NODE e5e59f1fRe: fbi, crypto, and defcon
Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>Sat, 3 Aug 1996 14:27:26 +0800
At 09:20 AM 8/1/96 -0800, jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> reminded us:
>Also: Clipper was fabbed by VLSI Technology. A few pointed inquiries might
>work wonders here.
It was made by Mykotronx, using tamperproof programmable gate
array chips from VLSI, though I don't remember whether they were
entirely programmed at Mykotronx+NSA, or whether they were
mostly mask-programmed at VLSI first.
On the other hand, if you _want_ to make a DES-cracker,
at the time Clipper came out, VLSI was making a 192Mbps DES chip,
and they may have faster stuff now.
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