Great quote from public NIST comments on Clipper

[gnu (John Gilmore)]

EFF has made available the full file of public comments that were
submitted to NIST through the "cryptnow@eff.org" service.  I found this
great quote in there:

  However, if this standard is adopted, we at least have the opportunity to
  reduce our dependence on imported oil substantially. All we need do is
  hook up generators to the bones of the authors of the Constitution and
  the Bill of Rights. I estimate their rotational speed at 2000 RPM now and
  rising rapidly.

  Sincerely yours,
  
  Richard B. Mott
  Ringoes, New Jersey

The comments are in ftp.eff.org:/pub/crypto/EES_FIPS_Comments.txt .
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John Gilmore                gnu@toad.com  --  gnu@cygnus.com  --  gnu@eff.org
  ``This committee has not tried to determine whether the National Security
  Agency tendency to advance exaggerated claims of authority ... stems from
  conscious policy or the actions of individual NSA employees.''
The Government's Classification of Private Ideas, House Report 96-1540, p. 67