re text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption in article apr clarinet com brad clarinet com brad templeton writes let s assume for the moment that the system really is secure unless you get both halves of the encryption key from the two independent escrow houses let s say you even trust the escrow houses one is the aclu and the other is the eff and i m not entirely joking about those two names in that case the prince of wales has nothing to worry about on this system i must respectfully disagree with this assertion brad the government is notoriously sloppy with physical communications and information security they can t keep their computers safe and they re trying read dea is not adequately protecting national security information gao imtec for an excellent example of what i m talking about private sector organizations tend to be even more lax in their security measures i believe that the escrow organizations will be penetrated by foreign intelligence services within months if not weeks of their selection private organizations that lack the resources of a full fleged intelligence service will take longer perhaps on the order of one to two years nonetheless the penetrations will take place without question philip r moyer ecn software staff engineering computer network voice prm ecn purdue edu fax
