encryption. He's actually getting around the key escrow
features and using Skipjack in a secure manner. Its very slick.
Perry
