re off the shelf cheap des keyseach machine was re corporate acceptance of the wiretap chip in article apr ulysses att com smb research att com steven bellovin writes remember that they ve promised to let a committee of outside experts see the cryptosystem design i hope there are some silicon jocks on the committee who can follow the algorithm through to hardware while i doubt the nsa would pull any monkey business on this point they have to expect that the chip will be reverse engineered sooner or later it s an obvious opportunity to introduce additional holes steve bellovin pgp key by finger or e mail eli ebrandt jarthur claremont edu
