Re: RNG in a Smart Card

Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:06:27 +0100

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Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
>
> By the way: ibutton's order page, on www.ibutton.com, explicitly mentions
> shipments to countries other than US and Canada. Does that imply that those
> devices have provision for key escrow?

I don't think so - I think they limit key size on export versions
(though I have wondered how difficult it would be to circumvent that,
given that you can perform arbitrary calculations on them).

Cheers,

Ben.

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