[14582] in Cypherpunks
Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Graham Toal)
Thu Jun 2 13:09:00 1994
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 18:04:18 +0100
From: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
smb wrote:
Perry's right. Several of us have seen Matt's paper, and the attacks
really do work. (Even NSA admits that.) But out of courtesy to Matt,
we'd rather leave it to him to discuss the details.
One thing this shows, even if the application of the technique turns out
to be too difficult to be practical, is that Dorothy Denning's evaluation
of the design was worthless. That team should have found this themselves.
No wonder she was trying to play it down in the NYT.
G
