[14714] in Cypherpunks
Re: Black Eye for NSA, NIST, and Denning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jun 3 18:47:06 1994
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jun 1994 21:48:53 -0300."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 18:41:37 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
> But let's all acknowledge the technical weight
> and importance of Blaze's result for what it is: minuscule.
I'd love to see Mr. Deadbeat try to produce a similar result some
time. However, even beyond the raw intellectual achievement, Matt's
result is Pretty Good technically. He showed a major flaw in the
proposed escrowed encryption protocol that renders it pretty much
valueless. Deadbeat misses the boat when he notes you can pre-encrypt
-- with Matt's technique, I can actually interoperate with someone who
isn't attempting to avoid escrow. I'd like to see Deadbeat explain how
to manage that via any other method than the one proposed.
Perry
