[14657] in Cypherpunks
Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Wayner)
Fri Jun 3 07:52:40 1994
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 07:52:30 -0400
To: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
From: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)
Cc: 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.
Of course, Dorothy Denning could simply say, "Gosh, the Blaze result
shows how to make Clipper _more_ secure for the average user. Now they
don't have to worry about the government. I stand by my assessment that
it is secure."
