clipper and backdoors david sternlight says it discredits the writer with third parties to claim clipper has a back door it does not actually david i don t think it s any more intellectually honest to say there are no backdoors than to say there are backdoors unless you ve had a chance to examine the algorithm and the silicon closely for all we know skipjack could be easily broken or impossible to break and clearly if skipjack is not secure then the clipper chip is not worth much john kelsey
