CLIPPER COMPROMIZED?

According to a fax I received:

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CLIPPER COMPROMISED?  "Security Insider Report," a monthly newsletter 
published in Seminole, Fla., has reported that government officials are 
seeking to determine whether former CIA employee and alleged traitor 
Aldrich Ames may have sold information to the Russians about the 
government's secret key-escrow technology used in Clipper Chip chipsets 
and Capstone Tessera cards.  The secret key-escrow technology, dubbed 
Skipjack, can be used to encrypt network voice and data.

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This was faxed march 17, and consisted of part of a xeroxed page from a 
publication; unfortunately I cannot tell what the publication is.
Some other headlines on it are "ARDIS aims to simplify radio-based 
messaging", "Vendors curb wireless hype", "AnyLAN, anytime, anywhere", 
and "Cheyenne prepares fix for ARCserv users woes".  Next to the Cheyenne 
article is a round logo that says R.A.F. in large letters, and with the 
following cirling the logo: Network World's Reader A[missing] Force.
"[missing]" means text that is cut off.  Anyone know what publication 
this is, and which issue?  The page number is 2. My best guess is it's 
Network World.  Any corroborating stories?

<<CLIPPER COMPROMISED?  "Security Insider Report," a monthly newsletter
published in Seminole, Fla., has reported that government officials are
seeking to determine whether former CIA employee and alleged traitor
Aldrich Ames may have sold information to the Russians about the
government's secret key-escrow technology used in Clipper Chip chipsets
and Capstone Tessera cards.  The secret key-escrow technology, dubbed
Skipjack, can be used to encrypt network voice and data.
>>

Hahaha!!!!!  This is really great.  In the least this puts a bit of
a delay in the clipper-release, and gives us a bit more time to get 
more people to oppose it.

Check the latest issue of RISKS Digest. This was mentioned by a couple of 
people, and I believe that they did say it was in Network World.

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Art McGee [amcgee@netcom.com]
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