re white house public encryption management fact sheet alan barrett barrett lucy ee und ac za wrote in article c lgaz dove nist gov clipper csrc ncsl nist gov clipper chip announcement writes in making this decision i do not intend to prevent the private sector from developing or the government from approving other microcircuits or algorithms that are equally effective in assuring both privacy and a secure key escrow system in making this decision i intend to prevent the private sector from developing except with the government s approval other microcircuits or algorithms that are more effective in assuring privacy doesn t this just mean that the government might not approve something for use by other government agencies this does not sound to me to be any form of threat that joe user can t develop and use his own encryption algorithm you want it should sing too yeah we got dogs and valvoline ngorelic speclab cr usgs gov its a pretty damn good time life is pain anyone that tells you different is trying to sell you something
