So I take my clipper chip, encrypt some data using as many private keys as I want, generating as many private key/encrypted key pairs as I need. I then go after recovering the government's private key using any convienient super computer, beowolf cluster, playstation or a the idle time of a few hundred thousand computers on the net. Not knowing the exact algorithm would hurt - diferential cryptography could possibly help. Emagine the resources that other governments could bring to bear on the problem.
Or perhaps good old fasioned cloak and dagger social engineering could dig it out.
And what other governments would get to share the secret? Would they protect it with appropriate care? Would they use it as responsibly?
Clipper met the same sort of suspicion that DES did, and for good reason.
Actualy, the 8088 supported LOTS of interrupts (I'd have to dig into my old documentation file to find out how many). It was IBM's bus and motherboard design that didn't. And its about as backwards as I care to get.
Back to the actual topic - specific claims for yet to be released products aren't that important. If they don't meet their targets on scedule somebody else will shortly afterwards. Who knows what the K[smallest number not announced] will do? It seems that any fixed limit that excludes real super computers will be exceeded by a system afordable by mere mortals before too long.
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So I take my clipper chip, encrypt some data using as many private keys as I want, generating as many private key/encrypted key pairs as I need. I then go after recovering the government's private key using any convienient super computer, beowolf cluster, playstation or a the idle time of a few hundred thousand computers on the net. Not knowing the exact algorithm would hurt - diferential cryptography could possibly help. Emagine the resources that other governments could bring to bear on the problem.
Or perhaps good old fasioned cloak and dagger social engineering could dig it out.
And what other governments would get to share the secret? Would they protect it with appropriate care? Would they use it as responsibly?
Clipper met the same sort of suspicion that DES did, and for good reason.
Actualy, the 8088 supported LOTS of interrupts (I'd have to dig into my old documentation file to find out how many). It was IBM's bus and motherboard design that didn't. And its about as backwards as I care to get.
Back to the actual topic - specific claims for yet to be released products aren't that important. If they don't meet their targets on scedule somebody else will shortly afterwards. Who knows what the K[smallest number not announced] will do? It seems that any fixed limit that excludes real super computers will be exceeded by a system afordable by mere mortals before too long.