[14604] in Cypherpunks
Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Graham Toal)
Thu Jun 2 16:14:30 1994
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 21:07:51 +0100
From: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
: > 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.
In which case it exposes the sham terms of reference that the committee
accepted to work under. Either way, they lose.
G
