17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
David Lesher writes:
So Motorboatarola puts chips in the domestic MTSO's. For the international ones, they leave the chips out.
and Russ Nelson responded:
Crypto hooks, or more properly, crypto pads. Lends new meaning to the term "one time pads".
For what it's worth, Motorola can do neither. US companies can't produce anything prohibited for export unless its in the US, for the US market. And "crypto with a hole," or hooks for crypto generally, can't be exported, either, unless for 40-bit stuff only. Thus, Microsoft's proposals to produce "crypto with a hole" depend on "holes" tailored to the requirements of specific countries. Will Rodger Washington Bureau Chief Interactive Week