From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 14:38:25 PDT
To: Carl Ellison <cme@tis.com>
Subject: Re: Clipper Chip Retreat
In-Reply-To: <199407211854.OAA20322@cs.oberlin.edu>
Message-ID: <9407212138.AA20166@vail.tivoli.com>
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Carl Ellison writes:
 > Sorry, but the major Clipper flaw to me (and at least one corporate 
 > executive with whom I've discussed this) *is* the very idea of key
 > escrow. 

Agreed; however, I don't see what good (from the standpoint of the key
escrow fan club) a non-classified Skipjack would be, other than to
make the banning of non-escrowed cryptography "ineluctable".

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