clipper chip i have lurked here a bit lately and though some of the math is unknown to me found it interesting i thought i would post an article i found in the saturday april toronto star clipper chip to protect privacy washington reuter president bill clinton announced yesterday a plan to plant a new clipper chip in every government telephone and computer line to prevent eavesdropping eventually the chips developed by the government s national institute for standards and technology would be used by commercial and private electronics communication users the white house said that to assure privacy each device containing the encryption devices would be assigned two unique keys numbers that will be needed by government agencies to decode messages the attorney general has been assigned the task of arranging that the keys are deposited in two key escrow data bases access to them would be limited to government officials with legal authorization to conduct a wiretap the white house said in a statement dan mckinnon canada remote systems toronto ontario
