From: pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 13:42:33 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Trapdoors
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> From: ssandfort@attmail.com
> 
> How do we know the proposed legislation wasn't just a smoke
> screen?  Isn't it possible that the Feds have already compromised
> Intel or MicroSoft?  Is there some way to be sure that the new
> 486 chip running your computer isn't recording each PGP or RSA
> private key you generate?

If you could actually build a 486 such that it was capable of this task,
you are a far better chip designer than any I know of. Not merely are
we to expect that the 486 is capable of recording anything, but we
are also to expect that its capable of solving a computationally
undecidable problem as well.

Perry