~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT Reply to: ssandfort@attmail.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cypherpunks, There is a short piece about Skiptap, er, Skipjack, in the electronics section of the October "Popular Science." It has a pretty good diagram and a photo of the Mykotronx chip. It says "Bill Clinton himself decided that the U.S. government will promote a new encoding chip for communications." It also quotes a guy from NIST who says, "Once you accept the fact that law enforcement has to do its job, this is a good solution." (Fortunately, Cypherpunks generally *don't* accept that "fact.") A vice president at Mykotronx, John Droge, tried to create the impression that Skipjack just sort of happened to them. He also gave away the real party at interest. He said, "They [the NSA] came to us with a neat equation and said, `Here you go.'" The article mentioned that 85% of the comments at recent federal hearings were hostile or skeptical. Amazingly, the article never quoted May, Hughes or Gilmore. Where has this writer been? S a n d y

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