re text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption ted dunning ted nmsu edu wrote nobody seems to have noticed that the clipper chip must have been under development for considerably longer than the months that clinton has been president this is not something that choosing choosing bush over clinton would have changed in the slightest it has been in the works for some time actually many of us have noted this we have noted that the program started at least years ago that the contracts with vlsi technology and microtoxin were let at least months ago that production of the chips is well underway and so forth nobody i know has claimed clinton intitiated the program but he chose to go ahead with it tim may timothy c may crypto anarchy encryption digital money tcmay netcom com anonymous networks digital pseudonyms zero knowledge reputations information markets w a s t e aptos ca black markets collapse of governments higher power public key pgp and mailsafe available
