17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204 says:
Defense Messaging System is supposedly going to use Skipjack, so I assume it's reasonably secure - and if there *are* NSA-only backdoors in the algorithm, at least they won't be admitting it to your neighbor hood cops and FBI wiretappers, so you'd have to be an *interesting* suspect to get cracked.
Indeed -- let us recall that Coventry was bombed into ruins rather than reveal that the Brits could read German codes in WWII. Perry