re amusing atheists and anarchists in article timmbake mcl timmbake mcl ucsb edu bake timmons writes mccullou whipple cs wisc edu writes the line about atheists haveing something up their sleeves is what seemed to imply that sorry been reading too much on the clipper project lately and the paranoia over there may have seeped in some what is the clipper project btw the clipper initiative is an announcement by clinton that all the secure voice phones will use the same crypto chip as a de facto government standard problem is the government is admitting that they hold the keys to break the code easily and the justice department will be using the keys to listen in on illegal activities many people are really scared about such an initiative because it is a major step towards outlawing real crypto protection on things like email if you read the press release the project was developed by nsa and given to nist it uses two keys s and s that the government claims are needed to break the code they claim that these keys will be handed to two different companies and when they get a warrant to do a wiretap the chip is nicknamed the wiretap chip they have to get the keys from both companies people have poked holes through and through the press release official version and shown how it is nowhere near as nice as it sounds and i have given the simplified version people over on sci crypt are really scared about this proposal it seems mccullou whipple cs wisc edu never program and drink beer at the same m time it doesn t work
