re how does it really work was re text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption from marc vanheyningen mvanheyn cs indiana edu the majority of the discussion involving this clipper chip seems to pertain to the encryption of telephone conversations does anyone know if that means this chip is designed to work primarily with analog signals the language sort of suggests this but it s hard to say i d lay a few bucks that its just data in data out in parallel i suspect to make it a phone you d need a codec and speech compression there would be a loss of bandwidth on the speech signal which i suspect would scupper any of the suggestions i ve seen here about putting a different encryption front end on it there s no hint of any modulation scheme in the docs i m sure it s purely a digital chip the back end will come later but i m positive it won t be left to the manufacturers they all have to be the same modulation scheme to make it easy for the nsa to tap them the only other possibility is that this is intended only for isdn phones puts a whole new spin on effs obsession about isdn if true bwahahaha g
