fbi, crypto, and defcon

[Bill Stewart]

At 09:20 AM 8/1/96 -0800, jim bell <jimbell at 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.
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