re do we need the clipper for cheap security in article c trgt ew news claremont edu ebrandt jarthur claremont edu eli brandt writes remember in the announcement they described this scheme as balancing the two extremes of having no privacy and claiming that citizens had a constitutional right to encryption so much for clinton s support of the right of privacy there s an out for him the announcement talked about strong cryptography i believe specifically nor is the u s saying that every american as a matter of right is entitled to an unbreakable commercial encryption product every vendor claims his product is unbreakable so this was sloppy wording i am not claiming that we private citizens should have access to the nsa s best secret algorithms i don t want any nsa algorithms actually i ll let them break my pitiful amateur algorithms and rsa s all i want is what i have already the ability and right to invent and use my own algorithms share them with my friends and sell them disclaimer all opinions expressed are my own of course carl ellison cme sw stratus com stratus computer inc m bkw tel fairbanks boulevard marlborough ma fax
