[I'm going to be out of the country for this talk -- would someone who attends please email me a summary if anything is posted to the list? I'm still not on the list. --AW]
MIT TOC SEMINAR
Thursday, June 2, 1994
Refreshments at 2:15pm, Talk at 2:30pm in NE43-518
Title: ``ESCROW ENCRYPTION''
by S. Brent Morris and Mark Unkenholz National Security Agency
ABSTRACT
The Escrow Encryption Standard is the new federal standard for securing sensitive but unclassified information. It could possibly replace the Data Encryption Standard (DES). This talk will provide a technical overview of the Escrow Encryption Standard, the external features of the Skipjack algorithm, and its two current implementations, the Clipper and Capstone chips.
Host: Silvio Micali