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Re: Markoff in NYT on NTT/RSA chip
At 09:33 PM 6/5/96 -0000, [email protected] wrote:
>David Lesher writes:
>
> > So Motorboatarola puts chips in the domestic MTSO's.
> > For the international ones, they leave the chips out.
>
>Crypto hooks, or more properly, crypto pads.
This raises a question: If you provide a place for a crypto chip but don't
install it, shouldn't you be able to export it? But the software analogy,
crypto hooks, the government is trying to restrict them. This is why I
think the latter interpretation is flawed: Historically, the mere fact that
a system can interface to another one that can do crypto can't be used to
restrict it.
Jim Bell
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