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Re: [Cryptography] check-summed keys in secret ciphers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Mon Sep 30 14:02:32 2013
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:00:16 -0700
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 9/30/13 at 1:16 AM, iang@iang.org (ianG) wrote:
>Any comments from the wider audience?
I talked with a park ranger who had used a high-precision GPS
system which decoded the selective availability encrypted
signal. Access to the device was very tightly controlled and it
had a control-meta-shift-whoopie which erased the key should the
device be in danger of being captured. And this was a relatively
low security device.
Cheers - Bill
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