Re: DEA says drug smugglers used crypto Net but cops got around it

[Marcus J. Ranum]

including use of the Internet, encrypted telephones, and cloned cellular
telephones

They don't say what "encrypted telephones" mean, either. Remember,
these are the same guys who try to tell people that spread spectrum
is "encryption" or at least "secure."

I'll bet $100 to a $1 that if there was a way to find out, we'd
find out that the "encrypted telephones" in use in the case in
question were not "encryption" as most of the members of this
list understand it. Is there enough information in Mr. Marshall's
description to be able to associate the FUD with a case and then
find out what kind of evidence they present?

mjr.
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Micro lock?

[Marcus J. Ranum]

I saw a thing on CNN today about a micro silicon lock that they
are developing at Sandia. Of course, since this was CNN, it was
going to be the solution to internet security. It apparently is
a micromachine with "over a million combinations" (WOW!)

Anyone know anything about this device? I can't think of what
good it'd be that a microprocessor with some crypto can't do better.
Which must mean I'm missing something since it presumably took
a lot of work to make.

mjr.
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