[14740] in Cypherpunks
Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gtoal@gtoal.com)
Sat Jun 4 13:32:10 1994
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 94 16:51:54 GMT
From: "gtoal@gtoal.com" <gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
Reply-To: Graham Toal <gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> 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.
I don't recall that at all, and neither do the papers that were recently
released under the 30 year rule. (Somewhat delayed...)
G
