open letter to comp.os.research readers
Ly...@comp.os.research
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Clipper III is a Key Recovery plan.
We know what Key Recovery means...
: The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision, p407-409
:
: Crypto A.G. was owned by Boris Hagelin, who made his first million
: selling his machines to the United States Army. He had close ties
: to the NSA...
Covert Action Quarterly, #59:
* In October 1996, after being endorsed by CIA director John Deutch,
* this method of maintaining the government's ability to spy on
* encrypted communications REPLACED KEY ESCROW as the favored
* technology. KEY RECOVERY works by locating information that is
* woven into the header of each message. This mechanism allows
* a recovery 'agent' to extract or reconstruct the message's key
* and decrypt its contents.
*
* Key recovery may have been the basis for NSA's most successful
* post-Cold War project for deciphering coded messages. Since the
* 1940's, the NSA reportedly rigged encryption systems sold by the
* Swiss firm Crypto A.G. so that the agency retained the ability
* to break the codes of anyone using the machines.
*
* Thus, Fort Meade was able to listen in on the coded military and
* diplomatic traffic of the more than 130 countries that were Crypto
* A.G. customers.
Initially, the NSA tried to say they couldn't decrypt Key Recovery
impaired traffic on the fly:
! The New York Times, December 29, 19??, by David Burnham
! "Vast Coding of Data is Urged to Hamper Electronic Spies"
!
! Because the National
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