1996-12-23 - clipper plans 4 sale (was Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000)

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From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:07:17 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: clipper plans 4 sale (was Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000)
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In Ross Anderson's paper `Tamper Resistance - a Cautionary Note' (see
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/), there is a reference to the clipper
chip having already been reverse engineered:

Anderson writes: "We are reliably informed that at least one
U.S. chipmaker reverse engineered the Clipper chip shortly after its
launch."

Heart warming :-)

Adam
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• 1996-12-19 (Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:24:08 -0800 (PST)) - Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000 - Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
  • 1996-12-19 (Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:00:20 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000 - “Timothy C. May” <tcmay@got.net>
    • 1996-12-19 (Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:13:59 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000 - dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
    • 1996-12-23 (Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:07:17 -0800 (PST)) - clipper plans 4 sale (was Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000) - Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
      • 1996-12-24 (Tue, 24 Dec 1996 12:26:18 -0800 (PST)) - Re: clipper plans 4 sale (was Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000) - “Vladimir Z. Nuri” <vznuri@netcom.com>
        • 1996-12-24 (Tue, 24 Dec 1996 13:24:01 -0800 (PST)) - Re: clipper plans 4 sale (was Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000) - Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
          • 1996-12-25 (Wed, 25 Dec 1996 11:16:43 -0800 (PST)) - Re: clipper plans 4 sale (was Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000) - “Vladimir Z. Nuri” <vznuri@netcom.com>
            • 1996-12-25 (Wed, 25 Dec 1996 11:42:18 -0800 (PST)) - Re: clipper plans 4 sale (was Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000) - Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
        • 1996-12-24 (Tue, 24 Dec 1996 15:37:52 -0800 (PST)) - Re: clipper plans 4 sale (was Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000) - slothrop@poisson.com (J Durbin)