From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:44:30 -0800 (PST)
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Subject: Re: Mass-market crypto phones
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	I'd just like to second what Lucky wrote at the end of his
very nice summation of the crypto phone hardware issues.  Eric's phones
have damn good voice quality in secure mode.

Adam
	

Lucky Green wrote:

| The alternative is to use dedicated hardware. Remember that a general
| purpose CPU is just that: general purpose. If you want to use the box only
| for one purpose, there is often a cheaper, better solution available in
| special purpose hardware. For the price of the Pentium box, you can build
| a much smaller bump-in-the-cord device that delivers great sound, over
| slow links, *and* uses strong crypto.
| 
| Which is what Eric Blossom <http://www.comsec.com/> did. And he did 
| it extremely well, I'd like to add.



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