News Flash: Clipper Bug?
SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N
sinclai at ecf.toronto.edu
Thu Jun 2 10:52:25 PDT 1994
> 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.
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