Tim wrote: | * the NSA _apparently_ fell down on the job...where was their own | "Tiger Team" trying to break the proposed system? 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. :) I didn't get a chance to ask why more time wasn't taken to prepare the escrow system to be more robust, since there were already a lot of political questions that these two really weren't in a position to answer. Adam -- Adam Shostack adam@bwh.harvard.edu Politics. From the greek "poly," meaning many, and ticks, a small, annoying bloodsucker.