RE: Foreign Ownership, Control,and Influence

["Loomis, Rip" <rloomis () python ideas com>]

Duh.  Corrective action below, fixing myself before someone points
out obvious holes.  Root Cause was hitting [ENTER] before ingesting
second cup of coffee.  

On Saturday, September 26, 1998 11:44 AM, Loomis, Rip  wrote:
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> I know that for the military GPS receivers (the Precise Positioning
> Service requires NSA keying material), the requirement to do all
> chip fabrication in US-controlled facilities has a noticeable impact
> on prices and technology.

Substitute "fabrication of security-related chips" for "all chip
fabrication".  The RF stuff and much of the digital stuff in the current
generation of receivers can be done anywhere...but the security-
related chips are at 0.35 micron feature size or some such antique
number.  The number of modern fabs that are both completely free
of foreign control, that have excess capacity, and that will take an
orders for less than 100,000 parts, is vanishingly small.  

[[S N I P]]
>       --Rip Loomis (speaking as a private citizen)
>         Security Engineer, SAIC
>         Gilbert.R.Loomis () cpmx saic com       rip () clark net
>
> P.S. Looked around for a copy of the FOCI regs on the web, and
> couldn't find them.  I suspect (can't find my printed copy) that that
> means the regs are For Official Use Only, so I can't disseminate them.

Wrong again.  The relevant portions of the NISPOM are of course
online...see http://www.jya.com/nispom/chapt2.htm

        --Rip Loomis
          rip () clark net