News Flash: Clipper Bug?
Perry E. Metzger
perry at imsi.com
Thu Jun 2 05:57:21 PDT 1994
Peter Wayner says:
> >My friend Matt Blaze at Bell Labs showed that you can forge LEAFs on
> >Tessera cards so that you can use Skipjack without anyone being able
> >to get the key you are using. Its a slick piece of work -- slick
> >enough that it made the front page of today's New York Times. I'm not
> >sure how practical it is, but its extraordinarily noteworthy.
>
> Please explain how to forge the LEAFs. I presume that this doesn't
> involve super-encryption.
I'll see if I can get Matt to send an explanation himself.
Perry
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