From: jebright@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James R Ebright)
Subject: Re: Once tapped, your code is no good any more.
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In article a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) writes:
>In strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>
[...]
>>I'd be happy to use a crypto system supplied by the NSA for business, if
>>they told me it was more secure than DES, and in particular resistant to
>>attempts by Japanese, French, and other competitive companies and
>>governments to break.
>
>(It's NIST, not NSA.  NSA is not supposed to have anything to do with this.)

With all the activity in sci.crypt these past few days, I am not supprised
you missed it... NIST got Skipjack from the NSA :)

[...]
>>I'd trust the NSA or the President if they stated there were no trap
>>doors--I'd be even happier if a committee of independent experts examined
>>the thing under seal of secrecy and reported back that it was secure.
>
>I wouldn't trust the NSA.  I think I would trust the President on this, but
>I'm not certain he would be told.

"I am not a crook." President Richard M. Nixon
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