At 09:20 AM 8/1/96 -0800, jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> reminded us:

Also: Clipper was fabbed by VLSI Technology. A few pointed inquiries might work wonders here.

It was made by Mykotronx, using tamperproof programmable gate array chips from VLSI, though I don't remember whether they were entirely programmed at Mykotronx+NSA, or whether they were mostly mask-programmed at VLSI first. On the other hand, if you _want_ to make a DES-cracker, at the time Clipper came out, VLSI was making a 192Mbps DES chip, and they may have faster stuff now. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Rescind Authority!