re dorothy denning opposes clipper capstone wiretap chips brad clarinet com brad templeton writes they have a much better reason to classify the algorithm than to protect its security they want to protect its market share that s one way to put it keeping the algorithm classified means that disclosure of it falls under the rubric of national security nothing like federal marshalls to guard a monopoly the result is tappable cryptography without laws forbidding other kinds for of the populace agreed although this is still somewhat better than the status quo to get untappable crypto you would have to build a special phone that runs on top of this system and everybody you talk to would have to have an indentical one sounds like a job for the free software foundation amanda walker intercon systems corporation
