: > One thing this shows, even if the application of the technique turns out : > to be too difficult to be practical, is that Dorothy Denning's evaluation : > of the design was worthless. That team should have found this themselves. : > No wonder she was trying to play it down in the NYT. : It was my understanding that Denning was just looking at the Skipjack : algorithm, and not the clipper unit as a whole. I wouldn't be too quick : to condemn her on this point. In which case it exposes the sham terms of reference that the committee accepted to work under. Either way, they lose. G