17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
As far asi I know there has been no direct info about how the checksum is calculated, only that it is somehow connected to IV.
According to the NSA talk at MIT last week, the "checksum" is formed by taking a 16-bit, fixed number (fixed in all chips) and encrypting it with the session key via some special form of skipjack. -derek Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, G MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) Home page: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/home_page.html warlord@MIT.EDU PP-ASEL N1NWH PGP key available