1996-12-23 - clipper plans 4 sale (was Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000)

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From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Raw Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:07:17 -0800 (PST)

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From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:07:17 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: clipper plans 4 sale (was Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000)
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In Ross Anderson's paper `Tamper Resistance - a Cautionary Note' (see
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/), there is a reference to the clipper
chip having already been reverse engineered:

Anderson writes: "We are reliably informed that at least one
U.S. chipmaker reverse engineered the Clipper chip shortly after its
launch."

Heart warming :-)

Adam
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