From: "Matthew J. Miszewski" <mjmiski@execpc.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:28:28 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Smart card attacks vs. clipper?
Message-ID: <199611252228.QAA28569@mail.execpc.com>
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> Seems like it's a bit of a different story, since in the Clipper's
> case the algorithm is (ostensibly) unknown, but I'm just curious as
> to whether there is some compromise of its security-through-obscurity.

Actually, in a more recent attack to be published at USENIX (if i 
remember correctly) the attack being performed can also be utilized 
to help determine unknown algorithms.  I will try to dig up the 
reference (unless someone gets to it first).

Matt

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