1993-08-07 - Re: Skipjack proposed Thursday?

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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: Warren Keith Russell <keru@cpu.us.dynix.com>
Message Hash: 19e5edb25809b0c9a29aac21b1bb53b274346bc273fe7942f8da2442efa6dc48
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UTC Datetime: 1993-08-07 03:45:22 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 6 Aug 93 20:45:22 PDT

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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 93 20:45:22 PDT
To: Warren Keith Russell <keru@cpu.us.dynix.com>
Subject: Re: Skipjack proposed Thursday?
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Skipjack is a secret-key encryption algorithm designed by the NSA (and
NIST, supposedly) that is part of the Clipper/Capstone menagere.  It
is a classified algorithm, but it isof the same class of algorithms as
DES (namely a multi-round permutation/bit-swap algorithm).

Hope this helps.

-derek

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• 1993-07-31 (Sat, 31 Jul 93 14:28:43 PDT) - Skipjack proposed Thursday? - tien (Lee Tien)
  • 1993-08-06 (Fri, 6 Aug 93 13:08:50 PDT) - Re: Skipjack proposed Thursday? - Warren Keith Russell <keru@cpu.us.dynix.com>
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