[14688] in Cypherpunks
Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jun 3 12:29:12 1994
To: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com
+1-510-484-6204)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jun 1994 12:01:43 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 12:24:20 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204 says:
> 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.
Indeed -- let us recall that Coventry was bombed into ruins rather
than reveal that the Brits could read German codes in WWII.
Perry
