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

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)
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UTC Datetime: 1994-06-02 12:57:21 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 05:57:21 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 05:57:21 PDT
To: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)
Subject: Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?
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Peter Wayner says:
> >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.

I'll see if I can get Matt to send an explanation himself.

Perry

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