secret algorithm re clipper chip and crypto key escrow may as well look at one piece of this at a time this paragraph to demonstrate the effectiveness of this new technology the attorney general will soon purchase several thousand of the new devices in addition respected experts from outside the government will be offered access to the confidential details of the algorithm to assess its capabilities and publicly report their findings means they aren t planning to make it public as was done with des as it says in both sci crypt faqs there s no way we are going to achieve the same level of comfort with clipper that we finally have with des if we can t actually get our hands on the bits and watch them flow around even the best experts aren t going to think of everything look how long it took biham and shamir to get a handle on just how good des is and for all we know there s still more to learn jim gillogly trewesday astron s r
