Re: Black Eye for NSA, NIST, and Denning

[Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>]

	Tim wrote:

| * the NSA _apparently_ fell down on the job...where was their own
| "Tiger Team" trying to break the proposed system?

	At today's talk at MIT (Morris & Unkenholz of the NSA) Morris
said several times that the escrow system had to be produced in a
hurry, on top of the Skipjack algorithim, which was designed
previously and 'sitting in a storeroom.' (boy, I'd like to FOIA that
storeroom. :)

	I didn't get a chance to ask why more time wasn't taken to
prepare the escrow system to be more robust, since there were already
a lot of political questions that these two really weren't in a
position to answer.


Adam
	
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