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Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Eastlake 3rd)
Wed Jun 4 08:25:39 2003
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:25:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donald Eastlake 3rd <dee3@torque.pothole.com>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@lne.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, John Kelsey wrote:
> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:42:01 -0400
> From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
> Subject: Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
>
> ...
>
> I keep wondering how hard it would be to build a cordless phone system on
> top of 802.11b with some kind of decent encryption being used. I'd really
> like to be able to move from a digital spread spectrum cordless phone
> (which probably has a 16-bit key for the spreading sequence or some such
> depressing thing) to a phone that can't be eavesdropped on without tapping
> the wire.
See http://www.silicon.com/news/148/1/3828.html?source=nh
> ...
>
> --John Kelsey, kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com
> PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259
Thanks,
Donald
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