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From: [e-mail] (douglas craig holland)
Subject: Re: new encryption
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Sternlight) writes:
>
>[e-mail], whose parenthesized name is either an unfortunate
>coincidence or casts serious doubt on his bona fides, posts a message in
>which he seems willing to take the word of a private firm about which he
>knows little that their new encryption algorithm is secure and contains no
>trapdoors, while seemingly distrusting that of the government about clipper.

I have a couple reasons why I would be more likely to trust this algorithm:
	1. The algorithm will be made totally public, once it is patented.
	2. The keys will NOT be escrowed.
Of course if either of these is not true, I will not use this new algorithm.
Since I have never seen this new algorithm, I have no idea how secure it is
yet.

>I suppose it depends on how paranoid one wishes to be, but how does the
>writer know the firm isn't, for example, an NSA front? For purposes of this
>message, how do we know "psionic" isn't?
>
>I don't suggest that, but post this to point out that there is a class of
>speculation that has no more truth value, without lots of hard evidence,
>than the contrary one.
>
>By the way, if "psionic" had said, in lower case letters, that the firm
>CLAIMS there was no back door, I'd have no problem with that phrasing.
>
I can't make any judgements about the algorithm itself yet, but I do notice
that the creators of this algorithm are being more open about how the
thing works, and is willing to make it public, showing that after a bit
of scrutiny, any weaknesses will probably be revealed, while we don't know
about Clipper.

Doug Holland

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