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1994-01-26 - Re: clipper pin-compatible chip

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From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Message Hash: ac20c54d17e6c445bea9fcb7f2ae213846f6957e1c5b02d70d14fa9358c73492
Message ID: <9401261403.AA06016@vail.tivoli.com>
Reply To: <199401260742.XAA24775@mail.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-01-26 14:07:08 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 06:07:08 PST

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From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 06:07:08 PST
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: clipper pin-compatible chip
In-Reply-To: <199401260742.XAA24775@mail.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <9401261403.AA06016@vail.tivoli.com>
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I don't think the idea proposed is to reverse-engineer the Clipper.
Rather, the idea is that once you know the pin-out you can make an
electrically-compatible (and, in important ways, software-compatible)
replacement.  You'd then have a phone that does IDEA encryption
instead of Skipjack, and presumably the non-crypto parts of the phone
wouldn't know and wouldn't care.

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