[14765] in Cypherpunks
Black Eye for NSA, NIST, and Denning (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John K. Taber)
Sun Jun 5 15:49:46 1994
From: jktaber@netcom.com (John K. Taber)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 14:41:17 -0500 (CDT)
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> From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
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> Subject: Black Eye for NSA, NIST, and Denning
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> * Combined with Micali's talk of a lawsuit, the slow acceptance of
> Clipper (Cypherpunks and others have helped to make Clipper a very
> dirty word, thus slowing any corporate acceptance that I suspect the
> NSA was hoping for), and these problems, the Clipper program seems to
> be in disarray.
>
> --Tim May
I'm waiting for Sternweiler to denounce Clipper for patent violations,
wince we know this was his only objection to PGP.