From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 09:02:51 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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 be
> > 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.

		Bill