stray thought was re more technical details in apr ulysses att com smb research att com steven bellovin writes date sun apr edt from denning cs georgetown edu dorothy denning the clipper chip will have a secret crypto algorithm embedded in the algorithm operates on bit blocks like des and the chip supports all des modes of operation the algorithm uses rounds of scrambling compared with in des so in a few years there could be millions of these chips in the usa all networked together sounds like a good science fiction story the government wants to crack foreign des or whatever messages so they con the public into individually buying all of the components and installing them soon the us could be covered by the largest parallel computer in the world built on top of our current phone net those who suppress freedom always rob quinn do so in the name of law rjq phys ksu edu and order john lindsay quinnbob ksuvm bitnet
