Bill Sommerfeld says:

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They also had a comment that they considered Blaze's findings to be mostly irrelevant, as the only people who would use it would be persons who *didn't* trust the escrow system, but *did* trust the algorithm...

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. Bill