re do we need the clipper for cheap security in article r f rh news intercon com amanda intercon com amanda walker writes one thing that clipper offers is interoperability at a higher degree of security than we currently have in non proprietary voice encryption systems this means it will be cheaper than anyone s proprietary scheme and easier to deploy i may be an anarchist nutcase but i wouldn t have frothed overmuch had the government proposed a secure encryption standard in fact if the nsa had come up with a privacy chip rather than a wiretap chip i would have been happy they could have done this set up an ansi committee picked a secure cryptosystem defined a protocol and interface and said hey start building them instead we have a deliberately brain dead version of a cryptosystem that has not even been peer reviewed yes the nsa owns some smart people but if they pulled a feal well at t is going to be left with a lot of dud phones on its hands perry said someone please tell me what exactly we get in our social contract in exchange for giving up our right to strong cryptography can you tell me where exactly we have given up that right heh heh the government already gave it up for us 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 pgp key by finger or e mail void when prohibited eli ebrandt jarthur claremont edu
