[14612] in Cypherpunks
Re: Black Eye for NSA, NIST, and Denning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Thu Jun 2 18:39:46 1994
From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 18:30:25 EDT
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199406021806.LAA02504@netcom.com>; from "Timothy C. May" at Jun 2, 94 11:06 am
Tim wrote:
| * the NSA _apparently_ fell down on the job...where was their own
| "Tiger Team" trying to break the proposed system?
At today's talk at MIT (Morris & Unkenholz of the NSA) Morris
said several times that the escrow system had to be produced in a
hurry, on top of the Skipjack algorithim, which was designed
previously and 'sitting in a storeroom.' (boy, I'd like to FOIA that
storeroom. :)
I didn't get a chance to ask why more time wasn't taken to
prepare the escrow system to be more robust, since there were already
a lot of political questions that these two really weren't in a
position to answer.
Adam
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Adam Shostack adam@bwh.harvard.edu
Politics. From the greek "poly," meaning many, and ticks, a small,
annoying bloodsucker.
