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Re: what I can say...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Graham Toal)
Thu Jun 2 14:09:08 1994

Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 18:57:27 +0100
From: Graham Toal <gtoal@an-teallach.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com

	From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>

	3) If the NSA actually worked for years designing this thing, someone
	   wasn't thinking.

I still maintain that the FOIA'd docs extracted by gnu imply that there's a
*real* backdoor as well as the key escrow, and I suspect the key escrow/
Law Enforcement Abuse Field stuff was hurriedly tacked on as an afterthought.
Personally I wouldn't rely on clipper ever *with* a private session key.

G

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