-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On the one hand, I applaud Dr. Blaze for the discoveries based on his black-box analysis of the NSA product. How fortunate to have him working in a laboratory seeded with this gear. On the other hand, I am amused at the "big deal" being made about such a minor result. This "protocol failure" exposes the NSA product to no new threats. If one's objective is to use SKIPJACK but to defeat key escrow, pre-encryption is easier, conceptually simpler, and may be more secure, depending on what is actually inside the SKIPJACK code. I won't ask why the big deal is being made about all of this -- the agenda surrounding Clipper and friends is clearly a political one, not a technical one, so it is no surprise to hear even the technical voices, i.e., this list, trumpeting Blaze's paper as though it were a dagger in the heart of SKIPJACK. But let's all acknowledge the technical weight and importance of Blaze's result for what it is: minuscule. DEADBEAT <na5877@anon.penet.fi> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.4 iQBFAgUBLe9KWPFZTpBW/B35AQEbdwGAmBpl2lBCtLkPN4QBruEEKsstCWWpIEGm KMBK2YlxL5V9fnHRDn3RlRJT6Ji++7yd =gIHN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi. Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin@anon.penet.fi.