-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Perry wrote about Matt Blaze's Awesome new hack:
Matt Blaze should be commended for finding such a big hole. As with most such ideas, its obvious in retrospect but took some good thought to come up with.
It is indeed a great achievement to best the NSA at its own game. This hack allows secure transmission and closes the LEAF backdoor. However, this only strengthens my belief that they don't really need this LEAF access, can you say trapdoor? I still wouldn't be sending anything I wanted to keep a secret using TESSERA, even with a newly generated LEAF field. I'd wager that Matt wouldn't either. Scott G. Morham !The First, Vaccinia@uncvx1.oit.unc.edu ! Second PGP Public Keys by Request ! and Third Levels ! of Information Storage and Retrieval !DNA, ! Biological Neural Nets, ! Cyberspace -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLe6rez2paOMjHHAhAQGPyAP+PJwI4Wd6C72u1hEAqSgdIGigT2dcPjR9 12Z3/dE+GBFebt3SSXxbo9FC5v5BqyIX4mHq1LwgN9eSQIpVTEGYuB3m+RkMXVS6 mApDYkzaXE0E/vdYkTsPsn6UvePu91rxtfM2gCSPgc6Ex88UHV4E2AGN0Jfn2WRK NyyoN68bOoU= =vjIr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
VACCINIA@uncvx1.oit.unc.edu says:
It is indeed a great achievement to best the NSA at its own game. This hack allows secure transmission and closes the LEAF backdoor. However, this only strengthens my belief that they don't really need this LEAF access, can you say trapdoor?
Your belief is without evidence. Its a supposition. I'd say that the NSA has a lot to lose by putting holes in Skipjack. None the less, I wouldn't use Skipjack, because I don't trust things I don't know the design of. Unless people can widely examine Skipjack I'd say it isn't trustworthy. There also is, of course, a very slim chance that they were silly enough to make Skipjack intentionally weak. However, that isn't a major factor IMHO. Perry
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