From: ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu (Eli Brandt)
Subject: Re: Off the shelf cheap DES keyseach machine (Was: Re: Corporate acceptance of the wiretap chip)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <1993Apr21.132318.16981@ulysses.att.com> smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
>Remember that they've promised to let a committee of outside experts see
>the cryptosystem design.

I hope there are some silicon jocks on the committee who can follow
the algorithm through to hardware.  While I doubt the NSA would pull
any monkey business on this point -- they have to expect that the
chip will be reverse-engineered sooner or later -- it's an obvious
opportunity to introduce additional holes.

>		--Steve Bellovin

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