[2679] in Kerberos
Re: Clinton Crypto System - IGNORE PREVIOUS MESSAGE (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ganesan)
Mon Apr 19 19:32:34 1993
From: bf4grjc@socrates.MIT.EDU (Ganesan)
To: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 19:15:05 -0500 (EDT)
Reply-To: bf4grjc@bell-atl.com
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> > Introducing: The GOTCHA chip [...]
> >Category 1: Terrorists/Drug-Dealers: The big guys, whom the govt. is most
> >interested in tapping. These guys will probably use the GOTCHA chip.
> >
> >Category 2: Lesser criminals who will probably use the CLIPPER chip for
> >convenience. I mean "lessor' in terms of the societal impact of the
> >crime - NOT its nature. Maybe kidnappers, serial killers and rapists
> >belong here.
> >
> >Category 3: Misuse/abuse against innocent people. These users WILL use the
> >CLIPPER chip.
> >
> >If you are willing to buy the argument that Category 1, WILL use the
> >GOTCHA chip, then someone needs to ratiocinate the benefits of catching
> >the Category 2 criminals against the abuse.
>
> Unless one of the secret things the CLIPPER algo does is have some sort of
> CLIPPER signiture overlayed over the data stream - then the Category 1
> criminals announce themselves.
> Can it be made illegal? I bet it can. I hope they don't.
> How much would it cost? In qty 1, lots. In large qty, lots of people have
> proven that chip-level clones can be fairly cheep. What's cheeper? Replace
> the whole phone. The transmition of data over the phone network will be
> made standard so diffrent phone comps can compete... Use FPGAs for more
> or less the whole box, store FPGA code in FLASH ROM. Painless upgrade
> as offen as is needed to stay ahead of the NSA/FBI.
>
