[68001] in Cypherpunks
Re: FLY_not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Mon Oct 14 12:51:51 1996
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:20:20 -0800
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
At 09:30 AM 10/14/96 -0400, John Young wrote:
> 10-13-96. CoWo:
>
> "Encryption confusion"
>
> Reminded of the secret Clipper algorithm, I sought
> details from IBM. I asked a spokeswoman why the company
> hadn't just put out a nice, snappy white paper
> explaining its new approach to key recovery. "We spent
> three months trying to do that, quite literally," the
> spokeswoman said. "It's pretty confusing stuff, and
> whenever we get it on paper, we aren't happy with it."
That's interesting...whenever they get it on paper, _we_ aren't happy with
it either!
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
