Why not Skipjack or something else?

[Werner Koch]

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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