[48414] in Cypherpunks
Clipper technicalities (Was: Denning's misleading statements)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Mon Jan 29 00:52:29 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:54:20 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <ad317abe070210042132@[199.125.128.5]> from "Peter Wayner" at Jan 28, 96 02:14:50 pm
Peter Wayner wrote:
| But, on the other side of the fence, I just passed a section in
| _Takedown_ where Shimomura and the FBI agents decide that the
| best place for the Clipper phones is "in the trunk." Apparently
| they don't communicate with regular phones so they were
| practically worthless.
The AT&T 3600c does interoperate. I posted to Cypherpunks
about them shortly after the HOPE conference in NYC in August 94.
Check the archives for the full post, but they start a conversation as
normal phones, you hit a button, and one unit sends touch tones for
2587, and they start encrypting.
http://www.hks.net/cpunks/cpunks-7/0191.html
Adam
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