From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 14:27:26 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: fbi, crypto, and defcon
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At 09:20 AM 8/1/96 -0800, jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> reminded us:
>Also:  Clipper was fabbed by VLSI Technology.  A few pointed inquiries might 
>work wonders here.

It was made by Mykotronx, using tamperproof programmable gate 
array chips from VLSI, though I don't remember whether they were
entirely programmed at Mykotronx+NSA, or whether they were
mostly mask-programmed at VLSI first.

On the other hand, if you _want_ to make a DES-cracker,
at the time Clipper came out, VLSI was making a 192Mbps DES chip,
and they may have faster stuff now.
#			Thanks;  Bill
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