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From: mlm@fuzine.mt.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Mauldin)
Subject: Re: Dorothy Denning opposes Clipper, Capstone wiretap chips
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 16:14:43 GMT
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In article <1993Apr26.063532.10120@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)  
writes:
> In article <C614BJ.BK6@agora.rain.com> jhart@agora.rain.com (Jim Hart)  
writes:
> >"The security of the system should depend only on the secrecy of
> >the keys and not on the secrecy of the algorithms" -- Dorothy Denning
> 
> Cite source, please.

Dorothy Denning, _Cryptography and Data Security_, 1982, Addison Wesley.
Page 8, under the heading "Cryptosystems must satisfy three general
requirements.  The other two are efficiency and ease of use.

--Michael L. Mauldin
  Carnegie Mellon University

