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Subject: Re: Once tapped, your code is no good any more.
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From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
Date: 22 Apr 93 16:28:48 GMT
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In <305@VisiCom.COM> makey@VisiCom.COM (Jeff Makey) writes:

>In article <C5so84.Hxv@demon.co.uk> Graham Toal <gtoal@gtoal.com> writes:
>>I am *completely* baffled by why Dorothy Denning has chosen
>>to throw away her academic respectability like this.

>She hasn't.  Dorothy Denning has spent many years earning the
>professional respect of her colleagues, and something won in this
>manner is not easily lost.  Her support of the clipper -- no matter
>how unpopular that position may be -- serves far more to enhance the
>clipper's respectability than to diminish her own.

I wouldn't think so.  Asking people to trust a secret algorithm seems
unsound to me.
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