more clipper stuff as of yet there has been no description of the general principles behind the clipper proposal for example is this a public key system or a private key system if the latter then i don t see how the system could work given that the keys are tied to the device and not the person further the escrowed bit keys are split into two bit chunks i would guess that the availability of one of these bit chunks and a reasonable key search machine would allow you to read the traffic i m not suggesting that this is a deliberate weakness of the system but it does make you think of course this is easily fixable by giving out two bit chunks which could be x ored to generate the real bit key philip
