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CLIPPER COMPROMIZED?
- To: [email protected] (eff.talk)
- Subject: CLIPPER COMPROMIZED?
- From: [email protected] (Stanton McCandlish - EFF Online Activist/SysOp)
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 10:20:57 -0600 (CST)
- Cc: [email protected] (alt.privacy), [email protected] (alt.privacy.clipper), [email protected] (alt.security.pgp), [email protected] (sci.crypt), [email protected], [email protected] ([email protected]), [email protected] (thesegroups), [email protected] (alt.wired), [email protected] (alt.2600), [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (alt.activism), [email protected] (alt.activism.d), [email protected] (alt.society.resistance), [email protected]
- Sender: [email protected]
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.
_____ end _________________
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?