[14788] in Cypherpunks
Re: Black Eye for NSA, NIST, and Denning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Jun 6 08:06:28 1994
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jun 1994 17:47:06 PDT."
<199406040047.RAA06014@jobe.shell.portal.com>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 07:57:50 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Hal says:
> It's not clear to me whether the same restrictions apply to the use of
> the Tessera plug-in card.
Well, they are planning on selling the things to all comers as an
encryption standard for all sorts of applications, so there are limits
on how restrictive they can be.
> It sounds, from what was posted here, like
> Blaze was able to feed sample LEAF's at his card until it accepted one.
> Is that correct?
Yes.
> If so, apparently users of such cards have access to
> low-level functions which would allow this kind of trick to be used.
Yes.
> Unless there is some way to get a supply of Clipper chips to allow you
> to make Clipper-compatible phones which still protect privacy, then
> all this theorizing is not too useful.
Clipper, Capstone, Tessera, etc, are, to my knowledge, interoperable
implementations of the EES.
Perry
