What *is* the power of the FIPS
Friends, - My editor from the Covert Action Quarterly called with a question on a piece I've authored on the NSA's involvement in the development of the digital telephony bill. I animated the characters and campaign strategies in this narrative common to the clipper and DT initiatives. In that, taking about Clipper I mentioned its rise as a FIPS, etc. - QUESTION: Just what is the power of the FIPS outside of the interop issues in sending stuff back and forth from federal agencies?
Peter F Cassidy <pcassidy@world.std.com> writes: ... I animated the characters and campaign strategies in this narrative common to the clipper and DT initiatives. In that, taking about Clipper I mentioned its rise as a FIPS, etc. - QUESTION: Just what is the power of the FIPS outside of the interop issues in sending stuff back and forth from federal agencies?
Seems to me a FIPS is an important standard to the extent that it contains important and useful information. The DES FIPS 46-2 and 81 do, and they've been widely influential. The EES (Clipper) FIPS 185 doesn't -- it's mostly terminology to support GACK (Government Access to Crypto Keys) -- and has been largely ignored outside of said federal agencies, so far as I know. Jim Gillogly Mersday, 24 Solmath S.R. 1995, 01:16
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