Black Eye for NSA, NIST, and Denning

David Koontz koontzd at lrcs.loral.com
Thu Jun 2 15:48:03 PDT 1994


>        At today's talk at MIT (Morris & Unkenholz of the NSA) Morris
>said several times that the escrow system had to be produced in a
>hurry, on top of the Skipjack algorithim, which was designed
>previously and 'sitting in a storeroom.' (boy, I'd like to FOIA that
>storeroom. :)

Gee, now that mab at research.att.com (Matt Blaze), knows where to find
the checksum, and by extension the unit id (Which shows up on labels
in photos on the literature from Mykotronx) - providing a known plaintext,
maybe someone will start working on the family key?

(I won't hold my breath waiting for it to be announced)






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