Skipjack proposed Thursday?
I seem to have missed this. Today's Chronicle (July 31) (SanFran) had a blurb on E2 saying that NIST on Thursday proposed Skipjack as a federal standard. Does anyone have the announcement and related documentation? Lee Tien
I apologize for the ignorance, but I'm new here! I keep reading about Skipjack; can someone tell me what it is? Is there a question-and-answer file or something of that sort for the list that can educate me and bring me up to speed on what everyone is talking about? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Russell Dynix Library Systems, Provo, Utah, U.S.A. keru@cpu.us.dynix.com or keru@devg.us.dynix.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 31 Jul 1993, Lee Tien wrote:
I seem to have missed this. Today's Chronicle (July 31) (SanFran) had a blurb on E2 saying that NIST on Thursday proposed Skipjack as a federal standard. Does anyone have the announcement and related documentation?
Lee Tien
Skipjack is a secret-key encryption algorithm designed by the NSA (and NIST, supposedly) that is part of the Clipper/Capstone menagere. It is a classified algorithm, but it isof the same class of algorithms as DES (namely a multi-round permutation/bit-swap algorithm). Hope this helps. -derek
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