re what the clipper nay sayers sound like to me a bunch of well meaning maybe cynnical text about screw thread sizes the rights of people to have their own standards and the non right of the gov to regulate screw threads well as funny as your little comment may seem it has very little to do with your personal privacy as a citizen and about the governemnt being able to look at everything you have ever typed into a computer at one point or another this clipper chip stuff is the seeds for nightmares to make the nightmare on elmstreet cheese on celluloid movies look like episodes of mr roger s neighborhood 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 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 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 nate sammons o o i hate quotations this message brought you by tell me what you know nate sammons and the number ralph waldo emerson ns longs lance colostate edu o o
