Clipper technicalities (Was: Denning's misleading statements)

[Adam Shostack]

Peter Wayner wrote:

| But, on the other side of the fence, I just passed a section in
| _Takedown_ where Shimomura and the FBI agents decide that the
| best place for the Clipper phones is "in the trunk." Apparently
| they don't communicate with regular phones so they were
| practically worthless.

	The AT&T 3600c does interoperate.  I posted to Cypherpunks
about them shortly after the HOPE conference in NYC in August 94.
Check the archives for the full post, but they start a conversation as
normal phones, you hit a button, and one unit sends touch tones for
2587, and they start encrypting.

http://www.hks.net/cpunks/cpunks-7/0191.html

Adam

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