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skipjack: see herring herring, common name for members of the large, widely distributed family Clupeidae, comprising many species of marine and fresh-water food fishes, including the sardine (Sardinia), the menhaden (Brevoortia), and the shad (Alosa).
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skipjack [′skip‚jak]
(vertebrate zoology)

(cryptography)SkipJack - An encryption algorithm created by the NSA (National Security Agency) which encrypts 64-bit blocks of data with an 80-bit key. It is used in the Clipper chip, a VLSI device with an ARM processor core, which is intended to perform cryptographic operations while allowing the security agencies listen in.

There are (apparently) two agencies, both of whom have to agree that there is a valid reason to decode a message. Don't laugh, they are serious.



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Byline: Mark Blazis COLUMN: OUTDOORS Bluefin tuna are the most valuable of a whole family of highly migratory, mackerel-family fish that locally includes yellowfin and skipjack tuna, bonito, albacore (the tuna of our cans and lunches), little tunny or false albacore, king mackerel, bullet mackerel, cero and Atlantic mackerel.
Some of the birds you'll see--especially big flocks of birds--won't be on dolphin at all but instead will be trailing schools of skipjack tuna.
The price of skipjack tuna is estimated to have jumped 70 percent in the last year and Del Monte said the sale - for $363 million - would help its margins.
 
 
 
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