FLY_not

jim bell jimbell at pacifier.com
Mon Oct 14 09:23:07 PDT 1996


At 09:30 AM 10/14/96 -0400, John Young wrote:
>   10-13-96. CoWo:
>
>   "Encryption confusion"
>
>      Reminded of the secret Clipper algorithm, I sought
>      details from IBM. I asked a spokeswoman why the company
>      hadn't just put out a nice, snappy white paper
>      explaining its new approach to key recovery. "We spent
>      three months trying to do that, quite literally," the
>      spokeswoman said. "It's pretty confusing stuff, and
>      whenever we get it on paper, we aren't happy with it."


That's interesting...whenever they get it on paper, _we_ aren't happy with 
it either!

Jim Bell
jimbell at pacifier.com






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