re screw the people crypto is for hard core hackers spooks only amanda intercon com amanda walker writes we do need an alternative to nsa bugged telephones but we re talking inexpensive telephones here including hand sized cellulars that need strong crypto real privacy so start a company and build them this is still mostly a capitalist economy qualcomm had spare cycles in the dsps for their new cdma digital cellular phones they wanted to put strong crypto into them since they had the capacity the government decided to discourage them really none of this stuff is especially hard all you need for a true private phone is an isdn codec a vocoder either a chip or software an encryptor a chip is fine but software is more than fast enough a v or v bis modem module and maybe a microcontroller to run the whole thing its easy to do its cheap and any normal company trying to put one out will likely get a visit from the boys in the dark suits from washington just like qualcomm did i suspect that companies like cylink are tolerated because their products are too expensive however no law yet stops one from building really private phones in spite of the hints the administration has made when discussing the new crime bill and in connection with the clipper skipjack big brother chip someone out there will build a unit to do all this better yet prehaps someone will produce a package that turns any box with a sound card into a secure phone perry metzger pmetzger shearson com laissez faire laissez passer le monde va de lui meme
