more info from talk at MIT yesterday.

[Adam Shostack]

Bill Sommerfeld says:
> They also confirmed Tom Knight's suspicions about what they're going
> to do when someone reverse engineers the chip and publishes the
> Skipjack algorithm & the family key: they've got a patent application
> filed, under a secrecy order; if the algorithm is published, they'll
> lift the secrecy order and have the patent issued, and use that to go
> after anyone making a compatible version.

	An interesting variant of this tactic might be for the folks
who reverse engineer Clipper/SkipJack to go off and patent it in
*other* countries, thus making it impossible to sell or use Clipper
outside of the USA.

Adam