[14589] in Cypherpunks
Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N)
Thu Jun 2 13:56:28 1994
From: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
To: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 08:52:04 -0400
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199406021704.SAA25398@an-teallach.com>; from "Graham Toal" at Jun 2, 94 1:04 pm
> 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.
It was my understanding that Denning was just looking at the Skipjack
algorithm, and not the clipper unit as a whole. I wouldn't be too quick
to condemn her on this point.
