: 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 25
...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