17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
> 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. I don't recall that at all, and neither do the papers that were recently released under the 30 year rule. (Somewhat delayed...) G