(By Brock Meeks / brock@well.com / Archived at http://www.cyberwerks.com/)

CyberWire Dispatch // Copyright (c) 1996 //

Jacking in from the "One that Got Away" Port:

Washington, DC -- President Clinton call your spooks, get FBI Director Louis Freeh on the phone. Tell them to order in pizza. Bill, it's going to be a long night. All your plans to hold the U.S. crypto market hostage have just been fucked... and you didn't even get kissed.

A virtual tactical nuke was hurled into the arcane subculture of encryption technology Monday when RSA President Jim Bizdos revealed that his company's Japanese subsidiary had developed a monster chipset capable of scrambling voice and data real time with a so-called "key length" of up to 1024 bits.

Brock, you have probably heard by now -- this is wrong. The chip set was developed by a subsidiary of NTT called NEL. That's much worse, of course, than if it had been an RSA subsidiary. - Carl +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme@cybercash.com http://www.clark.net/pub/cme | |CyberCash, Inc. http://www.cybercash.com/ | |207 Grindall Street PGP 2.6.2: 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | |Baltimore MD 21230-4103 T:(410) 727-4288 F:(410)727-4293 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+