clipper pin-compatible chip

[Matthew J Ghio]

drzaphod at brewmeister.xstablu.com wrote:

> 	Couldn't one compress the IDEA key to 10 bytes and 3?
> The hardware wouldn't notice and since you'd be using an
> IDEA chip on both sides it could decompress and verify on the
> other end.

Sure - but you're still restricting the keyspace to 10 bytes.
Why not just forget trying to fit it into the clipper system and build a
better encryptor from the beginning?