Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>]

Peter Wayner says:
> >My friend Matt Blaze at Bell Labs showed that you can forge LEAFs on
> >Tessera cards so that you can use Skipjack without anyone being able
> >to get the key you are using. Its a slick piece of work -- slick
> >enough that it made the front page of today's New York Times. I'm not
> >sure how practical it is, but its extraordinarily noteworthy.
> 
> Please explain how to forge the LEAFs. I presume that this doesn't 
> involve super-encryption.

I'll see if I can get Matt to send an explanation himself.

Perry