News Flash: Clipper Bug?
Perry E. Metzger
perry at imsi.com
Thu Jun 2 04:56:33 PDT 1994
Eli Brandt says:
> > Matthew Blaze, a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, told the New
> > York Times that his research had shown that someone with sufficient
> > computer skills can beat the government's technology by encoding
> > messages so that no one, not even the government, can crack them.
>
> Sounds like pre-encryption, after to the usual journalistic garbling.
> Maybe not, I'll drop him a cc: (if I remember the address correctly).
Its not pre-encryption. He's actually getting around the key escrow
features and using Skipjack in a secure manner. Its very slick.
Perry
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