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Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?
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>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.