It's also an opportunity for some well-timed press releases. Clipper 1's reputation was severely damaged by Matt's attack. Anybody know if HP's giving out samples, and if there are real or test GAK plugins for them?

I agree. There are many people on the list with contacts with the media (or ARE the media :). There was a time that I would suggest posting all of our media lists to cypherpunks but, unfortunately, I fear that would no longer be productive. So... I suggest everyone fire up their fax modems and send out to all of the contacts we each have personally. Even local papers can be important in this action. Make sure your local ISPs understand the issues (and maybe even release it in a newsletter or daily email.

HP URL http://www.dmo.hp.com/gsy/security/icf/main.html

The paper was posted to coderpunks, and it's on ftp://ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/dfa Here's the intro: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Improved Differential Fault Analysis

Ross J Anderson, Markus G Kuhn

(Intro snipped) Matt