Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.

> Bill Sommerfeld says:
> > They also had a comment that they considered Blaze's findings to be
> > mostly irrelevant, as the only people who would use it would be
> > persons who *didn't* trust the escrow system, but *did* trust the
> > algorithm...

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.

		Bill

bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204 says:
> 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.

Perry