[14613] in Cypherpunks
Re: Black Eye for NSA, NIST, and Denning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Koontz )
Thu Jun 2 18:53:25 1994
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 15:44:05 PDT
From: koontzd@lrcs.loral.com (David Koontz )
To: adam@bwh.harvard.edu, tcmay@netcom.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
> 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. :)
Gee, now that mab@research.att.com (Matt Blaze), knows where to find
the checksum, and by extension the unit id (Which shows up on labels
in photos on the literature from Mykotronx) - providing a known plaintext,
maybe someone will start working on the family key?
(I won't hold my breath waiting for it to be announced)
