[14736] in Cypherpunks
*** Flash - N.Y. Times on Clipper Flaw **
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (remail@desert.hacktic.nl)
Sat Jun 4 06:32:29 1994
From: <remail@desert.hacktic.nl>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1994 02:34:30 GMT+1
> ...
> HOW THE CLIPPER TECHNOLOGY IS FLAWED
>
> 1. Taking advantage of desing imperfections, people trying to defeat the
> system could repeatedly alter the LEAF until it erroneously passed the
> "checksum" verification, despite an invalid session-key number.
This sounds like a very simple computation. How much would it cost
to fab up some chips to do this, and solder them into the circuitry
next to the Clipper chip? Or is there an even easier way to do this?
