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Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Mandl)
Thu Jun 2 10:04:46 1994

Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 10:00:15 EDT
From: dmandl@lehman.com (David Mandl)
To: perry@imsi.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: dmandl@panix.com

> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
> 
> My friend Matt Blaze at Bell Labs showed that you can forge LEAFs on
> Tessera cards so that you can use Skipjack without anyone being able
> to get the key you are using. Its a slick piece of work -- slick
> enough that it made the front page of today's New York Times. 

More specifically, it was the TOP STORY in the Times.  Ha ha ha.

   --Dave.

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