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Re: Smart card attacks vs. clipper?
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> Seems like it's a bit of a different story, since in the Clipper's
> case the algorithm is (ostensibly) unknown, but I'm just curious as
> to whether there is some compromise of its security-through-obscurity.
Actually, in a more recent attack to be published at USENIX (if i
remember correctly) the attack being performed can also be utilized
to help determine unknown algorithms. I will try to dig up the
reference (unless someone gets to it first).
Matt
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