re what the clipper nay sayers sound like to me nathaniel sammons ns lance colostate edu wrote on mon apr gmt if the gov establishes a cryptography standard that has to be used by everyone and everyone s personal key is divided into two segments and stored at two separate albeit easy to find places and that key is only bits to begin with we are screwed pardon the allusion to the affore mentioned article the gov i believe as do many others probably already have the cracking chips for this clipper chip made hell they probably based the encoder on the chip that cracks it that way it s easier to break the code but since it is a classified algorythm no one knows that they can crack it so easily agreed no agency such as the nsa or whoever would approve the public release of a crypto system if they didn t already have the technical means or the know how to decrypt everything at their whim surely the whole point of all this madness is to make joe public think that his her communications will be kept safe while james bond at the nsa can if need be have full decrypted access to someone s communications that ll be quite a heist if they can pull it off i thought that the us government were going to release the algorithm to a panel of carefully chosen experts who would then study it deeply and report their findings exactly who will these people be academics or government sponsored researchers tiny toons i for one and quite scared of this kind of thing and plan to support organizations and even disorganizations who are fighting against this clipper chip in any way that i can i can only hope that the same sort of thing doesn t start filtering over into the ears of the uk government and if the european parliament gets wind of it well we can kiss goodbye to any form of democracy in europe at all i do not want the government to be able to have access even with a search warrant to my keys and i don t want those keys to be only bits long to begin with hallelujah rick m tait bell northern research europe tel fax network management systems pgp public key available on request new southgate london uk email ricktait bnr co uk rt cix compulink co uk ricktait bnr ca
