Jamie Jamieson asks:
Actually I was going to ask in here if the DSP in the new Macs would lend itself to real-time PGP use for voice communications.
Phil Zimmermann says a non-CELP scheme he is investigating is fast enough on a run-of-the-mill 486 for "Pretty Good Phone Privacy," or whatever he ends up calling his project. The 66 MHz AT&T DSP (a true paranoid would note the "AT&T") in the new AV Macs is enormously faster, for many DSP and array manipulations, and should be even easier to develop a voice-encryption scheme for. Also, software-based schemes can easily be reconfigured to emulate/talk to other encryption systems or phones. This may be part of why the Skipjack algorithms are being held secret for as long as possible, to delay this emulation. -Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. Note: I put time and money into writing this posting. I hope you enjoy it.