From: "Pat Farrell" <pfarrell@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 06:13:58 PST
To: jim@rsa.com
Subject: AT&T and VLSI Encryption device
Message-ID: <33192.pfarrell@netcom.com>
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Today's (1/31) Washington Post has a tiny blurb that AT&T and VLSI will
announce a hardware encryption device for use in lots of
communications devices, including cell phones, PDAs, etc.

Today's Wall Street Journal has a bit more, says that it uses
3-DES and is a market rejection of Clipper. Also contains a quote
from Jim Bidzos of RSA/PKP. But there is little detail. There
was no mention of what PKP technology is used in the hardware.
I assume that AT&T has liscensed DH for session key exchange.
They could be using RSA with the keys embedded in ROM/EEPROM.

Anyone got any technical details?

Thanks
Pat

Pat Farrell      Grad Student                 pfarrell@cs.gmu.edu
Department of Computer Science    George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
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