Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?

[SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>]

> One thing this shows, even if the application of the technique turns out
> to be too difficult to be practical, is that Dorothy Denning's evaluation
> of the design was worthless.  That team should have found this themselves.
> No wonder she was trying to play it down in the NYT.

It was my understanding that Denning was just looking at the Skipjack
algorithm, and not the clipper unit as a whole.  I wouldn't be too quick
to condemn her on this point.