Here's a post that pretty much confirms that Dorothy Denning is leaning toward schemes that outlaw competitors to Skipjack. She continues to be the chief "Floater of Trial Balloons" (either that, or she's awfully prescient) and I would suggest anything she says about possible bans or restrictions on crypto that competes with Skipjack be taken very seriously. I'm trying not to be catty about Prof. Denning (even though I slipped up a while back and called her "the wicked witch of the East"), but I'm beginning to think we can automatically replace all occurrences of her name with "According to a senior Administration official..." Anyway, here it is: Newsgroups: alt.privacy.clipper Path: netcom.com!csus.edu!decwrl!decwrl!olivea!uunet!noc.near.net!chpc.chpc.org!rboudrie From: rboudrie@chpc.org (Rob Boudrie) Subject: Clipper article Message-ID: <1993Aug5.043923.4353@chpc.org> Organization: Center For High Perf. Computing of WPI; Marlboro Ma Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 04:39:23 GMT Lines: 16 The August 1993 issue of Security Management (American Society for Industrial Security) has a one page article on Clipper entitled "The Clipper Chip Debate" by Lisa Arbetter. The article goes over a few of the issues discussed in this group, and includes the following : She also conclused that getting criminals to use the system will be a problem. As a solution, Denning suggests legislation tlat places some constraints on the use of other products. This would force them to come up with their own solutions, costing them time and money that they might not be willing to sacrifice, she explains.m --