more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
gtoal@gtoal.com
gtoal at pizzabox.demon.co.uk
Sat Jun 4 10:28:59 PDT 1994
> 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
More information about the cypherpunks-legacy
mailing list