I just posted this to sci.crypt. You conspiracy theorists out there are probably going to start getting ulcers soon. Marc From: marc@mit.edu (Marc Horowitz N1NZU) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: The source of that announcement Date: 18 Apr 1993 01:19:38 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 38 Distribution: world Message-ID: <MARC.93Apr17211937@oliver.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: oliver.mit.edu The message from the NIST about the clipper chip comes from the following address: clipper@csrc.ncsl.nist.gov (Clipper Chip Announcement) Just who is that, I asked myself, or rather, I asked the computer. % telnet csrc.ncsl.nist.gov 25 Trying... Connected to csrc.ncsl.nist.gov. Escape character is '^]'. 220 first.org sendmail 4.1/NIST ready at Sat, 17 Apr 93 20:42:56 EDT expn clipper 250-<csspab@mail-gw.ncsl.nist.gov> 250-<denning@cs.georgetown.edu> 250-<hoffman@seas.gwu.edu> 250-<mkapor@eff.org> 250-<rotenberg@cpsr.org> 250-<rivest@mit.edu> 250-<mhellman@stanford.edu> 250-<alanrp@aol.com> 250-<dparker@sri.com> 250-<jim@rsa.com> 250-<branstad@tis.com> 250 <mgrsplus@csmes.ncsl.nist.gov> quit 221 first.org closing connection Connection closed. Well, isn't that interesting. Dorothy Denning, Mitch Kapor, Marc Rotenberg, Ron Rivest, Jim Bidzos, and others. The Government, RSA, TIS, CPSR, and the EFF are all represented. I don't suppose anybody within any of these organizations would care to comment? Or is this just the White House's idea of a cruel joke on these peoples' inboxes? Marc -- Marc Horowitz N1NZU <marc@mit.edu> 617-253-7788