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To: Wahoograd who wrote (2144)	5/19/1998 12:44:00 AM
From: Marty Lee	Respond to of 11417

the encryption... The advantage of the hardware encryption is that the chips inner working's aren't open to viewing. The Wave chip has a program maintained by a battery to protect its chip's content. If you try to break the lock to find out what's inside the chip, the battery will be disconnected, erasing the program the would be hacker has got to get through first. Beyond this, someone might try to look for traces that the program might "burn in" to the electronic structure of the chip (good luck) with a scanning-tunnelling electron microscope. To evade that happening, Wave's engineers designed a code to move around the chip, running at different times and in different places and smearing its trail. I don't even slight pretend to understand what I just wrote. I'm paraphrasing some of my WaveMeter material from an article out of Science and Technology.. Essentially, the article says that the hardware encryption technology produced at Wave System's Labs is so hacker proof and privacy protecting for the individual PC owner, even the government doesn't like it. Cheers, Marty