The Lotus Position
Kevin L Prigge
Kevin.L.Prigge-2 at cis.umn.edu
Mon Jan 22 13:05:15 PST 1996
Herb Sutter said:
> In answer to a question from the floor, Ozzie did say that yes, the
> agreement reached with the NSA was scalable -- IOW, that you could use
> 128-bit keys and give the government 88 of them, instead of 64-and-give-24
> -- but in retrospect I wonder whether keeping Notes at 64 bits was a
> condition of the NSA deal. I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist, but
> considering that Ray was clearly aware that the 64-bitness was going to
> raise eyebrows and still somehow didn't get around to simply strengthening
> it... well, it makes you wonder.
Not really. I think the governments position has been 64 bits with
escrow. I doubt that they'd actually ship a 128 bit version with
88 bits escrowed, as I believe the government has stated in the
past that they don't want to give away the store even with escrow.
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