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Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.

To: [email protected] ([email protected] +1-510-484-6204)
Subject: Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 12:24:20 -0400
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jun 1994 12:01:43 EDT." <[email protected]>
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[email protected] +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

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