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Faster way to deescrow Clipper



The attack posted here uses a brute-force search to find a phony LEAF
which has a valid checksum. Instead, why not just initialize the chip
with a session key and get the LEAF. Reset the chip and initialize it
with a different session key, but send the first LEAF instead of the
second one. The LEAF would look good unless you tried to decrypt the
session key. The wrong-IV problem would remain. The NSA should have
designed the Clipper so that, if the IV was wrong, the chips would not
accept the LEAF. They also should have used a much larger (32-bit or
even 64-bit) checksum.

--- Mike