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News Flash: Clipper Bug?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Thu Jun 2 11:50:43 1994

Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 08:54:38 -0700
From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: David Koontz 's message of Thu, 2 Jun 94 07:45:11 PDT <9406021445.AA17436@io.lrcs.loral.com>

   >Its not pre-encryption. He's actually getting around the key escrow
   >features and using Skipjack in a secure manner. Its very slick.

   I've been saying it can be done for more than a year. 

This is different.  Matt's technique can be used to interoperate with
a _compliant_ device on the other end.  Only modification to your own
end is required.

Matt, on this list, will respond at some point to be determined with
the involvement of corporate lawyers.

Eric

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