[14687] in Cypherpunks
Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smb@research.att.com)
Fri Jun 3 12:26:47 1994
From: smb@research.att.com
To: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com
+1-510-484-6204)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 94 12:21:02 EDT
> Bill Sommerfeld says:
> > They also had a comment that they considered Blaze's findings to b
e
> > mostly irrelevant, as the only people who would use it would be
> > persons who *didn't* trust the escrow system, but *did* trust the
> > algorithm...
Defense Messaging System is supposedly going to use Skipjack,
so I assume it's reasonably secure - and if there *are*
NSA-only backdoors in the algorithm, at least they won't
be admitting it to your neighbor hood cops and FBI wiretappers,
so you'd have to be an *interesting* suspect to get cracked.
Not only that, there have been too many spies found in the various
intelligence agencies for them to risk such a thing.
