1996-10-14 - Re: FLY_not

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From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
To: John Young <cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <199610141622.JAA06348@mail.pacifier.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-10-14 16:23:07 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:23:07 -0700 (PDT)

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From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:23:07 -0700 (PDT)
To: John Young <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: FLY_not
Message-ID: <199610141622.JAA06348@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 09:30 AM 10/14/96 -0400, John Young wrote:
>   10-13-96. CoWo:
>
>   "Encryption confusion"
>
>      Reminded of the secret Clipper algorithm, I sought
>      details from IBM. I asked a spokeswoman why the company
>      hadn't just put out a nice, snappy white paper
>      explaining its new approach to key recovery. "We spent
>      three months trying to do that, quite literally," the
>      spokeswoman said. "It's pretty confusing stuff, and
>      whenever we get it on paper, we aren't happy with it."


That's interesting...whenever they get it on paper, _we_ aren't happy with 
it either!

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com





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