USAF wants to violate federal criminal law

[Peter Thoenen]

Scott Bennett wrote:
>      Do we know for certain that the feds haven't worked some deal with
> the chip manufacturers?  (I think it's only reasonable to operate on the
> assumption that Microslop may well have made a deal with them.  What I
> want to know is whether uglier approaches will be used to violate federal
> statute that might affect better operating systems.)  

Actually a good discussion of just this recently took place on the 
crypto list and it basically came down to you have no way of knowing and 
no way to detect so just act like a magic hardware hole doesn't exist 
and quit worrying about it.

See the thread started here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09040.html