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Intel's "own back-door processes"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard D. Murad)
Tue Jul 28 12:05:51 1998
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:13:25 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Richard D. Murad" <richard.murad@trw.com>
The July 27, 1998 issue of Federal Computer Week, p.50, has a small blurb
in its INTERCEPTS section titled "DING-DONG!" which mentions both Intel's
support of "private doorbell" and Intel's "own back-door processes". I
quote below:
"DING-DONG! Our [Federal Computer Week's] European monitoring site has
picked up strong signals that Intel Corp. and 12 other U.S.-based,
high-tech firms have thrown their weight behind a 'private doorbell' system
as an alternative to the controversial key-recovery scheme."
"In addition, the same site picked up signals that the National Security
Agency approached Intel with a request to embed backdoor processes in Intel
chips but was rebuffed by the giant chip maker. Sources told FCW that, as
a compromise, Intel is not opposed to making its own back-door processes
available to the FBI for law enforcement purposes."
Does anybody know what is being referred to by Intel's "own back-door
processes"?
Thanks,
Rick
