[14559] in Cypherpunks
Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Jun 2 09:00:36 1994
To: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jun 1994 08:59:54 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 08:57:13 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Peter Wayner says:
> >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.
I'll see if I can get Matt to send an explanation himself.
Perry
