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The nMOS “RSA chip” described in our article [1] was initially fabricated by Hewlett-Packard. Testing revealed that while the control portion of the chip worked correctly, the arithmetic section suffered from transient errors and was usually too unreliable to complete a full encryption. We tested a number of chips and found the same problem, enough to convonce us that the cause was probably a design error and not a fabrication problem.
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Rivest, R. L., “A Description of a Single-Chip Implementation of the RSA Cipher,” LAMBDA Magazine 1, 3(Fourth Quarter 1980 ), 14–18.
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Rivest, R.L. (1983). A Short Report on the RSA Chip. In: Chaum, D., Rivest, R.L., Sherman, A.T. (eds) Advances in Cryptology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0602-4_35
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