Rich Salz (salzr@certco.com)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:47:35 -0400 (EDT)
>When the AES candidates get heavily beaten on, and when one of them
>gets the NSA secret handshake, I may feel comfortable with one of
>them.
This brings up an interesting point that runs the risk of going off-topic
if we're not careful: how would we know that the AES "competition" isn't
rigged? The Skipjack release seems pretty well-timed to get an escrow-
friendly encryption system accepted by the general public.
Idea gratefully lifted from Dan Geer by me.
/r$
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