NSA in the WSJ
Mike Rose
mrose at stsci.edu
Tue Mar 29 10:38:44 PST 1994
>>>>> On Mon, 28 Mar 1994 10:48:04 -0500, Duncan Frissell <frissell at panix.com> said:
>From: The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday March 22, 1994, p. B1
>The project "is a focal point for the
>distrust of government," acknowledges Clinton Brooks, the NSA scientist
>who led the so-called Clipper Chip project
>Enigma started as
>a commercial product; recognizing its military value, the Nazis pulled
>it off the market. "That was the concern we're wrestling with today,"
>Mr. Brooks says --- commercial encryption technology becoming so good that
>U.S. spy agencies can't crack it.
Wow. Now the NSA is comparing itself to Nazis, and are damn proud of
it.
Mike
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