Re: RSA chips from Japan?

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William H. Geiger III (whgiii@openpgp.net)
Tue, 04 Aug 1998 15:29:33 -0500

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In <199808041827.OAA19518@homeport.org>, on 08/04/98
   at 02:27 PM, Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> said:

>NTT and RSA Japan.

>The chips are not exportable under new regulations imposed by (as I
>recall) MITI.

I am rather underwhelmed by hardware based crypto. There is just no way of
verifying that these systems are doing what they claim to be doing. It is
just too easy to fudge the books without anyone knowing.

Perhaps I am getting too cynical in my old age but there are no big
electronics shops that I would trust to build crypto hardware. They are
all too dependent on government contracts.

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