17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Mon, 28 Mar 1994 10:48:04 -0500, Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com> said:
From: The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday March 22, 1994, p. B1
The project "is a focal point for the distrust of government," acknowledges Clinton Brooks, the NSA scientist who led the so-called Clipper Chip project
Enigma started as a commercial product; recognizing its military value, the Nazis pulled it off the market. "That was the concern we're wrestling with today," Mr. Brooks says --- commercial encryption technology becoming so good that U.S. spy agencies can't crack it.
Wow. Now the NSA is comparing itself to Nazis, and are damn proud of it. Mike