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1994-06-02 - Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?

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From: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)
To: perry@imsi.com
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Message ID: <199406021254.AA26863@access2.digex.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-06-02 12:54:50 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 05:54:50 PDT

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From: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 05:54:50 PDT
To: perry@imsi.com
Subject: Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?
Message-ID: <199406021254.AA26863@access2.digex.net>
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>
>My friend Matt Blaze at Bell Labs showed that you can forge LEAFs on
>Tessera cards so that you can use Skipjack without anyone being able
>to get the key you are using. Its a slick piece of work -- slick
>enough that it made the front page of today's New York Times. I'm not
>sure how practical it is, but its extraordinarily noteworthy.

Please explain how to forge the LEAFs. I presume that this doesn't 
involve super-encryption.

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