From: "gtoal@gtoal.com" <gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 94 10:28:59 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
Message-ID: <9406041651.AA04566@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
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	> 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.

	Indeed -- let us recall that Coventry was bombed into ruins rather
	than reveal that the Brits could read German codes in WWII.

I don't recall that at all, and neither do the papers that were recently
released under the 30 year rule.  (Somewhat delayed...)

G