From: smb@research.att.com
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 09:22:07 PDT
To: bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com   +1-510-484-6204)
Subject: Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
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	 > Bill Sommerfeld says:
	 > > They also had a comment that they considered Blaze's findings to b
	e
	 > > mostly irrelevant, as the only people who would use it would be
	 > > persons who *didn't* trust the escrow system, but *did* trust the
	 > > algorithm...

	 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.

Not only that, there have been too many spies found in the various
intelligence agencies for them to risk such a thing.