Why not Skipjack or something else?

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:41:24 +0200


On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, rich@cnylug.org wrote:


> Why would the US's NIST choose any of these ciphers or
> even ask for submissions when the NSA develops ciphers
> all of the time, and probably has something in the back

> of the filing cabinet that would have met all of the NIST
> criteria?
>
> Didn't they develop SKIPJACK and then release it into the
> public domain after the whole Clipper key-escrow thing
> failed?
>
> Rich...
>
>
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