[13268] in Cypherpunks
Clipper on Science Friday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Karn)
Fri May 6 17:08:44 1994
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 14:04:41 -0700
From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Today's NPR Science Friday show was on Clipper. Flatow's guests
included Dorothy Denning and Richard Stallman. No new revelations, and
as expected the discussion dealt heavily with the "voluntary" nature
of Clipper and how it fails to address the supposed issue unless it is
made mandatory.
I was amused when Denning was challenged by a caller to review IDEA
(used in PGP) in the same way she had reviewed Skipjack. She said she
could not because her review of Skipjack consisted mostly of reviewing
the work NSA had already done, and similar information was not available
for IDEA.
Phil
