From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
To: John Young <cypherpunks@toad.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)
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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