Re: Anti-Clipper Article in "THe Computer Applications Journal"
Might I suggest that this is not the right newsgroup for anti-Clipper articles? I've never seen *any* Cypherpunk defend it; what's the point? Preaching to the choir? Repeat doses of brainwashing? Citations are fine; they show what the outside world thinks. Technical aspects are fine; there's a lot to be learned about Skipjack and key escrow. But there's little point -- on this list -- to hearing yet again that Clipper is bad (unless, of course, someone starts defending it here). --Steve Bellovin
On Tue, 19 Jul 1994 smb@research.att.com wrote:
Might I suggest that this is not the right newsgroup for anti-Clipper articles? I've never seen *any* Cypherpunk defend it; what's the point? Preaching to the choir? Repeat doses of brainwashing?
Not at all. Keep in mind that newbies join this list often enough to warrant such information being readily available to them. Also, not everyone is elequent in their attacks against CLIPPER, ITAR, DT2, etc. Such articles provide well needed analogies and situation examples for common use. No cypherpunk should be without such resources. Just because you find it superflous doesn't mean others won't find it interesting and/or useful. I personally didn't find any >NEW< information, but that doesn't make for a needless post.
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