Re: Black Eye for NSA, NIST, and Denning

At today's talk at MIT (Morris & Unkenholz of the NSA) Morris said several times that the escrow system had to be produced in a hurry, on top of the Skipjack algorithim, which was designed previously and 'sitting in a storeroom.' (boy, I'd like to FOIA that storeroom. :)

Gee, now that mab@research.att.com (Matt Blaze), knows where to find the checksum, and by extension the unit id (Which shows up on labels in photos on the literature from Mykotronx) - providing a known plaintext, maybe someone will start working on the family key? (I won't hold my breath waiting for it to be announced)