re fighting the clipper initiative in article r nov p e access digex net steve b access digex com steve brinich writes american manufacturers peddling cripple chips with a secret untested algorithm whose keys are held by people with a history of untrustworthy behavoir or er excuse me but since the escrow agencies aren t yet chosen how can you say they have a history of untrustworthy behavoir sic i m sure each of us can think of agencies without such a history price waterhouse has kept the secret of the academy awards for many years even in the face of an aggressive press the federal reserve open market committee has successfully kept decisions from leaking for the statutory period until publication even the department of agriculture has successfully kept crop forecasts from leaking prematurely frankly i d trust the above not the d of a of course since they might be subject to political pressure far sooner than the aclu eff or cpsr which though not exactly government apologists have no particular track record for internal security that i know of david david sternlight great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of our information errors and omissions excepted
