re off the shelf cheap des keyseach machine was re corporate acceptance of the wiretap chip thousands tens of thousands do some arithmetic please skipjack has possible keys we don t yet know if all bits count that doesn t worry me at all they re not going to cheat at something they can get caught at and key size is one of the things that can be verified externally feed lots of random key input pairs into the chip then see what happens to the output if the device is designed to use the key that s registered with the feds i don t see how you can feed it a different key if the user can change the key to any of the possibilities the main reason for regarding this proposal as unacceptable disappears
