re the source of that announcement marc horowitz n nzu marc mit edu wrote the message from the nist about the clipper chip comes from the following address clipper csrc ncsl nist gov clipper chip announcement just who is that i asked myself or rather i asked the computer telnet csrc ncsl nist gov list of name elided for brevity well isn t that interesting dorothy denning mitch kapor marc rotenberg ron rivest jim bidzos and others the government rsa tis cpsr and the eff are all represented i don t suppose anybody within any of these organizations would care to comment or is this just the white house s idea of a cruel joke on these peoples inboxes i know that at least one person on that list says the first he heard of clipper was in the friday morning newspaper and another has already fired off a letter of protest to nist my point i suspect this list interesting as it is for various reasons does not represent the cabal that put this proposal together some of them yes others no this may be nothing more than a mailing list of people who get crypto related announcements from nsa er i mean nist tim may timothy c may crypto anarchy encryption digital money tcmay netcom com anonymous networks digital pseudonyms zero knowledge reputations information markets w a s t e aptos ca black markets collapse of governments higher power public key pgp and mailsafe available
