[14558] in Cypherpunks
Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Wayner)
Thu Jun 2 08:57:22 1994
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 08:59:54 -0400
To: perry@imsi.com
From: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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>My friend Matt Blaze at Bell Labs showed that you can forge LEAFs on
>Tessera cards so that you can use Skipjack without anyone being able
>to get the key you are using. Its a slick piece of work -- slick
>enough that it made the front page of today's New York Times. I'm not
>sure how practical it is, but its extraordinarily noteworthy.
Please explain how to forge the LEAFs. I presume that this doesn't
involve super-encryption.
